Publications

Valerio Mazzoni, Gianfranco Anfora, Reginald B. Cocroft, Nina E. Fatouros, Astrid T. Groot, Jürgen Gross, Peggy S. M. Hill, Hannelore Hoch, Claudio Ioriatti, Rachele Nieri, Apostolos Pekas, Marco Valerio Rossi Stacconi, Martin J. Steinbauer, Lukasz L. Stelinski, Takuma Takanashi, Meta Virant Doberlet, Andreas Wessel. (in review). Bridging biotremology and chemical ecology: A new terminology. Trends in Plant Science

Evora AJ, Cocroft RB, Madhusudhana S and Hamel JA. In revision. VibePy: an open-source tool for conducting high-fidelity vibrational playback experiments. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.

Vergara Herrera N, Cocroft RB, Rueda Solano LA. 2023. Eating to the beat of the drum: vibrational parameters of toe tapping behavior in Dendrobates truncatus (Anura: Dendrobatidae). Evolutionary Ecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-023-10277-x

Pekas A, Mazzoni V, Appel H, Cocroft R, Dicke M. 2023. Plant protection and biotremology: fundamental and applied aspects. Trends in Plant Sciences 26:S1360-1385(23)00225-X. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.06.021

Appel HA, Cocroft RB (co-senior authors) 2023. Plant ecoacoustics: A sensory ecology approach. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38:623-630 (PDF).

Nieri, R, Michael SCJ, Pinto CF, Urquizo ON, Appel H & Cocroft RB. 2022. Inexpensive methods for detecting and reproducing substrate-borne vibrations: advantages and limitations. Pp. 203-218 in: Stritith et al (eds), Biotremology: Physiology, Ecology and Evolution. Springer, Berlin.

Rodríguez RL, Wood TK, Stearns FW, Snyder RL, Tilmon KJ, Cast M, Hunt RE & Cocroft RB. 2021. Adaptation without specialization early in speciation: a host shift experiment with Enchenopa treehoppers. American Naturalist 198:333-346. https://doi.org/10.1086/715629

Kollasch AM, Abdul-Kafi AR, Body MJA, Pinto CF, Appel HA, Cocroft RB. 2020. Leaf vibrations produced by chewing provide a consistent acoustic target for plant recognition of herbivores. Oecologia. doi:10.1007/s00442-020-04672-2

Body MJA, Dhruveesh FD, Coffman CM, Paret TY, Koo AJ, Cocroft RB & Appel HA. 2019. Use of yellow fluorescent protein fluorescence to track OPR3 expression in Arabidopsis thaliana responses to insect herbivory. Frontiers in Plant Science 10:1586. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01586

Pinto CF, Torrico-Bazoberry D, Penna M, Cossio-Rodriguez R, Cocroft RB, Appel HA & Niemeyer HM. 2019. Chemical responses of Nicotiana tabacum (Solanaceae) induced by vibrational signals of a generalist herbivore.  Journal of Chemical Ecology doi.org/10.1007/s10886-019-01089-x

Body MJA, Neer WC, Vore C, Lin C-H, Vu D, Cocroft RB & Appel HA. 2019. Caterpillar chewing vibrations cause changes in plant hormones and volatile emissions in Arabidopsis thaliana. Frontiers in Plant Science 10:810. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00810

Hamel JA & Cocroft RB. 2019. Maternal vibrational signals reduce the risk of attracting eavesdropping predators. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:1-11 doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00204

Cossio-Rodriguez R, Cocroft RB, Niemeyer HM & Pinto CF. 2019. Mate searching in Ennya maculicornis (Membracidae: Polyglyptini) initiated by females: behavioural and acoustic descriptions. Ecological Entomology 44:406-412. doi.org/10.1111/een.12718

Michael, SCJ, Appel, HA & Cocroft, RB. 2019. Methods for replicating leaf vibrations induced by insect herbivores. In: Gassman, W., ed. Plant Innate Immunity. Walker, JM, series editor, Springer Methods in Molecular Biology 1991:141-157. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9458-8_15.

