Rob Mitchell

Associate Professor of Chemical Ecology

Research Summary

The chemical ecology of insects

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

Comparative analyses of the banded alder borer (Rosalia funebris) and Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) genomes reveal significant differences in genome architecture and gene content among these and other Cerambycidae

Terrence Sylvester, Richard Adams, Robert F. Mitchell, Ann M. Ray, Rongrong Shen, Na Ra Shin, Duane D. McKenna, 2024, Journal of Heredity on p. 516-523

(R)-(+)-γ-Decalactone is Conserved in North America as a Pheromone Component of Osmoderma eremicola (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and a Kairomone of Elater abruptus (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

Geryd L. Steffek, Anna S. Grommes, Lawrence M. Hanks, Robert F. Mitchell, 2024, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 122-128

Zachary Cohen, Michael S. Crossley, Robert F. Mitchell, Patamarerk Engsontia, Yolanda H. Chen, Sean D. Schoville, 2024, Journal of Evolutionary Biology on p. 62-75

Functional and evolutionary insights into chemosensation and specialized herbivory from the genome of the red milkweed beetle, Tetraopes tetrophthalmus (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)

Richard Adams, Terrence Sylvester, Rob Mitchell, M Price, Rongrong Shen, Na Shin, Duane McKenna, 2024, Journal of Heredity

(accompanying Steffek et al.)

Rob Mitchell, 2024, Journal of Chemical Ecology

Brad S. Coates, Kimberly K.O. Walden, Dimpal Lata, Neetha Nanoth Vellichirammal, Robert F. Mitchell, Martin N. Andersson, Rachel McKay, Marcé D. Lorenzen, Nathaniel Grubbs, Yu Hui Wang, Jinlong Han, Jing Li Xuan, Peter Willadsen, Huichun Wang, B. Wade French, Raman Bansal, Sammy Sedky, Dariane Souza, Dakota Bunn, Lance J. Meinke, Nicholas J. Miller, Blair D. Siegfried, Thomas W. Sappington, Hugh M. Robertson, 2023, BMC Genomics

Antennal Sensilla in Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Stephanie Haddad, Dave J. Clarke, Soo Hyun Jeong, Robert F. Mitchell, Duane D. Mckenna, 2023, Annals of the Entomological Society of America on p. 83-113

Robert F. Mitchell, Daniel Doucet, Susan Bowman, Marc C. Bouwer, Jeremy D. Allison, 2022, Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology on p. 615-625

Methionol, a Sulfur-Containing Pheromone Component from the North American Cerambycid Beetle Knulliana cincta cincta

Marlin E. Rice, Lawrence M. Hanks, Sean Halloran, Judith A. Mongold-Diers, Anna C. Grommes, Robert F. Mitchell, Ann M. Ray, Jocelyn G. Millar, 2022, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 347-358

Brenda Oppert, Anna Muszewska, Kamil Steczkiewicz, Eva Šatović-Vukšić, Miroslav Plohl, Jeffrey A. Fabrick, Konstantin S. Vinokurov, Igor Koloniuk, J. Spencer Johnston, Timothy P.L. Smith, Raul Narciso C. Guedes, Walter R. Terra, Clélia Ferreira, Renata O. Dias, Konstantin A. Chaply, Elena N. Elpidina, Valeriia F. Tereshchenkova, Robert F. Mitchell, Audra J. Jenson, Rachel McKay, Tisheng Shan, Xiaolong Cao, Zelong Miao, Chao Xiong, Haobo Jiang, William R. Morrison, Sergey Koren, David Schlipalius, Marcé D. Lorenzen, Raman Bansal, Yu Hui Wang, Lindsey Perkin, Monica Poelchau, Kenlee Friesen, Morgan L. Olmstead, Erin Scully, James F. Campbell, 2022, Genes

