Publications from 2017 onwards (lab members in bold). For older publications see Sinead English's google scholar page.


Ponton, F., Tan, Y.X., Forster, C.C., Austin, A.J., English, S., Cotter, S.C., and Wilson, K. (2023). The complex interactions between nutrition, immunity and infection in insects. Journal of Experimental Biology, 226, p.jeb245714. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245714

Whittle, M., Bonsall, M.B., Barreaux, A.M., Ponton, F., and English, S. (2023). A theoretical model for host-controlled regulation of symbiont density. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36, 1731-1744. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14246

Weaving, H., Terblanche, J.S., and English, S. (2023). How plastic are upper thermal limits? A comparative study in tsetse (family: Glossinidae) and wider Diptera. Journal of Thermal Biology 118, 103745. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2023.103745

Mackay, A.J., Yan, J., Kim, C.H., Barreaux, A.M., and Stone, C.M. (2023). Larval diet and temperature alter mosquito immunity and development: using body size and developmental traits to track carry-over effects on longevity. Parasites & Vectors 16, 434. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-023-06037-z

Weaving, H., Lord, J.S., Haines, L., and English, S. (2023). No evidence for direct thermal carryover effects on starvation tolerance in the obligate blood-feeder, Glossina morsitans morsitans. Ecology and Evolution 13, e10652. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10652

Fouks, B., Harrison, M.C., Mikhailova, A.A., Marchal, E., English, S., Carruthers, M., Jennings, E.C., Chiamaka, E.L., Frigard, R.A., Pippel, M., Attardo, G.M., Benoit, J.B., Bornberg-Bauer, E., and Tobe, S.S. (2023). Live-bearing cockroach genome reveals convergent evolutionary mechanisms linked to viviparity in insects and beyond. iScience 26, 107832. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107832

Dumedah, G., Iddrisu, S., Asare, C., Adu-Prah, S., and English, S. (2023). Inequities in spatial access to health services in Ghanaian cities. Health Policy and Planning czad084. DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czad084

MacLeod, K.J., English, S., Ruuskanen, S.K., and Taborsky, B. (2023). Stress in the social context: a behavioural and eco-evolutionary perspective. Journal of Experimental Biology 226, jeb245829. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245829

English, S., Barreaux, A.M., Leyland, R., Lord, J.S., Hargrove, J.W., Vale, G.A., and Haines, L.R. (2023). Investigating the unaccounted ones: insights on age-dependent reproductive loss in a viviparous fly. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11, 1057474. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1057474

Alqurashi, S., English, S., and Wall, R. (2023). Age-dependent changes in reproductive allocation in a facultative ectoparasite, the blowfly Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Calliphoridae). Physiological Entomology 48, 68-74. DOI: 10.1111/phen.12403

Weaving, H., Terblanche, J.S., Pottier, P., and English, S. (2022). Meta-analysis reveals weak but pervasive plasticity in insect thermal limits. Nature Communications 13, 5292. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32953-2

Taborsky, B., Kuijper, B., Fawcett, T.W., English, S., Leimar, O., McNamara, J.M., and Ruuskanen, S. (2022). An evolutionary perspective on stress responses, damage and repair. Hormones and Behavior 142, 105180. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2022.105180

Barreaux, A.M.G., Higginson, A.D, Bonsall, M.B., and English, S. (2022). Incorporating effects of age on energy dynamics predicts nonlinear maternal allocation patterns in iteroparous animals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289, 20211884. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1884

Whittle, M., Barreaux, A.M.G., Bonsall, M.B., Ponton, F., and English, S. (2021). Insect-host control of obligate, intracellular symbiont density. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288, 20211993. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1993

Lord, J.S., Leyland, R., Haines, L.R., Barreaux, A.M.G., Bonsall, M.B., Torr, S.J., and English, S. (2021). Effects of maternal age and stress on offspring quality in a viviparous fly. Ecology Letters 24, 2113-2122. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13839

Barreaux A.M.G., et al. (2021). The role of human and mosquito behaviour in the efficacy of a house-based intervention. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376, 20190815. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0815

Bladon, E.K., English, S., Pascoal, S., and Kilner, R.M. (2020). Early-life effects on body size in each sex interact to determine reproductive success in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33, 1725-1734. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13711

Haines, L.R., Vale, G.A., Barreaux, A.M.G., Ellstrand, N.C., Hargrove, J.W., and English, S. (2020). Big baby, little mother: tsetse flies are exceptions to the juvenile small size principle. BioEssays 42, 2000049. DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000049

Oumbouke, W.A., Pignatelli, P., Barreaux, A.M.G., et al. (2020). Fine scale spatial investigation of multiple insecticide resistance and underlying target-site and metabolic mechanisms in Anopheles gambiae in central Côte d'Ivoire. Scientific Reports 10, 15066. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-71933-8

English, S., and Barreaux, A.M.G. (2020). The evolution of sensitive periods in development: insights from insects. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 36, 71-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.07.009

Taborsky, B., English, S., Fawcett, T.W., Kuijper, B., Leimar, O., McNamara, J.M., Ruuskanen, S., and Sandi, C. (2020). Towards an evolutionary theory of stress responses. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 36, 39-48. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.09.003

English, S., Wright, I., Ashburn, V., Ford, G., and Caramaschi, D. (2020). Prenatal anxiety, breastfeeding and child growth and puberty: linking evolutionary models with human cohort studies. Annals of Human Biology 47, 106-115. DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2020.1751286

Tarusikirwa, V.L., Mutamiswa, R., English, S., Chidawanyika, F., and Nyamukondiwa, C. (2020). Thermal plasticity in the invasive south American tomato pinworm Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Medical and Veterinary Entomology 90, 102598. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2020.102598

Alqurashi, S., English, S., and Wall, R. (2020). Nutritional requirements for reproduction and survival in the blowfly Lucilia sericata. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 34, 207-214. DOI: 10.1111/mve.12425

English, S., and Bonsall, M.B. (2019). Physiological dynamics, reproduction-maintenance allocations, and life history evolution. Ecology and Evolution 9, 9312-9323. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5477

Hargrove, J., English, S., Torr, S.J., Lord, J., Haines, L.R., van Schalkwyk, C., Patterson, J., and Vale, G. (2019). Wing length and host location in tsetse (Glossina spp.): implications for control using stationary baits. Parasites & Vectors 12, 24. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-018-3274-x

Barreaux, A.M.G., Oumbouke, W.A., Tia, I.Z., et al. (2019). Semi-field evaluation of the cumulative effects of a 'Lethal House Lure' on malaria mosquito mortality. Malaria Journal 18, 298. DOI: 10.1186/s12936-019-2936-2

Gasperin, O.D., Duarte, A., English, S., Attisano, A., and Kilner, R.M. (2019). The early-life environment and individual plasticity in life-history traits. Ecology and Evolution 9, 339-351. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4749

Hargrove, J.W., Muzari, M.O., and English, S. (2018). How maternal investment varies with environmental factors and the age and physiological state of wild tsetse Glossina pallidipes and Glossina morsitans morsitans. Royal Society Open Science 5, 171739. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171739

Dixit, T., English, S., and Lukas, D. (2017). The relationship between egg size and helper number in cooperative breeders: a meta-analysis across species. PeerJ 5, e4028. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4028