Andrea Manica - Publications by Topic
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Behavioural Ecology
Johnstone, R.A., & Manica, A. (2011) Evolution of personality difference in leadership. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 108: 8373–8378 [PDF]
Gilbert, J.D.J., Thomas, L.K., & Manica, A. (2010) Quantifying the benefits and costs of parental care in assassin bugs. Ecological Entomology 35: 639-651 [PDF]
Ang. T.Z., & Manica, A. (2010) Benefits and costs of dominance in the angelfish Centropyge bicolor. Ethology 116 :855-865 [PDF]
Gilbert, J.D.J., & Manica, A. (2010) Parental care trade-offs and life history relationships in insects. American Naturalist 176: 212:226 [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]
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.]
Ang. T.Z., & Manica, A. (2010) Unavoidable limits on group size in a body size-based linear hierarchy. Behavioral Ecology 21:819-825 [PDF]
Harcourt, J.L., Biau, S., Johnstone, R.A., & Manica, A. (2010) Boldness and information use in three-spined sticklebacks. Ethology 116: 440-447 [PDF]
Ang. T.Z., & Manica, A. (2010) Aggression, segregation and stability in a dominance hierarchy. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 277: 1337-1343 [PDF]
Oates, J., Manica, A., & Bshary, R. (2010) Roving and service quality in the cleaner wrasse Labroides bicolor. Ethology 116: 309-315 [PDF]
Harcourt, J.L., Sweetman, G., Manica, A., & Johnstone, R.A.(2010) Pairs of fish resolve conflicts over coordinated movement by taking turns. Current Biology 20: 156-160 [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]
Manica, A. (2010) Female scissortail sergeants (Pisces: Pomacentridae) use test eggs to choose good fathers. Animal Behaviour 79: 237-242 [PDF]
Harcourt, J.L., Sweetman, G., Johnstone, R.A., & Manica, A. (2009) Personality counts: the effect of boldness on shoal choice in three-spined stickleback. Animal Behaviour 77: 1501-1505 [PDF]
Harcourt, J.L., Ang, T.Z., Sweetman, G., Johnstone, R.A., & Manica, A. (2009) Leadership, personality and social feedback. Communicative and Integrative Biology 2: 335-336 [PDF]
Harcourt, J.L., Ang, T.Z., Sweetman, G., Johnstone, R.A., & Manica, A. (2009) Social feedback and the emergence of leaders and followers. Current Biology 19: 248-252 [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.] [ScienceNOW] [Media]
Gilbert, J., & Manica, A. (2009) Brood conspicuousness and clutch viability in male-caring assassin bugs (Rhinocoris tristis). Ecological Entomology 34: 176-182 [PDF]
Ang, T.Z., O'Luanaigh, C., Rands, S.A., Balmford, A. & Manica, A. (2008) Quantifying the costs and benefits of protective egg coating in a Chrysomelid beetle. Ecological Entomology 4: 484-487 [PDF]
Hodge, S.J., Manica, A., Flower, T.P., & Clutton-Brock, T.H. (2008) Determinants of reproductive success in dominant female meerkats. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 99-102 [PDF]
Evans, S.R., Finnie M., & Manica, A. (2007) Shoaling preferences in decapod crustacea. Animal Behaviour 74: 1691-1696 [PDF]
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]
Borger, L., Franconi, N., Meschi, F., De Michele, G., Gantz, A., 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]
Pike, N., & Manica, A. (2006) The basis of cowardice in social defenders. Ecological Modelling 196: 275-282 [PDF]
O'Luanaigh, C., Ang, T.Z., Manica, A., & Rands, S.A. (in press) Non-random mating in the beetle Cryptocephalus hypochaeridis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Bulletin of Insectology 59: 11-16 [PDF]
Ruckstuhl K.E., Manica A. , MacColl A.D.C., Pilkington J.G., & Clutton-Brock T.H. (2006) The effects of castration, sex ratio and population density on social segregation and habitat use in Soay sheep. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 59: 694-703 [PDF]
Davis, D.S., Stewart, S.L., Manica, A., & Majerus M.E.N. (2006) Adaptive preferential selection of female coccinellid hosts by the parasitoid wasp Dinocampus coccinellae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). European Journal of Entomology 103: 41-45 [PDF]
Balmford B., Balmford J., Balmford A., Blakeman S., Manica A., & Cowley R.M. (2006). Diurnal versus nocturnal pollination of Brunsvigia gregaria R.A. Dyer (Amaryllidaceae) at a coastal site. South African Journal of Botany 72: 291-294 [PDF]
Reader T., MacLeod I., Elliott P. T., Robinson O. J. & 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]
Thomas, L. K. & Manica, A. (2005) Intrasexual competition and mate choice in assassin bugs with uniparental male and female care. Animal Behaviour 69: 275-281 [PDF]
Manica, A., & Johnstone, R. A. (2004) The evolution of male care with overlapping broods. American Naturalist 164: 517-530 [PDF] [Appendix PDF]
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]
Thomas, L. K., & Manica, A. (2003) Filial cannibalism in an assassin bug. Animal Behaviour 66: 205-210 [PDF] [BBC Wildlife article] [Media]
Manica, A. (2003) The effect of brood size and age on partial filial cannibalism. Journal of Fish Biology 63: 37-47 [PDF]
Manica, A. (2002) Alternative strategies for a father with a small brood: mate, cannibalise or care. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 51: 319-323 [PDF]
