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YACK LAB

Publications

Dookie AL, Young CA, Lamothe G, Schoenle LA, Yack JE (2017) Why do caterpillars whistle at birds? Insect defence sounds startle avian predators.

Behavioural Processes. 138: 58-66

Bura VL, Kawahara AY, Yack JE (2016) A comparative analysis of sonic defences in Bombycoidea caterpillars.

Scientific Reports 6:31469 doi:10.1038/srep31469

Yack JE (2016) Vibratory Communication.

In: Pollack G, Mason A (eds.) Insect Hearing: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research. Series Editors: Fay RR, Popper AN Springer Verlag, pp. 99-123

Guedes RN, Yack JE (2016) Shaking youngsters and shaken adults: Female beetles eavesdrop on larval seed vibrations to make egg-laying decisions.

PLoS ONE 11(2): e0150034. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150034

Lindeman AA, Yack JE (2015) What’s the password? Female bark beetles (Scolytinae) grant males access to their galleries based on courtship song.

Behavioural Processes 115:123-131

Lucas KM, Mongrain JK, Windmill JFC, Robert D, Yack JE (2014) Hearing in the crepuscular owl butterfly (Caligo eurilochus, Nymphalidae).

Journal of Comparative Physiology A 200:891-898

Yack JE, Gill S, Drummond-Main D, Sherratt TN (2014) Residency duration and shelter quality influence vibratory signalling displays in a territorial caterpillar

Ethology. 120:354-364

Fournier JP, Mikhail A, Dawson J, Yack JE (2013) If a bird flies in the forest, does an insect hear it?

Biology Letters 9(5): 20130319

Fleming AJ, Lindeman A, Carroll AL, Yack JE (2013) Acoustics of the Mountain Pine Beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae (Curculionidae, Scolytinae): Sonic, ultrasonic and vibration characteristics.

Canadian Journal of Zoology 91:235-244

Cruz I, Cheetham J, Yack JE, Smith M (2013) Alkamides from Echinacea disrupt fungal cell wall.

Phytomedicine. 21:435-442

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