publications

2025

1. FAD-dependent hexenal isomerases in Lepidoptera evolved convergently with plant-derived hexenal isomerases

   Yu-Hsien Lin, Bulah Chia-hsiang Wu, Abdoallah Sharaf, and 6 more authors

   2025
2. Economic load-carrying in cockroaches

   Be Eldash and Rudolf Johannes Schilder

   bioRxiv, 2025
3. Differential effects of clothianidin exposure on metabolic rates across life stages of Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

   Staci Cibotti, Jared G Ali, and Rudolf J Schilder

   Environmental Entomology, 2025
4. Neonicotinoid Insecticides can Enhance Milkweed Vigor and Subsequently Impact Monarch Performance

   Staci Cibotti, Nathaniel McCartney, Rudolf J Schilder, and 1 more author

   Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2025

2024

1. Effects of body size on the energetics of weight-bearing roaches

   Be Eldash and Rudolf Schilder

   In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 2024
2. Divergent impacts of the neonicotinoid insecticide, clothianidin, on flight performance metrics in two species of migratory butterflies

   Staci Cibotti, Phineas J Saum, Andrew J Myrick, and 2 more authors

   Conservation Physiology, 2024
3. Body mass, temperature, and pathogen intensity differentially affect critical thermal maxima and their population-level variation in a solitary bee

   Laura J Jones, Douglas A Miller, Rudolf J Schilder, and 1 more author

   Ecology and evolution, 2024

2023

1. The abdomen of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta regulates wing-generated flight torques for yaw control

   Viet Le, Benjamin Cellini, Rudolf Schilder, and 1 more author

   In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 2023
2. Larval history effects on migrant Monarch butterfly flight energetics and longevity

   Kaley Hallmark, Ching-Wen Tan, Jared Ali, and 1 more author

   In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 2023
3. Hawkmoths regulate flight torques with their abdomen for yaw control

   Viet Le, Benjamin Cellini, Rudolf Schilder, and 1 more author

   Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023

2022

1. Report to NECSC: Adaptive capacity in a forest indicator species

   Evan H Campbell Grant, David Mu noz, Sean C Sterrett, and 3 more authors

   US Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release, 2022
2. Geographic variation and thermal plasticity shape salamander metabolic rates under current and future climates

   David Mu noz, David Miller, Rudolf Schilder, and 1 more author

   Ecology and Evolution, 2022
3. Reviewers for Insect Systematics and Diversity

   Austin Baker, Jason Bond, Marek Borowiec, and 8 more authors

   2022
4. Differential effects of clothianidin exposure on metabolic rates across life stages in the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)

   Staci Cibotti, Jared Ali, and Rudolf Johannes Schilder

   2022
5. Impacts of larval host plant species on dispersal traits and free-flight energetics of adult butterflies

   Victoria M Pocius, Staci Cibotti, Swayamjit Ray, and 4 more authors

   Communications Biology, 2022
6. Squash bees host high diversity and prevalence of parasites in the northeastern United States

   Laura J Jones, Avehi Singh, Rudolf J Schilder, and 1 more author

   Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2022

2021

1. Thermal plasticity in a combustion impaired dragonfly phenotype

   SD Stupski and RJ Schilder

   In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 2021
2. Operative temperature analysis of the honey bee Apis mellifera

   Stanley D Stupski and Rudolf J Schilder

   Journal of Experimental Biology, 2021
3. Honey bee viruses are highly prevalent but at low intensities in wild pollinators of cucurbit agroecosystems

   Laura J Jones, Ryan P Ford, Rudolf J Schilder, and 1 more author

   Journal of invertebrate pathology, 2021

2020

1. Thermography and Beekeeping

   Robin Underwood, S. David Stupski, Kayla Heywood, and 1 more author

   American Bee Journal, 2020

2019

1. Fat in the leg: function of the expanded hind leg in gasteruptiid wasps (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae)

   Istv’an Mik’o, Sarthok Rasique Rahman, Salvatore S Anzaldo, and 8 more authors

   Insect systematics and diversity, 2019
2. Parasitic gut infection in Libellula pulchella causes functional and molecular resemblance of dragonfly flight muscle to skeletal muscle of obese vertebrates

