accepted / in press / 2024
Rohner P.T. and Moczek A.P. (in press) Vertically inherited microbiota and environment modifying behaviors conceal cryptic genetic variation in dung beetle life history. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Burdine L.W., Moczek A.P., and Rohner P.T. (in press) Sexually transmitted mutualist nematodes promote host growth across dung beetle species. Ecology and Evolution.
Rohner P.T. (2024) Adaptive and plastic responses of insects to climate change. In Effects of Climate Change on Insects: Physiological, Evolutionary, and Ecological Responses eds. González-Tokman D. and Dáttilo W., Oxford University Press.
Rohner P.T., Jones J., and Moczek A.P. (2024) Plasticity, symbionts, and niche construction interact in shaping dung beetle development and evolution. Journal of Experimental Biology. 227:jeb245976.
Rohner P.T., Hu Y., and Moczek A.P. (2024) Utilizing geometric morphometrics to investigate gene function during organ growth: insights through the study of beetle horn shape allometry. Evolution & Development. [pdf]
2023
Rohner P.T., Casasa S., and Moczek A.P. (2023) Assessing the evolutionary lability of insulin signaling in the regulation of nutritional plasticity across traits and species of horned dung beetles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36:1641-1648.[pdf]
Rohner P.T. and Moczek A.P. (2023) Vertically inherited microbiota and environment-modifying behaviors indirectly shape the exaggeration of secondary sexual traits in the gazelle dung beetle. Ecology and Evolution 13:e10666. [pdf]
Rajaratnam G., Liu G., Su K.F.Y., Chew M.S. J., Ang Y., Puniamoorthy N., Rohner P.T., Blanckenhorn W.U., and Meier R. (2023) Cost of developing exaggerated structures: Size but not complexity prolongs development time of some traits in sepsid flies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290:20222531. [pdf]
Rohner P.T. and Berger D. (2023) Developmental bias predicts 60 million years of wing shape evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120:e2211210120. [pdf].
Perdigón Ferreira J., Rohner P.T., and Lüpold S. (2023) Strongly sexually dimorphic forelegs are not more condition-dependent than less dimorphic traits in Drosophila prolongata. Evolutionary Ecology 37:493-508. [pdf]
Johansson F., Berger D., Outomuro D., Sniegula S., Tunon M., Watts P.C., and Rohner T. (2023) Mixed support for an alignment between phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation in damselfly wing shape. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36:368– 380. [pdf]
Rohner P.T. and Moczek A.P. (2023) Allometric plasticity and the evolution of environment-by-environment (E×E) interactions during a rapid range expansion of a dung beetle. Evolution 77:682-689. [pdf]
2022
Rohner P.T., Hu Y., and Moczek A.P. (2022) Developmental bias in the evolution and plasticity of beetle horn shape. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20221441. [pdf]
Rohner P.T. (2022) Secondary sexual trait melanization in ‘black’ scavenger flies: nutritional plasticity and its evolution. The American Naturalist 199:168-177. [pdf]
Walters R.J., Berger D., Blanckenhorn W.U., Bussière L.F., Rohner P.T., Jochmann R., Thüler K., and Schäfer M.A. (2022) Growth rate mediates hidden developmental plasticity of female yellow dung fly reproductive morphology in response to environmental stressors. Evolution & Development 24:3-15. [pdf]
2021
Rohner P.T and Moczek A.P. (2021) Evolutionary and plastic variation in larval growth and digestion reveal the complex underpinnings of size and age at maturation in dung beetles. Ecology and Evolution 11:15098-15110. [pdf]
Blanckenhorn W.U., Berger D., Rohner P.T., Walters R.J., and Schäfer M.A. (2021) Comprehensive thermal performance curves for yellow dung fly life history traits and the temperature-size-rule. Journal of Thermal Biology 100:103069. [pdf]
