Dr David Shuker

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463376

Email

dms14@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My group is interested in the evolution and ecology of insect reproductive behaviour. As such we are interested in how natural and sexual selection shapes reproductive decisions and behaviours in insects. We use a variety of approaches, spanning behavioural experiments, fieldwork, to molecular genetics. Current study organisms include parasitic wasps, lygaeid seed bugs, and mealybugs.

PhD supervision

• Eleanor Gourevitch
• Vicki Balfour

Selected publications

• Genomics of sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis

  Pannebakker, B. A., Cook, N., van den Heuvel, J., van de Zande, L. & Shuker, D. M., 20 Jul 2020, In : BMC Genomics. 21, 14 p., 499.

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• Mating failure shapes the patterns of sperm precedence in an insect

  Balfour, V. L., Black, D. & Shuker, D. M., 27 Jan 2020, In : Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 74, 14 p., 25.

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• Local mate competition modifies the costs of mating in a mostly monandrous parasitoid wasp

  Boulton, R. A., Cook, N., Greenway, E. V., Glaser, G. L., Green, J. & Shuker, D. M., 5 Apr 2019, In : Behavioral Ecology. 30, 2, p. 417-425 9 p.

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• Validating the demethylating effects of 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine in insects requires a whole-genome approach (A reply to Ellers et al.)

  Cook, N., Parker, D. J., Tauber, E., Pannebakker, B. A. & Shuker, D. M., Sep 2019, In : American Naturalist. 194, 3

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• An inconvenient truth: the unconsidered benefits of convenience polyandry

  Boulton, R. A., Zuk, M. & Shuker, D. M., Dec 2018, In : Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 33, 12, 12 p.

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• Differential gene expression is not required for facultative sex allocation: a transcriptome analysis of brain tissue in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis

  Cook, N., Boulton, R., Green, J., Trivedi, U., Tauber, E., Pannebakker, B. A., Ritchie, M. G. & Shuker, D. M., Feb 2018, In : Royal Society Open Science. 5, 8 p., 171718.

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• Divergence is not speciation, or why we need females: a comment on Tinghitella et al

  Burdfield-Steel, E. R. & Shuker, D. M., 3 Jul 2018, In : Behavioral Ecology. 29, 4, p. 801

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• Sperm blocking is not a male adaptation to sperm competition in a parasitoid wasp

  Boulton, R. A., Cook, N., Green, J., Greenway, E. V. & Shuker, D. M., 13 Jan 2018, In : Behavioral Ecology. 29, 1, p. 253-263

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• The fitness effects of a pale mutant in the aposematic seed bug Lygaeus simulans indicate pleiotropy between warning coloration and life history

  Balfour, V. L., Aumont, C., Dougherty, L. R. & Shuker, D. M., Dec 2018, In : Ecology and Evolution. 8, 24, p. 12855-12866 12 p.

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• Can females choose to avoid mating failure in the seed bug Lygaeus simulans?

  Greenway, E. V. G., Balfour, V. L. & Shuker, D. M., Jul 2017, In : Animal Behaviour. 129, p. 61-69 9 p.

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