Manica, A. (2002) Filial cannibalism in teleost fish. Biological Reviews 77: 261-277 [PDF] [Journal cover]
Manica, A., McMeechan, F.K., & Foster, W.A. (2001) An aggregation pheromone in the intertidal collembolan Anurida maritima. Entomologia Applicata et Experimentalis 99 (3): 393-395 [PDF]
Manica, A., McMeechan, F.K., & Foster, W.A. (2000) Orientation in the intertidal saltmarsh collembolan Anurida maritima. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 47: 371-375 [PDF]
McMeechan, F.K., Manica, A., & Foster, W.A. (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 (1): 189-190 [PDF]
Sloggett, J.J., Manica, A., Day, M.J., & Majerus, M.E.N. (1999) Predation of ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) by red wood ants, Formica rufa L. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologist's Gazette 50: 217-221 [PDF]
Population Genetics
Warmuth, V., Eriksson, A., Bower, M.A., Cañon, J., Cothran, G., Distl, O., Glowatzki-Mullis, M.L., Hunt, H., Luís, C., do Mar Oom, M., Sagastegui, I.T.Y., Zabek, T., & Manica, A. (2011) European Domestic Horses Originated in Two Holocene Refugia. PLoS ONE 6: e18194 PDF
Tanabe, K., Mita, T., Jombart, T., Eriksson, A., Horibe, S., Palacpac, N., Ranford-Cartwright, L., Sawai, H., Sakihama, N., Ohmae, H., Nakamura, M., Ferreira, M.U., Escalante, A.A., Prugnolle, F., Björkman, A., Färnert, 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.]
Betti, L., Balloux, F., Hanihara, T., & Manica, A. (2010) The relative role of drift and selectionin shaping the human skull. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 141:76-82 [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]
Balloux, F., Handley, L.J., Jombart, T., Liu, H., & Manica, A. (2009) Climate shaped the worldwide distribution of human mitochondrial DNA sequence variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 276: 3447-3455 [PDF] [Suppl. Mat.]
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 London B 276: 809-814 [PDF]
Romero, G., Manica, A., Goudet, J., Handley, L.L., & Balloux, F. (2009) How accurate is the current picture of human genetic variation? Heredity 102: 120-126 [PDF] [News and Commentaries in Heredity] [Media]
Schwarz, S., Morelli, G., Kusecek, B., Manica, A., Balloux, F., Owen R.J., Graham, Y.D., van der Merwe, S., Achtman, M., & Suerbaum, S. (2008) Horizontal versus Familial Transmission of Helicobacter pylori. PLoS Pathogens 4: e1000180 [PDF] [Table S1] [Table S2] [Table S3] [Table S4] [Table S5] [Fig. S1]
Manica, A. (2008) A zoologist traces flu across the globe (Journal Club). Nature 453: 431 [PDF]
Manica, A., Liu, H., Prugnolle, F., & Balloux, F. (2008) Worldwide genetic patterns in human population genetics. In Simluations, Genetics and Human Prehistory- A focus on Islands (Edited by S. Matsumura, Forster P., & Renfrew C.). McDonald Institute Monograph Series, Cambridge, 19-26
Handley L.J.L., Manica A., Goudet J., & Balloux, F. (2007) Going the distance: human population genetics in a clinal world Trends in Genetics 23: 432-439 [PDF]
Manica A., Amos W., Balloux F., & Hanihara T. (2007) The effect of ancient population bottlenecks on human phenotypic variation. Nature 448: 346-348 [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [ScienceNOW] [Independent] [Guardian] [The Economist] [Media]
Linz, B., Balloux, F., Moodley, Y., Manica, A., Roumagnac, P., Falush, D., Stamer, C., Prugnolle, F., van der Merwe, S.W., Yamaoka, Y., Graham, D.Y., 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] [Supplementary Material] [BBC Online] [ScienceNOW] [Scientific American] [The Times] [Media]
Szmaragd, C., Foster, G.R., Manica, A., Bartholomeusz, A., Nichols, R., & Balloux, F. (2006) Genome-wide characterisation of Hepatitis B mutations involved in clinical outcome. Heredity 97: 389-397 [PDF]
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]
Amos, W., & Manica, A. (2006) Global genetic positioning: evidence for early human population centres in costal habitats. PNAS 103: 820-824 [PDF] [Suppl. Table 1] [Suppl. Table 2]
Manica A., Prugnolle F., & Balloux F. (2005). Geography is a better determinant of human genetic differentiation than ethnicity. Human Genetics 118: 366-371 [PDF]
Prugnolle F., Manica A., Charpentier M., Guegan J.F., Guernier V., & Balloux F. (2005). Worldwide HLA class I diversity: human colonisation history and pathogen-driven selection. Current Biology 15: 1022-1027 [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Nature Reviews Immunology Highlight] [Media]
Prugnolle F., Manica A. & Balloux F. (2005). Geography predicts neutral diversity of human populations. Current Biology 15: R159-R160 [PDF] [Supplemental material] [ScienceNOW] [Media]
Ecology
Fayle, T.M., & 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]
Fayle, T.M., & Manica, A. (2010) Reducing potential over-reporting of deterministic co-occurrence patterns in biotic communities. Ecological Modelling 221: 2237-2242 [PDF]
Ellwood, M.D.F., Manica, A., & Foster, W.A. (2009) Stochastic and deterministic processes jointly structure tropical arthropod communities. Ecology Letters 12: 277-284 [PDF]
Conservation Biology
Rodrigues, A.S.L., Gray, C.L., Crowter, B.J., Ewers, R.M., Stuart, S.N., Whitten, T., & Manica, A. (2010) A Global Assessment of Amphibian Taxonomic Effort and Expertise. Bioscience 24: 1510-1518 PDF [Suppl. Mat.]