Rohner P.T., Linz D.M., and Moczek A.P. (2021) Doublesex mediates species-, sex-, environment-, and trait-specific exaggeration of size and shape. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: [pdf]
Rohner P.T (2021) A role for sex determination genes in life history evolution? Doublesex mediates sexual size dimorphism in the gazelle dung beetle. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34:1326-1332. [pdf]
Blanckenhorn W.U., Baur J., Roy J., van Koppenhagen N., Gourgoulianni N., Puniamoorthy N., Busso J.P., Schäfer M.A., and Rohner P.T (2021) Congruent sexual selection in field and laboratory in closely related sepsid flies. Animal Behaviour 175: 219-230. [pdf]
2020
Rohner P.T., Macagno A.L.M., and Moczek, A.P. (2020) Evolution and plasticity of morph-specific integration in the bull-headed dung beetle Onthophagus taurus. Ecology and Evolution 10: 10558-10570. [pdf]
Rohner P.T. and Moczek A.P. (2020) Rapid differentiation of plasticity in life history and morphology during invasive range expansion and concurrent local adaptation in the horned beetle Onthophagus taurus. Evolution 74: 2059-2072. [pdf]
Blanckenhorn W.U., Baur J., Busso J.P., Giesen A., Gourgoulianni N., van Koppenhagen N., Roy J., Schäfer M.A., Wegmann A., and Rohner P.T. (2020) Sexual size dimorphism is associated with reproductive life history trait differentiation in coexisting sepsid flies. Oikos 129:1152-1162. [pdf]
Crabtree J.R., Macagno A.L.M., Moczek A.P., Rohner P.T., and Hu Y. (2020) Notch signaling patterns head horn shape in the bull-headed dung beetle Onthophagus taurus. Genes Development and Evolution 230:213-225. [pdf]
Rohner P.T. (2020) Evolution of multivariate wing allometry in schizophoran flies (Diptera: Schizophora). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33:831-841. [pdf]
Baur J., Roy J., Schäfer M.A., Puniamoorthy N., Blanckenhorn W.U., and Rohner P.T. (2020) Intraspecific mating system evolution and its effect on complex male secondary sexual traits: Does male-male competition increase selection on size or shape? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33:297-308. [pdf]
van Koppenhagen N., Gourgoulianni N., Rohner P.T., Roy J., Wegmann A., and Blanckenhorn W.U. (2020) Sublethal effects of the parasiticide ivermectin on male and female reproductive and behavioral traits in the yellow dung fly. Chemosphere 242:125240. [pdf]
Baur J., Giesen A., Rohner P.T., Blanckenhorn W., and Schäfer M. (2020) Exaggerated male forelegs are not more differentiated than wing morphology in two widespread sister species of black scavenger flies. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 58:159-173. [pdf]
2019
Khelifa R., Blanckenhorn W., Roy J., Rohner P.T., and Mahdjoub H. (2019) Usefulness and limitations of thermal performance curves in predicting ectotherm development under global change. Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 1901-1912. [pdf]
Rohner P.T., Roy J., Schäfer M.A., Berger D., and Blanckenhorn W.U. (2019) Does thermal plasticity predict clinal variation in wing size and shape? An inter- and intraspecific comparison in two sepsid flies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32:463-475. [pdf]
Zeender V., Roy J., Wegmann A., Schäfer M.A., Gourgoulianni N., Blanckenhorn W.U., and Rohner P.T. (2019) Comparative reproductive dormancy differentiation in European black scavenger flies (Diptera: Sepsidae). Oecologia 189:905-917. [pdf]
Laux A., Wegmann A., Roy J., Gourgoulianni N., Blanckenhorn W.U., and Rohner P.T. (2019) The role of larval substrate specialization and female oviposition in mediating species diversity of closely-related sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae). European Journal of Entomology 116:75-84. [pdf]
