Dr. Scriber focuses on biosystematic studies and nutritional ecology and insect/plant interactions, including mechanisms of host plant resistance and insect counter-adaptations involving biochemical, behavioral, genetic and ecological factors affecting oviposition pre-ferences, reproductive isolation, diapause, color polymorphisms, geographic distribution and larval detoxification processes are of central importance. Natural enemies and herbivore induced phytochemical resistance in various tree species are also under study. Swallowtail butterflies and giant silkmoths serve as model systems to understand ecological specialization and evolutionary speciation. Inter-specific mating preferences and independent species-diagnostic trait cline analyses (behavioral, morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular) are examined across several hybrid zone transects from Wisconsin to Vermont.

Andolfatto, P., J.M. Scriber, and B. Charlesworth. 2003. No association between mitochondrial DNA haplotypes and a female-limited mimicry phenotype in Papilio glaucus. Evolution 57: 305- 316.

Scriber, J.M., A. Stump and M. Deering. 2003. Hybrid zone ecology and tiger swallowtail trait clines in North America. Pp 367-391 In (C. Boggs, W. Watt and P. Ehrlich, eds.) Ecology and evolution taking flight: Butterflies as model study systems. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

Scriber, J. M. 2002, The evolution of insect-plant relationships; Chemical constraints, coadaptation and concordance of insect/plant traits. Entomologia expt. & appl. 104: 217-235

Scriber, J.M. K. Keefover and S. Nelson. 2002. Hot summer temperatures may stop genetic introgression of Papilio canadensis south of the hybrid zone in the North American Great Lakes region? Ecography Vol 24: 184-192.

Scriber, J.M. 2002. Latitudinal and geographic mosaics in host plant preference as shaped by thermal units and voltinism. European Journal of Entomology 99:225-239.

Deering, M.D. and J.M. Scriber. 2002. Field bioassays show heterospecific mating preference asymmetry between hybridizing North American Papilio butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Published "on-line" March 26, 2002 J. Ethology 20: 25-33.

Scriber, J.M. 2001. Bt or not Bt; Is that the question? (Invited Commentary on 6 Bt corn pollen articles) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 98: 12328-12330.

Redman, A. and J.M. Scriber. 2000. Competition between gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, and the northern tiger swallowtail, Papilio canadensis: interactions mediated by host plant chemistry, pathogens, and parasitoids. Oecologia 125 (2): 218-228.

Scriber, J.M., K. Weir, D. Parry, and J. Deering. 1999. Using hybrid and backcross larvae of Papilio canadensis and P. glaucus to detect induced chemical resistance in hybrid poplars experimentally defoliated by gypsy moths. Entomologia exp. & appl. 91:233-236.

Bossart, J.L. and J.M. Scriber. 1999. Preference variation in the polyphagous tiger swallowtail butterfly (Lepidoptera; Papilionidae). Environ. Entomol. 28: 628-637.