Department of Entomology

Title: Unraveling animal movement in complex environments: biomechanics, behavior, and bumblebees Abstract: Insect flight requires stable and coordinated movement in complex natural environments. Current understanding of insect flight biomechanics largely stems from laboratory investigations that are sanitized of the challenges…

Title: “Sex, sociality, and supergenes” Abstract: Supergenes, sets of tightly linked functional mutations affecting a discrete trait, have repeatedly and convergently evolved in association with certain traits. Sex chromosomes are the best-studied type of supergene, but what principles of sex chromosome evolution apply to other…