Appel, HA & Cocroft, RB. 2019. Safe and Sound. The Biologist (magazine of the Royal Society of Biology, UK https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist/158-biologist/features/2129-safe-and-sound)

Kocher, SD & Cocroft, RB. 2019. Signals in insect social organization. In: Choe, J.C. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, (2nd ed.). vol. 1, pp. 558–567. Elsevier, Academic Press.

Mandujano-Camacho H, Hénaut Y, Cocroft RB y Vliet KA. 2018. Duración y éxito de eclosión en diferentes tamaños de nidadas de Crocodylus moreletii (Crocodylia: Crocodilidae. Hidrobiologia 28:157-162.

Gibson JS & Cocroft RB. 2018. Vibration-guided mate searching in treehoppers:directional accuracy and sampling strategies in a complex sensory environment. Journal of Experimental Biology 221: 1-13. doi:10.1242/jeb.175083

Hsu YH, Cocroft RB, Snyder RL & Lin CP. 2018. You stay, but I hop: Host-shifting near and far co-dominated the evolution of Enchenopa treehoppers. Ecology and Evolution 2018: 1-13 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3815

Morales VR, Landauro C, Cocroft RB. 2017. Cuidado parental a una escuela de renacuajos en Leptodactylus petersii (Steindachner, 1864) (Anura, Leptodactylidae) en la Amazonia Peruana. Biotempo 8:45-48. doi.org/10.31381/biotempo.v8i0.863

Appel HM & Cocroft RB. 2014. Plants respond to leaf vibrations caused by insect herbivore chewing. Oecologia 175:1257-1266

Cocroft, RB, Hill, P, Wessel, A & Gogala, M, editors. 2014 Studying Vibrational Communication. Springer, Berlin.

Cocroft, RB, Gogala,M, Hill, PSM & Wessel, A. 2014. Fostering research progress in a rapidly growing field. In: Cocroft et al. (eds), Studying Vibrational Communication, Springer, Berlin.

Cocroft, RB, Hamel, JA, Su, Q & Gibson, JS. 2014. Vibrational playback experiments: challenges and solutions. In: Cocroft et al. (eds), Studying Vibrational Communication, Springer, Berlin.

Horisk, CS & Cocroft, RB. 2013. Animal signals: always influence, sometimes information. Pp. 259-280 in: Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence (Stegmann, U, ed.). Oxford University Press.

Cocroft, RB & Appel, HM. 2013. Comments on "green symphonies." Behavioral Ecology 2013 doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars230

Hamel JA & Cocroft RB. 2012. Negative feedback from maternal signals reduces false alarms by collectively signaling offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 3820 – 3826. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1181

Cocroft, RB & Sullivan-Beckers, LE. 2012. Female preference functions provide a window into cognition, the evolution of communication, and speciation in plant-feeding insects. In J. Vonk & T. Shackleford (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology, pp. 339-355. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rodríguez RL, Haen C, Cocroft RB & Fowler-Finn KD. 2012. Males adjust signaling effort based on female mate preference cues. Behavioral Ecology. 23: 1218-1225. doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars105

Legendre F, Marting PR & Cocroft RB. 2012. Competitive masking of vibrational signals during mate searching in a treehopper. Animal Behavior 83:361-368.

Cocroft RB. 2011. The public world of insect vibrational communication. Molecular Ecology 20: 2041-2043.

DeLuca PD & Cocroft RB.  2011 The influence of age on male mate searching behaviour in thornbug treehoppers. Ethology 117: 1-11.

Sullivan Beckers LE & Cocroft RB. 2010. The importance of female choice, male-male competition and signal transmission as causes of selection on male mating signals. Evolution 64:3158-3171.

McNett GD, Luan L & Cocroft RB. 2010. Wind-induced noise alters signaler and receiver behavior in vibrational communication. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64:2043–2051.

Hamilton, KGA & Cocroft, RB. 2010. North American species of Enchenopa (Hemiptera: Membracidae): taxonomic assessment based on adults. Entomological News 20:554-565.

