Benjamin Eggs

Doctoral student
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Postal address
University of Tübingen
Institute of Evolution and Ecology
Auf der Morgenstelle 28
72076 Tübingen
Germany

Research Interests

Joint-free movements in insects: mechanisms observed in ovipositors and piercing-sucking mouthparts
Structure and function of the ovipositor of parasitoid Hymenoptera: actuation and mechanisms of terebra bending movements, and their potential eco-evolutionary significance

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Short CV

2020-2022

Technical assistant (in representation)

Evolutionary Biology of Invertebrates, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen

since 2015

Doctoral student

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre (SFB-TRR) 141 “Biological design and integrative structures”, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen; thesis: “Joint-free movements in insects: actuation and steering mechanisms observed in ovipositors and piercing-sucking mouthparts, and their biomimetic potential” (supervision by Prof. Dr. Oliver Betz)

2013-2015

M.Sc. in Ecology and Evolution with Special Qualification in Animal Ecology and Conservation

Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern; thesis: ”Hunting without a web: how lycosoid spiders overwhelm their prey” (supervision by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nentwig, Dr. Lucia Kuhn-Nentwig and Dr. Jonas O. Wolff)

2009-2013

B.Sc. in Biology

University of Bern; thesis: “Herbivory in spiders: the importance of pollen for orb-weaving spiders” (supervision by Dr. Dirk Sanders)

Selected Publications

Eggs, B., Fischer, S., Csader, M., Mikó, I., Rack, A., Betz, O. (2023): Terebra steering in chalcidoid wasps. Frontiers in Zoology 20, 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-023-00503-1

Olmi, M., Eggs, B., Capradossi, L., van de Kamp, T., Perkovsky, E. E., Guglielmino, A., Vasilenko, D. V. (2022): A new species of Bocchus from upper Eocene Rovno amber (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 92, 257–272. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.92.87084

van de Kamp, T., Mikó, I., Staniczek, A. H., Eggs, B., Bajerlein, D., Faragó, T., Hagelstein, L., Hamann, E., Spiecker, R., Baumbach, T., Janšta, P., Krogmann, L. (2022): Evolution of flexible biting in hyperdiverse parasitoid wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289(1967), 20212086. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2086

Csader, M., Mayer, K., Betz, O., Fischer, S., Eggs, B. (2021): Ovipositor of the braconid wasp Habrobracon hebetor: structural and functional aspects. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 83, 73–99. https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/64018/

Tull, T., Henn, F., Betz, O., Eggs, B. (2020): Structure and function of the stylets of hematophagous Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), with special reference to Dipetalogaster maxima. Arthropod Structure & Development 52, 100952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2020.100952

Eggs, B., Birkhold, A. I., Röhrle, O., Betz, O. (2018): Structure and function of the musculoskeletal ovipositor system of an ichneumonid wasp. BMC Zoology 3, 12. https://bmczool.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40850-018-0037-2

Betz, O., Birkhold, A., Caliaro, M., Eggs, B., Mader, A., Knippers, J., Röhrle, O., Speck, O. (2016): Adaptive stiffness and joint-free kinematics: actively actuated rod-shaped structures in plants and animals and their biomimetic potential in architecture and engineering. In: Knippers J., Nickel K. G. and Speck T. (eds.), Biomimetic Research for Architecture and Building Construction: Biological Design and Integrative Structures (pp. 135–167), Biologically-Inspired Systems, vol. 8. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46374-2_8

Eggs, B., Wolff, J. O., Kuhn-Nentwig, L., Gorb, S. N., Nentwig, W. (2015): Hunting without a web: how lycosoid spiders subdue their prey. Ethology 121(12), 1166–1177. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12432

Eggs, B., Sanders, D. (2013): Herbivory in spiders: the importance of pollen for orb-weavers. PLoS ONE 8(11), e82637. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082637