Reading List

This reading list is meant as a resource for new lab members – or anyone!

Soapberry bugs

Bug Story - Bugs in our Backyard's general audience background on soapberry bug natural history
Fawcett et al. 2018 Nature Communications - This paper from our lab describes soapberry bugs as an experimental system for the investigation of polyphenism. It establishes nutrition of the determinging factor in wing polyphenism, links it to insulin signaling, and describes differences among J. haematoloma populations. Also uses GMM to characterized wing shape.
Angelini et al. 2022 Int Comp Biol - Transcriptome comparisons in the bugs by sex, morph and nutrition
Jadera haematoloma genome - Quick summary of the soapberry bug genome project
Carrol & Boyd 1992 Evolution - Scott Carroll's textbook example host shift in Jadera
Xu et al. 2015 Nature - Two insulin receptors determine alternative wing morphs in planthoppers
Tsai 2013 ZooKeys - Exhaustive review of info on J. haematoloma at the time of its publication
Cenzer 2017 American Naturalist - Maladaptive plasticity masks the effects of natural selection in the red-shouldered soapberry bug

Angelini & Kaufman 2004 Developmental Biology - Oncopeltus mouthpart patterning
Aspiras et al. 2011 Developmental Biology - Sex-specific gene interactions in the patterning of insect genitalia (mostly Oncopletus; some Tribolium)
Bonhag & Wick 1953 J Morphology - Anatomy of the male and female reproductive systems of the milkweed bug

Laslo, Just & Angelini 2021 JEZB - A review of sex determination mechanisms across insects and ideas about the evolution of that process
Just et al. 2023 ProcB - Functional genetic characterization of somatic sex determination in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus

O'Brien et al. 2018 Animal Behavior - Devin published this paper before joining our lab group. It provides a good description of scaling as it applies to weapons. The paper also introduces Devin's idea of comparing a focal trait to a reference trait.
Moczek & Nijhout 2002 Evolution & Development - Developmental mechanisms of threshold evolution in a polyphenic beetle

Angelini et al. 2012 Genetics - Patterning of the Adult Mandibulate Mouthparts in the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum
Gotoh et al. 2014 PLoS Genetics - Developmental Link between Sex and Nutrition; doublesex Regulates Sex-Specific Mandible Growth via Juvenile Hormone Signaling in Stag Beetles

Reding & Pick 2020 Genetics - The paper to report use of CRISPR in Oncopeltus
Check out the lab protocols for RNA synthesis and microinjection

Bumble Bees In Our Backyard - Bugs in our Backyard's general audience background on bumble bees
Goulson et al. 2015 Science - Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers
Simmons & Angelini 2017 Scientific Reports - Imidacloprid increases the expression of antimicrobial peptides in Bombus impatiens, in a captive semifield experiment
Young et al. 2023 bioRxiv - Preprint from our lab reporting the analysis of microbiome composition in bumblebees as it correlates with infection by the parasite Crithidia bombi.
Cameron et al. 2007 Biological Journal of the Linnean Society - A comprehensive phylogeny of the bumble bees (Bombus)
Insect Macro Photography - Our lab guide to photography

Kwong & Moran 2016 Nature Review Microbiology - Gut microbial communities of social bees
Qiime2 - Documentation for the Qiime2 suite of microbiome anaylsys tools

CRISPR
Zhang et al. 2021 Genome Biology and Evolution - Report of the genome and transcriptome of the painted lady. (Visit NCBI database for the raw sequences: genome, transcripts)