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Christine A. Nalepa is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their research spans several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Insect Science; Genetics; Ecology; and Global and Planetary Change. The main topics covered in their work involve Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Frequent publication venues where their research has appeared include:

  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Florida Entomologist
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution
  • Journal of Insect Physiology

Notable recent papers by Christine A. Nalepa include:

  • Origin of Mutualism Between Termites and Flagellated Gut Protists: Transition From Horizontal to Vertical Transmission, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Overwintering Developmental Stages of Emerald Ash Borer in North Carolina, 2021, Florida Entomologist
  • Extra-pair paternity in the wood-feeding cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder: Social but not genetic monogamy, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • Differential Expression of Hormone-Related Genes in the Heads of Adult and Nymphal Woodroaches (Cryptocercus), 2025, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution
  • Cuticular nitrogen economy during development in the cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus and the termite Neotermes jouteli, 2024, Journal of Insect Physiology

Christine A. Nalepa has collaborated frequently with Kiyoto Maekawa, Kelly L F Oten, Hajime Yaguchi, Matthew A. Bertone, and Itaru Kobayashi.

Best Publications

  • Cockroaches: Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History

    William J. Bell;Louis M. Roth;Christine A. Nalepa;Edward Osborne Wilson

  • Evidence for Cocladogenesis Between Diverse Dictyopteran Lineages and Their Intracellular Endosymbionts

    Nathan Lo;Claudio Bandi;Hirofumi Watanabe;Christine Nalepa

  • The establishment of intracellular symbiosis in an ancestor of cockroaches and termites.

    Claudio Bandi;Massimo Sironi;Giuseppe Damiani;Lorenzo Magrassi

  • Detritivory, coprophagy, and the evolution of digestive mutualisms in Dictyoptera

    C.A. Nalepa;D.E. Bignell;C. Bandi

  • Colony composition, protozoan transfer and some life history characteristics of the woodroach Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae)

    Christine A. Nalepa

  • Origin of termite eusociality: trophallaxis integrates the social, nutritional, and microbial environments

    Christine A. Nalepa

  • Nourishment and evolution in insect societies

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  • Characterizing the Ancestors: Paedomorphosis and Termite Evolution

    Christine A. Nalepa;Claudio Bandi

  • Identification and characterization of ectosymbionts of distinct lineages in Bacteroidales attached to flagellated protists in the gut of termites and a wood-feeding cockroach.

    Satoko Noda;Tetsushi Inoue;Yuichi Hongoh;Miho Kawai

  • Inheritance and diversification of symbiotic trichonymphid flagellates from a common ancestor of termites and the cockroach Cryptocercus

    Moriya Ohkuma;Satoko Noda;Yuichi Hongoh;Christine A Nalepa

  • The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids: Postovulation parental investment and parental care in cockroaches

    Christine A. Nalepa;William J. Bell

  • Wood-feeding cockroaches as models for termite evolution (Insecta: Dictyoptera): Cryptocercus vs. Parasphaeria boleiriana.

    Klaus-Dieter Klass;Christine Nalepa;Nathan Lo

  • Cost of parental care in the woodroach Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae)

    Christine A. Nalepa

  • Biology of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae) in winter aggregations

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  • Phylogeny of the Dictyoptera Re-examined (Insecta)

    Lewis L. Deitz;Christine Nalepa;Klaus-Dieter Klass

  • The role of host phylogeny varies in shaping microbial diversity in the hindguts of lower termites

    Vera Tai;Vera Tai;Erick R. James;Christine A. Nalepa;Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

  • Save Isoptera: a comment on Inward et al.

    Nathan Lo;Michael S Engel;Stephen Cameron;Christine A Nalepa

  • EVOLUTION OF MONOGAMY IN TERMITES

    Christine A. Nalepa;Susan C. Jones

  • Infection of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) by Hesperomyces virescens (Ascomycetes: Laboulbeniales) : Role of mating status and aggregation behavior

    Christine A. Nalepa;Alexander Weir

  • 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

    C. A. Nalepa;G. W. Byers;C. Bandi;C. Bandi;M. Sironi

  • Role of Visual Contrast in the Alighting Behavior of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) at Overwintering Sites

    C. A. Nalepa;G. G. Kennedy;C. Brownie

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of Cellulolytic Enzyme Genes from Representative Lineages of Termites and a Related Cockroach

    Nemuri Todaka;Tetsushi Inoue;Kanako Saita;Moriya Ohkuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudio Bandi
Claudio Bandi University of Milan
Nathan Lo
Nathan Lo University of Sydney
Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia
Moriya Ohkuma
Moriya Ohkuma National Presto Industries
Shuji Shigenobu
Shuji Shigenobu National Institute for Basic Biology
Toru Miura
Toru Miura University of Tokyo
Toshiaki Kudo
Toshiaki Kudo Nagasaki University
George G. Kennedy
George G. Kennedy North Carolina State University
Ajit Varma
Ajit Varma Amity University
Helmut König
Helmut König Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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