Recent publications

  • 2012
  • Evans, MR, Bro-Jorgensen, J and Johnstone, RA (2012). Tail manipulations affect fitness traits in male barn swallows. Animal Behaviour, 83(4): e4-e5
  • Grodzinski, U and Johnstone, RA (2012). Parents and offspring in an evolutionary game: The effect of supply on demand when costs of care vary. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1726): 109-115
  • Johnstone, RA, Cant, MA and Field, J (2012). Sex-biased dispersal, haplodiploidy and the evolution of helping in social insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1729): 787-793
  • Kuijper, B, Pen, I and Weissing, FJ (2012). A guide to sexual selection theory. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. in press. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110411-160245
  • Kuijper, B and Johnstone, RA (2012). How dispersal influences parent-offspring conflict over investment. Behav. Ecol. 23: 898-906.
  • de Boer, JG, Kuijper, B, Heimpel, GE and Beukeboom, LW (2012). Sex determination meltdown upon biological control introduction of the parasitoid Cotesia rubecula. Evol. Appl. 5: 444-454.
  • Nakayama, S, Harcourt, JL, Johnstone, RA and Manica, A (2012). Initiative, personality and leadership in pairs of foraging fish. PLoS ONE, 7(5)
  • Port, M, Johnstone, RA and Kappeler, PM (2012). The evolution of multi-male groups in Verreaux' sifaka, or how to test an evolutionary demographic model. Behavioral Ecology 23(4): 889-897.
  • Rollins, L, Browning, LE, Holleley, CE, Savage, JL, Russell, AF and Griffith, SC (2012). Building genetic networks using relatedness information: a novel approach for the estimation of dispersal and characterization of group structure in social animals. Molecular Ecology 21(7): 1727-1740
  • G. Stulp, Kuijper, B, Buunk, AP, Pollet, TV and S. Verhulst. (2012). Intralocus sexual conflict over human height. Biol. Lett. in press. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0590
  • 2011
  • Johnstone, RA (2011). Load lightening and negotiation over offspring care in cooperative breeders. Behavioral Ecology, 22(2), pp 436-444
  • Johnstone, RA and Kilner, RM (2011). New labels for old whines. Behavioral Ecology, 22(5): 918-919
  • Johnstone, RA and Manica, A (2011). Evolution of personality differences in leadership. PNAS, 108(20):8373-8378
  • Fawcett, TW, Kuijper, B, Weissing, FJ and Pen, I (2011). Sex-ratio control erodes sexual selection, revealing evolutionary feedback from adaptive plasticity. PNAS 108: 15925-15930. Doi, PDF
  • Port, M, Kappeler, PM and Johnstone, RA (2011) Communal defense of territories and the evolution of sociality The American Naturalist, 178: 787-800
  • Rands, SA, Evans, MR and Johnstone, RA (2011) The dynamics of honesty: Modelling the growth of costly, sexually-selected ornaments. PLoS ONE, 6(11)
  • 2010
  • Fawcett, TW and Johnstone, RA (2010) Learning your own strength: Winner and loser effects should change with age and experience. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1686): 1427-1434
  • Johnstone, RA and Cant, MA (2010) The evolution of menopause in cetaceans and humans: The role of demography. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1701): 3765-3771
  • Hinde, CA, Johnstone RA and Kilner, RM (2010) Parent-Offspring Conflict and Coadaptation. Science 327(5971): 1373-1376
  • Harcourt, JL, Biau, S, Johnstone, RA and Manica, A (2010) Boldness and information use in three-spined sticklebacks. Ethology, 116(5): 440-447
  • Harcourt, J, Sweetman, G, Manica, A and Johnstone RA (2010) Pairs of Fish Resolve Conflicts over Coordinated Movement by Taking Turns. Current Biology 20(2): 156-160
  • Kuijper, B and Pen, I (2010). Evolution of haplodiploidy by male-killing endosymbionts: importance of spatial population structure and endosymbiont mutualisms. J. Evol. Biol. 23: 40-52. Doi, PDF, Supplement 1, Supplement 2
  • Port, M and Kappeler, PM (2010) The utility of reproductive skew theory in the study of male primates: a critical evaluation. Evolutionary Anthropology 19: 46-56
  • Port, M, Johnstone RA and Kappeler, PM (2010) Costs and benefits of multi-male associations in redfronted lemurs. (Eulemur fulvus rufus) Biology Letters 6(5): 620-622