peer-reviewed scientific articles

  1. Van Meyel, S., Ritter, R., Helanterä, H. & Lindstedt, C. 2025. Group size dependent selection for cooperation versus freeloading in collective chemical defence. The Ecology Letters (in press).
  2. Ritter, R., Tynkkynen, ,R., Helanterä, H., Wutke, S. & Lindstedt, C. 2026. Direct and indirect benefits of cooperation in a collective defence against predation. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 (11), e2520025123.
  3. Koskenpato, K., Mikkonen, T., Mappes, J., Valkonen, J. & Lindstedt, C. 2026. High detectability costs select weak warning signals in chemically defended prey. Behavioural Ecology 37 (2), arag010.
  4. Lindstedt, C., Boncoraglio, G., Cotter, S.C., Gilbert, J.D.J. & Kilner, R.M. 2025. Maternal care shapes an aposematic display and provides lifelong protection against predators. Behavioral Ecology 36 (5), araf116.
  5. Gupta, A., Lindstedt, C., Gerber, N., Ritter, R. & Kokko, H. 2025. Sex-biased cooperation among immature peers: it matters who helps whom. Proc R Soc B, 292 (2059): 2025189. 
  6. Lindstedt, C. Olipa kerran hyvin verkostoitunut kuusi (invited article about the biological interactions of spruce published  in peer reviewed Duodecim-journal: https://www.duodecimlehti.fi/duo18572
  7. Lindstedt, C., Koskenpato, K. & Van Meyel, S. 2024. Gregarious, chemically defended pine sawflies as a new model to study cooperative interactions in an ecological context. Insectes Sociaux. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-024-01012-y
  8. Kikuchi, D. W.,  Allen, W. L.,  Arbuckle, K.,  Aubier, T. G.,  Briolat, E. S.,  Burdfield-Steel, E. R.,  Cheney, K. L., Daňková, K.,  Elias, M.,  Hämäläinen, L.,  Herberstein, M. E.,  Hossie, T. J.,  Joron, M.,  Kunte, K.,  Leavell, B. C., Lindstedt, C.,  Lorioux-Chevalier, U.,  McClure, M.,  McLellan, C. F. …  Exnerová, A. 2023.  The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences. Journal of Evolutionary Biology,  00,  1– 17. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14192
  9. Lindstedt, C., Bagley, R., Calhim, S., Jones, M. and Linnen, C. 2022. The impact of life stage and pigment source on the evolution of novel warning signal traits. Evolution.
  10. Lindstedt, C., Suisto, K., Burdfield-Steel, E., Winters, A. and Mappes, J. 2020. Defence against predators incurs high reproductive costs for the aposematic moth Arctia plantaginis. Behavioral Ecology. 
  11. Koskenpato, K., Lehikoinen, A., Lindstedt, C. and Karell, P. 2020. Grey plumage colour is more cryptic than brown in snowy landscapes in a resident colour polymorphic bird" Ecology and Evolution.
  12. Lindstedt, C., Suisto, K., Mappes, J. 2020. Appearance before performance? Nutritional constraints on life-history traits, but not warning signal expression in aposematic moths. Journal of Animal Ecology.
  13. Lindstedt, C., Murphy, L., Mappes, J. 2019. Antipredator strategies of pupae: how to avoid predation in an immobile life-stage? Invited contribution in the special issue on insect metamorphosis in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.
  14. Mäntylä E, Kleier S, Lindstedt C, Kipper S, Hilker M. 2018. Insectivorous birds are attracted by plant traits induced by insect egg deposition. J Chem. Ecol. (online).
  15. Lindstedt, C., Miettinen, A., Freitak, D., Ketola, T., López-Sepulcre, A., Mäntylä, E., Pakkanen, H. 2018. Ecological conditions alter cooperative behaviour and its costs in a chemically defended sawfly. Proc. R. Soc. B 285 (1884).
  16. Rojas, B., Burdfield-Steel, E., De Pasqual, C., Gordon, S., Hernández, L, Mappes, J., Nokelainen, O., Rönkä, K. and Lindstedt, C. 2018. Multimodal aposematic signals and their emerging role in mate attraction. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 6, 93.
  17. Linnen, C., O’Quin, C. T., Shackleford, T., Searc, C. R., Lindstedt C. 2018. Genetic basis of body color and spotting pattern in redheaded pine sawfly larvae (Neodiprion lecontei). Genetics. 209: 1291-305. 
  18. Lindstedt, C., Boncoraglio, G., Cotter, S., Gilbert J., and Kilner, R. M. 2017. Aposematism in the burying beetle? Dual function of anal fluid in parental care and chemical defence. Behavioral Ecology 1–9 arx 100.
  19. Koski, T-M., Lindstedt, C., Klemola, T., Troscianko, J., Mäntylä, E., Tyystjärvi, E., Stevens, M., Helander, M. and Laaksonen, T. 2017. Insect herbivory may cause changes in the visual properties of leaves and affect the camouflage of herbivores to avian predators. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 71:97. 