   Rudolf J Schilder and Hannah Stewart

   Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019
3. From spinning silk to spreading saliva: mouthpart remodeling in Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

   Istv’an Mik’o, Sarthok Rasique Rahman, Anne C Jones, and 6 more authors

   Insect Systematics and Diversity, 2019
4. You are what you eat: Survival, size and flight energetics of monarch butterflies reared on different milkweed species

   Victoria Pocius, Ruud Schilder, and Jared G Ali

   In Entomology 2019, 2019
5. The cost of immune responses to thermoregulatory capacity in Bombus impatiens

   Hannah L Stewart and Ruud Schilder

   In Entomology 2019, 2019

2018

1. Palmitate-and C6 ceramide-induced Tnnt3 pre-mRNA alternative splicing occurs in a PP2A dependent manner

   Adam J Black, Rudolf J Schilder, and Scot R Kimball

   Nutrition & metabolism, 2018
2. Heat Shock Response in the Flight Muscles of the Endothermic Hawkmoth, Manduca sexta

   B Gominho and R Schilder

   In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 2018
3. Intraspecific variability in metabolic plasticity to warmer temperatures in the red-backed salamander, Plethodon cinereus

   David J Munoz, David AW Miller, Rudolf Schilder, and 1 more author

   In 2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5–10), 2018
4. Infection effects on bee thermoregulatory strategies

   Hannah L Stewart and Ruud Schilder

   In Entomology 2018, 2018
5. P-IE Section Symposium: Stressors Across Space and Time: Energy Sources, Enemies, and Environmental Influences

   Ruud Schilder, Sara L Hermann, and Jared G Ali

   In Entomology 2018, 2018
6. Developing Biophysical Heat Budget Models in Three Hymenopteran Species

   SD Stupski and RJ Schilder

   In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 2018

2017

1. Ecophysiology of infection-associated metabolic disease in a dragonfly

   RJ Schilder, EA Hornett, and JH Marden

   In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 2017
2. Dietary fat quantity and type induce transcriptome-wide effects on alternative splicing of pre-mRNA in rat skeletal muscle

   Adam J Black, Suhana Ravi, Leonard S Jefferson, and 2 more authors

   The Journal of nutrition, 2017
3. Molecular plasticity and functional enhancements of leg muscles in response to hypergravity in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster

   Rudolf J Schilder and Megan Raynor

   Journal of Experimental Biology, 2017
4. High-Fat Diets Enriched with Varying Fatty Acid Compositions Have Differential Effects on Skeletal Muscle Troponin T pre-mRNA Alternative Splicing

   Adam Black, Ruud Schilder, and Scot Kimball

   The FASEB Journal, 2017

2016

1. Effects of age and hindlimb immobilization and remobilization on fast troponin T precursor mRNA alternative splicing in rat gastrocnemius muscle

   Suhana Ravi, Rudolf J Schilder, Arthur S Berg, and 1 more author

   Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 2016
2. (How) do animals know how much they weigh?

   Rudolf J Schilder

   Journal of Experimental Biology, 2016
3. The Ontogenetic Scaling of Metabolic Rate in Wing-Polymorphic Gryllus firmus

   Avril Danielle Juah Cooper and Rudolf J Schilder

   The FASEB Journal, 2016
4. Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) as a bridge between ecology and evolutionary genomics

   Seth Bybee, Alex C’ordoba-Aguilar, M Catherine Duryea, and 8 more authors

   Frontiers in zoology, 2016

2015

1. Influence of ageing and essential amino acids on quantitative patterns of troponin T alternative splicing in human skeletal muscle

   Joel Coble, Rudolf J Schilder, Arthur Berg, and 3 more authors

   Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 2015
2. High Fat Diet-Induced Alterations in Alternative Splicing of Pre-mRNA

   Suhana Ravi, Rudolf Schilder, Leonard Jefferson, and 1 more author

   The FASEB Journal, 2015
3. Role of precursor mRNA splicing in nutrient-induced alterations in gene expression and metabolism

   Suhana Ravi, Rudolf J Schilder, and Scot R Kimball

   The Journal of nutrition, 2015

2014

1. De novo transcriptome assembly from fat body and flight muscles transcripts to identify morph-specific gene expression profiles in Gryllus firmus

   Neetha Nanoth Vellichirammal, Anthony J Zera, Rudolf J Schilder, and 3 more authors

