Active Projects

• Effects of social and non-social environmental conditions on offspring immune responses and their implications on family life evolution in insects
  Leon Müller, Maximilian Körner [Details]
  
  
• From facultative to obligate family life and back: ultimate and proximate aspects of variation in offspring dependence on parental care
  Eric Grubmüller, Prof. Dr. Sandra Steiger [Details]
  
  
• Multimodal signalling in the courtship of male parasitoid wasps: testing the multiple messages hypothesis
  Janka Plate, Johannes Stökl [Details]
  
  
• The effect of social isolation on offspring performance: an evolutionary, ecological and molecular perspective
  Paul Huber, Prof. Dr. Sandra Steiger [Details]
  
  
• Evolutionary genomic of sociality in beetles
  PIs: Sandra Steiger, Marc Harrison (University of Münster), Volker Nehring (University of Freiburg), Peter Biedermann (University of Freiburg); Staff: Julius Rombach [Details]
  
  
• The role of vibrational and airborne communication in the evolution of parental care in burying beetles
  Taina Conrad [Details]
  
  
• Diversification of family life: species and sex differences in parental behavior along a gradient of offspring dependency
  Lena Zywucki, Prof. Dr. Sandra Steiger [Details]
  
  
• How pheromones regulate family life – Chemical communication in burying beetle families
  Jacqueline Sahm, Prof. Dr. Sandra Steiger [Details]