Nathan C. Lo

The study finds that Blattabacterium was lost ten times independently in three cockroach families, with some losses possibly compensated by Wolbachia associations.

This study characterizes bacterial endosymbionts in Australian ticks using shotgun metagenomics, identifying their nutritional roles and genomic features.

This study examines the impact of rodent eradication on invertebrate abundance and assemblage composition on Lord Howe Island, finding increased abundance and shifts in composition but no change in ordinal diversity.

This study examines behavioral adaptations in the Lord Howe Island cockroach, finding reduced male aggression and increased aggregation, supporting the behavioral island syndrome in invertebrates.

This study uses phylogenetic analysis to show that Plio-Pleistocene aridification drove speciation and niche shifts in Australian Panesthia cockroaches.

The paper examines genome erosion in Blattabacterium symbionts of soil-burrowing cockroaches, finding repeated gene inactivation linked to host transitions to an underground lifestyle.