Articles

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Parasite infection and sand coarseness increase sand crab (Emerita analoga) burrowing time (with Zachary S. Green, Larisa K. Vredevoe, Matthew R. Kuzma, Sera N. Ramadan, and Marc R. Zosky), Behavioural Processes (2011)

Parasites with indirect life cycles require trophic transmission from intermediate hosts to definitive (vertebrate) hosts....

 

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Food availability and parasite infection influence mating tactics in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (with Gregory F. Grether, Eric Dunlop, and Sandra H. South), Behavioral Ecology (2009)

Despite the important effects of diet and parasite infection on male reproductive behavior, few studies...

 

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Maternal effects of carotenoid consumption in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (with Gregory F. Grether, K. Lin, M. A. Quiroz, G. Robertson, and A. J. Snyder), Functional Ecology (2008)

1. Carotenoids transferred from mother to offspring may enhance the quality of the offspring. Whether...

 

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Environmental and genetic influences on mating strategies along a replicated food availability gradient in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (with Gregory F. Grether and Heidy Contreras), Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2007)

Food availability is expected to influence the relative cost of different mating tactics, but little...

 

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The effects of carotenoid and food availability on resistance to a naturally occurring parasite (Gyrodactylus turnbulli) in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (with Gregory F. Grether, Sandra H. South, Eric Dunlop, Andrea Cardinali, Linda Liu, and Andreah Carapiet), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2006)

Dietary carotenoids have been shown to confer immunological benefits to some species of animals in...

 

Conference Proceedings

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Carotenoid availability affects the development of a colour-based mate preference and the sensory bias to which it is genetically linked (with Gregory F. Grether, F. Helen Rodd, Jennifer de la Cerda, and Kaori Shimazaki), Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2005)

Regardless of their origins, mate preferences should, in theory, be shaped by their benefits in...