Christopher W. Wheat

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

44h-index8.0kcitations194works2.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(60), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(46), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(43), Genetic diversity and population structure(36), Physiological and biochemical adaptations(31)

Publications194 total

Evolutionary constraints in host shifts: Limited adaptation of Plutella xylostella to cardenolide‐defended Erysimum cheiranthoides
Universität Zürich, ZORA·2026Open Access
Evolutionary constraints in host shifts: Limited adaptation of <i>Plutella xylostella</i> to cardenolide‐defended <i>Erysimum cheiranthoides</i>
Functional Ecology·2025Open Access
Quantitative Support for the Metabolic Load Hypothesis: Metabolic Rate Measures Reveal Host‐Dependent Growth Costs in a Polyphagous Herbivore
Ecology and Evolution·2025Open Access
Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2025· 9 citedOpen Access
Quantitative support for the metabolic load hypothesis: metabolic rate measures reveal host-dependent growth costs in a polyphagous herbivore
2025Open Access
Project Psyche: Generating and utilising reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Lineage-specific targets of positive selection in three leaf beetles correspond with defence capacity against their shared parasitoid wasp
Heredity·2025Open Access
Highly Efficient Generation of Germline Mutations Using <scp>CRISPR</scp> /Cas9 in the Speckled Wood Butterfly <i>Pararge aegeria</i>
Ecology and Evolution·2025Open Access
Repeated evolution of photoperiodic plasticity by different genetic architectures during recurrent colonizations in a butterfly
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Highly efficient generation of germline mutations using CRISPR/Cas9 in the speckled wood butterfly Pararge aegeria
2025
Exonize: a tool for finding and classifying exon duplications in annotated genomes
Bioinformatics Advances·2024Open Access
Rapid Evolution of Host Repertoire and Geographic Range in a Young and Diverse Genus of Montane Butterflies
Systematic Biology·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies
Evolution Letters·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Plasticity for the win: Flexible transcriptional response to host plant switches in the comma butterfly (<i>Polygonia c‐album</i>)
Molecular Ecology·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Testing for variation in photoperiodic plasticity in a butterfly: Inconsistent effects of circadian genes between geographic scales
Ecology and Evolution·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Genome-Wide Gene Birth–Death Dynamics Are Associated with Diet Breadth Variation in Lepidoptera
Genome Biology and Evolution·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
A time course analysis through diapause reveals dynamic temporal patterns of microRNAs associated with endocrine regulation in the butterfly Pieris napi
2024· 4 citedOpen Access
A time course analysis through diapause reveals dynamic temporal patterns of <scp>microRNAs</scp> associated with endocrine regulation in the butterfly <i>Pieris napi</i>
Molecular Ecology·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Plasticity for the win: Flexible transcriptional response to host plant switches in the comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album)
2024· 2 cited
Tempo and mode of diapause evolution in butterflies
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Sören Nylin(11), Niklas Wahlberg(9), Heiko Vogel(7), Mikko J. Frilander(6), Karl Gotthard(5), Maria de la Paz Celorio‐Mancera(5), James H. Marden(4), Marjo Saastamoinen(4), Jouni Kvist(4), Niklas Janz(4), Jason Hill(4), J. Cristobal Vera(3), Howard W. Fescemyer(3), Ilkka Hanski(3), Jadranka Rota(3), David G. Heckel(3), Carlos Peña(3), Vicencio Oostra(3), Peter Pruisscher(3), Philipp Lehmann(3)