Christine Nalepa

Nalepa, C. A., Bohannon, G. R., & Oten, K. L. F. (2023, September 14). Size of emerald ash borer in North Carolina, USA: Preliminary evidence for a sawtooth cline? AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1111/afe.12598

Yaguchi, H., Kobayashi, I., Maekawa, K., & Nalepa, C. A. (2021, October 4). Extra-pair paternity in the wood-feeding cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder: Social but not genetic monogamy. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16185

Nalepa, C. A. (2020). [Review of Origin of Mutualism Between Termites and Flagellated Gut Protists: Transition From Horizontal to Vertical Transmission]. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00014

Nalepa, C. A., Shimada, K., Maekawa, K., & Luykx, P. (2017). Distribution of Karyotypes of the Cryptocercus punctulatus Species Complex (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE, 17(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iex045

Yaguchi, H., Hayashi, Y., Tohoku, T., Nalepa, C. A., & Maekawa, K. (2017, June). Genetic data indicate that most field-collected woodroach pairs are unrelated. https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.12358

Nalepa, C. A. (2016, February). 'Cost' of proctodeal trophallaxis in extant termite individuals has no relevance in analysing the origins of eusociality. ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY, Vol. 41, pp. 27–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12276

Tai, V., Carpenter, K. J., Weber, P. K., Nalepa, C. A., Perlman, S. J., & Keeling, P. J. (2016). Genome Evolution and Nitrogen Fixation in Bacterial Ectosymbionts of a Protist Inhabiting Wood-Feeding Cockroaches. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 82(15), 4682–4695. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00611-16

Nalepa, C. A., & Arellano, C. (2016). Parental social environment alters development of nutritionally independent nymphs in Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 70(6), 881–887. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2110-6

Nalepa, C. A. (2015). [Review of Origin of termite eusociality: trophallaxis integrates the social, nutritional, and microbial environments]. ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY, 40(4), 323–335. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12197

Tai, V., James, E. R., Nalepa, C. A., Scheffrahn, R. H., Perlman, S. J., & Keeling, P. J. (2015). The Role of Host Phylogeny Varies in Shaping Microbial Diversity in the Hindguts of Lower Termites. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 81(3), 1059–1070. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02945-14

Nalepa, C. A., Teerling, C., Rutledge, C. E., Swink, W., & Arellano, C. (2012). Ball Diamonds as Habitat for Nests of Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae): Comparisons among Three States. JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 85(3), 219–225. https://doi.org/10.2317/jkes120418.1

Nalepa, C. A., Evans, T. A., & Lenz, M. (2011). Antennal cropping during colony foundation in termites. ZOOKEYS, (148), 185–196. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.148.1854

Nalepa, C. A. (2011). [Review of Body Size and Termite Evolution]. EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 38(3), 243–257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-011-9121-z

Nalepa, C. A., & Mullins, D. E. (2011). Repeated Copulation in the Wood-feeding Cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus Does Not Influence Number or Development of Offspring. JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR, 24(1), 44–54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10905-010-9235-7

Nalepa, C. A., & Grayson, K. L. (2011). Surface Activity of the Xylophagous Cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) Based on Collections From Pitfall Traps. ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 104(2), 364–368. https://doi.org/10.1603/an10133

Nalepa, C. A. (2010). Altricial development in subsocial cockroach ancestors: foundation for the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in termites. EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT, 12(1), 95–105. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-142x.2009.00394.x

Nalepa, C. A. (2010). Elizabeth Anne McMahan: In Memorium (1924-2009). Sociobiology, 56(1), 1–6.

Todaka, N., Inoue, T., Saita, K., Ohkuma, M., Nalepa, C. A., Lenz, M., … Moriya, S. (2010). Phylogenetic Analysis of Cellulolytic Enzyme Genes from Representative Lineages of Termites and a Related Cockroach. PLOS ONE, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008636

Nalepa, C. A., & Mullins, D. E. (2009). Hatching asynchrony, survivorship, and development in young colonies of the subsocial Cockroach cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae). Sociobiology, 54(2), 489–508.

