Evolutionary Ecology Group

Department of Zoology

Andrea Manica - Publications by Year

In press

93)     Coad, L, Schleicher, J, Milner-Gulland, EJ, Marthews, TR, Starkey, M, Manica, A, Balmford, A, Mbombe, W, Diop Bineni, TR, Abernethy, KA. in press. Social and Ecological Change over a Decade in a Village Hunting System, Central Gabon. Conservation Biology. [PDF]

2013

92)     Betti, L, Von Cramon-Taubadel, N, Manica, A, Lycett, SJ. 2013. Global Geometric Morphometric Analyses of the Human Pelvis Reveal Substantial Neutral Population History Effects, Even across Sexes. PLoS ONE 8: e55909. [PDF]

91)     Jolles, JW, King, AJ, Manica, A, Thornton, A. 2013. Heterogeneous structure in mixed-species corvid flocks in flight. Animal Behaviour. [PDF]

90)     Warmuth, V, Manica, A, Eriksson, A, Bower, MA, Barker, G. 2013. Autosomal genetic diversity in non-breed horses from eastern Eurasia provides insights into historical population movements. Animal Genetics 44: 53–61. [PDF]

2012

89)     Eriksson, A, Manica, A. 2012. Effect of ancient population structure on the degree of polymorphism shared between modern human populations and ancient hominins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 13956–13960. [PDF] [Media]

88)     Eriksson, A, Betti, L, Friend, AD, Lycett, SJ, Singarayer, JS, Cramon-Taubadel, N von, Valdes, PJ, Balloux, F, Manica, A. 2012. Late Pleistocene climate change and the global expansion of anatomically modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 16089–16094. [PDF] [Media]

87)     Nakayama, S, Johnstone, RA, Manica, A. 2012. Temperament and Hunger Interact to Determine the Emergence of Leaders in Pairs of Foraging Fish. PLoS ONE 7: e43747. [PDF]

86)     Warmuth, V, Eriksson, A, Bower, MA, Barker, G, Barrett, E, Hanks, BK, Li, S, Lomitashvili, D, Ochir-Goryaeva, M, Sizonov, GV, Soyono, V, Manica, A. 2012. Reconstructing the Origin and Spread of Horse Domestication in the Eurasian Steppe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 8202–8206. [PDF] [Media]

85)     Nakayama, S, Harcourt, JL, Johnstone, RA, Manica, A. 2012. Initiative, personality and leadership in pairs of foraging fish. PLoS ONE 7: e36606. [PDF]

84)      Oates, J, Manica, A, Bshary, R, Grutter, AS. 2012. Relationship between roving behaviour and the diet and client composition of the cleaner fish Labroides bicolor . Journal of Fish Biology 81: 210–219. [PDF]

83)     Prescott, GW, Williams, DR, Balmford, A, Green, RE, Manica, A. 2012. Quantitative Global Analysis of the Role of Climate and People in Explaining Late Quaternary Megafaunal Extinctions. PNAS 109: 4527–4531. [PDF] [Media]

82)     Qutob, N, Balloux, F, Raj, T, Liu, H, De Proce, SM, Trowsdale, J, Manica, A. 2012. Signatures of historical demography and pathogen richness on MHC class I  genes. Immunogenetics 64: 165–175. [PDF]

2011

81)     Eriksson, A, Manica, A. 2011. Detecting and Removing Ascertainment Bias in Microsatellites from the HGDP-CEPH Panel. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 1: 479–488. [PDF]

80)     Rasmussen, M, Guo, X, Wang, Y, Lohmueller, KE, Rasmussen, S, Albrechtsen, A, Skotte, L, Lindgreen, S, Metspalu, M, Jombart, T, Kivisild, T, Zhai, W, Eriksson, A, Manica, A, Orlando, L, De La Vega, FM, Tridico, S, Metspalu, E, Nielsen, K, Ávila-Arcos, MC, Moreno-Mayar, JV, Muller, C, Dortch, J, Gilbert, MTP, Lund, O, Wesolowska, A, Karmin, M, Weinert, LA, Wang, B, Li, J, Tai, S, Xiao, F, Hanihara, T, Van Driem, G, Jha, AR, Ricaut, F-X, De Knijff, P, Migliano, AB, Gallego Romero, I, Kristiansen, K, Lambert, DM, Brunak, S, Forster, P, Brinkmann, B, Nehlich, O, Bunce, M, Richards, M, Gupta, R, Bustamante, CD, Krogh, A, Foley, RA, Lahr, MM, Balloux, F, Sicheritz-Pontén, T, Villems, R, Nielsen, R, Wang, J, Willerslev, E. 2011. An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia. Science 334: 94–98. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