   PLoS One, 2014
2. Purification and characterization of 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase from the wing-polymorphic cricket, Gryllus firmus, and assessment of causes of morph-differences in enzyme activity

   Anthony J Zera, Cody Wehrkamp, Rudolf Schilder, and 2 more authors

   Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2014

2013

1. Molecular Basis for Anabolic Resistance in Disuse Atrophy of Skeletal Muscle

   Andrew Ryan Kelleher, Scot R Kimball, Michael D Dennis, and 2 more authors

   2013
2. The mTORC1 signaling repressors REDD1/2 are rapidly induced and activation of p70S6K1 by leucine is defective in skeletal muscle of an immobilized rat hindlimb

   Andrew R Kelleher, Scot R Kimball, Michael D Dennis, and 2 more authors

   American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2013
3. Genetic variation in HIF signaling underlies quantitative variation in physiological and life-history traits within lowland butterfly populations

   James H Marden, Howard W Fescemyer, Rudolf J Schilder, and 3 more authors

   Evolution, 2013
4. The repressors of mTORC1 signaling, REDD1 and REDD2, are induced in immobilized rat skeletal muscle

   A Kelleher, S Kimball, M Dennis, and 2 more authors

   In International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, 2013

2012

1. A high-fat diet impairs alternative splicing of the troponin T pre-mRNA in skeletal muscle

   Scot R Kimball, Rudolf J Schilder, Elisabeth A Charleston, and 1 more author

   2012
2. Cell-autonomous regulation of fast troponin T pre-mRNA alternative splicing in response to mechanical stretch

   Rudolf J Schilder, Scot R Kimball, and Leonard S Jefferson

   American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, 2012

2011

1. Disuse atrophy induced by rat hindlimb immobilization leads to resistance of skeletal muscle protein synthesis to a meal-feeding stimulus

   Andrew Ryan Kelleher, Alexander P Tuckow, Rudolf J Schilder, and 2 more authors

   2011
2. The biochemical basis of life history adaptation: molecular and enzymological causes of NADP+-isocitrate dehydrogenase activity differences between morphs of Gryllus firmus that differ in lipid biosynthesis and life history

   Rudolf J Schilder, Anthony J Zera, Christine Black, and 2 more authors

   Molecular biology and evolution, 2011
3. Body weight-dependent troponin T alternative splicing is evolutionarily conserved from insects to mammals and is partially impaired in skeletal muscle of obese rats

   Rudolf J Schilder, Scot R Kimball, James H Marden, and 1 more author

   Journal of Experimental Biology, 2011

2010

1. Regulation of skeletal muscle Troponin T alternative splicing in response to changes in body weight is impaired in obese rodents

   Rudolf Schilder, Scot Kimball, James Marden, and 1 more author

   The FASEB Journal, 2010

2007

1. Bee plump

   Ruud Schilder

   NEW SCIENTIST, 2007
2. Metabolic syndrome in insects triggered by gut microbes

   Rudolf J Schilder and James H Marden

   Journal of diabetes science and technology, 2007
3. Parasites, proteomics and performance: effects of gregarine gut parasites on dragonfly flight muscle composition and function

   Rudolf J Schilder and James H Marden

   Journal of Experimental Biology, 2007

2006

1. Mechanics, Metabolism & Menosporinae: An integrative analysis of dragonfly flight performance

   Rudolf Schilder

   2006
2. Metabolic syndrome and obesity in an insect

   Rudolf J Schilder and James H Marden

   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006

2005

1. Intraspecific variation in dragonfly flight behavior: effects of a parasitic infection on flight muscle performance, metabolism and myofibrillar protein content

   Rudolf J Schilder

   In The 2005 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2005

2004

1. Diabetic dragonflies: Hyperglycaemia and insulin response differences in L-pulchella dragonflies suffering from a protozoan gut parasite

   R Schilder and J Marden

   In FASEB JOURNAL, 2004
2. A hierarchical analysis of the scaling of force and power production by dragonfly flight motors

   Rudolf J Schilder and James H Marden

   Journal of Experimental Biology, 2004

2001

1. Workloop force and lever arm length allometry in dragonfly flight motors.

   RJ Schilder and JH Marden

   In AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST, 2001