Recent Selected Publications

2022
Adamo SA (2022) Dividing up the bill: Interactions between how parasitoids manipulate host behaviour and who pays the cost. Functional Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14150
Adamo SA, El Nabbout A, Ferguson L, Zbarsky J, Faraone N. (2022). Using cold as an ally: Balsam fir (Abies balsamea L., Mill) needles and essential oil kill overwintering ticks. Scientific Reports. 12: 12999. https://rdcu.be/cSCpk
Adamo SA. (2022) The integrated defense system: optimizing defense against predators, pathogens and poisons. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
2021
Adamo SA. (2021) How insects protect themselves against combined starvation and pathogen challenges, and the implications for reductionism. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B. 155, article 110564. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1096495921000038
2020
McMillan LE and Adamo SA. (2020) Friend or foe? Effects of host immune activation on the gut microbiome in the caterpillar Manduca sexta. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223 (19): jeb226662.
Miyashita A, Lee TYM, and Adamo SA. (2020) High stakes decision-making by female crickets (Gryllus texensis): When to trade-in wing muscles for eggs. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 93 (6): 450-465.
Adamo SA (2020). Animals have a Plan B: How insects deal with the dual challenge of predators and pathogens. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 190: 381-390
2019
Adamo SA and McMillan LE (2019) Listening to your gut: Immune challenge to the gut sensitizes body wall nociception in the caterpillar Manduca sexta. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 374: 20190278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0278
Adamo SA (2019) Insect nociceptive processing does not suggest an ability to perceive pain. Canadian Entomologist. 151: 685-695.
Miyashita A, Lee TYM, McMillan E, Easy R, and Adamo SA (2019) Immunity for nothing and the eggs for free: Apparent lack of both physiological trade-offs and terminal reproductive investment in female crickets (Gryllus texensis). PLoS ONE. 14 (5): e0209957
Adamo SA (2019) Turning your victim into a collaborator: Exploitation of insect behavioural control systems by parasitic manipulators. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 33: 25-29
2018
McMillan L. E., Miller, D and Adamo SA (2018) Eating when ill is risky: Immune defense impairs food detoxification in the caterpillar Manduca sexta. Journal of Experimental Biology. 221: jeb173336.