The success or fitness of animals depends to a large extent on how well they respond to changes in demands from their environment. I am broadly interested in the (physiological) mechanisms that allow them to do this most optimally, but my research in this area is mainly focused on how animals match the performance of their locomotory apparatus (i.e. their musculoskeletal system) to changes in their body size, energy requirements and energy availability. As most organisms have to deal with these issues, I am not limited in the type of animal I can study. In fact, by studying these mechanisms across different animal taxa we may identify important evolutionary constraints on animal design (in a broad sense), and sources of design variation that natural selection may act on.
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Divergent impacts of the neonicotinoid insecticide, clothianidin, on flight performance metrics in two species of migratory butterflies
Cibotti, S., Saum, P. J., Myrick, A. J., Schilder, R. J. & Ali, J. G., 2024, In: Conservation Physiology. 12, 1, coae002.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Body mass, temperature, and pathogen intensity differentially affect critical thermal maxima and their population-level variation in a solitary bee
Jones, L. J., Miller, D. A., Schilder, R. J. & López-Uribe, M. M., Feb 2024, In: Ecology and Evolution. 14, 2, e10945.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Hawkmoths regulate flight torques with their abdomen for yaw control
Le, V., Cellini, B., Schilder, R. & Mongeau, J. M., May 2023, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 226, 9, jeb245063.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Squash bees host high diversity and prevalence of parasites in the northeastern United States
Jones, L. J., Singh, A., Schilder, R. J. & López-Uribe, M. M., Nov 2022, In: Journal of invertebrate pathology. 195, 107848.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Geographic variation and thermal plasticity shape salamander metabolic rates under current and future climates
Muñoz, D., Miller, D., Schilder, R. & Campbell Grant, E. H., Jan 2022, In: Ecology and Evolution. 12, 1, e8433.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Impacts of larval host plant species on dispersal traits and free-flight energetics of adult butterflies
Pocius, V. M., Cibotti, S., Ray, S., Ankoma-Darko, O., McCartney, N. B., Schilder, R. J. & Ali, J. G., Dec 2022, In: Communications Biology. 5, 1, 469.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Honey bee viruses are highly prevalent but at low intensities in wild pollinators of cucurbit agroecosystems
Jones, L. J., Ford, R. P., Schilder, R. J. & López-Uribe, M. M., Oct 2021, In: Journal of invertebrate pathology. 185, 107667.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Operative temperature analysis of the honey bee Apis mellifera
Stupski, S. D. & Schilder, R. J., Jul 2021, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 224, 14, jeb231134.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Fat in the Leg: Function of the Expanded Hind Leg in Gasteruptiid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae)
Mikó, I., Rahman, S. R., Anzaldo, S. S., Van De Kamp, T., Parslow, B. A., Tatarnic, N. J., Wetherington, M. T., Anderson, J., Schilder, R. J., Ulmer, J. M., Deans, A. R. & Hines, H. M., Jan 1 2019, In: Insect Systematics and Diversity. 3, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
From Spinning Silk to Spreading Saliva: Mouthpart Remodeling in Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
Mikó, I., Rahman, S. R., Jones, A. C., Townley, M. A., Gominho, B., Paudel, S., David Stupski, S., Hines, H. M. & Schilder, R. J., Nov 1 2019, In: Insect Systematics and Diversity. 3, 5, ixz007.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Parasitic gut infection in Libellula pulchella causes functional and molecular resemblance of dragonfly flight muscle to skeletal muscle of obese vertebrates
Schilder, R. J. & Stewart, H., 2019, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 222, 5, jeb188508.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Palmitate- and C6 ceramide-induced Tnnt3 pre-mRNA alternative splicing occurs in a PP2A dependent manner
Black, A. J., Schilder, R. J. & Kimball, S. R., Dec 17 2018, In: Nutrition and Metabolism. 15, 1, 87.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Dietary fat quantity and type induce transcriptome-wide effects on alternative splicing of pre-mRNA in rat Skeletal Muscle
Black, A. J., Ravi, S., Jefferson, L. S., Kimball, S. R. & Schilder, R. J., Sep 1 2017, In: Journal of Nutrition. 147, 9, p. 1648-1657 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Molecular plasticity and functional enhancements of leg muscles in response to hypergravity in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
Schilder, R. J. & Raynor, M., Oct 1 2017, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 220, 19, p. 3508-3518 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) as a bridge between ecology and evolutionary genomics
Bybee, S., Córdoba-Aguilar, A., Duryea, M. C., Futahashi, R., Hansson, B., Lorenzo-Carballa, M. O., Schilder, R., Stoks, R., Suvorov, A., Svensson, E. I., Swaegers, J., Takahashi, Y., Watts, P. C. & Wellenreuther, M., Oct 10 2016, In: Frontiers in Zoology. 13, 1, 46.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review