Recent Publications from the group

2011

• Cotter, S.C., Ward, R.J.S. & Kilner, R.M. (2011) Age-specific reproductive investment in female burying beetles: independent effects of state and risk of death. Functional Ecology in press.
  
  
• Cotter, SC, Simpson, SJ, Raubenheimer, D and Wilson K. (2011). Nutrient composition mediates trade-offs amongst competing life-history and immune traits. Functional Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01766.x.
  
  
• Davies, N. B. 2011 Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning. J. Zool. 284, 1-14.
  
  
• Flower, TP. (2011) Fork-tailed drongos use deceptive mimicked alarm calls to steal food. Proc. R. Soc. B 278, 1548–1555.
  
  
• Kilner, R. M. & Langmore, N. E. 2011 Cuckoos versus hosts in insects and birds: adaptations, counter-adaptations and outcomes. Biol. Rev., doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00173.x.
  
  
• Krüger, O. 2011 Brood parasitism selects for no defence in a cuckoo host. Proc. R. Soc. Lond B 278, 2777-2783.
  
  
• Nokelainen, O, Hegna, R.H., Reudler, J.H., Lindstedt, C & Mappes, J. (2011) Trade-off between warning signal efficacy and mating success in the wood tiger moth. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0880
  
  
• Spottiswoode, C.N. & Stevens, M. (2011) How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0401
  
  
• Birkhead, T.R., Hemmings, N., Spottiswoode, C.N., Mikulica, O, Moskát, C., Bán, M. & Schulze-Hagen, K. (2011) Internal incubation and early hatching in brood parasitic birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 278:1019-1024.
  
  
• Covas, R., Deville, A.-S., Doutrelant, C, Spottiswoode, C.N. & Grégoire, A. (2011) The effect of helpers on post-fledging survival in a cooperatively breeding bird, the sociable weaver. Animal Behaviour 81:121-126
  
  
• Higham, J.P., Hughes, K.D., Brent, L.J.N., Dubuc, C., Engelhardt, A., Heistermann, M., Maestriperi, D., Santos, L.R. & Stevens, M. 2011. Familiarity affects the assessment of female facial signals of fertility by free-ranging male rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0052
  
  
• Stoddard, M.C. & Stevens, M. 2011. Avian vision and the evolution of egg color mimicry in the common cuckoo. Evolution, 65, 2004-2013.
  

• 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, Series B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2391
  
  
• Lindstedt, C., Eager, H., Ihalainen, E., Kahilainen, A., Stevens, M., & Mappes, J. 2011. Direction and strength of selection by predators for the color of the aposematic wood tiger moth. Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arr017
  
  
• Stoddard, M.C. and R.O. Prum. (2011) How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut. Behavioral Ecology doi:10.1093/beheco/arr088
  
  
• Thorogood, R., Ewen, J.G. and Kilner, R.M. (2011) Sense and sensitivity: responsiveness to offspring signals varies with the parents’ potential to breed again, Proc R Soc B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2594
  
  
• Ewen, J.G., Thorogood, R., Armstrong, D.P. (2011) Demographic consequences of adult sex ratio in a reintroduced hihi population, J Anim Ecol. 80: 448-455.
  
  
• Welbergen, J. A. & Davies, N. B. 2011 A parasite in wolf's clothing: hawk mimicry reduces mobbing of cuckoos by hosts. Behav. Ecol. 22, 574-579.