2025
Buddendorf, S. W., Broeckx, H. D., van Delft, J., Groot, A. T., Visser, M. E., Burdfield-Steel, E. R., & Spoelstra, K. (2026). Dimming streetlights in urban areas reduces insect attraction but pipistrelle bats forage more in darkness. Biological Conservation, 314, 111638.
Fruitet, E., De Jong, R., Blankers, T., Groot, A. T., & Burdfield-Steel, E. (2025). Resource limitation reveals that high acetate levels in Heliothis subflexa sex pheromone blend are associated with reduced fitness. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Medina, I., Exnerová, A., Daňková, K., Penacchio, O., Sherratt, T.N., Albrecht, T., Baidya, S., Bosque, R.J., Brown, H., Burdfield-Steel, E., …. 2025. Global selection on insect antipredator coloration. Science, 389(6767), pp.1336-1341.
Burdfield‐Steel, E., Ottocento, C., Furlanetto, M., Rojas, B., Nokelainen, O., & Mappes, J. (2025). Honest signalling in predator–prey interactions: Testing the resource allocation hypothesis. Functional Ecology.
2024
C De Pasqual, E Selenius, E Burdfield‐Steel, J Mappes (2024). Morph‐linked variation in female pheromone signalling and male response in a polymorphic moth. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14182
Ottocento, C., Rojas, B., Burdfield-Steel, E., Furlanetto, M., Nokelainen, O., Winters, S., & Mappes, J. (2024). Diet influences resource allocation in chemical defence but not melanin synthesis in an aposematic moth. Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb-245946.
2023
Groot, A. T., Blankers, T., Halfwerk, W., & Burdfield Steel, E. (2023). The Evolutionary Importance of Intraspecific Variation in Sexual Communication Across Sensory Modalities. Annual Review of Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-030223-111608
David W. Kikuchi, William L. Allen, Kevin Arbuckle, Thomas G. Aubier, Emmanuelle S. Briolat,
Emily R. Burdfield-Steel, Karen L. Cheney, Klára Daňková, Marianne Elias, Liisa Hämäläinen, Marie E. Herberstein, Thomas J. Hossie, Mathieu Joron, Krushnamegh Kunte, Brian C. Leavell, Carita Lindstedt, Ugo Lorioux-Chevalier, Melanie McClure, Callum F. McLellan, Iliana Medina, Viraj Nawge, Erika Páez, Arka Pal, Stano Pekár, Olivier Penacchio, Jan Raška, Tom Reader, Bibiana Rojas, Katja H. Rönkä, Daniela C. Rößler, Candy Rowe, Hannah M. Rowland, Arlety Roy, Kaitlin A. Schaal, Thomas N. Sherratt, John Skelhorn, Hannah R. Smart, Ted Stankowich, Amanda M. Stefan, Kyle Summers, Christopher H. Taylor, Rose Thorogood, Kate Umbers, Anne E. Winters, Justin Yeager, Alice Exnerová. (2023) The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Accepted
Burdfield‐Steel, E., & Burdfield, C. (2023). How to fail in advertising: The potential of marketing theory to predict the community‐level selection of defended prey. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14160
2022
Cristina Ottocento, Anne E. Winters, Bibiana Rojas, Johanna Mappes, and Emily Burdfield-Steel. Not just the sum of its parts: geographic variation and non-additive effects of pyrazines in the chemical defence of an aposematic moth. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14142
Thomas Blankers*, Elise Fruitet*, Emily Burdfield‐Steel* and Astrid Groot. Experimental evolution of a pheromone signal. Ecology and Evolution. 12, e8941. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8941 (*Equal contribution)
Zeeman, A.N., Smallegange, I.M., Burdfield-Steel, E., Groot, A.T. & Stewart, K.A.Toward an understanding of the chemical ecology of alternative reproductive tactics in the bulb mite (Rhizoglyphus robini). BMC Ecol Evo 22, 5 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01956-w
2021
Chiara De Pasqual, Astrid T. Groot, Johanna Mappes and Emily Burdfield-Steel, Evolutionary importance of intraspecific variation in sex pheromones, Trends in Ecology & Evolution; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.05.005
Emily Burdfield-Steel and Darrell J Kemp, Negative intersexual genetic correlation for colour pattern in a variable aposematic insect, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021;, blab025, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab025
Swanne Gordon*, Emily Burdfield-Steel*, Jimi Kirvesoja, and Johanna Mappes. Safety in numbers: How color morph frequency affects predation risk in an aposematic moth. The American Naturalist. 198:1, 128-141 (* Shared first authorship)
2020
Astrid T. Groot, Varvara Y. Vedenina and Emily Burdfield-Steel. Editorial: Multimodal Mating Signals: Evolution, Genetics and Physiological Background. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
Katja Ronka, Janne Valkonen, Ossi Nokelainen, Bibiana Rojas, Swanne Gordon, Emily Burdfield-Steel, Johanna Mappes. Geographic mosaic of selection by avian predators on hindwing warning colour in a polymorphic aposematic moth. Ecology Letters 23: 1654-1663.
