New Paper from the Brodie Lab

Congratulations to Clara O’Connor for her new paper in Behavioral Ecology! Clara and colleagues showed that losing a fight makes a beetle more likely to lose the next one, and changes the way future social partners respond to them. Read the paper here!

Clara S R O’Connor, Vincent A Formica, Edmund D Brodie, Cascading effects of defeat: age-independent loser effects alter partner behavior in Bolitotherus cornutus, Behavioral Ecology, Volume 37, Issue 6, November/December 2026, arag115, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arag115.