Emily Burdfield-Steel

No active affiliation

Research interests

My research looks at the ways insects can defend themselves, and the pressures that shape these defenses. I use behavioral and chemical techniques to identify the anti-predator chemicals of wood tiger moths. My work helps us understand the evolutionary forces and dynamics that shape life on earth.

Follow-up groups

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Department of Biological and Environmental Science BIOENV) EKO

Publications and other outputs

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Not just the sum of its parts : Geographic variation and nonadditive effects of pyrazines in the chemical defence of an aposematic moth (2023) Ottocento, Cristina; et al.; A1; OA
Safety in Numbers : How Color Morph Frequency Affects Predation Risk in an Aposematic Moth (2021) Gordon, Swanne P.; et al.; A1; OA
Defense against predators incurs high reproductive costs for the aposematic moth Arctia plantaginis (2020) Lindstedt, Carita; et al.; A1; OA
Geographic mosaic of selection by avian predators on hindwing warning colour in a polymorphic aposematic moth (2020) Rönkä, Katja; et al.; A1; OA
Testing the effectiveness of pyrazine defences against spiders (2020) Burdfield-Steel, Emily R.; et al.; A1; OA
Diversity in warning coloration : selective paradox or the norm? (2019) Briolat, Emmanuelle S.; et al.; A2; OA
The price of safety : food deprivation in early life influences the efficacy of chemical defence in an aposematic moth (2019) Burdfield-Steel, Emily; et al.; A1; OA
De novo Synthesis of Chemical Defenses in an Aposematic Moth (2018) Burdfield-Steel, Emily; et al.; A1; OA
Divergence is not speciation, or why we need females : a comment on Tinghitella et al (2018) Burdfield-Steel, Emily; et al.; B1
Diversity begets diversity : A global perspective on gender equality in scientific society leadership (2018) Potvin, Dominique A.; et al.; A1; OA
Multimodal Aposematic Signals and Their Emerging Role in Mate Attraction (2018) Rojas Zuluaga, Bibiana; et al.; A2; OA
Predator Defense (2018) Rojas Zuluaga, Bibiana; et al.; A3
Warning signal plasticity in hibiscus harlequin bugs (2018) Fabricant, S. A.; et al.; A1
How to fight multiple enemies : target-specific chemical defences in an aposematic moth (2017) Rojas Zuluaga, Bibiana; et al.; A1; OA
Reproductive interference in insects (2017) Shuker, David M.; et al.; A1