Sarah E. Lower

The paper examines microbiome assembly in fireflies, finding both stochastic and deterministic processes shape bacterial associations across species.

The paper identifies sex-biased odorant receptor expression in the common eastern firefly, suggesting a role in mating signals despite its reliance on visual flashing.

The paper generates genomes for three bioluminescent beetles to study the genetic basis of bioluminescence and finds at least two independent evolutionary origins of the trait.