Beetles

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A LGR5 reporter pig model closely resembles human intestine for improved study of stem cells in disease. 
  • Block of Kir channels by flonicamid disrupts salivary and renal excretion of insect pests. 
  • Development and evolution of adaptive polyphenisms. 
  • Developmental evolution: how beetles evolved their shields. 
  • Developmental mechanisms of threshold evolution in a polyphenic beetle. 
  • Diversity in the weapons of sexual selection: horn evolution in the beetle genus Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). 
  • Emerald ash borer intensifies harvest regimes on private land. 
  • Increased resin flow in mature pine trees growing under elevated CO2 and moderate soil fertility. 
  • Introduction of foreign genes into tissues of living mice by DNA-coated microprojectiles. 
  • Orienting to polarized light at night - matching lunar skylight to performance in a nocturnal beetle. 
  • Rapid evolution of a polyphenic threshold. 
  • The multistep morphing of beetle horns. 
  • Trade-offs during the development of primary and secondary sexual traits in a horned beetle. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology