Sheena Cotter: Publications |
- Cotter, SC, Simpson,
SJ, Raubenheimer, D and Wilson K. Dietary preference in insects represents
a compromise between the nutritional requirements of competing immune
and life-history traits. Functional Ecology, In Press
- Cotter, SC,
Topham, EA, Price, AJP and Kilner, RM. Fitness costs associated with
mounting a social immune response. Ecology Letters, DOI:
10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01500.x
- Cotter, SC &
Kilner RM (2010) Personal immunity versus social immunity. Behavioral
Ecology, 2010 21: 663-668
- Cotter, SC &
Kilner, RM (2010) Sexual division of antibacterial resource defence
in breeding burying beetles, Nicrophorus
vespilloides. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:35-43.
- Ward, RJS, Cotter,
SC, and Kilner, RM (2009) Current brood size and residual reproductive
value predict brood desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus
vespilloides. Behavioral Ecology 20: 1274-1281
- Povey, SR, Cotter,
SC, Simpson, SJ, Lee, KP & Wilson, K (2009) Can the protein costs
of bacterial resistance be offset by altered feeding behaviour? Journal
of Animal Ecology 78:437-446 Download
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- Wilson, K &
Cotter, SC (2008) Density-dependent prophylaxis in insects. In: Insects
and Phenotypic Plasticity: Mechanisms and Consequences (T. N. Ananthakrishnan,
& D. W. Whitman, eds.) pp. 137-176, Science Publishers Inc., Plymouth,
UK. Download
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- Cotter, SC, Myatt,
JP, Benskin, CMH & Wilson, K (2007) Selection for cuticular melanism
reveals immune function and life-history trade-offs in Spodoptera
littoralis. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology, 21: 1744-1754 Download
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- Cotter, SC, Beveridge,
M & Simmons, LW (2007) Male morph predicts investment in larval
immune function in the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus. Behavioral
Ecology 19: 331-337 Download
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- Cotter, SC &
Edwards, OR (2006) Quantitative genetics of preference and performance
in the noctuid moth, Helicoverpa armigera. Heredity,
96: 396-402 Download
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- Fitt, GP &
Cotter, SC (2005) The Helicoverpa problem in Australia In: Strategies
for Helicoverpa Management: Prospects and Problems, H.C.
Sharma (Ed)
- Cotter, SC, Hails,
RS, Cory, JS & Wilson, K (2004) Density-dependent prophylaxis
and condition-dependent immune function in Lepidopteran larvae: a
multivariate approach. Journal of Animal Ecology, 73: 283-293
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- Cotter, SC &
Wilson, K (2004) Costs of resistance: genetic correlations and potential
trade-offs in an insect immune system. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology, 17: 421-429 Download
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- Cotter, SC &
Wilson, K (2002) Heritability of immunocompetence in the caterpillar
Spodoptera littoralis. Heredity, 88: 229-234
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- Wilson, K, Cotter, SC, Reeson, AF & Pell, JK (2001). Melanism and disease resistance in insects. Ecology Letters, 4: 637-649. Download PDF
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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge
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