Cocroft, RB, Rodriguez, RL & Hunt, RE. 2010. Host shifts and signal divergence: mating signals covary with host use in a complex of specialized plant-feeding insects. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 99: 60–72.

Holan, SH, Wikle, CK, Sullivan Beckers, LE & Cocroft, RB. 2010. Modeling   complex phenotypes: Generalized linear models using spectrogram predictors of animal communication signals. Biometrics 66: 914-924.

Cocroft, RB & Hamel, JA. 2010. Vibrational communication in the “other” social         insects: a diversity of ecology, signals, and signal function. Pp. 47-68 in O'Connell-Rodwell, CE (ed.), Vibrational Communication in Animals. Research Signposts, Trivandrum, India.

Cocroft, RB. 2010. Vibrational Communication. In: Breed, M & Moore, J Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (Elsevier, online).

Ramaswamy, K & Cocroft, RB. 2009. Collective signals in treehopper broods provide predator localization cues to the defending mother. Animal Behaviour 78: 697-704.

De Luca, PA & Cocroft, RB. 2009. Age-related changes in an insect mating signal have no effect on female choice. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63:1787-1798.

Cocroft, RB. 2009. An ecologist marvels at animals that learn to eavesdrop. Nature 460: 439.

De Luca, PA & Cocroft, RB. 2008. The effects of age and relatedness on mating patterns in thornbug treehoppers: inbreeding avoidance or inbreeding tolerance? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62:1869-1875.

McNett, GD & Cocroft, RB. 2008. Host shifts favor vibrational signal divergence in Enchenopa binotata treehoppers. Behavioral Ecology 19:650-656.

Rodriguez, RL, Sullivan LM, Snyder RL & Cocroft, RB. 2008. Host shifts and the beginning of signal divergence. Evolution 62:12-20.

Cocroft, RB, Rodriguez, RL & Hunt, RE. 2008. Host shifts, the evolution of communication and speciation in the Enchenopa binotata species complex of treehoppers. Pp. 88-100 in: Tilmon, KJ (ed.), Specialization, Speciation and Radiation: The  Evolutionary Biology of Herbivorous Insects. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

Borduin R, Ramaswamy K, Mohan A, Cocroft RB & Nair S. 2008. Modeling the rapid transmission of information within a social group of insects: emergent patterns in the antipredator signals. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Proceedings DSCC2008-2298: 1441-144

Rodriguez, RL & Cocroft, RB. 2006. Divergence in female duetting signals in the Enchenopa binotata species complex of treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae). Ethology 112:1231–1238.

McNett, GD, Miles, RN, Homentcovschi, D & Cocroft, RB. 2006. A method for two-dimensional characterization of animal vibrational signals transmitted along plant stems. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 192:1245-1251.

Rodríguez, RL, Ramaswamy, K & Cocroft, RB. 2006. Evidence that female preferences have shaped male signal evolution in a clade of specialized plant-feeding insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273:2585-2593.

Cocroft, RB, Shugart, HJ, Konrad, KT & Tibbs, K. 2006. Variation in plant substrates and its consequences for insect vibrational communication. Ethology 112:779-789.

Cocroft, RB & De Luca, PA. 2006. Size-frequency relationships in insect vibrational signals. Pp. 99-110 in Insect Sounds and Communication: Physiology, Ecology and Evolution (eds. Claridge, MF & Drosopoulos, S).  Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL. 

Cocroft, RB & McNett, GD. 2006. Vibrational communication in treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae). Pp. 305-317 in Insect Sounds and Communication: Physiology, Ecology and Evolution (eds. Claridge, MF & Drosopoulos, S). Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL.  

Rodriguez, RL, Schul, J, Cocroft, RB & Greenfield, MD. 2005. The contribution of tympanic transmission to fine temporal signal evaluation in an ultrasonic moth. Journal of Experimental Biology 208:4159-4165.

Cocroft, RB & Rodríguez, RL. 2005. The behavioral ecology of insect vibrational communication. BioScience 55:323-334 (cover article).