79)     Ang, TZ, Manica, A. 2011. The effect of the presence of subordinates on dominant female behaviour and fitness in hierarchies of the dwarf angelfish Centropyge bicolour. Ethology 117: 1111–1119. [PDF]

78)     Warmuth, V, Eriksson, A, Bower, MA, Canon, J, Cothran, G, Distl, O, Glowatzki-Mullis, M-L, Hunt, H, Luis, C, Oom, M do M, Tupac Yupanqui, I, Zabek, T, Manica, A. 2011. European Domestic Horses Originated in Two Holocene Refugia. Plos One 6: e18194. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]

77)     Fayle, TM, Manica, A. 2011. Bias in null model analyses of species co-occurrence: A response to Gotelli and Ulrich (2011). Ecological Modelling 222: 1340–1341. [PDF]

76)     Tyler, EHM, Manica, A, Jiddawi, N, Speight, MR. 2011. A role for partially protected areas on coral reefs: maintaining fish diversity? Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 21: 231–238. [PDF]

75)     Johnstone, RA, Manica, A. 2011. Evolution of personality differences in leadership. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108: 8373 –8378. [PDF] [Media]

2010

74)     Kapos, V, Manica, A, Aveling, R, Bubb, P, Carey, P, Entwistle, A, Hopkins, J, Mulliken, T, Safford, R, Stattersfield, A, Walpole, M, Balmford, A. 2010. Defining and measuring success in conservation. In: Leader-Williams, N, Adams, W, Smith, R, editors. Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell, p 73–93.

73)     Betti, L, Balloux, F, Hanihara, T, Manica, A. 2010. The Relative Role of Drift and Selection in Shaping the Human Skull. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 141: 76–82. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]

72)     Gilbert, JDJ, Thomas, LK, Manica, A. 2010. Quantifying the benefits and costs of parental care in assassin bugs. Ecological Entomology 35: 639–651. [PDF]

71)     Harcourt, JL, Sweetman, G, Manica, A, Johnstone, RA. 2010. Pairs of Fish Resolve Conflicts over Coordinated Movement by Taking Turns. Current Biology 20: 156–160. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

70)     Coad, L, Abernethy, K, Balmford, A, Manica, A, Airey, L, Milner-Gulland, EJ. 2010. Distribution and Use of Income from Bushmeat in a Rural Village, Central Gabon. Conservation Biology 24: 1510–1518. [PDF]

69)     Ang, TZ, Manica, A. 2010. Aggression, segregation and stability in a dominance hierarchy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 277: 1337–1343. [PDF]

68)     Ang, TZ, Manica, A. 2010. Unavoidable limits on group size in a body size-based linear hierarchy. Behavioral Ecology 21: 819–825. [PDF]

67)     Oates, J, Manica, A, Bshary, R. 2010. The shadow of the future affects cooperation in a cleaner fish. Current Biology 20: R472–R473. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

66)      Oates, J, Manica, A, Bshary, R. 2010. Roving and Service Quality in the Cleaner Wrasse Labroides bicolor . Ethology 116: 309–315. [PDF]

65)     Fayle, TM, Manica, A. 2010. Reducing over-reporting of deterministic co-occurrence patterns in biotic communities. Ecological Modelling 221: 2237–2242. [PDF]

64)      Tanabe, K, Mita, T, Jombart, T, Eriksson, A, Horibe, S, Palacpac, N, Ranford-Cartwright, L, Sawai, H, Sakihama, N, Ohmae, H, Nakamura, M, Ferreira, MU, Escalante, AA, Prugnolle, F, Bjorkman, A, Farnert, A, Kaneko, A, Horii, T, Manica, A, Kishino, H, Balloux, F. 2010. Plasmodium falciparum Accompanied the Human Expansion out of Africa. Current Biology 20: 1283–1289. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

63)     Gilbert, JDJ, Manica, A. 2010. Parental Care Trade-Offs and Life-History Relationships in Insects. American Naturalist 176: 212–226. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

62)     Manica, A. 2010. Female scissortail sergeants (Pisces: Pomacentridae) use test eggs to choose good fathers. Animal Behaviour 79: 237–242. [PDF]

