Publications
Casasa. 2024. Evolution of regulatory mechanisms underlying nutrition responsive plasticity in insects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 12:1409743
Casasa S*, Katsougia E*, Ragsdale EJ. 2023. A Mediator subunit imparts robustness to a polyphenism decision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120: e2308816120
Casasa S, Biddle JF, Koutsovoulos GD, Ragsdale EJ 2021. Polyphenism of a novel trait integrated rapidly evolving genes into ancestrally plastic networks. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38: 331-343
Casasa S, Zattara EE, Moczek AP 2020. Nutrition-responsive gene expression and the developmental evolution of insect polyphenism. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4: 970-978
Hu Y, Linz DM, Parker ES, Schwab DB, Casasa S, Macagno ALM, Moczek AP 2019. Developmental bias in horned dung beetles and its contributions to innovation, adaptation, and resilience. Evolution & Development. 22: 165-180
Casasa S, Moczek AP 2019. Evolution of, and via, developmental plasticity: insights through the study of scaling relationships. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 59(5):1346-1355
Schwab DB*, Casasa S*, Moczek AP 2019. On the reciprocally causal and constructive nature of developmental plasticity and robustness. Frontiers in Genetics. 9:735
Casasa S, Moczek AP 2018. Insulin signaling’s role in mediating tissue-specific nutritional plasticity and robustness in the horn-polyphenic beetle Onthophagus taurus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 285: 20181631
Mohammed Ismail W, Pagel KA Pejaver V, Zhang SV, Casasa S, Mort M, Cooper DN, Hahn MW, Radivojac P 2018. The sequencing and interpretation of the genome obtained from a Serbian individual. PLoS ONE 13: e0208901
Casasa S, Moczek AP 2018. The role of ancestral phenotypic plasticity in evolutionary diversification: population density effects in the horned beetle Onthophagus taurus. Animal Behaviour. 137: 53-61
Schwab DB, Casasa S, Moczek AP 2017. Evidence for developmental niche construction in dung beetles: effects on growth, scaling, and reproductive success. Ecology Letters. 20: 1353-163
Casasa S, Schwab DB, Moczek AP 2017. Developmental regulation and evolution of scaling: novel insights through the study of Onthophagus beetles. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 19: 52-60
Casasa S, Moczek AP 2016. Review of Ecological Developmental Biology: the Environmental Regulation of Development, Health, and Evolution, 2nd edition, by Scott F. Gilbert and David Epel, Sinauer. Quarterly Review of Biology. 91: 513-514
Marcellini S, González FA, Sarrazin AF, Pabón-Mora N, Benítez M, Piñeyro-Nelson A, Rezende GL,Maldonado E, Schneider PN, Grizante MB, Da Fonseca RN, Vergara-Silva F, Suaza-Gaviria V, Zumajo-Cardona C, Zattara EE, Casasa S, Suárez-Baron H, Brown FD. 2016. Evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo) research in latin america. Journal of Experimental Zoology B. 328: 5-40
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