Nora K. E. Schulz

This study shows that inhibiting HSP90 in Tribolium castaneum releases a reduced-eye phenotype that alters light-dependent behaviors, suggesting evolutionary capacitance can lead to beneficial behavioral changes.

This paper investigates immune priming in the gut of Tribolium castaneum using RNA sequencing and transmission electron microscopy, showing that priming leads to gut damage, stress response, and gene upregulation that enhances protection against subsequent infection.

This study shows that innate immune memory in hosts does not increase average virulence but increases variation in virulence among pathogens evolved in primed hosts.

This study shows that removing niche construction in red flour beetles slows resistance evolution to a bacterial pathogen, indicating niche construction facilitates adaptation.

The paper investigates how dietary resources affect developmental shifts and infection tolerance in flour beetles coinfected with gregarine and bacterial parasites, finding that resources modulate developmental timing but not resistance to bacterial infection.

This study tests the reproducibility of insect behavior experiments across three labs and species, finding 83% successful replication of treatment effects but only 66% effect size replication.

This study investigates circadian rhythms in red flour beetles, finding sex-dependent and individual variations in daily activity patterns, with males showing more robust rhythms than females.