ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Matthew Murphy is an author on ‘ Female olfactory sensitivity is temporally asynchronous with male courtship in a butterfly’, published in JEB. Matthew conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Student in Erica Westerman's lab at University of Arkansas, USA. Andrew is now an ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Erin Scully at the USDA-ARS Center for Grain and Animal Health Research investigating the physical and social environments that affect the evolution and development of insect sensory systems.
A 2026 study studied this question.