61)     Lobo, AS, Balmford, A, Arthur, R, Manica, A. 2010. Commercializing bycatch can push a fishery beyond economic extinction. Conservation Letters 3: 277–285. [PDF] [Media]

60)     Harcourt, JL, Biau, S, Johnstone, R, Manica, A. 2010. Boldness and Information Use in Three-Spined Sticklebacks. Ethology 116: 440–447. [PDF]

59)      Ang, TZ, Manica, A. 2010. Benefits and Costs of Dominance in the Angelfish Centropyge bicolor . Ethology 116: 855–865. [PDF]

58)     Rodrigues, ASL, Gray, CL, Crowter, BJ, Ewers, RM, Stuart, SN, Whitten, T, Manica, A. 2010. A Global Assessment of Amphibian Taxonomic Effort and Expertise. Bioscience 60: 798–806. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]

2009

57)     Harcourt, JL, Ang, TZ, Sweetman, G, Johnstone, RA, Manica, A. 2009. Leadership, personality and social feedback. Communicative & Integrative Biology 2: 335–336. [PDF]

56)     Harcourt, JL, Ang, TZ, Sweetman, G, Johnstone, RA, Manica, A. 2009. Social Feedback and the Emergence of Leaders and Followers. Current Biology 19: 248–252. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

55)     Tyler, EHM, Speight, MR, Henderson, P, Manica, A. 2009. Evidence for a depth refuge effect in artisanal coral reef fisheries. Biological Conservation 142: 652–667. [PDF]

54)     Betti, L, Balloux, F, Amos, W, Hanihara, T, Manica, A. 2009. Distance from Africa, not climate, explains within-population phenotypic diversity in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 276: 809–814. [PDF]

53)     Ellwood, MDF, Manica, A, Foster, WA. 2009. Stochastic and deterministic processes jointly structure tropical  arthropod communities. Ecology Letters 12: 277–284. [PDF]

52)     Harcourt, JL, Sweetman, G, Johnstone, RA, Manica, A. 2009. Personality counts: the effect of boldness on shoal choice in three-spined sticklebacks. Animal Behaviour 77: 1501–1505. [PDF]

51)     Kapos, V, Balmford, A, Aveling, R, Bubb, P, Carey, P, Entwistle, A, Hopkins, J, Mulliken, T, Safford, R, Stattersfield, A, Walpole, M, Manica, A. 2009. Outcomes, not implementation, predict conservation success. Oryx 43: 336–342. [PDF]

50)     Romero, IG, Manica, A, Goudet, J, Handley, LL, Balloux, F. 2009. How accurate is the current picture of human genetic variation? Heredity 102: 120–126. [PDF]

49)     Balloux, F, Handley, L-JL, Jombart, T, Liu, H, Manica, A. 2009. Climate shaped the worldwide distribution of human mitochondrial DNA sequence variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 276: 3447–3455. [PDF]

48)     Balmford, A, Carey, P, Kapos, V, Manica, A, Rodrigues, ASL, Scharlemann, JPW, Green, RE. 2009. Capturing the Many Dimensions of Threat: Comment on Salafsky et al. Conservation Biology 23: 482–487. [PDF]

47)      Gilbert, JDJ, Manica, A. 2009. Brood conspicuousness and clutch viability in male-caring assassin bugs ( Rhinocoris tristis ). Ecological Entomology 34: 176–182. [PDF]

46)     Balmford, A, Beresford, J, Green, J, Naidoo, R, Walpole, M, Manica, A. 2009. A Global Perspective on Trends in Nature-Based Tourism. Plos Biology 7. [PDF] [Media]

2008

45)     Manica, A, Liu, H, Prugnolle, F, Balloux, F. 2008. Worldwide genetic patterns in human population genetics. In: Matsumura, S, Forster, P, Renfrew, C, editors. Simluations, Genetics and Human Prehistory- A focus on Islands. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monograph Series, p 19–26.

