| Recent
Publications from the group
2012
- Thorogood,
R. and Davies, N.B. Cuckoos combat socially
transmitted defences of reed warbler hosts with a plumage polymorphism,
Science 337, 578-580.
- Stoddard,
M.C.
Mimicry and masquerade from the avian visual perspective. Current
Zoology 58: 630-648.
- Spottiswoode,
C.N., Kilner, R.M. & Davies,
N.B. Brood Parasitism. in: Royle, N.J., Smiseth, P.T.
& Kölliker, M. (Eds) The Evolution of Parental Care.
Oxford University Press.
- Stoddard
M.C., A. Fayet, R.M. Kilner, and C.
Hinde. Egg Speckling Patterns Do Not Advertise Offspring Quality
or Influence Male Provisioning in Great Tits. PLoS ONE
7: e40211.
- Prum, R.O.,
A. Fountain, J. Berro, M.C. Stoddard, and H.
Frank. Molecular diversity, metabolic transformation, and evolution
of carotenoid feather pigments in cotingas (Aves: Cotingidae).
Journal of Comparative Physiology B: DOI: 10.1007/s00360-012-0677-4.
- Davies,
N.B., Krebs, J.R. & West, S.A. An Introduction
to Behavioural Ecology, Fourth edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Boncoraglio,
G. & Kilner, R.M. Female burying
beetles benefit from male desertion: sexual conflict and counter-adaptation
over parental investment. PLoS One 7: e31713.
- Spottiswoode,
C.N. & Stevens, M. Host-parasite
arms races and rapid changes in bird egg appearance. American
Naturalist 179: 633-648
- Spottiswoode,
C.N. & Koorevaar, J. A stab in the dark: chick killing
by brood parasitic honeyguides. Biology Letters 8: 241-244.
- Boncoraglio,
G., Caprioli M. & Saino, N. Solicitation displays
reliably reflect oxidative damage in barn swallow nestlings. Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology 66: 539-546.
- Langmore,
N.E. & Spottiswoode, C.N. Host manipulation
through visual trickery in avian brood parasites. in: Hughes,
D.P., Brodeur, J. & Thomas, F. (Eds) Host Manipulation
By Parasites. Oxford University Press.
- Cuthbert,
R.J., Brooke, M. de L., & Torr, N. Overcoming
hermit crab interference during rodent baiting operations: a case
study from Henderson Island, South Pacific. Wildlife Research,
39: 70-77.
- Brooke,
M. de L., Flower, T.P., Campbell, E.M.,
Mainwaring, M.C., Davies, S. & Welbergen, J.A.
Rainfall-related population growth and sex ratio change in the
Critically Endangered Raso lark Alauda razae. Animal Conservation,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00535.x.
- Donald,
P.F., Gedeon, K., Collar, N.J., Spottiswoode, C.N.,
Wondafrash, M. & Buchanan, G.M. The restricted range of the
Ethiopian Bush-crow Zavattariornis stresemanni is a consequence
of high reliance on modified habitats within narrow climatic limits.
Journal of Ornithology DOI 10.1007/s10336-012-0832-4
2011
- Stoddard,
M.C.,
K. Marshall, and R.M. Kilner.
2011. Imperfectly camouflaged avian eggs: artefact or adaptation?
Avian Biology Research 4: 196-213.
- Stoddard,
M.C., and R.O. Prum. 2011. How colorful are birds? Evolution
of the avian plumage color gamut. Behavioral Ecology
22: 1042-1052.
- Skelhorn,
J., Rowland, H. M., Delf, J., Speed, M. P., Ruxton,
G. D. (2011) Density-dependent predation influences the evolution
and behaviour of masquerading prey. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108,
6532-6536.
- Stevens,
M. & Ruxton, G.D. 2011. Linking the evolution and
form of warning coloration in nature. Proceedings of the Royal
Society, Series B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1932
- Stevens,
M., Searle, W.T.L., Seymour, J.E., Marshall,
K.M. & Ruxton, G.D. 2011. Motion dazzle and camouflage
as distinct anti-predator defenses. BMC Biology. 9:81.
doi:10.1186/1741-7007-9-81
- Stevens,
M. 2011. Avian vision and egg coloration: concepts and
measurements. Avian Biology Research. 4:190-206.
- Tanaka, K.,
Morimoto, G., Stevens, M. & Ueda, K. (2011).
Rethinking visual supernormal stimuli in cuckoos: visual modeling
of host and parasite signals. Behavioral Ecology 22: 1012-1019.
- Duarte,
A., I. Pen, F.J. Weissing & L. Keller. (2011) An
evolutionary perspective on self-organized division of labour
in social insects. Annual Reviews in Ecology, Evolution and
Systematics 42: 91-110.
- Johnstone,
R. A. & Kilner, R. M. (2011) New labels for
old whines. Behavioral Ecology doi:10.1093/beheco/arr095
- Boncoraglio,
G., Groothuis, T.G.G. & Von Engelhardt, N. 2011.
Differential maternal testosterone allocation among siblings benefits
both mother and offspring in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata.
American Naturalist 178: 64-74.
- Spottiswoode,
C.N., Stryjewski, K.F., Quader, S., Colebrook-Robjent,
J.F.R. & Sorenson, M.D. (2011) Ancient host-specificity within
a single species of brood parasitic bird. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108, 17738-17742.
- Riou, S.,
Gray, C.M., Brooke, M. de L., Quillfeldt, P.,
Masello, J.F., Perrins, C. & Hamer, K.C. Recent impacts of
anthropogenic climate change on a higher marine predator in western
Britain. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 422: 105-112.
- Brooke,
M. de L., Cuthbert, R.J., Mateo, R. & Taggart, M.A.
An experimental test of the toxicity of cereal pellets containing
brodifacoum to the snails of Henderson Island, South Pacific.
Wildlife Research, 38: 34-38.
- 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
- 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. 278: 3452-3458.
- 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.
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