Coad, L., Abernethy, K., Balmford, A., Manica, A., Airey, L., & Milner-Gulland, E. J. (2010) Bushmeat, wealth and gender: the distribution and use of bushmeat incomes in a rural village, Central Gabon. Conservation Biology 60: 798-806 [PDF]
Kapos, V., Manica, A., Aveling, R., Bubb, P., Carey, P., Entwistle, A., Hopkins, J., Mulliken, T., Safford, R., Stattersfield, A., Walpole, M. J., & Balmford, A. (2010). Defining and measuring success in conservation. In Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save (Edited by N. Leader-Williams, W. M. Adams, & R. J. Smith). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK), 73-93.
Lobo, A.S., Balmford, A., Arthur, R., & Manica, A. (2010) Commercializing bycatch can push a fishery beyond economic extinction. Conservation Letters 3: 277-285 [PDF]
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, predicts Conservation Success. Oryx 43: 336-342 [PDF]
Balmford, A., Beresford, J., Green, J., Naidoo, R., Walpole, & Manica, A. (2009) A global perspective on trends in nature-based tourism. PLoS Biology 7: e1000144 [PDF]
Balmford, A., Carey, P., Kapos, V., Manica, A., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Sharlemann, J.P.W., & Green, R.E. (2009) Capturing the many dimensions of threat: Comment on Salafski et al. Conservation Biology 23: 482-487 [PDF]
Tyler, E.H.M., Speight, M.R., Henderson, P., & Manica, A. (2009) Evidence for a depth refuge effect in artisanal coral reef fisheries. Biological Conservation 142: 652-667 [PDF]
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. 1] [Suppl. Mat. 1]
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 of London Series B 274: 989-994 [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [NY Times] [Intl Herald Tribune] [Media]
Scales, H., Balmford, A., & Manica, A. (2007) Monitoring the live reef food fi sh trade: Lessons learned from local and global perspectives. SPC Live Reef Fish Information Bulletin 17: 36-42 [PDF]
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 Zoos as catalysts for conservation (Edited by C. West & A. Zimmermann). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 322-342 [PDF]
Balmford, A., Leader-Williams, N., Mace, G., Manica, A., Walter, O., West, C., & Zimmermann, A. (2007) Message received? Quantifying the impact of informal conservation education on adults visiting UK zoos. In Zoos as catalysts for conservation (Edited by C. West & A. Zimmermann). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 120-136 [PDF]
Scales, H., Balmford, A., Liu, M., Sadovy, Y., & Manica, A. (2006) Keeping bandits at bay. Science 313: 612-613 [PDF] [Suppl. Fig.] [Response by Berkes et al.] [The Observer] [Media]
Hockley N.J., Jones J.P.G., Andriahajaina F., Manica A., Rakoto F.E., Ranambitsoa E.H., & Randriamboahary J.A. (2005). When should communities and conservationists monitor exploited resources? Biodiversity and Conservation 14: 2795-2806 [PDF]
Balmford A., Manica A., Airey L., Birkin L., Oliver A., & Schleicher J. (2004) Hollywood, Climate Change, and the Public. Science 305: 1713 [PDF]
Other
Manica, A., Pilcher, N., & Oakley, S. (2002) A new Chrisiptera species from the Spratley Islands. Malayan Nature Journal 56 (3): 301-304
Manica, A., & Carter, R.W. (2000) Morphological and fluorescence analysis of the Montastraea annularis species complex in Florida. Marine Biology 137: 899-906 [PDF]
Tan, J., Tyler, K., & Manica, A. (2007) Business-to-business adoption of eCommerce in China. Information & Management 44: 322-351 [PDF]
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