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  1. Size rather than complexity of sexual ornaments prolongs male metamorphosis and explains sexual size dimorphism in sepsid flies

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  2. Asymmetric fly wings shed light on the role of development in evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  3. Strongly sexually dimorphic forelegs are not more condition-dependent than less dimorphic traits in Drosophila prolongata

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  4. Allometric plasticity and the evolution of environment-by-environment (E×E) interactions during a rapid range expansion of a dung beetle

    Article • Evolution, December 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  5. Mixed support for an alignment between phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation in damselfly wing shape

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, December 2022, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  6. Developmental bias in the evolution and plasticity of beetle horn shape

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  7. Growth rate mediates hidden developmental plasticity of female yellow dung fly reproductive morphology in response to environmental stressors

    Article • Evolution & Development, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  8. Evolutionary and plastic variation in larval growth and digestion reveal the complex underpinnings of size and age at maturation in dung beetles

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  9. Comprehensive thermal performance curves for yellow dung fly life history traits and the temperature-size-rule

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  10. Doublesexmediates species-, sex-, environment- and trait-specific exaggeration of size and shape

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  11. A role for sex‐determination genes in life history evolution?Doublesexmediates sexual size dimorphism in the gazelle dung beetle

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, June 2021, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  12. Comparative sexual selection in field and laboratory in a guild of sepsid dung flies

    Article • Animal Behaviour, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  13. Evolution and plasticity of morph‐specific integration in the bull‐headed dung beetleOnthophagus taurus

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2020, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  14. Rapid differentiation of plasticity in life history and morphology during invasive range expansion and concurrent local adaptation in the horned beetleOnthophagus taurus

    Article • Evolution, July 2020, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  15. Evolution of multivariate wing allometry in schizophoran flies (Diptera: Schizophora)

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, March 2020, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  16. Notch signaling patterns head horn shape in the bull-headed dung beetle Onthophagus taurus

    Article • Development Genes and Evolution, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  17. Intraspecific mating system evolution and its effect on complex male secondary sexual traits: Does male–male competition increase selection on size or shape?

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  18. Usefulness and limitations of thermal performance curves in predicting ectotherm development under climatic variability

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, September 2019, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  19. Exaggerated male forelegs are not more differentiated than wing morphology in two widespread sister species of black scavenger flies

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, August 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  20. Comparative reproductive dormancy differentiation in European black scavenger flies (Diptera: Sepsidae)

    Article • Oecologia, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  21. Does thermal plasticity align with local adaptation? An interspecific comparison of wing morphology in sepsid flies

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  22. The role of larval substrate specialization and female oviposition in mediating species diversity of closely-related sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae)

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, March 2019, Biology Centre, AS CR

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  23. Temporal niche partitioning of Swiss black scavenger flies in relation to season and substrate age (Diptera, Sepsidae)

    Article • Alpine Entomology, January 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  24. A Comparative Study of the Role of Sex-Specific Condition Dependence in the Evolution of Sexually Dimorphic Traits

    Article • The American Naturalist, December 2018, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  25. Comparative effects of the parasiticide ivermectin on survival and reproduction of adult sepsid flies

    Article • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  26. Geographic clines in wing morphology relate to colonization history in New World but not Old World populations of yellow dung flies

    Article • Evolution, July 2018, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  27. Largely flat latitudinal life history clines in the dung fly Sepsis fulgens across Europe (Diptera: Sepsidae)

    Article • Oecologia, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  28. Interrelations of global macroecological patterns in wing and thorax size, sexual size dimorphism, and range size of the Drosophilidae

    Article • Ecography, February 2018, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  29. Evolution of male costs of copulation in sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae)

    Article • February 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  30. The evolution of male-biased sexual size dimorphism is associated with increased body size plasticity in males

    Article • Functional Ecology, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  31. Critical weight mediates sex-specific body size plasticity and sexual dimorphism in the yellow dung flyScathophaga stercoraria(Diptera: Scathophagidae)

    Article • Evolution & Development, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  32. Sexual selection on male size drives the evolution of male-biased sexual size dimorphism via the prolongation of male development

    Article • Evolution, June 2016, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  33. Is qualitative and quantitative metabarcoding of dung fauna biodiversity feasible?

    Article • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  34. Across the Baltic: a new record for an enigmatic black scavenger fly, Zuskamira inexpectata (Pont, 1987) (Sepsidae) in Finland

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, June 2015, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  35. Distribution, diversity gradients and Rapoport's elevational rule in the black scavenger flies of the Swiss Alps (Diptera: Sepsidae)

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Rohner

  36. Genetic data confirm the species status of Sepsis nigripes Meigen (Diptera : Sepsidae) and adds one species to the Alpine fauna while questioning the synonymy of Sepsis helvetica Munari

    Article • Invertebrate Systematics, January 2014, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Patrick Rohner