Publications

2025

• Boisseau, R. P., Bradler, S., & Emlen, D. J. (2025). Sexual selection and flight as predictors of sexual size and shape dimorphism in stick and leaf insects. bioRxiv.
• Boisseau, R. P., & Emlen, D. J. (2025). Exaggerated male hindlegs function as pure weapons of male–male combat in thorny devil stick insects. bioRxiv.
• Schwander, T., Soldini, L., Boisseau, R. P., Mérel, V., Toubiana, W. S., & Lavanchy, G. (2025) On the Repeated Evolution of Parthenogenesis in Stick Insects. EcoEvoRxiv.
• Boisseau, R. P., Bradler, S., & Emlen, D. J. (2025). Divergence time and environmental similarity predict the strength of morphological convergence in stick and leaf insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(1), e2319485121.

2024

• Boisseau, R. P., Woods, H. A. (2024). Resource allocation strategies and mechanical constraints drive the diversification of stick and leaf insect eggs. Current Biology, 34(13), 2880–2892.
• Buescher, T. H., Boisseau, R. P., & Brock, P. D. (2024). Junior homonymy warrants a replacement name for Ramulus lineatus (Liu & Cai, 1992) (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae). Zootaxa, 5447(3), 449–450.

2023

• Weber, J. N.*, Kojima, W.*, Boisseau, R. P.*, Niimi, T., Morita, S., Shigenobu, S., Gotoh, H., Araya, K., Lin, C.-P., Thomas-Bulle, C., et al. (2023). Evolution of horn length and lifting strength in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus. Current Biology, 33(20), 4285–4297.

2022

• Boisseau, R. P., Büscher, T. H., Klawitter, L. J., Gorb, S. N., Emlen, D. J., & Tobalske, B. W. (2022). Multi-modal locomotor costs favor smaller males in a sexually dimorphic leaf-mimicking insect. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22(1), 39.
• Lebecq, A., Doumane, M., Fangain, A., Bayle, V., Leong, J. X., Rozier, F., del Marques-Bueno, M., Armengot, L., Boisseau, R. P., Simon, M. L., et al. (2022). The Arabidopsis SAC9 enzyme is enriched in a cortical population of early endosomes and restricts PI(4,5)P₂ at the plasma membrane. eLife, 11, e73837.

2021

• Del Sol, J. F.*, Hongo, Y.*, Boisseau, R. P.*, Berman, G. H., Allen, C. E., & Emlen, D. J. (2021). Population differences in the strength of sexual selection match relative weapon size in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Evolution, 75(2), 394-413.

2020

• Boisseau, R. P., Ero, M. M., Makai, S., Bonneau, L. J. G., & Emlen, D. J. (2020). Sexual dimorphism divergence between sister species is associated with a switch in habitat use and mating system in thorny devil stick insects. Behavioural Processes, 181, 104263.
• Fea, M. P., Boisseau, R. P., Emlen, D. J., & Holwell, G. I. (2020). Cybernetic combatants support the importance of duels in the evolution of extreme weapons. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1928), 20200254.

2019

• O’Brien, D. M., Boisseau, R. P., et al. (2019). Muscle mass drives cost in sexually selected arthropod weapons. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1905), 20191063.

2018

• O’Brien, D. M., & Boisseau, R. P. (2018). Overcoming mechanical adversity in extreme hindleg weapons. PLOS ONE, 13(11), e0206997.

2017

• Boisseau, R. P., Woods, H. A., & Goubault, M. (2017). The metabolic costs of fighting and host exploitation in a seed-drilling parasitic wasp. Journal of Experimental Biology, 220(21), 3955–3966.
• Boisseau, R. P., Wilder, S. M., & Barry, K. L. (2017). Sexual and nonsexual cannibalism have different effects on offspring performance in redback spiders. Behavioral Ecology, 28(1), 294–303.

2016

• Arias, M., Le Poul, Y., Chouteau, M., Boisseau, R. P., Rosser, N., Théry, M., & Llaurens, V. (2016). Crossing fitness valleys: empirical estimation of a fitness landscape associated with polymorphic mimicry. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1829), 20160391.
• Boisseau, R. P., Vogel, D., & Dussutour, A. (2016). Habituation in non-neural organisms: evidence from slime moulds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1829), 20160446.