Protocols

Field experiment comparing reproductive success of burying beetle species across habitat types using breeding pairs, mouse carcasses, and environmental monitoring. Measures burial success, development...

Standardized metal can pitfall traps baited with chicken drumsticks, deployed along elevation gradients to monitor burying beetle abundance and species composition.

A microarray-based approach to profile DNA methylation at conserved CpG sites across diverse mammalian species without requiring species-specific reference genomes. Enables direct comparison of methyl...

Use of oat seedling growth parameters including root weight fraction to assess soil nutrient availability and quality following various treatments.

Experimental manipulation of beetle stridulation ability by surgically removing the plectrum through V-shaped cuts to the elytra, with controls receiving non-functional cuts.

Development of species-specific epigenetic clocks using cross-mammalian methylation arrays and elastic-net penalized regression to predict chronological age from DNA methylation patterns.

Used phylogenetic generalized least squares (PGLS) regression and phylogenetic ANOVA to test relationships between acoustic call frequencies, body size, and habitat while controlling for evolutionary ...

454 sequencing to characterize genetic diversity at the DRB Class II locus in montane voles.