Ohkuma, M., Noda, S., Hongoh, Y., Nalepa, C. A., & Inoue, T. (2009). Inheritance and diversification of symbiotic trichonymphid flagellates from a common ancestor of termites and the cockroach Cryptocercus. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 276(1655), 239–245. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1094

Nalepa, C. A., Maekawa, K., Shimada, K., Saito, Y., Arellano, C., & Matsumoto, T. (2008). Altricial Development in Subsocial Wood-Feeding Cockroaches. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 25(12), 1190–1198. https://doi.org/10.2108/zsj.25.1190

Maekawa, K., Matsumoto, T., & Nalepa, C. A. (2008). [Review of Social biology of the wood-feeding cockroach genus Salganea (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae, Panesthiinae): did ovoviviparity prevent the evolution of eusociality in the lineage?]. INSECTES SOCIAUX, 55(2), 107–114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-008-0997-2

Everaerts, C., Maekawa, K., Farine, J. P., Shimada, K., Luykx, P., Brossut, R., & Nalepa, C. A. (2008). The Cryptocercus punctulatus species complex (Dictyoptera : Cryptocercidae) in the eastern United States: Comparison of cuticular hydrocarbons, chromosome number, and DNA sequences. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 47(3), 950–959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.011

Courrent, A., Quennedey, A., Nalepa, C. A., Robert, A., Lenz, M., & Bordereau, C. (2008). The fine structure of colleterial glands in two cockroaches and three termites, including a detailed study of Cryptocercus punctulatus (Blattaria, Cryptocercidae) and Mastotermes darwiniensis (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae). ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT, 37(1), 55–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2007.03.004

Klass, K.-D., Nalepa, C., & Lo, N. (2008). [Review of Wood-feeding cockroaches as models for termite evolution (Insecta : Dictyoptera): Cryptocercus vs. Parasphaeria boleiriana]. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 46(3), 809–817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.028

Bell, W. J., Roth, L. M., & Nalepa, C. A. (2007). Cockroaches: Ecology, behavior, and natural history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Nalepa, C. A. (2007). Fly catcher effect in Harmonia axyridis (Pallas)? No attraction to lady beetle images on flight traps. JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 42(4), 496–500. https://doi.org/10.18474/0749-8004-42.4.496

Nalepa, C. A. (2007). Hanmnia axyridis (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae) in buildings: Relationship between body height and crevice size allowing entry. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY, 100(5), 1633–1636. https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493(2007)100[1633:HACCIB]2.0.CO;2

Nalepa, C. A., & Weir, A. (2007). Infection of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae) by Hesperomyces virescens (Ascomycetes : Laboulbeniales): Role of mating status and aggregation behavior. JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY, 94(3), 196–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2006.11.002

Lo, N., Engel, M. S., Cameron, S., Nalepa, C. A., Tokuda, G., Grimaldi, D., … Thompson, G. J. (2007, October 22). Save Isoptera: A comment on Inward et al. BIOLOGY LETTERS, Vol. 3, pp. 562–563. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0264

Noda, S., Inoue, T., Hongoh, Y., Kawai, M., Nalepa, C. A., Vongkaluang, C., … Ohkuma, M. (2006). Identification and characterization of ectosymbionts of distinct lineages in Bacteroidales attached to flagellated protists in the gut of termites and a wood-feeding cockroach. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 8(1), 11–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00860.x

Lo, N., Luykx, P., Santoni, R., Beninati, T., Bandi, C., Casiraghi, M., … Nalepa, C. A. (2006). Molecular phylogeny of Cryptocercus wood-roaches based on mitochondrial COII and 16S sequences, and chromosome numbers in Palearctic representatives. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 23(4), 393–398. https://doi.org/10.2108/zsj.23.393

Nalepa, C. A. (2005). Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae): dispersal events associated with rainfall. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 141(1691), 95–97.

