YACK LAB

Publications
Turchen LM, Cosme Jr. L, Yack JE, Guedes RNC (2022) What’s shaking for caterpillars? Leaf-borne vibratory stimuli and behavioral responses in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda
Journal of Pest Science DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-022-01496-2
Yack JE (2022) Acoustic Defence Strategies in Caterpillars
In: Marquis, RJ, Koptur, S (eds) Caterpillars in the Middle. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86688-4_7
Turchen LM, Cosme Jr. L, Yack JE, Guedes RN (2022) Bug talk trends and biases: literature survey and meta-analyses of vibratory sensing and communication in insects
Entomologia Generalis
Low ML, Naranjo M, Yack JE (2021) Survival sounds in insects: Diversity, function, and evolution
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:641740
Yack JE, Raven BH, Leveillee MB, Naranjo M (2020) What does an insect hear? Reassessing the role of hearing in predator avoidance with insights from vertebrate prey
Integrative and Comparative Biology 60(5) 1036-1057
Yadav C, Smith M, Ogunremi D, Yack J (2020) Draft genome assembly and annotation of the masked birch caterpillar, Drepana arcuata (Lepidoptera: Drepanoidea)
Data in Brief 33 (2020) 106531
Yadav C, Smith ML, Yack JE (2020) Transcriptome analysis of a social caterpillar, Drepana arcuata: De novo assembly, functional annotation and developmental analysis.
PLoS ONE 15(6): e0234903.
Taylor CJ, Yack JE (2019) Hearing in caterpillars of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
Journal of Experimental Biology jeb 211862
Kawahara AY et al. (2019) Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA . pnas 1907847116
Lindeman AL, Yack JE (2019) Bark beetles use a spring-loaded mechanism to produce variable song patterns
Journal of Experimental Biology 222 jeb 190660