Selected Publications

 

Barber, J. R. and W. E. Conner 2006. Tiger moth response to a simulated bat attack: Timing and duty cycle. Journal of Experimental Biology (in press)

Hristov, N. and W. E. Conner 2005. Sound Strategies: Acoustic Aposematism in the Bat-Moth Arms Race. Naturwissenschaften 92:164-169. (PDF File)

Hristov, N. and W. E. Conner 2005. Effectiveness of Tiger Moth Chemical Defenses Against Insectivorous Bats. Chemoecology 15:105-113. (PDF File)

Jordan, A. and W. E. Conner 2004. If You've Got It Flaunt It: Ingested Alkaloids Affect Corematal Display Behavior in the Salt Marsh Caterpillar Moth, Estigmene acrea. Journal of Insect Science 5:1. (http://www.insectscience.org/papers/)

W. E. Conner and S. J. Weller. 2004. A quest for alkaloids: Curious relationship between tiger moths and plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids. In Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology. R. Carde and J. Millar eds. Cambridge University Press.

J. Davenport and W. E. Conner. 2003. Dietary alkaloids and the development of androconial organs in male Estigmene acrea (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Journal of Insect Science Vol.3:3 (http://www.insectscience.org/papers/).

Lázaro Roque-Albelo, F. C. Schroeder, W. E. Conner, A. Bezzerides, E. R. Hoebeke, J. Meinwald, and T. Eisner. 2002. Chemical defense and aposematism: The case of Utetheisa galapagensis. Chemoecology 12:153-157 (PDF File)

Douglas, H. D., Co, J. E., Jones, T. H., and Conner, W. E. 2001. Heteropteran chemical repellents identified in the citrus odor of a seabird (Crested Auklet: Aethia cristatella): Evolutionary convergence in chemical ecology. Naturwissenschaften 88:330-321..

Conner, W. E., Boada, R., Schroeder, F.C., Gonzalez, A., Meinwald, J., and Eisner, T., 2000. Chemical defense: Bestowal of a nuptial akaloidal garment by a male moth on its mate. PNAS 97:14406-14411. (PDF File)

Weller, S. J., Simmons, R. B., Boada, R., and Conner, W.E. 2000. Abdominal modications occurring in wasp mimics of the Ctenuchine-Euchromiine Clade (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93(4):920-928.

Weller, S. J., Jacobson, N. L., and Conner, W. E. 2000. The evolution of chemical defenses and related mating systems in tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 68:557-578..

Conner, W.E. 1999. Un Chant D' Appel Amoureux: Acoustic communication in moths. J. Exp. Biol. 202:1711-1723. (PDF File)