Research Group Predators and Toxic Prey

Blount, J. D.; Rowland, H. M.; Mitchell, C.; Speed, M. P.; Ruxton, G. D.; Endler, J. A.; Brower, L. P.: The price of defence: toxins, visual signals and oxidative state in an aposematic butterfly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290 (1991), 20222068 (2023)

Binns, G. E.; Hämäläinen, L.; Kemp, D. J.; Rowland, H. M.; Umbers, K. D. L.; Herberstein, M. E.: Additive genetic variation, but not temperature, influences warning signal expression in Amata nigriceps moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiinae). Ecology and Evolution 12 (7), e9111 (2022)

Hämäläinen, L.; Rowland, H. M.; Mappes, J.; Thorogood, R.: Social information use by predators: expanding the information ecology of prey defences. Oikos 2022 (10), e08743 (2022)

Heinze, P.; Dieker, P.; Rowland, H. M.; Schielzeth, H.: Evidence for morph-specific substrate choice in a green-brown polymorphic grasshopper. Behavioral Ecology 33 (1), pp. 17 - 26 (2022)

Mohammadi, S.; Özdemir, H. İ.; Ozbek, P.; Sumbul, F.; Stiller, J.; Deng, Y.; Crawford, A. J.; Rowland, H. M.; Storz, J. F.; Andolfatto, P. . et al.; Dobler, S.: Epistatic effects between amino acid insertions and substitutions mediate toxin-resistance of vertebrate Na⁺, K⁺-ATPases. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (12), msac258 (2022)

Mohammadi, S.; Yang, L.; Bulbert, M.; Rowland, H. M.: Defence mitigation by predators of chemically defended prey integrated over the predation sequence and across biological levels with a focus on cardiotonic steroids. Royal Society Open Science 9 (9), 220363 (2022)

Protti-Sanchez, F.; Parada, C. D. C.; Mayer, U.; Rowland, H. M.: Activation of the nucleus taeniae of the amygdala by umami taste in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Frontiers in Physiology 13, 897931 (2022)

Rowland, H. M.; Saccheri, I. J.; Skelhorn, J.: The peppered moth Biston betularia. Current Biology 32 (10), pp. R447 - R448 (2022)

Rubiano-Buitrago, P. A.; Pradhan, S.; Paetz, C.; Rowland, H. M.: New structures, spectrometric quantification, and inhibitory properties of cardenolides from Asclepias curassavica seeds. Molecules 28 (1), 105 (2022)

Skelhorn, J.; Rowland, H. M.: Eyespot configuration and predator approach direction affect the antipredator efficacy of eyespots. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 951967 (2022)

Hämäläinen, L.; Hoppitt, W.; Rowland, H. M.; Mappes, J.; Fulford, A. J.; Thorogood, S. S. R.: Social transmission in the wild can reduce predation pressure on novel prey signals. Nature Communications 12, 3978 (2021)

Heyworth, H. C.; Skelhorn, J.; Rowland, H. M.: Dietary wariness. Current Biology 31 (21), pp. R1412 - R1413 (2021)

Wicher, D.; Miazzi, F.: Functional properties of insect olfactory receptors: ionotropic receptors and odorant receptors. Cell and Tissue Research 383, pp. 7 - 19 (2021)

Hämäläinen, L.; Mappes, J.; Rowland, H. M.; Teichmann, M.; Thorogood, R.: Social learning within and across predator species reduces attacks on novel aposematic prey. Journal of Animal Ecology 89 (5), pp. 1153 - 1164 (2020)

Hämäläinen, L.; Mappes, J.; Thorogood, R.; Valkonen, J. K.; Karttunen, K.; Salmi, T.; Rowland, H. M.: Predators’ consumption of unpalatable prey does not vary as a function of bitter taste perception. Behavioral Ecology 31 (2), pp. 383 - 392 (2020)

Rowland, H. M.; Burriss, R. P.; Skelhorn, J.: The antipredator benefits of postural camouflage in peppered moth caterpillars. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 21654 (2020)

Eacock, A.; Rowland, H. M.; van’t Hof, A. E.; Yung, C. J.; Edmonds, N.; Saccheri, I. J.: Adaptive colour change and background choice behaviour in peppered moth caterpillars is mediated by extraocular photoreception. Communications Biology 2, 286 (2019)

Hämäläinen, L.; Mappes, J.; Rowland, H. M.; Thorogood, R.: Social information use about novel aposematic prey is not influenced by a predator's previous experience with toxins. Functional Ecology 33 (10), pp. 1982 - 1992 (2019)

Hämäläinen, L.; Rowland, H. M.; Mappes, J.; Thorogood, R.: The effect of social information from live demonstrators compared to video playback on blue tit foraging decisions. PeerJ 7, e7998 (2019)

Eacock, A.; Rowland, H. M.; Edmonds, N.; Saccheri, I. J.: Colour change of twig-mimicking peppered moth larvae is a continuous reaction norm that increases camouflage against avian predators. PeerJ 5, e3999 (2017)