Dr David Shuker
Senior Lecturer
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
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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, 3Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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. 801Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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. 253-263Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article