Rebecca Kilner : Publications

Refereed papers
Book Chapters

• Johnstone, R. A. & Kilner, R. M. (2011) New labels for old whines. Behavioral Ecology doi:10.1093/beheco/arr095
  
  
• Kilner, R. M. & Langmore, N. E. (2011) Cuckoos versus hosts in insects and birds: adaptations, counter-adaptations and outcomes. Biological Reviews doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00173.x
  
  
• Thorogood, R., Ewen, J. G. & Kilner, R. M. (2011) Sense and sensitivity: responsiveness to offspring signals varies with the parents' potential to breed again. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:2628-2645
  
  
• Langmore, N. E., Stevens, M., Maurer, G., Heinsohn, R., Hall. M. L., Peters, A. & Kilner, R. M. (2011) Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:2455-2463
  
  
• Cotter, S. C., Ward, R. S. J. & Kilner, R. M. (2011) Age-specific reproductive investment in female burying beetles: independent effects of state and risk of death. Functional Ecology 25:652-660
  
  
• Cotter, S. C., Topham, E., Price, A. J. P. & Kilner, R. M. (2010) Fitness costs associated with mounting a social immune response. Ecology Letters doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01500.x Download PDF
  
  
• Cotter, S. C. & Kilner, R. M. (2010) Personal immunity versus social immunity. Behavioral Ecology doi:10.1093/beheco/arq070 Download PDF
  
  
• Hoffman, J. I., Munro, K., Kilner, R. M. & Amos, W. (2010) High rates of infidelity in the Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa suggest that testis size may be a better correlate of extra-pair paternity than sexual dimorphism. Ibis 152:378-385 Download PDF
  
  
• Hinde, C. A., Johnstone, R. A & Kilner, R. M. (2010) Parent-offspring conflict and coadaptation. Science 327: 1373-1376 Download PDF
  
  
• Langmore, N. E. & Kilner, R. M. (2010) The coevolutionary arms race between Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoos and superb fairy-wrens Emu 110: 32-38 (invited review for Anniversary Edition) Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner, R. (2010) Learn to beat an identity cheat. Nature 463:165-167 Download PDF
  
  
• Cotter, S. C. & Kilner, R. M. (2010) Sexual division of antibacterial resource defence in breeding burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:35-43 Download PDF
  
  
• Ward, R. S. J., Cotter, S. C. & Kilner, R. M. (2009) Residual reproductive value predicts brood desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Behavioral Ecology 20:1274-1281 Download PDF
  
  
• Langmore, N. E., Stevens, M., Maurer, G. & Kilner, R. M. (2009) Are dark cuckoo eggs cryptic in host nests? Animal Behaviour 78:461-468 Download PDF
  
  
• Langmore, N. E., Cockburn, A., Russell, A. F. & Kilner, R. M. (2009) Flexible cuckoo chick rejection rules in the superb fairy-wren. Behavioral Ecology 20:978-984 Download PDF
  
  
• Cotter, S. C. & Kilner, R. M. (2009) Sexual division of antibacterial resource defence in breeding burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides. Journal of Animal Ecology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01593.x Download PDF
  
  
• Hinde C.A., Buchanan, K. L. & Kilner, R. M. (2009) Prenatal environmental effects match offspring begging to parental provisioning. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London Series B 276:2787-2794 Download PDF
  
  
• Langmore, N. E. & Kilner, R. M. (2009) Why do Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo Chalcites basalis eggs mimic those of their hosts? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63:1127-1131 Download PDF
  
  
• Thorogood, R., Kilner, R. M., F. Karadas¸, F. & Ewen, J. G. (2008) Spectral mouth colour of nestlings changes with carotenoid availability. Functional Ecology 22: 1044-1051 Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner, R.M & Hinde, C. A. (2008) Information warfare and parent-offspring conflict. Advances in the Study of Behavior 38: 283-336
  
  
• Langmore, N. E., Maurer, G., Adcock, A. J. & Kilner R. M. (2008) Socially acquired host-specific mimicry and the evolution of host races in Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo Chalcites basalis. Evolution 62: 1689-1699 Download PDF
  
  
• Broom, M., Ruxton, G. D., & Kilner R. M. (2008) Host life history strategies and the evolution of chick-killing by brood parasitic offspring. Behavioral Ecology 19:22-34 Download PDF
  
  
• Buchanan, K. L., Goldsmith, A. R., Hinde, C. A., Griffith, S. C., & Kilner, R. M. (2007) Does testosterone mediate the trade-off between nestling begging and growth in the canary (Serinus canaria)? Hormones and Behavior 52:664-671
  
  
• Russell, A. F., Langmore, N. E., Gardner, J.A. & Kilner, R. M. (2008) Maternal investment tactics in superb fairy-wrens. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London Series B 275:29-36 Download PDF
  
  
• Langmore, N. E. & Kilner, R. M. (2007). Breeding site and host selection by Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoos Chalcites basalis. Animal Behaviour 74:995-1004 Download PDF
  