Nalepa, C. A., Kennedy, G. G., & Brownie, C. (2005). Role of visual contrast in the alighting behavior of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae) at overwintering sites. ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY, 34(2), 425–431. https://doi.org/10.1603/0046-225x-34.2.425

Nalepa, C. A., Kennedy, G. G., & Brownie, C. (2004). Orientation of multicolored Asian lady beetles to buildings. American Entomologist (Lanham, Md.), 50(3), 174–175.

Perry, J., & Nalepa, C. A. (2003). A new mode of parental care in cockroaches. INSECTES SOCIAUX, 50(3), 245–247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-003-0665-5

Lo, N., Bandi, C., Watanabe, H., Nalepa, C., & Beninati, T. (2003). Evidence for cocladogenesis between diverse dictyopteran lineages and their intracellular endosymbionts. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 20(6), 907–913. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msg097

Nalepa, C. A. (2003). Evolution in the genus Cryptocercus (Dictyoptera : Cryptocercidae): no evidence of differential adaptation to hosts or elevation. BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 80(2), 223–233. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00225.x

Deitz, L. L., Nalepa, C., & Klass, K.-D. (2003). Phylogeny of the Dictyoptera Re-examined (Insecta). Entomologische Abhandlungen, 61(1), 69–91.

Nalepa, C. A., Luykx, P., Klass, K. D., & Deitz, L. L. (2002). Distribution of karyotypes of the Cryptocercus punctulatus species complex (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) in the Southern Appalachians: Relation to habitat and history. ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 95(3), 276–287. https://doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2002)095[0276:DOKOTC]2.0.CO;2

Nalepa, C. A., & Kidd, K. A. (2002). Parasitism of the multicolored Asian lady beetle (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae) by strongygaster triangulifer (Diptera : Tachinidae) in North Carolina. JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 37(1), 124–127. https://doi.org/10.18474/0749-8004-37.1.124

Jones, S. C., & Nalepa, C. A. (2002). Survey of the termites (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae, Rhinotermitidae, Termitidae) of St. John, US Virgin Islands. Sociobiology, 39(1), 155–163.

Meyer, JR, Nalepa, C. A., & Devorshak, C. (2001). A new species of anicetus (Hymenoptera : Encyrtidae) parasitizing terrapin scale, Mesolecanium nigrofasciatum (Hemiptera : Coccidae). FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST, 84(4), 686–690. https://doi.org/10.2307/3496402

Nalepa, C. A. (2001). Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera : Cryptocercidae) from monadnocks in the Piedmont of North Carolina. JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 36(4), 329–334. https://doi.org/10.18474/0749-8004-36.4.329

Nalepa, C. A., Bignell, D. E., & Bandi, C. (2001). [Review of Detritivory, coprophagy, and the evolution of digestive mutualisms in Dietyoptera]. INSECTES SOCIAUX, 48(3), 194–201. https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001767

Nalepa, C. A., Miller, L. R., & Lenz, M. (2001). Flight characteristics of Mastotermes darwiniensis (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae). INSECTES SOCIAUX, 48(2), 144–148. https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001757

Nalepa, C. A., Li, L., Lu, W., & Lazell, J. (2001). Rediscovery of the wood-eating cockroach Cryptocercus primarius (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) in China, with notes on ecology and distribution. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 26(2), 184–190.

Nalepa, C. A., & Bandi, C. (2000). Characterizing the ancestors: Paedomorphosis and termite evolution. In D. E. B. T. Abe & M. Higashi (Eds.), Termites: Evolution, sociality, symbioses, ecology (pp. 53–75). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3223-9_3

Nalepa, C. A. (2000). Dampwood termites. In R. E. Gold & S. C. Jones (Eds.), Handbook of household and structural insect pests (pp. 113–116). Lanham, Md.: Entomological Society of America.

