Staff profile

• Aggression and competition
• Sexual selection
• Social behaviour
• Behavioural ecology

Journal Article

• Is variation in female aggressiveness across Drosophila species associated with reproductive potential?
  
  Bath, E., & Gleason, J. (2025). Is variation in female aggressiveness across Drosophila species associated with reproductive potential? Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 292(2044), Article 20242301. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2301
• Low sex drive and choosy females: fungal infections are a reproductive downfall for male house flies
  
  Edwards, S., Bath, E., & De Fine Licht, H. H. (2024). Low sex drive and choosy females: fungal infections are a reproductive downfall for male house flies. Behavioral Ecology, 35(2), Article arae004. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae004
• Male condition influences female post mating aggression and feeding in Drosophila
  
  Bath, E., Buzzoni, D., Ralph, T., Wigby, S., & Sepil, I. (2021). Male condition influences female post mating aggression and feeding in Drosophila. Functional Ecology, 35(6), 1288-1298. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13791
• Sex ratio and the evolution of aggression in fruit flies
  
  Bath, E., Edmunds, D., Norman, J., Atkins, C., Harper, L., Rostant, W. G., Chapman, T., Wigby, S., & Perry, J. C. (2021). Sex ratio and the evolution of aggression in fruit flies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 288(1947). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.3053
• Anxiety-like behaviour is regulated independently from sex, mating status and the sex peptide receptor in Drosophila melanogaster
  
  Bath, E., Thomson, J., & Perry, J. C. (2020). Anxiety-like behaviour is regulated independently from sex, mating status and the sex peptide receptor in Drosophila melanogaster. Animal Behaviour, 166, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.05.011
• Male reproductive aging arises via multifaceted mating-dependent sperm and seminal proteome declines, but is postponable in Drosophila
  
  Sepil, I., Hopkins, B. R., Dean, R., Bath, E., Friedman, S., Swanson, B., Ostridge, H. J., Harper, L., Buehner, N. A., Wolfner, M. F., Konietzny, R., Thézénas, M. L., Sandham, E., Charles, P. D., Fischer, R., Steinhauer, J., Kessler, B. M., & Wigby, S. (2020). Male reproductive aging arises via multifaceted mating-dependent sperm and seminal proteome declines, but is postponable in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(29), 17094-17103. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009053117
• Temporal and genetic variation in female aggression after mating
  
  Bath, E., Biscocho, E. R., Easton-Calabria, A., & Wigby, S. (2020). Temporal and genetic variation in female aggression after mating. Plos One, 15(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229633
• The developmental environment modulates mating-induced aggression and fighting success in adult female Drosophila
  
  Bath, E., Morimoto, J., & Wigby, S. (2018). The developmental environment modulates mating-induced aggression and fighting success in adult female Drosophila. Functional Ecology, 32(11), 2542-2552. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13214
• Sperm and sex peptide stimulate aggression in female Drosophila
  
  Bath, E., Bowden, S., Peters, C., Reddy, A., Tobias, J. A., Easton-Calabria, E., Seddon, N., Goodwin, S. F., & Wigby, S. (2017). Sperm and sex peptide stimulate aggression in female Drosophila. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(6), Article 0154. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0154