44)     Manica, A. 2008. A zoologist traces flu across the globe (Journal Club). Nature 453: 431. [PDF]

43)     Hodge, SJ, Manica, A, Flower, TP, Clutton-Brock, TH. 2008. Determinants of reproductive success in dominant female meerkats. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 92–102. [PDF]

42)     Kapos, V, Balmford, A, Aveling, R, Bubb, P, Carey, P, Entwistle, A, Hopkins, J, Mulliken, T, Safford, R, Stattersfield, A, Walpole, M, Manica, A. 2008. Calibrating conservation: new tools for measuring success. Conservation Letters 1: 155–164. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]

41)     Ang, TZ, O’Luanaigh, C, Rands, SA, Balmford, A, Manica, A. 2008. Quantifying the costs and benefits of protective egg coating in a Chrysomelid beetle. Ecological Entomology 33: 484–487. [PDF]

40)      Schwarz, S, Morelli, G, Kusecek, B, Manica, A, Balloux, F, Owen, RJ, Graham, DY, Van der Merwe, S, Achtman, M, Suerbaum, S. 2008. Horizontal versus Familial Transmission of Helicobacter pylori . Plos Pathogens 4: e1000180. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]

2007

39)     Mace, G, Balmford, A, Leader-Williams, N, Manica, A, Walter, O, West, C, Zimmermann, A. 2007. Measuring conservation success: assessing zoos’ contribution to conservation. In: West, C, Zimmermann, A, editors. Zoos as catalysts for conservation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p 322–342. [PDF]

38)     Balmford, A, Leader-Williams, N, Mace, G, Manica, A, Walter, O, West, C, Zimmermann, A. 2007. Measuring conservation success: assessing zoos’ contribution to conservation. In: West, C, Zimmermann, A, editors. Zoos as catalysts for conservation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p 120–136. [PDF]

37)     Scales, H, Balmford, A, Manica, A. 2007. Monitoring the live reef food fish trade: Lessons learned from local and global perspectives. SPC Live Reef Fish Information Bulletin 17: 36–42. [PDF]

36)     Manica, A, Amos, W, Balloux, F, Hanihara, T. 2007. The effect of ancient population bottlenecks on human phenotypic  variation. Nature 448: 346–U6. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

35)     Evans, SR, Finnie, M, Manica, A. 2007. Shoaling preferences in decapod crustacea. Animal Behaviour 74: 1691–1696. [PDF]

34)     Scales, H, Balmford, A, Manica, A. 2007. Impacts of the live reef fish trade on populations of coral reef fish  off northern Borneo. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 274: 989–994. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

33)     Tan, J, Tyler, K, Manica, A. 2007. Business-to-business adoption of eCommerce in China. Information & Management 44: 332–351. [PDF]

32)     Handley, LJL, Manica, A, Goudet, J, Balloux, F. 2007. Going the distance: human population genetics in a clinal world. Trends in Genetics 23: 432–439. [PDF]

31)      Linz, B, Balloux, F, Moodley, Y, Manica, A, Liu, H, Roumagnac, P, Falush, D, Stamer, C, Prugnolle, F, Van der Merwe, SW, Yamaoka, Y, Graham, DY, Perez-Trallero, E, Wadstrom, T, Suerbaum, S, Achtman, M. 2007. An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori . Nature 445: 915–918. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

2006

30)      O’Luanaigh, C, Ang, TZ, Manica, A, Rands, SA. 2006. Non-random mating in the beetle Cryptocephalus hypochaeridis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Bulletin of Insectology 59: 11–16. [PDF]

29)      Davis, DS, Stewart, SL, Manica, A, Majerus, MEN. 2006. Adaptive preferential selection of female coccinellid hosts by the parasitoid wasp Dinocampus coccinellae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Eur. J. Entomol. 103: 41–45. [PDF]

28)     Pike, N, Manica, A. 2006. The optimal balance of defence investment strategies in clonal colonies  of social aphids. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60: 803–814. [PDF]

27)     Ruckstuhl, KE, Manica, A, MacColl, ADC, Pilkington, JG, Clutton-Brock, TH. 2006. The effects of castration, sex ratio and population density on social segregation and habitat use in Soay sheep. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59: 694–703. [PDF]

26)     Pike, N, Manica, A. 2006. The basis of cowardice in social defenders. Ecological Modelling 196: 275–282. [PDF]

25)     Scales, H, Balmford, A, Liu, M, Sadovy, Y, Manica, A. 2006. Keeping bandits at bay? Science 313: 612–613. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

24)     Amos, W, Manica, A. 2006. Global genetic positioning: Evidence for early human population centers  in coastal habitats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103: 820–824. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]

23)     Borger, L, Franconi, N, De Michele, G, Gantz, A, Meschi, F, Manica, A, Lovari, S, Coulson, T. 2006. Effects of sampling regime on the mean and variance of home range size estimates. Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 1393–1405. [PDF]