  20. Lindstedt, C., Schroderus, E., Lindström, L. and Mappes, T. 2016. Evolutionary constraints of warning signals: a genetic trade-off between the efficacy of larval and adult warning coloration can maintain variation in signal expression, Evolution, 70: 2562–2572. 
  21. Mökkönen, M. and Lindstedt, C. 2016. Evolutionary Ecology of Deception. Biological Reviews, 91:1020 – 1035. 
  22. Chargé, R., Wedell, N., Lindstedt, C., Hämäläinen, L., Övemark, E. and Mappes, J. 2016. Variation in male fertility in a polymorphic moth, Parasemia plantaginis.  Animal Behaviour , 111:33-40. 
  23. Reudler-Talsma, J., Lindstedt, C., Pakkanen, H., Lehtinen, I. and Mappes, J. 2015. Costs and benefits of plant allelochemicals in herbivore diet in a multienemy world. Oecologia, 179(4). 
  24. Nokelainen, O., Valkonen, J., Lindstedt, C. and Mappes, J. 2014. Changes in predator community structure shifts the efficacy of two warning signals in Arctiid moths, Journal of Animal Ecology(http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12169). 
  25. Lindstedt, C. and Mökkönen, M. 2014. Evolutionary strategy of Deception, Editorial. Current Zoology  60 (1).
  26. Kareksela, S., Härmä, O., Lindstedt, C., Siitari, H. and Suhonen, J. 2013. Effect of Willow tit Poecile montanus alarm calls on attack rates by Pygmy Owls Glaucidium passerinum (Short communication). IBIS155:407-412.
  27. Nokelainen, O., Lindstedt, C. and Mappes, J. 2013. Environment-mediated morph-linked immune and life-history responses in the aposematic wood tiger moth. Journal of Animal Ecology. online: doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12037. 
  28. Ihalainen, E. and Lindstedt, C. 2012. Do avian predators select for seasonal polyphenism in the European map butterfly Araschnia levana (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 737-748. 
  29. Laurentz, M., Reudler, J. H., Mappes, J., Friman, V., Ikonen, S. and Lindstedt, C. 2012. Diet quality can play a critical role in defense efficacy against parasitoids and pathogens in the Glanville Fritillary (Melitaea cinxia). Journal of Chemical Ecology 38: 116 - 125. 
  30. Nokelainen, O., Hegna, R., Reudler, J. H., Lindstedt, C. and Mappes, J. 2012. Trade-off between warning signal efficacy and mating success in the wood tiger moth. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 279: 257-265. 
  31. Lindstedt, C., Eager, H., Ihalainen, E., Kahilainen, A., Stevens, M. and Mappes, J. 2011. Direction and strength of selection by predators for the hindwing color of the aposematic wood tiger moth.  Behavioral Ecology 22(3): 580-587. 
  32. Friman, V., Hiltunen, T., Jalasvuori, M.,  Lindstedt, C., Laanto, E., Örmälä, A-M., Laakso, J., Mappes, J. and Bamford, J. 2011. Parasitic bacteriophage constrains the temperature-induced evolutionary increase in Serratia marcescens virulence. PLoS ONE 6:e17651. 
  33. Lindstedt, C., Huttunen, H., Kakko, M. and Mappes, J. 2011. Disengtangling the evolution of weak warning signals: high detection risk and low production costs of chemical defences in gregarious pine sawfly larvae.  Evolutionary Ecology 25:1029–10462010. 
  34. Lindstedt, C., Morehouse, N. I., Pakkanen, H., Casas, J., Christides, J. P., Kemppainen, K., Lindström, L. & Mappes, J. 2010. Pigment composition of a variable warning signal of Parasemia plantaginis larvae (Arctiidae). Functional Ecology 24: 759–766. 
  35. Lindstedt, C., Reudler Talsma, J., Ihalainen, E., Lindström, L. and Mappes, J. 2010: Diet quality affects coloration indirectly: excretion costs in a generalist herbivore. Evolution 64: 68–78. 
  36. Lindstedt, C., Lindström, L. and Mappes, J. 2009: Thermoregulation constrains effective warning signal expression. Evolution 63: 469–478. 
  37. Friman, V., Lindstedt C., Hiltunen T., Laakso, J. & Mappes, J. 2009. Predation on multiple trophic levels shapes the evolution of pathogen virulence. PLoS ONE 4 (8), e6761. 
  38. Lindstedt, C., Lindström, L. and Mappes, J. 2008: Hairiness and warning colours as components of antipredator defence: additive or interactive benefits? Animal Behaviour 75: 1703-1713. 
  39. Lindstedt, C., Mappes, J., Päivinen, J. and Varama, M. 2006: Effects of group size and pine defence chemicals on Diprionid sawfly survival against ant predation. Oecologia 150: 519-526.
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