Sandra Steiger

The digestive and defensive basis of carcass utilization by the burying beetle and its microbiota

Heiko Vogel, Shantanu P. Shukla, Tobias Engl et al. · Nature Communications · 2017 · 136 citations · Full text

Microbiome-assisted carrion preservation aids larval development in a burying beetle

Shantanu P. Shukla, Camila Plata, Michael Reichelt et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · 132 citations · Full text

Bigger mothers are better mothers: disentangling size-related prenatal and postnatal maternal effects

Sandra Steiger · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2013 · 112 citations · Full text

Family Medicine, Parental Care, Adult Size +30

The Coolidge effect, individual recognition and selection for distinctive cuticular signatures in a burying beetle

Sandra Steiger, Ragna Franz, Anne‐Katrin Eggert et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2008 · 101 citations · Full text

Individual Recognition, Insect Conservation, Entomology +17

The smell of parents: breeding status influences cuticular hydrocarbon pattern in the burying beetle <i>Nicrophorus vespilloides</i>

Sandra Steiger, Klaus Peschke, Wittko Francke et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2007 · 94 citations · Full text