22)     Liu, H, Prugnolle, F, Manica, A, Balloux, F. 2006. A geographically explicit genetic model of worldwide human-settlement history. American Journal of Human Genetics 79: 230–237. [PDF]

21)     Szmaragd, C, Foster, GR, Manica, A, Bartholomeusz, A, Nichols, RA, Balloux, F. 2006. Genome-wide characterisation of Hepatitis B mutations involved in clinical outcome. Heredity 97: 389–397. [PDF]

20)      Balmford, B, Balmford, J, Balmford, A, Blakeman, S, Manica, A, Cowling, RM. 2006. Diurnal versus nocturnal pollination of Brunsvigia gregaria RA Dyer (Amaryllidaceae) at a coastal site. South African Journal of Botany 72: 291–294. [PDF]

2005

19)     Prugnolle, F, Manica, A, Charpentier, M, Guegan, JF, Guernier, V, Balloux, F. 2005. Pathogen-driven selection and worldwide HLA class I diversity. Current Biology 15: 1022–1027. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

18)     Reader, T, MacLeod, I, Elliott, PT, Robinson, OJ, Manica, A. 2005. Inter-order interactions between flower-visiting insects: Foraging bees avoid flowers previously visited by hoverflies. Journal of Insect Behavior 18: 51–57. [PDF]

17)     Manica, A, Prugnolle, F, Balloux, F. 2005. Geography is a better determinant of human genetic differentiation than  ethnicity. Human Genetics 118: 366–371. [PDF]

16)     Hockley, NJ, Jones, JPG, Andriahajaina, FB, Manica, A, Ranambitsoa, EH, Randriamboahary, JA. 2005. When should communities and conservationists monitor exploited resources? Biodiversity and Conservation 14: 2795–2806. [PDF]

15)     Thomas, LK, Manica, A. 2005. Intrasexual competition and mate choice in assassin bugs with uniparental male and female care. Animal Behaviour 69: 275–281. [PDF]

14)     Prugnolle, F, Manica, A, Balloux, F. 2005. Geography predicts neutral genetic diversity of human populations. Current Biology 15: R159–R160. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [Media]

2004

13)     Manica, A, Johnstone, RA. 2004. The evolution of paternal care with overlapping broods. American Naturalist 164: 517–530. [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]

12)     Balmford, A, Manica, A, Airey, L, Birkin, L, Oliver, A, Schleicher, J. 2004. Hollywood, climate change, and the public. Science 305: 1713–1713. [PDF]

11)     Manica, A. 2004. Parental fish change their cannibalistic behaviour in response to the cost-to-benefit ratio of parental care. Animal Behaviour 67: 1015–1021. [PDF]

2003

10)     Manica, A. 2003. The effect of brood size and age on partial filial cannibalism in the scissortail sergeant. Journal of Fish Biology 63: 37–47. [PDF]

9)     Thomas, L, Manica, A. 2003. Filial cannibalism in an assassin bug. Animal Behaviour 66: 205–210. [PDF] [Media]

2002

8)     Manica, A, Pilcher, N, Oakley, S. 2002. A new Chrisiptera species from the Spratley Islands. Malayan Nature Journal 56: 301–304. [PDF]

7)     Manica, A. 2002. Alternative strategies for a father with a small brood: mate, cannibalise or care. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51: 319–323. [PDF]

6)     Manica, A. 2002. Filial cannibalism in teleost fish. Biological Reviews 77: 261–277. [PDF]

2001

5)     Manica, A, McMeechan, FK, Foster, WA. 2001. An aggregation pheromone in the intertidal collembolan Anurida maritima. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 99: 393–395. [PDF]

2000

4)      McMeechan, FK, Manica, A, Foster, WA. 2000. Rhythms of activity and foraging in the intertidal insect Anurida maritima : coping with the tide. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 80: 189–190. [PDF]

3)      Manica, A, McMeechan, F, Foster, W. 2000. Orientation in the intertidal salt-marsh collembolan Anurida maritima . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 47: 371–375. [PDF]

2)      Manica, A, Carter, RW. 2000. Morphological and fluorescence analysis of the Montastraea annularis species complex in Florida. Marine Biology 137: 899–906. [PDF]

1999

1)      Sloggett, JJ, Manica, A, Day, MJ, Majerus, MEN. 1999. Predation of ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) by red wood ants, Formica rufa L. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologist’s Gazette 50: 217–221. [PDF]