Prof. Dr. Sandra Steiger: Publications
-- 2023 -- |
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| Körner, M; Steiger, S; Shukla, SP: Microbial management as a driver of parental care and family aggregations in carrion feeding insects, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11 (2023), doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1252876 -- Details |
| Keppner, E; Laubenthal , M; Prang, M; Conrad, T; Steiger, S: Harsh nutritional environment has positive and negative consequences for family living in a burying beetle, Ecology and Evolution, 13(1) (2023), doi:DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9699 -- Details |
| Sahm, J; Conrad, T; Scheu, L; Steiger, S: Brood size, food availability, and body size affects male care decisions and offspring performance, Ecology and Evolution, 13(6) (2023), doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10183 -- Details |
-- 2022 -- |
| Hoermann, Cv; Weithmann, S; Sikorski, J; Nevo, O; Szpila, K; Grzywacz, B; Grunwald, J-E; Reckel, F; Overmann, J; Steiger, S; Ayasse, M: Linking bacteria, volatiles and insects on carrion: the role of temporal and spatial factors regulating inter-kingdom communication via volatiles, Royal Society Open Science, 9 (2022), doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220555 |
| Prang, M; Zywucki, L; Körner, M; Steiger, S: Differences in sibling cooperation in presence and absence of parental care in a genus with interspecific variation in offspring dependence, Evolution, 76(2), 320-331 (2022), doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14414 |
| Sahm, J; Prang, M; Steiger, S: Parent–offspring conflict and its outcome under uni-and biparental care, Scientific Reports, 12(1999) (2022), doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05877-6 -- Details |
-- 2021 -- |
| Keppner, E; Steiger, S: Males benefit personally from family life: evidence from a wild burying beetle population, Behavioral Ecology, 32(5), 912-918 (2021), doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab067 -- Details |
| Weithmann, S; Hoermann, Cv; Degasperi, G; Brandt, K; Steiger, S; Ayasse, M: Temporal variability of the rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) community on small vertebrate carrion and its potential use for forensic entomology, Forensic Science International, 323 (2021), doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2021.110792 -- Details |
-- 2020 -- |
| Keppner, EM; Ayasse, M; Steiger, S: Contribution of males to brood care can compensate for their food consumption from a shared resource, Ecology and Evolution (2020), doi:10.1002/ece3.6150 |
| Chemnitz, J; Hoermann, Cv; Ayasse, M; Steiger, S: The Impact of Environmental Factors on the Efficacy of Chemical Communication in the Burying Beetle (Coleoptera: Silphidae), Journal of Insect Science, 20(4), 1-10 (2020), doi:10.1093/jisesa/ieaa061 |
| Hoermann, Cv; Weithmann, S; Deißler, M; Ayasse, M; Steiger, S: Forest habitat parameters influence abundance and diversity of cadaver-visiting dung beetles in Central Europe, Royal Society Open Science, 7(3), 191722 (2020), doi:10.1098/rsos.191722 |
| Trumbo, ST; Philbrick, P K B; Stökl, J; Steiger, S: Burying beetle parents adaptively manipulate information broadcast from a microbial community, American Naturalist (2020), doi:https://doi.org/10.1086/712602 |
| Trumbo, ST; Steiger, S: Finding a fresh carcass: bacterially derived volatiles and burying beetle search success, Chemoecology (2020), doi:10.1007/s00049-020-00318-0 |
| Weithmann, S; Hoermann, Cv; Schmitt, T; Steiger, S; Ayasse, M: The Attraction of the Dung Beetle Anoplotrupes stercorosus (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) to Volatiles from Vertebrate Cadavers, Insects, 11, 476 (2020), doi:10.3390/insects11080476 |
| Weithmann, S; Kuppler, J; Degasperi, G; Steiger, S; Ayasse, M; Hoermann, Cv: Local and Landscape Effects on Carrion-Associated Rove Beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Communities in German Forests, Insects, 11(828), 1-16 (2020), doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11120828 -- Details |
-- 2019 -- |
| Engel, KC; Hwang, WB; Steiger, S: A pheromone that coordinates parental care is evolutionary conserved among burying beetles (Silphidae: Nicrophorus), Chemoecology, 29, 1-9 (2019), doi:10.1007/s00049-018-0271-7 [Link] |
| Takata, M; Mitaka, Y; Steiger, S; Mori, N: A Parental Volatile Pheromone Triggers Offspring Begging in a Burying Beetle, iScience, 19, 1260-1278 (2019), doi:10.1016/j.isci.2019.06.041 [Link] |
-- 2018 -- |