Most-Cited Papers

Duane D. McKenna, Erin D. Scully, Yannick Pauchet, Kelli Hoover, Roy Kirsch, Scott M. Geib, Robert F. Mitchell, Robert M. Waterhouse, Seung Joon Ahn, Deanna Arsala, Joshua B. Benoit, Heath Blackmon, Tiffany Bledsoe, Julia H. Bowsher, André Busch, Bernarda Calla, Hsu Chao, Anna K. Childers, Christopher Childers, Dave J. Clarke, Lorna Cohen, Jeffery P. Demuth, Huyen Dinh, Harsha Vardhan Doddapaneni, Amanda Dolan, Jian J. Duan, Shannon Dugan, Markus Friedrich, Karl M. Glastad, Michael A.D. Goodisman, Stephanie Haddad, Yi Han, Daniel S.T. Hughes, Panagiotis Ioannidis, J. Spencer Johnston, Jeffery W. Jones, Leslie A. Kuhn, David R. Lance, Chien Yueh Lee, Sandra L. Lee, Han Lin, Jeremy A. Lynch, Armin P. Moczek, Shwetha C. Murali, Donna M. Muzny, David R. Nelson, Subba R. Palli, Kristen A. Panfilio, Dan Pers, Monica F. Poelchau, Honghu Quan, Jiaxin Qu, Ann M. Ray, Joseph P. Rinehart, Hugh M. Robertson, Richard Roehrdanz, Andrew J. Rosendale, Seunggwan Shin, Christian Silva, Alex S. Torson, Iris M.Vargas Jentzsch, John H. Werren, Kim C. Worley, George Yocum, Evgeny M. Zdobnov, Richard A. Gibbs, Stephen Richards, 2016, Genome Biology

Sean D. Schoville, Yolanda H. Chen, Martin N. Andersson, Joshua B. Benoit, Anita Bhandari, Julia H. Bowsher, Kristian Brevik, Kaat Cappelle, Mei Ju M. Chen, Anna K. Childers, Christopher Childers, Olivier Christiaens, Justin Clements, Elise M. Didion, Elena N. Elpidina, Patamarerk Engsontia, Markus Friedrich, Inmaculada García-Robles, Richard A. Gibbs, Chandan Goswami, Alessandro Grapputo, Kristina Gruden, Marcin Grynberg, Bernard Henrissat, Emily C. Jennings, Jeffery W. Jones, Megha Kalsi, Sher A. Khan, Abhishek Kumar, Fei Li, Vincent Lombard, Xingzhou Ma, Alexander Martynov, Nicholas J. Miller, Robert F. Mitchell, Monica Munoz-Torres, Anna Muszewska, Brenda Oppert, Subba Reddy Palli, Kristen A. Panfilio, Yannick Pauchet, Lindsey C. Perkin, Marko Petek, Monica F. Poelchau, Éric Record, Joseph P. Rinehart, Hugh M. Robertson, Andrew J. Rosendale, Victor M. Ruiz-Arroyo, Guy Smagghe, Zsofia Szendrei, Gregg W.C. Thomas, Alex S. Torson, Iris M. Vargas Jentzsch, Matthew T. Weirauch, Ashley D. Yates, George D. Yocum, June Sun Yoon, Stephen Richards, 2018, Scientific Reports

Benjamin Goldman-Huertas, Robert F. Mitchell, Richard T. Lapoint, Cécile P. Faucher, John G. Hildebrand, Noah K. Whiteman, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 3026-3031

Cerambycid Beetle Species with Similar Pheromones are Segregated by Phenology and Minor Pheromone Components

Robert F. Mitchell, Peter F. Reagel, Joseph C.H. Wong, Linnea R. Meier, Weliton Dias Silva, Judith Mongold-Diers, Jocelyn G. Millar, Lawrence M. Hanks, 2015, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 431-440

R. F. Mitchell, T. M. Schneider, A. M. Schwartz, M. N. Andersson, D. D. McKenna, 2020, Insect Molecular Biology on p. 77-91

Identifying possible pheromones of cerambycid beetles by field testing known pheromone components in four widely separated regions of the United States

Jocelyn G. Millar, Robert F. Mitchell, Judith A. Mongold-Diers, Yunfan Zou, Carlos E. Bográn, Melissa K. Fierke, Matthew D. Ginzel, Crawford W. Johnson, James R. Meeker, Therese M. Poland, Iral Ragenovich, Lawrence M. Hanks, Timothy Schowalter, 2018, Journal of Economic Entomology on p. 252-259

Robert F. Mitchell, Loyal P. Hall, Peter F. Reagel, Duane D. McKenna, Thomas Charles Baker, John G. Hildebrand, 2017, Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology on p. 99-109

Ann M. Ray, Jocelyn G. Millar, Jardel A. Moreira, J. Steven McElfresh, Robert F. Mitchell, James D. Barbour, Lawrence M. Hanks, 2015, Journal of Economic Entomology on p. 1860-1868

Lawrence M. Hanks, Judith A. Mongold-Diers, Robert F. Mitchell, Yunfan Zou, Joseph C.H. Wong, Linnea R. Meier, Todd D. Johnson, Jocelyn G. Millar, Brian Sullivan, 2019, Journal of Economic Entomology on p. 2236-2252