Cocroft, RB. 2005. Vibrational communication facilitates cooperative foraging in a phloem-feeding insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272:1023-1029 

Rodríguez, RL, Sullivan, L, & Cocroft, RB. 2004. Vibrational communication and reproductive isolation in the Enchenopa binotata species complex of treehoppers. Evolution 58:571-578. 

Sattman, DA & Cocroft, RB. 2003. Phenotypic plasticity and repeatability in signals of Enchenopa treehoppers, with implications for gene flow among host-shifted populations. Ethology 109:981-994.

Angulo, A, Cocroft, RB, Reichle, S. 2003. Species identity in the genus Adenomera (Anura: Leptodactylidae) in southeastern Peru. Herpetologica 59:490-504.

Cocroft, RB. 2003. The social environment of an aggregating, ant-attended treehopper. Journal of Insect Behavior 16:79-95.

Cocroft, RB. 2002. Maternal defense as a limited resource: unequal predation risk in broods of an insect with maternal care. Behavioral Ecology 13:125-133.

Cocroft, RB. 2001. Vibrational communication and the ecology of group-living, herbivorous insects. American Zoologist  41:1215-1221.

Miles, RN, Cocroft, RB, Gibbons, C and Batt, D. 2001. A bending wave simulator for investigating directional vibration sensing in insects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 110:579-587.

Cocroft, RB, Tieu, T, Hoy, RR & Miles, R. 2000. Mechanical directionality in the response to substrate vibration in a treehopper. Journal of Comparative Physiology 186: 695-705.

Cocroft, RB. 1999. Thornbug to thornbug: the inside story of insect song. Natural History 108:52-57.

Cocroft, RB. 1999. Offspring-parent communication in a subsocial treehopper (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Umbonia crassicornis). Behaviour 136:1-21.

Cocroft, RB. 1999. Parent-offspring communication in response to predators in a subsocial treehopper (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Umbonia crassicornis). Ethology 105:553-568.

Barnett, K, Cocroft, RB & Fleishman, L. 1999. Possible communication by substrate vibration in a chameleon. Copeia 1999:225-228.

Cocroft, RB & Pogue, M. 1997. Social behavior and communication in the neotropical cicada Fidicina mannifera.  Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 69(S):85-97.

Cocroft, RB. 1996. Insect vibrational defence signals. Nature 382:679-680

Schultz, T, Cocroft, RB & Churchill, G. 1996. Reconstruction of ancestral character states. Evolution 50:504-511.

Cocroft, RB & Ryan, MJ. 1995. Patterns of advertisement call evolution in toads and chorus frogs. Animal Behaviour 49:283-303.

Cocroft, RB. 1994. A cladistic analysis of chorus frog phylogeny (Hylidae: Pseudacris). Herpetologica 50:420-437.

deVries, PJ, Cocroft, RB & Thomas, J. 1993. Comparison of acoustical signals in Maculinea butterfly caterpillars and their obligate host Myrmica ants. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 49:229-238.

Ryan, MJ, Cocroft, RB & Wilczynski, W. 1990. The role of environmental selection in intraspecific divergence of mate recognition signals in the cricket frog Acris crepitans. Evolution 44:1869-1872.

Cocroft, RB, McDiarmid, WR, Jaslow, A & Ruiz-C., P. 1990. Vocalizations of eight species of Atelopus, with comments on communication in the genus. Copeia 1990:631-643

Cocroft, RB & Hambler, K. 1989. Observations on a commensal relationship of the microhylid frog Chiasmocleis ventrimaculata and the burrowing theraphosid spider Xenesthis immanis in southeastern Peru.  Biotropica 21:2-8.

Cocroft, RB & Heyer, WR. 1988. Notes on the frog genus Thoropa  (Amphibia, Leptodactylidae) with a description of a new species (Thoropa saxatilis).  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101:209-220.

Heyer, WR & Cocroft, RB.  1986.  Descriptions of two new species of  Hylodes from the Atlantic Forests of Brazil (Amphibia, Leptodactylidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99:100-109.