Trop Bio Lab

Do you like podcasts? Here's a recommendation for those wanting to hear more about amazing research in Animal Behavior .... the first season has a great line-up, including TropBioLab's Dr. Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy!!

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's Entomologist-extraordinaire is giving a talk for .of.Rochester chapter of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science () ... about bugs, biology and broadening participation in science.

Dr. Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy on Twitter “Thanks to ! Looking forward to my talk (May 6 at 1 pm ET). More info 👇🏽👇🏽 https://t.co/343ZiDFjL1”

Flo is excited to be part of a collaborative effort (and the bug person!), where we discuss how brood parasites are neither predators or trophic parasites. Check out our new paper in Trends in Parasitology!

Brood Parasites Are a Heterogeneous and Functionally Distinct Class of Natural Enemies Brood parasitism is the introduction of unrelated progeny into the nest or colony of a host that then raises the foreign young. This reproductive stra…

wasp social parasite and its host show differential investment in sensory brain regions! Check out our new preprint by former undergrad researcher & with , , K Gandia, T Lopreto & R Cervo

Differential investment in visual and olfactory brain regions mirrors the sensory needs of a paper wasp social parasite and its host Obligate social parasites evolve traits to effectively locate and then exploit their hosts, whereas hosts have complex social behavioral repertoires, which include sensory recognition to reject potential conspecific intruders and heterospecific parasites. While social parasite and host behaviors hav...