Active Projects

• From facultative to obligate family life and back: ultimate and proximate aspects of variation in offspring dependence on parental care
  Prof. Dr. Sandra Steiger [Details]
  
  
• Multimodal signalling in the courtship of male parasitoid wasps: testing the multiple messages hypothesis
  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
  Prof. Dr. Sandra Steiger [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]