Principal investigator: Michael Taborsky
Sample publications:
Nuotclà, J.A., Diehl, J.M.C, Taborsky, M. 2021. Habitat Quality Determines Dispersal Decisions and Fitness in a Beetle – Fungus Mutualism. Front. Ecol. Evol. 9:602672 [PDF]
Nuotclà, J. A., Biedermann P. H. W., Taborsky, M. (2019) Pathogen defence is a potential driver of social evolution in ambrosia beetles. Proc. R. Soc. B 286: 20192332 [PDF]
Biedermann P.H.W. & Taborsky M. (2011): Larval helpers and age polyethism in ambrosia beetles. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA108:17064-17069 [PDF]
Biedermann P.H.W., Klepzig K.D. & Taborsky M. (2011): Costs of delayed dispersal and alloparental care in the fungus-cultivating ambrosia beetle Xyleborus affinis Eichhoff (Scolytinae: Curculionidae). Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 65:1753–1761 [PDF]
Peer K. & Taborsky M. (2005) Outbreeding depression, but no inbreeding depression in haplodiploid ambrosia beetles with regular sib mating. Evolution 59, 317-323 [PDF]