N. Bird

The evolutionary demise of a social interaction: social partners differ in the rate at which interacting phenotypes are lost

This study investigates how long social traits persist when not expressed, finding that offspring care demands decay faster than parental supply and male care decays more than female care in burying beetles.

A scalable phenotyping approach for female floral organ development and senescence in the absence of pollination in wheat

The paper develops a high-throughput phenotyping approach to study carpel development and senescence in unpollinated wheat flowers using imaging and machine learning, revealing distinct developmental phases.