Dr Nicola Cook

Managing Editor and Publicity Officer

Researcher profile

Email

nc52@st-andrews.ac.uk

Selected publications

• Open access

  Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster

  Durmaz Mitchell, E., Kerdaffrec, E., Harney, E., Paulo, T. F., Veselinovic, M. S., Tanaskovic, M., de Arcaya, T. A. F., Aksoy, C., Argyridou, E., Bailly, T. P. M., Can, D., Cobanoglu, E., Cook, N., Coskun, S., Davidovic, S., Demir, E., Dias, T., Rasouli-Dogaheh, S., Duque, P. & Eric, K. & 74 others, Eric, P., Erickson, P., Filipovski, F., Fishman, B., Glaser-Schmitt, A., Goldfischer, A., Green, L., Janillon, S., Jelic, M., Kostic, H., Kreiman, L. E., Kremer, N., Lyrakis, M., Maistrenko, O. M., Marti, S.-L., McGunnigle, M., Merenciano, M., Mira, M. S., Montbel, V., Mouton, L., Mukha , D. V., Murali, S., Patenkovic, A., Protsenko, O., Putero, F. A., Reis, M., Roshina, N. V., Rybina, O. Y., Schou, M. F., Schowing, T., Senkal, S. S., Serga, S., Trieu, V., Symonenko, A. V., Trostnikov , M. V., Tsybul'ko, E. A., van den Heuvel, J., van Waarde, D., Veselkina, E. R., Vieira, C. P., Wang, X., Zandveld, J., Abbott, J., Billeter, J.-C., Colinet, H., Ebrahimi, M., Gibert, P., Hrcek, J., Kankare, M., Kozeretska, I., Loeschcke, V., Mensch, J., Onder, B. S., Parsch, J., Pasyukova, E. G., Stamenkovic-Radak, M., Tauber, E., Vieira, C., Wegener, C., Hoedjes, K. M., Zwaan, B. J., Betancourt, A. J., Fricke, C., Grath, S., Posnien, N., Vieira, J., Kapun, M., Schloetterer, C., Schmidt, P., Sucena, E., Gonzalez, J., Bergland, A., Ritchie, M. G. & Flatt, T., Aug 2025, In: Evolution Letters. 9, 4, p. 473–490 18 p., qraf014.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Bringing bioinformatics to schools with the 4273pi project

  Bain, S., Plaisier, H., Anderson, F., Cook, N., Crouch, K., Meagher, T. R., Ritchie, M. G., Wallace, E. & Barker, D., 20 Jan 2022, In: PLoS Computational Biology. 18, 1, 12 p., e1009705.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  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

• Open access

  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 › peer-review

• Open access

  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., Sept 2019, In: American Naturalist. 194, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  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 › peer-review

• Open access

  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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Exposure to the neonicotinoid imidacloprid disrupts sex allocation cue use during superparasitism in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis

  Cook, N., Green, J., Shuker, D. M. & Whitehorn, P. R., 7 Nov 2016, In: Ecological Entomology. 41, 6, p. 693-697 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Inducing cold-sensitivity in the frigophilic fly Drosophila montana by RNAi

  Vigoder, F. M., Parker, D. J., Cook, N., Tournière, O., Sneddon, T. & Ritchie, M. G., 10 Nov 2016, In: PLoS One. 11, 11, 9 p., e0165724.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Chromatin state analysis of the barley epigenome reveals a higher-order structure defined by H3K27me1 and H3K27me3 abundance

  Baker, K., Dhillon, T., Colas, I., Cook, N., Milne, I., Milne, L., Bayer, M. & Flavell, A. J., Oct 2015, In: The Plant Journal. 84, 1, p. 111–124

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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