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
- Ophelia Fritsch
- Madingley Abbs
- Ellie Smith
Selected publications
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Open access
Is mating failure caused by cryptic male choice in the seed bug Lygaeus simulans?
Balfour, V. L., Armand, M. & Shuker, D. M., Sept 2024, In: Ecology and Evolution. 14, 9, 11 p., e70341.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Post‐copulatory sexual selection in an insect with high levels of mating failure
Balfour, V., Armand, M. & Shuker, D., Oct 2024, In: Ecology and Evolution. 14, 10, 12 p., e70407.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The role of condition on sexual selection in the seed bug Lygaeus simulans
Balfour, V. L., Corliss, M. K. & Shuker, D. M., 4 Sept 2024, In: Ecology and Evolution. 14, 9, 10 p., e70226.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Context-dependent use of visual cues in the shell selection behaviour of the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus
Rimmer, J. E. V., Todd, C. D. & Shuker, D. M., Jul 2021, In: Behavioural Processes. 188, 5 p., 104414.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Environmental correlates of sexual signaling in the Heteroptera: a prospective study
Gourevitch, E. H. Z. & Shuker, D. M., 30 Nov 2021, In: Insect. 12, 12, 28 p., 1079.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Open access
The definition of sexual selection: a response to comments on Shuker and Kvarnemo
Shuker, D. M. & Kvarnemo, C., 9 Aug 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Behavioral Ecology. Advance articlesResearch output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Open access
The definition of sexual selection
Shuker, D. M. & Kvarnemo, C., 7 Aug 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Behavioral Ecology. Advance Article, 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
A single pleiotropic locus influences the rate of hybridization between two sibling species of Lygaeus bugs
Balfour, V. L., Black, D. & Shuker, D. M., Nov 2020, In: Ecology and Evolution. 10, 21, p. 12224-12232 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
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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 › peer-review