Christine Nalepa

Area(s) of Expertise

Cerceris fumipennis as a biosurveillance tool to monitor for pest Buprestidae. Other interests include the behavior, ecology and evolution of termites and cockroaches.

Publications

• Size of emerald ash borer in North Carolina, USA: Preliminary evidence for a sawtooth cline? , AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY (2023)
• Extra-pair paternity in the wood-feeding cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder: Social but not genetic monogamy , MOLECULAR ECOLOGY (2021)
• Origin of Mutualism Between Termites and Flagellated Gut Protists: Transition From Horizontal to Vertical Transmission , FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2020)
• Distribution of Karyotypes of the Cryptocercus punctulatus Species Complex (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park , JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (2017)
• Genetic data indicate that most field-collected woodroach pairs are unrelated , INSECT SCIENCE (2016)
• Genome Evolution and Nitrogen Fixation in Bacterial Ectosymbionts of a Protist Inhabiting Wood-Feeding Cockroaches , APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY (2016)
• Parental social environment alters development of nutritionally independent nymphs in Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) , BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY (2016)
• 'Cost' of proctodeal trophallaxis in extant termite individuals has no relevance in analysing the origins of eusociality , ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY (2015)
• Origin of termite eusociality: trophallaxis integrates the social, nutritional, and microbial environments , ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY (2015)
• The Role of Host Phylogeny Varies in Shaping Microbial Diversity in the Hindguts of Lower Termites , APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY (2014)