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  1. Plasticity in the Function of Secretions in the Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus orbicollis

    Article • Journal of Insect Behavior, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  2. Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, March 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  3. Why do males stay in biparental burying beetles?

    Article • Behaviour, September 2022, Brill

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  4. Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care

    Article • Ethology, June 2022, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  5. Microbial volatiles and succession of beetles on small carrion

    Article • Ecological Entomology, May 2022, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  6. Resource concealment and the evolution of parental care in burying beetles

    Article • Journal of Zoology, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  7. A synergism between dimethyl trisulfide and methyl thiolacetate in attracting carrion-frequenting beetles demonstrated by use of a chemically-supplemented minimal trap

    Article • Chemoecology, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  8. Finding a fresh carcass: bacterially derived volatiles and burying beetle search success

    Article • Chemoecology, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  9. A Synergism Between Dimethyl Trisulfide And Methyl Thiolacetate In Attracting Carrion-Frequenting Beetles Demonstrated By Use Of A Chemically-Supplemented Minimal Trap

    Article • January 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  10. Finding A Fresh Carcass: Bacterially-Derived Volatiles And Burying Beetle Search Success

    Article • January 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  11. The physiology of insect families: A door to the study of social evolution

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  12. Offspring dependence on parental care and the role of parental transfer of oral fluids in burying beetles

    Article • Frontiers in Zoology, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  13. Juvenile hormone and parental care in subsocial insects: implications for the role of juvenile hormone in the evolution of sociality

    Article • Current Opinion in Insect Science, August 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  14. Feeding upon and preserving a carcass: the function of prehatch parental care in a burying beetle

    Article • Animal Behaviour, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  15. Parental care and competition with microbes in carrion beetles: a study of ecological adaptation

    Article • Animal Behaviour, August 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  16. Influences of Parental Care and Food Deprivation on Regulation of Body Mass in a Burying Beetle

    Article • Ethology, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  17. Mass-size relationships, starvation and recovery in an engorging feeder

    Article • Physiological Entomology, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  18. Juvenile hormone, metabolic rate, body mass and longevity costs in parenting burying beetles

    Article • Animal Behaviour, June 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  19. Maternal Care, Iteroparity and the Evolution of Social Behavior: A Critique of the Semelparity Hypothesis

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  20. Contest behavior and other reproductive efforts in aging breeders: a test of residual reproductive value and state-dependent models

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  21. Patterns of parental care in invertebrates

    Article • August 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  22. Age-related reproductive performance in the parental burying beetle, Nicrophorus orbicollis

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  23. Molecular systematics and biogeography of Nicrophorus in part—The investigator species group (Coleoptera: Silphidae) using mixture model MCMC

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  24. Social and nonsocial stimuli and juvenile hormone titer in a male burying beetle, Nicrophorus orbicollis

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  25. Host shift by the burying beetle, Nicrophorus pustulatus, a parasitoid of snake eggs

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, November 2007, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  26. Defending young biparentally: female risk-taking with and without a male in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus pustulatus

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  27. The Costs of Confronting Infanticidal Intruders in a Burying Beetle

    Article • Ethology, March 2007, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  28. Can the “challenge hypothesis” be applied to insects?

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  29. Infanticide, sexual selection and task specialization in a biparental burying beetle

    Article • Animal Behaviour, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  30. Revision of Nicrophorus in part: new species and inferred phylogeny of the nepalensis -group based on evidence from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Coleoptera�:�Silphidae�:�Nicrophorinae)

    Article • Invertebrate Systematics, January 2006, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  31. Intrasexual Competition and Mating Behavior in Ptomascopus morio (Coleoptera: Silphidae Nicrophorinae)

    Article • Journal of Insect Behavior, March 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  32. Nutrition, hormones and life history in burying beetles

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, May 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  33. COMPETITION BETWEEN NICROPHORUS ORBICOLLIS AND N. DEFODIENS: RESOURCE LOCATING EFFICIENCY AND TEMPORAL PARTITIONING

    Article • Northeastern Naturalist, March 2002, Humboldt Field Research Institute

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  34. Competition between Nicrophorus orbicollis and N. defodiens: Resource Locating Efficiency and Temporal Partitioning

    Article • Northeastern Naturalist, January 2002, JSTOR

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  35. Hormonal Regulation of Parental Care in Insects

    Article • January 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  36. The reproductive biology of Ptomascopus morio, a brood parasite of Nicrophorus

    Article • Journal of Zoology, December 2001, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  37. Changes in biosynthesis and degradation of juvenile hormone during breeding by burying beetles: a reproductive or social role?

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, March 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  38. Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  39. Using integrative biology to explore constraints on evolution

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  40. Learning and Task Interference by Corpse‐removal Specialists in Honey Bee Colonies

    Article • Ethology, November 1997, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  41. Division of labor between undertaker specialists and other middle-aged workers in honey bee colonies

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, September 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  42. Juvenile hormone‐mediated reproduction in burying beetles: From behavior to physiology

    Article • Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, January 1997, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  43. Juvenile hormone-mediated reproduction in burying beetles: From behavior to physiology

    Article • Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, January 1997, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  44. The Role of Conflict in Breeding Systems: Burying Beetles as Experimental Organisms

    Article • The American Biology Teacher, February 1996, University of California Press

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  45. Parental Care in Invertebrates

    Article • January 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  46. Rapid elevation of juvenile hormone titer during behavioral assessment of the breeding resource by the burying beetle, Nicrophorus orbicollis

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, June 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  47. Nesting failure in burying beetles and the origin of communal associations

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, March 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  48. Beyond monogamy: territory quality influences sexual advertisement in male burying beetles

    Article • Animal Behaviour, November 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  49. Interspecific Competition, Brood Parasitism, and the Evolution of Biparental Cooperation in Burying Beetles

    Article • Oikos, March 1994, JSTOR

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  50. Interspecific Competition and the Evolution of Communal Breeding in Burying Beetles

    Article • The American Midland Naturalist, January 1994, JSTOR

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  51. Brood discrimination, nest mate discrimination, and determinants of social behavior in facultatively quasisocial beetles ( Nicrophorus spp.)

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  52. Monogamy to communal breeding: exploitation of a broad resource base by burying beetles (Nicrophorus)

    Article • Ecological Entomology, August 1992, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  53. Reproductive Benefits and the Duration of Paternal Care in a Biparental Burying Beetle, Necrophorus Orbicollis

    Article • Behaviour, January 1991, De Gruyter

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  54. Reproductive benefits of infanticide in a biparental burying beetle Nicrophorus orbicollis

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  55. Interference competition among burying beetles (Silphidae, Nicrophorus )

    Article • Ecological Entomology, August 1990, Wiley

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  56. Regulation of brood size in a burying beetle,Nicrophorus tomentosus (Silphidae)

    Article • Journal of Insect Behavior, July 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo

  57. Reproductive Success, Phenology and Biogeography of Burying Beetles (Silphidae, Nicrophorus)

    Article • The American Midland Naturalist, July 1990, JSTOR

    Professor Stephen T Trumbo