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YACK LAB

Publications

Yadav C, Smith ML, Yack JE (2020) Transcriptome analysis of a social caterpillar, Drepana arcuata: De novo assembly, functional annotation and developmental analysis.

PLoS ONE 15(6): e0234903.

Taylor CJ, Yack JE (2019) Hearing in caterpillars of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)

Journal of Experimental Biology jeb 211862

Kawahara AY et al. (2019) Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA . pnas 1907847116

Lindeman AL, Yack JE (2019) Bark beetles use a spring-loaded mechanism to produce variable song patterns

Journal of Experimental Biology 222 jeb 190660

Sun P, Mhatre N, Mason AC, Yack JE (2018) In that vein: inflated wing veins contribute to butterfly hearing

Biology Letters 14:20180496

Mikhail A, Lewis JE, Yack JE (2018) What does a butterfly hear? Physiological characterization of auditory afferents in Morpho peleides (Nymphalidae)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A 204:791–799

Rosi-Denadai CA, Scallion ML, Merrett CG, Yack JE (2018) Vocalization in caterpillars: a novel sound-producing mechanism for insects

Journal of Experimental Biology Vol 21 (4) DOI: 10.1242/jeb.169466

Yadav C, Yack JE (2018) Immature stages of the masked birch caterpillar, Drepana arcuata (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae) with comments on feeding and shelter building.

Journal of Insect Science DOI:10.1093/jisesa/iiey006

Dobai A, Sivalinghem S, Guedes RN, Yack JE (2017) Acoustic communication in the pine engraver bark beetle: Do signals vary between behavioural contexts?

Physiological Entomology DOI: 10.1111/phen.12222

Yadav C, Timbers TA, Guedes RN, Matheson S, Yack JE (2017) Invitation by vibration: Vibration-mediated recruitment to social groups in caterpillars.

Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 71:51

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