  
• Langmore, N. E, Adcock, G. J. & Kilner, R. M. (2007) The spatial organization and mating system of Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoos Chalcites basalis. Animal Behaviour 74:403-412 Download PDF
  
  
• Adcock, G. J., Langmore, N. E. & Kilner, R. M. (2007) Polymorphic microsatellite loci for studies of bronze cuckoo species (Genus Chalcites: Aves). Molecular Ecology Notes 7:678-680 Download PDF
  
  
• Russell, A. F., Langmore, N. E., Cockburn, A., Astheimer, L. B. & Kilner, R. M. (2007) Reduced egg investment can conceal helper effects in cooperatively breeding birds. Science 317:941-944 Download PDF
  
  
• Hauber, M. E. & Kilner, R. M. (2007) Co-evolution, communication and host chick mimicry in parasitic finches: who mimics whom? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61:497-504 Download PDF
  
  
• Hinde, C. A. & Kilner, R. M. (2007) Negotiations within the family over the supply of parental care. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London Series B 274: 53-61. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner, R.M. (2006) The evolution of egg colour and patterning in birds. Biological Reviews 81: 383-406. Download PDF.
  
  
• Madden, J.R., Kilner, R.M. & Davies, N.B. (2005) Nestling responses to adult food and alarm calls: 1. Species-specific responses in two cowbird hosts. Animal Behaviour 70: 619-627 Download PDF
  
  
• Madden, J.R., Kilner, R.M. & Davies, N.B. (2005) Nestling responses to adult food and alarm calls: 2. Cowbirds and red-winged blacksbirds reared by eastern phoebe hosts. Animal Behaviour 70: 629-637. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner, R. M. (2005) The evolution of virulence in brood parasites. Ornithological Science 4: 55-64. Download PDF
  
  
• Adcock, G. J., Langmore, N.E., Mulder, R.A. & Kilner, R.M. Microsatellite loci for population and behavioural studies of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites basalis: Aves). Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 619-621. Download PDF
  
  
• Langmore, N.E., Kilner, R.M., Butchart, S.H.M., Maurer, G., Davies, N.B., Cockburn, A., Macgregor, N.A., Peters, A., Magrath, M.J.L. & Dowling, D.K. (2005) The evolution of egg rejection by cuckoo hosts in Australia and Europe. Behavioral Ecology 16: 686-692. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner, R. M., Madden, J. R., Hauber, M. E. (2004) Brood parasitic cowbirds use host young to procure food. Science 305:877-879. Download PDF
  
  
• Hunt S, Kilner RM , Langmore NE, Bennett ATD. 2003 Conspicuous, ultraviolet-rich mouth colours in begging chicks. Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series B (Suppl.) 270:S25-S28.
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• Langmore NE, Hunt S, Kilner RM. 2003 Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race through host rejection of brood parasitic young. Nature 422 (6928): 157-160. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner RM 2003 How selfish is a cowbird nestling? Animal Behaviour 66: 569-576. Download PDF
  
  
• Butchart SHM, Kilner RM, Fuisz T, Davies NB 2003 Differences in the nestling begging calls of hosts and host-races of the common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus. Animal Behaviour 65: 345-354. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner RM 2002 Sex differences in canary (Serinus canaria) provisioning rules. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 52 (5): 400-407. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner RM 2001 A growth cost of begging in captive canary chicks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 (20): 11394-11398. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner RM, Davies NB 1999 How selfish is a cuckoo chick? Animal Behaviour 58: 797-808. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner RM 1999 Family conflicts and the evolution of nestling mouth colour. Behaviour 136: 779-804. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner RM, Noble DG, Davies NB 1999 How should cuckoo chicks signal in different host nests? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 14 (8): 322-322.
  
  
• Kilner RM, Noble DG, Davies NB 1999 Signals of need in parent-offspring communication and their exploitation by the common cuckoo. Nature 397 (6721): 667-672. Download PDF
  
  
• Davies NB, Kilner RM, Noble DG 1998 Nestling cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, exploit hosts with begging calls that mimic a brood. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 265 (1397): 673-678. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner, RM 1998 Primary and secondary sex ratio manipulation by zebra finches. Animal Behaviour 56:155-164. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner, R. M. & Davies, N. B. (1998) Nestling mouth colour: ecological correlates of a begging signal. Animal Behaviour 56:705-712. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner, R. (1997) Mouth colour is a reliable signal of need in begging canary nestlings. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 264: 963-968. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner, R. & Johnstone, R. A. (1997) Begging the question: are offspring solicitation behaviours signals of need? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12: 11-15. Download PDF
  
  
• Kilner, R. (1995) When do canary parents respond to nestling signals of need? Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 260: 343-348.

• Kilner, R. M. (2006) Function and evolution of color in young birds. In Bird Coloration edited by G. Hill & K. McGraw (pp 201 - 232). Harvard University Press: London.
  
  
• Kilner RM (2002) The evolution of complex begging displays. In: Wright J & Leonard ML The Evolution of Begging: Competition, Cooperation and Communication, pp. 87-106. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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