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

  • 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

CRISPR

Bumble Bees

Bee microbiota

Vanessa