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...

 

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The effects of carotenoid and food intake on caudal fin regeneration in male guppies (with N. C. Ruiz, N. Del Cid, Eric Dunlop, and Gregory F. Grether), Journal of Fish Biology (2006)

The trade‐offs involved in allocating carotenoid pigments and food to healing and regrowing damaged caudal...

 

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The effects of resource availability on alternative mating tactics in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (with Gregory F. Grether), Behavioral Ecology (2005)

Food availability can influence the optimal allocation of time and energy among alternative behaviors such...

 

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Sex differences in metabolic rates in field crickets and their dipteran parasitoids (with Mark A. Chappell and Marlene Zuk), Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology (2004)

Sex differences in metabolic rate (MR) can result from dimorphism in the performance of energetically...

 

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Individual colour patches as multicomponent signals (with Gregory F. Grether and Karen Nersissian), Biological Reviews (2004)

Colour patches are complex traits, the components of which may evolve independently through a variety...

 

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Sex–specific effects of carotenoid intake on the immunological response to allografts in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (with Gregory F. Grether, Shinji Kasahara, and Edwin L. Cooper), Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2004)

Rarely are the evolutionary origins of mate preferences known, but, recently, the preference of female...

 

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Reduced reproductive effort in male field crickets infested with parasitoid fly larvae (with Marlene Zuk and Mark A. Chappell), Behavioral Ecology (2002)

Some populations of the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus are parasitized by the phonotactic fly Ormia...

 

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Parasitism patterns and the size-fecundity relationship in the acoustically orienting dipteran parasitoid Ormia ochracea (with Marlene Zuk), Canadian Journal of Zoology (2001)

Female parasitoids are expected to distribute offspring among hosts in a manner that maximizes fitness....

 

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Variation and Repeatability of Calling Behavior in Crickets Subject to a Phonotactic Parasitoid Fly, Journal of Insect Behavior (1999)

Male Teleogryllus oceanicus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) produce a conspicuous calling song to attract females. In some...

 

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Exploitations of Sexual Signals by Predators and Parasitoids (with Marlene Zuk), The Quarterly Review of Biology (1998)

Signals used to attract mates are often conspicuous to predators and parasites, and their evolution...

 

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Sex can be dangerous: Acoustically-orienting parasitoids on field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), Metaleptea (1998)

The Orthopterists' Society generously awarded me grants in 1995 and 1997 to conduct research on...

 

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Review of Sexual Selection: Mate Choice and Courtship in Nature by James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould (with Marlene Zuk and Kurt A. McKean), Quarterly Review of Biology (1997)
 

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Genetic and social control of male maturation in Phallichthys quadripunctatus (Pisces: Poeciliidae) (with David N. Reznick), Journal of Evolutionary Biology (1996)

Age and size at maturity can have significant fitness consequences. Selection often favors early-maturing individuals...

 

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Trade-offs in Parasitology, Evolution and Behavior (with Marlene Zuk, M. J. Bryant, and V. Mirmovitch), Parasitology Today (1996)
 

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Review of Survival, Reproduction, and Behavior by J.R. Krebs and N.B. Davies (with Marlene Zuk, Torgeir S. Johnsen, Kurt A. McKean, and Bradd Schulke), Ecology (1994)
 

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...