Publications

2009

Rasmann S, Johnson MD, Agrawal AA. Induced responses to herbivory and jasmonate in three milkweed species. Submitted to Journal of Chemical Ecology.

Agrawal AA, Fishbein M, Halitschke R, Hastings AP, Rabosky DL, Rasmann S. The tempo of trait evolution: evidence for adaptive radiation from the study of plant defense. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of USA.

Rasmann S, Agrawal AA, Cook SC, Erwin AC. Cardenolides, induced responses, and interactions between above and belowground herbivores in the milkweeds (Asclepias spp). Ecology 90: p. 2393-2404.

Rasmann S and AA Agrawal. Plant defense against herbivory: progress in identifying synergism,redundancy, and antagonism between resistance. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 12: 1-6.

2008

Rasmann S and Agrawal AA. In defense of roots: a research agenda for studying plant resistance to belowground herbivory. Plant Physiology 146: 875-880.

Rasmann S and Turlings TCJ. First Insights into Specificity of Belowground Tritrophic Interactions. Oikos 117: 362–369.

2007

Rasmann S and Turlings TCJ. Simultaneous feeding by aboveground and belowground herbivores affects the plant-mediated attraction of their respective natural enemies. Ecology Letters 10: 926-936.

2005

Rasmann S, Kollner TG, Degenhardt J, Hiltpold I, Toepfer S, Kuhlmann U, Gershenzon J, and Turlings TCJ. Recruitment of entomopathogenic nematodes by insect-damaged maize roots. Nature 434: 732-737.

Gotthard K, Margraf N, Rasmann S, and Rahier M. The evolution of larval foraging behaviour in response to host plant variation in a leaf beetle. Oikos 109: 503-512.

Book chapters

Agrawal AA, Conner JK, and Rasmann S. Tradeoffs and adaptive negative correlations in evolutionary ecology. In: Bell, Eanes, Futuyma, and Levinton (editors), Evolution After Darwin: the First 150 Years. Sinauer Associates.

In preparation

Rasmann S, Erwin AC, Halitschke R, AA Agrawal AA. Chemically-mediated belowground trophic cascades.

Rasmann S and Agrawal AA. Phylogenetic signal of host range conservatism.

Rasmann S, Agrawal AA, Hasting AP. Macroevolution of cardenolides in Asclepias.