| Capodeanu-Nägler, A; Ruiz de la Torre, E; Eggert, A; Sakaluk, SK; Steiger, S: Divergent coevolutionary trajectories in parent–offspring interactions and discrimination against brood parasites revealed by interspecific cross-fostering, Royal Society Open Science, 5(6), 180189 (2018), doi:10.1098/rsos.180189 |
| Capodeanu-Nägler, A; Trumbo, ST; Vogel, H; Eggert, A; Sakaluk, SK; Steiger, S: Offspring dependence on parental care and the role of parental transfer of oral fluids in burying beetles, Frontiers in Zoology, 15, 33 (2018), doi:10.1186/s12983-018-0278-5 [Link] |
| Chemnitz, J; Fujan, IS; Winkelmann, C; Steiger, S: Why are males more attractive after brood care? Proximate causes of enhanced sex pheromone emission in a burying beetle, Physiological Entomology, 43(2), 120–128 (2018), doi:10.1111/phen.12236 |
| Hoermann, Cv; Jauch, D; Kubotsch, C; Reichel-Jung, K; Steiger, S; Ayasse, M: Effects of abiotic environmental factors and land use on the diversity of carrion-visiting silphid beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae): A large scale carrion study, PLoS One, 13(5), e0196839 (2018), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0196839 |
| Keppner, E; Ayasse, M; Steiger, S: Manipulation of parental nutritional condition reveals competition among family members, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31(6), 822-832 (2018), doi:Manipulation of parental nutritional condition reveals competition among family members |
| Meunier, J; Steiger, S: Editorial overview: Beyond eusocial insects: studying the other social insects to better understand social evolution, Current Opinion in Insect Science, 28, v-vii (2018), doi:10.1016/j.cois.2018.07.002 |
| Nehring, V; Steiger, S: Sociality and communicative complexity: Insights from the other insect societies, Current Opinion in Insect Science, 28, 19-25 (2018), doi:10.1016/j.cois.2018.04.002 |
| Shukla, SP; Plata, Camila; Reichelt, M; Steiger, S; Heckel, DG; Kaltenpoth, M; Vilcinskas, A; Vogel, H: Microbiome-assisted carrion preservation aids larval development in a burying beetle, PNAS, 115, 11274-11279 (2018), doi:10.1073/pnas.1812808115 |
| Steiger, S; Stökl, J: Pheromones regulating reproduction in subsocial beetles: Insights with references to eusocial insects, Journal of Chemical Ecology (2018), doi:10.1007/s10886-018-0982-9 |
-- 2017 -- |
| Capodeanu-Nägler, A; Eggert, A; Vogel, H; Sakaluk, SK; Steiger, S; Holman, L: Species divergence in offspring begging and parental provisioning is linked to nutritional dependency, Behavioral Ecology, 29(1), 42–50 (2017), doi:10.1093/beheco/arx117 |
| Chemnitz, J; Bagrii, N; Ayasse, M; Steiger, S: Staying with the young enhances the fathers' attractiveness in burying beetles, Evolution, 71(4), 985–994 (2017), doi:10.1111/evo.13194 |
| Chemnitz, J; Bagrii, N; Ayasse, M; Steiger, S: Variation in sex pheromone emission does not reflect immunocompetence but affects attractiveness of male burying beetles-a combination of laboratory and field experiments, Die Naturwissenschaften, 104(7-8), 53 (2017), doi:10.1007/s00114-017-1473-5 |
| Keppner, EM; Prang, M; Engel, KC; Ayasse, M; Stökl, J; Steiger, S: Beyond cuticular hydrocarbons: chemically mediated mate recognition in the subsocial burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, Journal of Chemical Ecology, 43(1), 84–93 (2017), doi:10.1007/s10886-016-0806-8 |
| Luzar, AB; Schweizer, R; Sakaluk, SK; Steiger, S: Access to a carcass, but not mating opportunities, influences paternal care in burying beetles, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71(1), 115 (2017), doi:10.1007/s00265-016-2232-x |
| Pascual, J; Hoermann, Cv; Rottler-Hoermann, A; Nevo, O; Geppert, A; Sikorski, J; Huber, KJ; Steiger, S; Ayasse, M; Overmann, J: Function of bacterial community dynamics in the formation of cadaveric semiochemicals during in situ carcass decomposition, Environmental Microbiology, 19(8), 3310–3322 (2017), doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13828 |
| Steiger, S: The evolution of parental care in burying beetles and its implication for insect biotechnology, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C, 72(9-10), e14 (2017) |
| Steiger, S; Stökl, J: Pheromones involved in insect parental care and family life, Current Opinion in Insect Science, 24, 89–95 (2017), doi:10.1016/j.cois.2017.09.006 |
| Stökl, J; Steiger, S: Evolutionary origin of insect pheromones, Current Opinion in Insect Science, 24, 36–42 (2017), doi:10.1016/j.cois.2017.09.004 |
| Vogel, H; Shukla, SP; Engl, T; Weiss, B; Fischer, R; Steiger, S; Heckel, DG; Kaltenpoth, M; Vilcinskas, A: The digestive and defensive basis of carcass utilization by the burying beetle and its microbiota, Nature Communications, 8, 15186 (2017), doi:10.1038/ncomms15186 |
