Reading List
EcoEvoDevo Lab

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
Milkweed bugs
Sex determination
Scaling and weapons
Beetle moutparts
CRISPR
Bumble Bees
Bee microbiota
Vanessa