Dr. Anne-Katrin Eggert
Research Professor
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JH Julian Hall
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- About
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- Selected Research
Teaching Interests & Areas
animal behavior
Research Interests & Areas
I am interested in the behavioral ecology of insect reproduction, specifically the evolution of parental care, communal breeding, and male mating behavior.
Ph D Biology
Bielefeld University
Bielefeld, Germany
MS Biology
Bielefeld University
Bielefeld, Germany
Book, Chapter
Cooperative breeding in insects and vertebrates
Anne Eggert.
(2014), Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology, Oxford University Press
Fortpflanzungsverhalten
Josef K Müller, Anne Eggert.
(2010), 437-463, Lehrbuch der Entomologie. Teil 1, Spektrum Academischer Verlag
Journal Article
Dynamic terminal investment in male burying beetles
Paige A Farchmin, Anne K Eggert, Kristin R Duffield, Scott Kitchener Sakaluk.
Animal Behaviour, 163, 1-7, (2020)
Divergent co-evolutionary trajectories in parent-offspring interactions and discrimination against parasites revealed by interspecific cross-fostering
Alexandra Capodeanu-Nägler, Elena Ruiz de la Torre, Anne Eggert, Scott Kitchener Sakaluk, Sandra Steiger.
Royal Society Open Science, 5, 12 pages, (2018)
How burying beetles spread their seed: The Coolidge effect in real life
Petra Schedwill, Anne Eggert, Josef K Müller.
Zoologischer Anzeiger, 273, 210-217, (2018)
Offspring dependence on parental care and the role of parental transfer of oral fluids in burying beetles
Alexandra Capodeanu-Nägler, Madlen A Prang, Stephen T Trumbo, Heiko Vogel, Anne Eggert, Scott Kitchener Sakaluk, Sandra Steiger.
Frontiers in Zoology, 15, 12 pages, (2018)
Species divergence in offspring begging and parental provisioning is linked to nutritional dependency of larval burying beetles
Alexandra Capodeanu-Nägler, Anne Eggert, Heiko Vogel, Scott Kitchener Sakaluk, Sandra Steiger.
Behavioral Ecology, 29, 42-50, (2018)
Volatiles emitted by calling males of burying beetles and Ptomascopus morio (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae) are biogenetically related
Wolf Haberer, Thomas Schmitt, Peter Schreier, Anne Eggert, Josef K Müller.
Journal of Chemical Ecology, 43, 7 pages, (2017)
From facultative to obligatory parental care: Interspecific variation in offspring dependency on post-hatching care in burying beetles
Alexandra Capodeanu-Nägler, Eva M Keppner, Heiko Vogel, Manfred Ayasse, Anne Eggert, Scott Kitchener Sakaluk, Sandra Steiger.
Scientific Reports, 6, 10 pages, (2016)
Switching tactics: phenotypic plasticity in the alternative mate-finding tactics of burying beetles
Tess E.P. Mulrey, Anne Eggert, Scott Kitchener Sakaluk.
Animal Behaviour, 108, 175-182, (2015)
When males stop having sex: adaptive insect mating tactics during parental care
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Animal Behaviour, 90, 245-253, (2014)
Dominance status and sex influence nutritional state and immunity in burying beetles Nicrophorus orbicollis
Sandra Steiger, Susan N Gershman, Adam M Pettinger, Anne Eggert, Scott K Sakaluk.
Behavioral Ecology, 23, 1126-1132, (2012)
Dominance status and carcass availability affect the outcome of sperm competition in burying beetles
Adam M Pettinger, Sandra Steiger, Josef K Müller, Scott K Sakaluk, Anne Eggert.
Behavioral Ecology, 22, 1079-1087, (2011)
Sex differences in immunity and rapid upregulation of immune defence during parental care in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus orbicollis
Sandra Steiger, Susan N Gershman, Adam M Pettinger, Anne Eggert, Scott K.
Functional Ecology, 25, 1368-1378, (2011)
Timing of oviposition enables dominant female burying beetles to destroy brood parasitic young
Anne Eggert, Josef K Müller.
Animal Behaviour, 82, 1227-1233, (2011)
Presentations
Gutter science: Interspecific differences in larval dispersal distance and behavior in burying beetles
Anne Eggert, Scott Kitchener Sakaluk, Madlen Prang, Sandra Steiger.
15th Annual Meeting of the Ethologische Gesellschaft, Tübingen, Germany, February 19, 2020