Nalepa, C. A., Kidd, K. A., & Hopkins, D. I. (2000). The multicolored Asian lady beetle (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae): Orientation to aggregation sites. JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 35(2), 150–157. https://doi.org/10.18474/0749-8004-35.2.150

Nalepa, C. A., & Lenz, M. (2000). The ootheca of Mastotermes darwiniensis Froggatt (Isoptera : Mastotermitidae): homology with cockroach oothecae. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 267(1454), 1809–1813. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2000.1214

Sacchi, L., Nalepa, C. A., Lenz, M., Bandi, C., Corona, S., Grigolo, A., & Bigliardi, E. (2000). Transovarial transmission of symbiotic bacteria in Mastotermes darwiniensis (Isoptera : mastotermitidae): Ultrastructural aspects and phylogenetic implications. ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 93(6), 1308–1313. https://doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[1308:TTOSBI]2.0.CO;2

Frohlich, J., Sass, H., Babenzien, H. D., Kuhnigk, T., Varma, A., Saxena, S., … Konig, H. (1999). Isolation of Desulfovibrio intestinalis sp nov from the hindgut of the lower termite Mastotermes darwiniensis. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY, 45(2), 145–152. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjm-45-2-145

Nalepa, C. A., & Bandi, C. (1999). Phylogenetic status, distribution, and biogeography of Cryptocercus (Dictyoptera : Cryptocercidae). ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 92(3), 292–302. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/92.3.292

Hopkins, D. I., Nalepa, C. A., & Kidd, K. A. (1999). Studies of the small hive beetle in North Carolina. American Bee Journal, 139(7), 536.

Nalepa, C. A. (1998). Distribution of Kalotermes approximatus (Isoptera : Kalotermitidae) in North Carolina. FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST, 81(2), 251–254. https://doi.org/10.2307/3496096

Nalepa, C. A., Ahlstrom, K. R., Nault, B., & Williams, J. L. (1998). Mass appearance of lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on the North Carolina coast. Entomological News, 109(1998), 277–281.

Sacchi, L., Nalepa, C. A., Bigliardi, E., Lenz, M. B., C., C., S., G., … Laudani, U. (1998). Some aspects of intracellular symbiosis during embryo development of Mastotermes darwiniensis (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae). Parassitologia, 40(1998), 309–316.

Sacchi, L., Nalepa, C. A., Bigliardi, E., Corona, S., Grigolo, A., Laudani, U., & Bandi, C. (1998). Ultrastructural studies of the fat body and bacterial endosymbionts of Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder (Blattaria: Cryptocercidae). Symbiosis, 25(1-3), 251–269.

Nalepa, C. A., Byers, G. W., Bandi, C., & Sironi, M. (1997). Description of Cryptocercus clevelandi (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) from the northwestern United States, molecular analysis of bacterial symbionts in its fat body, and notes on biology, distribution, and biogeography. ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 90(4), 416–424. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/90.4.416

Bandi, C., Sironi, M., Nalepa, C. A., Corona, S., & Sacchi, L. (1997). Phylogenetically distant intracellular symbionts in termites. Parassitologia, 39(1997), 71–75.

Nalepa, C. A., & Bell, W. J. (1997). Post-ovulation parental investment and parental care in cockroaches. In B. J. Crespi & J. C. Choe (Eds.), Social competition and cooperation in insects and Arachnids (pp. 26–51). https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511721953.004

Nalepa, C. A., & Jones, S. C. (1992). Evolution of monogamy in termites. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 65(3), 251.

Nalepa, C. A., & Mullins, D. E. (1992). Initial reproductive investment and parental body size in Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae). Physiological Entomology, 17(3), 255. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3032.1992.tb01019.x

NALEPA, C. A., & JONES, S. C. (1991). EVOLUTION OF MONOGAMY IN TERMITES. BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS, 66(1), 83–97. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.1991.tb01136.x

NALEPA, C. A. (1990). EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF NYMPHS AND ESTABLISHMENT OF HINDGUT SYMBIOSIS IN CRYPTOCERCUS-PUNCTULATUS (DICTYOPTERA, CRYPTOCERCIDAE). ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 83(4), 786–789. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/83.4.786