-- 2016 -- |
| Capodeanu-Nägler, A; Keppner, EM; Vogel, H; Ayasse, M; Eggert, A; Sakaluk, SK; Steiger, S: From facultative to obligatory parental care: Interspecific variation in offspring dependency on post-hatching care in burying beetles, Scientific Reports, 6, 29323 (2016), doi:10.1038/srep29323 |
| Engel, KC; Stökl, J; Schweizer, R; Vogel, H; Ayasse, M; Ruther, J; Steiger, S: A hormone-related female anti-aphrodisiac signals temporary infertility and causes sexual abstinence to synchronize parental care, Nature Communications, 7, 11035 (2016), doi:10.1038/ncomms11035 |
| Jacobs, CGC; Steiger, S; Heckel, DG; Wielsch, N; Vilcinskas, A; Vogel, H: Sex, offspring and carcass determine antimicrobial peptide expression in the burying beetle, Scientific Reports, 6, 25409 (2016), doi:10.1038/srep25409 |
-- 2015 -- |
| Chemnitz, J; Jentschke, PC; Ayasse, M; Steiger, S: Beyond species recognition: somatic state affects long-distance sex pheromone communication, Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, 282(1812), 20150832 (2015), doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.0832 |
| Engel, KC; Männer, L; Ayasse, M; Steiger, S: Acceptance threshold theory can explain occurrence of homosexual behaviour, Biology Letters, 11(1), 20140603 (2015), doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0603 |
| Sperling, S; Kühbandner, S; Engel, KC; Steiger, S; Stökl, J; Ruther, J: Size exclusion high performance liquid chromatography: re-discovery of a rapid and versatile method for clean-up and fractionation in chemical ecology, Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41(6), 574–583 (2015), doi:10.1007/s10886-015-0584-8 |
| Steiger, S: Recognition and Family Life: Recognition Mechanisms in the Biparental Burying Beetle, , 249–266 (2015), doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17599-7_12 |
| Steiger, S; Capodeanu-Nägler, A; Gershman, SN; Weddle, CB; Rapkin, J; Sakaluk, SK; Hunt, J: Female choice for male cuticular hydrocarbon profile in decorated crickets is not based on similarity to their own profile, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28(12), 2175–2186 (2015), doi:10.1111/jeb.12740 |
-- 2014 -- |
| Capodeanu-Nägler, A; Rapkin, J; Sakaluk, SK; Hunt, J; Steiger, S: Self-recognition in crickets via on-line processing, Current Biology, 24(23), R1117-8 (2014), doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.050 |
| Engel, KC; Hoermann, Cv; Eggert, A; Müller, JK; Steiger, S: When males stop having sex: adaptive insect mating tactics during parental care, Animal Behaviour, 90, 245–253 (2014), doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.02.006 |
| Haberer, W; Steiger, S; Müller, JK: Dynamic changes in volatile emissions of breeding burying beetles, Physiological Entomology, 39(2), 153–164 (2014), doi:10.1111/phen.12059 |
| Kaltenpoth, M; Steiger, S: Unearthing carrion beetles' microbiome: characterization of bacterial and fungal hindgut communities across the Silphidae, Molecular Ecology, 23(6), 1251–1267 (2014), doi:10.1111/mec.12469 |
| Steiger, S; Stökl, J: The role of sexual selection in the evolution of chemical signals in insects, Insects, 5(2), 423–438 (2014), doi:10.3390/insects5020423 |
-- 2013 -- |
| Hoermann, Cv; Steiger, S; Müller, JK; Ayasse, M: "Too Fresh Is Unattractive! The Attraction of Newly Emerged Nicrophorus vespilloides Females to Odour Bouquets of Large Cadavers at Various Stages of Decomposition ", PLoS One, 8(3), e58524 EP - (2013), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058524 |
| Ower, GD; Judge, KA; Steiger, S; Caron, KJ; Smith, RA; Hunt, J; Sakaluk, SK: "Multivariate sexual selection on male song structure in wild populations of sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans (Orthoptera: Haglidae)", Ecology and Evolution, 3(10), 3590–3603 (2013), doi:10.1002/ece3.736 |
| Steiger, S: Bigger mothers are better mothers: Disentangling size-related prenatal and postnatal maternal effects, Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, 280(1766), 20131225 (2013), doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1225 |
| Steiger, S; Ower, GD; Stökl, J; Mitchell, C; Hunt, J; Sakaluk, SK: Sexual selection on cuticular hydrocarbons of male sagebrush crickets in the wild, Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, 280(1773), 20132353 (2013), doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2353 |
| Weddle, CB; Steiger, S; Hamaker, CG; Ower, GD; Mitchell, C; Sakaluk, SK; Hunt, J: Cuticular hydrocarbons as a basis for chemosensory self-referencing in crickets: a potentially universal mechanism facilitating polyandry in insects, Ecology letters, 16(3), 346–353 (2013), doi:10.1111/ele.12046 |