Rohner P.T., Haenni J.-P., Giesen A., Busso J.P. Schäfer M.A., Püchel-Wieling F., and Blanckenhorn W.U. (2019) Temporal niche partitioning of Swiss black scavenger flies in relation to season and substrate age (Diptera: Sepsidae). Alpine Entomology 3:1-10. [pdf]
2018
Rohner P.T. and Blanckenhorn W.U. (2018) A comparative study of the role of sex-specific condition dependence in the evolution of sexually dimorphic traits. The American Naturalist 192:E202-E215. [pdf]
Schäfer M.A., Berger D., Rohner P.T., Kjaersgaard A., Bauerfeind S.S., Guillaume F., Fox C.W., and Blanckenhorn W.U. (2018) Geographic clines in wing morphology relate to colonization history in New World but not Old World populations of yellow dung flies. Evolution 72:1629-1644. [pdf]
Conforti S., Dietrich J., Kuhn T., van Koppenhagen N., Baur J., Schäfer M.A., Rohner P.T., and Blanckenhorn W.U. (2018) Comparative effects of the common parasiticide ivermectin on adult survival and reproduction of nine sepsid fly species. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 163:215-222. [pdf]
Roy J., Blanckenhorn W.U., and Rohner P.T. (2018) Largely flat latitudinal life history clines in the dung fly Sepsis fulgens across Europe (Diptera: Sepsidae). Oecologia. 187:851-862. [pdf]
Rohner P.T., Pitnick S., Blanckenhorn W.U., Snook R.R., Bächli G., and Lüpold S. (2018) Interrelations of global macroecological patterns in wing and thorax size, sexual size dimorphism, and range size of the Drosophilidae. Ecography 41:1707-1717. [pdf]
Rohner P.T., Teder T., Esperk T., Lüpold S., and Blanckenhorn W.U. (2018) The evolution of male-biased sexual size dimorphism is associated with increased body size plasticity in males. Functional Ecology 32:581–591. [pdf]
2017
Rohner P.T., Blanckenhorn W.U., and Schäfer M.A. (2017) Critical weight mediates sex-specific body size plasticity and sexual dimorphism in the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria (Diptera: Scatophagidae). Evolution & Development 19:147-156. [pdf]
2016
Rohner P.T., Blanckenhorn, W.U., and Puniamoorthy, N. (2016). Sexual selection on male size drives the evolution of male-biased sexual size dimorphism via the prolongation of male development. Evolution 70:1-11. [pdf]
Blanckenhorn W.U., Rohner P.T., Bernasconi M. V., Haugstetter J., and Buser A. (2016). Is quantitative mass barcoding of dung fauna biodiversity feasible? Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 35:1970–1977. [pdf]
Rohner P.T. and Bächli G. (2016). Faunistic data of Sepsidae (Diptera) from Switzerland and additional countries including the first Swiss record of Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 89:237-260. [pdf]
2015
Ang Y., Rohner P.T., and Meier R. (2015). Across the Baltic: a new record for a Swedish fly, Zuskamira inexpectata (Pont, 1987) (Sepsidae) in Finland. Biodiversity Data Journal 3:e4308. [doi]
Rohner P.T. (2015). An updated checklist of the Sepsidae (Diptera) of Switzerland, including the first record of Themira superba (Haliday, 1833). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 88: 371–377. [pdf]
Rohner P.T., Bächli G., Pollini L., Duelli P., Obrist M., Jochmann R., and Blanckenhorn W.U. (2015). Distribution, diversity gradients and Rapoport’s elevational rule in the black scavenger flies of the Swiss Alps (Diptera: Sepsidae). Insect Conservation and Diversity 8:367-376. [pdf]
2014
Rohner P.T., Ang Y., Zhao L., Puniamoorthy N., Blanckenhorn W.U., and Meier R. (2014). Genetic data confirm the species status of Sepsis nigripes Meigen, 1826 (Diptera: Sepsidae) and adds one species to the Alpine fauna while questioning the synonymy of Sepsis helvetica Munari, 1985. Invertebrate Systematics 28:555-563. [pdf]