Carita Lindstedt, Kaisa Suisto, Emily Burdfield-Steel, Anne Winters & Johanna Mappes. Defence against predators incurs high reproductive costs for the aposematic moth Arctia plantaginis. Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/araa033
Emily Burdfield-Steel, Jutta Schneider, Johanna Mappes & Susanne Dobler. Testing the effectiveness of pyrazine defences against spiders. Chemoecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00049-020-00305-5
2019
Rojas, B., Mappes, J. & Burdfield-Steel, E. Multiple modalities in insect warning displays have additive effects against wild avian predators. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 73: 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-2643-6
2018
Burdfield-Steel E., Brain M., Rojas B., Mappes J. The price of safety: food deprivation in early life influences the efficacy of chemical defence in an aposematic moth. OIKOS. doi:10.1111/oik.05420
Briolat E.S., Burdfield-Steel E.R., Paul S.C., Rönkä K.H., Seymoure B.M., Stankowich T. & Stuckert A.M.M. (2018) Diversity in warning coloration: Selective paradox or the norm? Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12460
Fabricant S.A., Burdfield-Steel E.R., Umbers K., Lowe E.C. & Herberstein M.E. (2018) Warning signal plasticity in Hibiscus Harlequin Bugs. Evolutionary Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-018-9946-3
Rojas, B., Burdfield-Steel, E., Gordon, S. P., De Pasqual, C., Hernández, L., Mappes, J., Nokelainen, O., Rönkä, K., Lindstedt, C. (2018) Multimodal aposematic signals and their emerging role in mate attraction. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00093.
Potvin, D. A., Burdfield-Steel, E., Potvin, J. M. & Heap, S. M. (2018) Diversity begets diversity: a global perspective on gender equality in scientific society leadership. PLOS ONE, 13 (5): e0197280.
Burdfield-Steel, E.R. & Shuker, D.M. (2018) Divergence is not speciation, or why we need females: a comment on Tinghitella et al. Behavioral Ecology, ary069.
Burdfield-Steel, E., Pakkanen, H., Rojas, B., Galarza, J. A. & Mappes, J. (2018) De novo synthesis of chemical defences in an aposematic moth. Journal of Insect Science. 18(2) https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iey020.
2017
Rojas, B.‡, Burdfield-Steel, E.‡, Pakkanen, H., Suisto, K., Maczka, M., Schulz, S. & Mappes, J. (2017) How to fight multiple enemies: target-specific chemical defences in an aposematic moth. (‡Equal contribution). Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2017 284 20171424
Shuker, D.M. & Burdfield-Steel, E.R. (2017), Reproductive interference in insects. Ecological Entomology, 42: 65–75. doi:10.1111/een.12450
2015
Burdfield-Steel, E.R., Auty, S. & Shuker, D.M. (2015) Do the benefits of polyandry scale with outbreeding? Behavioral Ecology, 26 (5): 1423–1431.
Dougherty, L.R., Rahman, I.A., Burdfield-Steel, E.R., Greenway, E.V. & Shuker, D.M. (2015) Experimental reduction of intromittent organ length reduces male reproductive success in a bug. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B.
Shuker, D.M., Currie, N., Hoole, T. & Burdfield-Steel, E.R. (2015) The extent and costs of reproductive interference among four species of true bug. Population Ecology.
2014
Burdfield-Steel, E.R. & Shuker, D.M. (2014) Mate-guarding in a promiscuous insect: species discrimination influences reproductive interference in seed bugs. Evolutionary Ecology, 28:1031–1042.
Burdfield-Steel, E.R. & Shuker, D.M. (2014) The evolutionary ecology of the Lygaeidae. Ecology & Evolution, 4:2278-2310.
2013
Burdfield-Steel, E.R., Dougherty, L.R., Smith, L.A., Collins, L.A. & Shuker, D.M. (2013) Variation in social and sexual behaviour in four species of aposematic seed bugs (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae): The role of toxic and non-toxic food. Behavioural Processes, 99: 52– 6.
†Dougherty, L.R., †Burdfield-Steel, E.R. & Shuker, D.M. (2013) Sexual stereotypes: the case of sexual cannibalism. Animal Behaviour, 85: 313-322. († Equal contribution)
2012
Truelove, N.K., Burdfield-Steel, E., Griffiths, S., Ley-Cooper, K., Preziosi, R., Butler, M.J., Behringer, D.C., Box, S. & Canty, S. (2012) Genetic Connectivity of Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus) in Belize. Proc. Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Inst. 64: 464-467.
2011
Burdfield-Steel, E.R. & Shuker, D.M. (2011) Reproductive interference. Current Biology, 21: R450-451.
Book Reviews
Review of “Avoiding Attack: The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Aposematism, and Mimicry” in Basic and Applied Ecology. 2019. Swanne Gordon and Emily Burdfield-Steel. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2019.03.003
Insect Chemical and Evolutionary Ecology 