-- 2012 -- |
| Steiger, S: New Synthesis -- Visual and Chemical Ornaments: What Researchers of Different Signal Modalities Can Learn from Each Other, Journal of Chemical Ecology, 38(1), 1 (2012), doi:10.1007/s10886-012-0058-1 |
| Steiger, S; Gershman, SN; Pettinger, AM; Eggert, A; Sakaluk, SK: Dominance status and sex influence nutritional state and immunity in burying beetles Nicrophorus orbicollis, Behavioral Ecology, 23(5), 1126–1132 (2012), doi:10.1093/beheco/ars082 |
| Steiger, S; Meier, T; Müller, JK: Fitness costs associated with chemical signaling, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 5(1), 57–60 (2012), doi:10.4161/cib.17988 |
| Steiger, S; Meier, T; Müller, JK: Fitness costs associated with chemical signaling, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 5(1), 57–60 (2012), doi:10.4161/cib.5.1.17988 |
-- 2011 -- |
| Pettinger, AM; Steiger, S; Müller, JK; Sakaluk, SK; Eggert, A: Dominance status and carcass availability affect the outcome of sperm competition in burying beetles, Behavioral Ecology, 22(5), 1079–1087 (2011), doi:10.1093/beheco/arr093 |
| Steiger, S; Gershman, SN; Pettinger, AM; Eggert, A; Sakaluk, SK: "Sex differences in immunity and rapid upregulation of immune defence during parental care in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus orbicollis ", Functional Ecology, 25(6), 1368–1378 (2011), doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01895.x |
| Steiger, S; Haberer, W; Müller, JK: Social environment determines degree of chemical signalling, Biology Letters, 7(6), 822–824 (2011), doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0457 |
| Steiger, S; Schmitt, T; Schaefer, HM: The origin and dynamic evolution of chemical information transfer, Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, 278(1708), 970–979 (2011), doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2285 |
-- 2010 -- |
| Haberer, W; Steiger, S; Müller, JK: (E)-Methylgeranate, a chemical signal of juvenile hormone titre and its role in the partner recognition system of burying beetles, Animal Behaviour, 79(1), 17–24 (2010), doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.09.019 |
| Steiger, S; Müller, JK: From class-specific to individual discrimination: acceptance threshold changes with risk in the partner recognition system of the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, Animal Behaviour, 80(4), 607–613 (2010), doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.06.018 |
-- 2009 -- |
| Steiger, S; Whitlow, S; Peschke, K; Müller, JK: Surface Chemicals Inform about Sex and Breeding Status in the Biparental Burying Beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, Ethology, 115(2), 178–185 (2009), doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01600.x |
-- 2008 -- |
| Smiseth, T; Hwang, WB; Steiger, S; Müller, JK: Adaptive consequences and heritable basis of asynchronous hatching in Nicrophorus vespilloides, Oikos, 117(6), 899–907 (2008) |
| Steiger, S: Recognition cues in the biparental burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides: Chemical analyses and behavioural investigations, (2008) |
| Steiger, S; Franz, R; Eggert, A; Müller, JK: The Coolidge effect, individual recognition and selection for distinctive cuticular signatures in a burying beetle, Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, 275(1645), 1831–1838 (2008), doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0375 |
| Steiger, S; Müller, JK: True' and 'untrue' individual recognition: suggestion of a less restrictive definition, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23(7), 355 (2008) |
| Steiger, S; Peschke, K; Müller, JK: Correlated changes in breeding status and polyunsaturated cuticular hydrocarbons: the chemical basis of nestmate recognition in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides?, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62, 1053–1060 (2008), doi:10.1007/s00265-007-0532-x |
-- 2007 -- |
| Steiger, S; Peschke, K; Francke, W; Müller, JK: "The smell of parents: breeding status influences cuticular hydrocarbon pattern in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides ", Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, 274(1622), 2211–2220 (2007), doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.0656 |
| Steiger, S; Richter, K; Müller, JK; Eggert, A: Maternal nutritional condition and genetic differentiation affect brood size and offspring body size in Nicrophorus, Zoology, 110(5), 360–368 (2007), doi:10.1016/j.zool.2007.06.001 |