BI508:
Readings for Discussion - Spring 2008
23-24 January - Cost of Reproduction
Background: Dawkins R (1976) The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press. pp. 88-122.
Ardia DR (2005) Individual quality mediates trade-offs between reproductive effort and immune function in tree swallows. Journal of Animal Ecology 74, 517-524.
Ardia DR, Clotfelter ED (2007) Individual quality and age affect responses to an energetic constraint in a cavity-nesting bird. Behavioral Ecology18, 259-266.
Harshman LG, Zera AJ (2007) The cost of reproduction: the devil in the details. Trends in Ecology & Evolution22, 80-86.
30-31 January - Comparative Analyses
Gonzalez-Voyer A, Szekely T, Drummond H (2007) Why do some siblings attack each other? Comparative analysis of aggression in avian broods. Evolution 61, 1946-1955.
Molloy PR, Goodwin NB, Cote IM, Reynolds JD, Gage MJG (2007) Sperm competition and sex change: A comparative analysis across fishes. Evolution 61, 640-652.
Simmons LW, Emlen DJ, Tomkins JL (2007) Sperm competition games between sneaks and guards: A comparative analysis using dimorphic male beetles. Evolution 61, 2684-2692.
6-7 February - Ideal Free Distribution
Morris DW (2005) Paradoxical avoidance of enriched habitats: Have we failed to appreciate omnivores? Ecology 86, 2568-2577.
Haugen TO, Winfield IJ, Vollestad LA, et al. (2006) The ideal free pike: 50 years of fitness-maximizing dispersal in Windermere. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 273, 2917-2924.
Flaxman SM, deRoos CA (2007) Different modes of resource variation provide a critical test of ideal free distribution models. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61, 877-886.
13-14 February - Fighting & Assessment
Cant MA, English S, Reeve HK, Field J (2006) Escalated conflict in a social hierarchy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 273, 2977-2984.
Rutte C, Taborsky M, Brinkhof MWG (2006) What sets the odds of winning and losing? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 21, 16-21.
Stapley J, Whiting MJ (2006) Ultraviolet signals fighting ability in a lizard. Biology Letters 2, 169-172.
Briffa M, Elwood RW (2007) Monoamines and decision making during contests in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus. Animal Behaviour 73, 605-612.
20-21 February - Sex Ratios & Sex Determination
Gomendio M, Malo AF, Soler AJ, et al. (2006) Male fertility and sex ratio at birth in red deer. Science 314, 1445-1447.
Bonier F, Martin PR, Wingfield JC (2007) Maternal corticosteroids influence primary offspring sex ratio in a free-ranging passerine bird. Behavioral Ecology 18, 1045-1050.
Uller T, Pen I, Wapstra E, Beukeboom LW, Komdeur J (2007) The evolution of sex ratios and sex-determining systems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22, 292-297.
Warner DA, Shine R (2008) The adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination in a reptile. Nature 451, 566-568.
5-6 March - Sexual Selection 1
Chaine AS, Lyon BE (2008) Adaptive plasticity in female mate choice dampens sexual selection on male ornaments in the lark bunting. Science 319, 459-462.
Pfennig KS (2007) Facultative mate choice drives adaptive hybridization. Science 318, 965-967.
Fisher DO, Double MC, Blomberg SP, Jennions MD, Cockburn A (2006) Post-mating sexual selection increases lifetime fitness of polyandrous females in the wild. Nature 444, 89-92.
Kokko H, Brooks R, Jennions MD, Morley J (2003) The evolution of mate choice and mating biases. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 270, 653-664.
26-27 March - Mating Systems & Parental Care
Dickens M, Hartley IR (2007) Differences in parental food allocation rules: evidence for sexual conflict in the blue tit? Behavioral Ecology 18, 674-679.
Heinsohn R, Ebert D, Legge S, Peakall R (2007) Genetic evidence for cooperative polyandry in reverse dichromatic Eclectus parrots. Animal Behaviour 74, 1047-1054.
Nagy M, Heckel G, Voigt CC, Mayer F (2007) Female-biased dispersal and patrilocal kin groups in a mammal with resource-defence polygyny. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 274, 3019-3025.
Rubenstein DR (2007) Female extrapair mate choice in a cooperative breeder: trading sex for help and increasing offspring heterozygosity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 274, 1895-1903.
2-3 April - Alternative Tactics & Strategies
Jukema J, Piersma T (2006) Permanent female mimics in a lekking shorebird. Biology Letters 2, 161-164.
Healey M, Uller T, Olsson M (2008) Variety is the spice of life: female lizards choose to associate with colour-polymorphic male dyads. Ethology 114, 231-237.
Tomkins JL, Hazel W (2007) The status of the conditional evolutionarily stable strategy. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22, 522-528.
9-10 April - Cooperation
Eberle M, Kappeler PM (2008) Mutualism, reciprocity, or kin selection? Cooperative rescue of a conspecific from a boa in a nocturnal solitary forager the gray mouse lemur. American Journal of Primatology 70, 410-414.
Rankin DJ, Bargum K, Kokko H (2007) The tragedy of the commons in evolutionary biology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22, 643-651.
Nowak MA (2006) Five rules for the evolution of cooperation. Science 314, 1560-1563.
Milinski M, Semmann D, Krambeck HJ, Marotzke J (2006) Stabilizing the Earth's climate is not a losing game: Supporting evidence from public goods experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103, 3994-3998.
Optional reading:
Roberts G (1998) Competitive altruism: from reciprocity to the handicap principle. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 265, 427-431.
16-17 April - Kin Recognition
Boncoraglio G, Saino N (2008) Barn swallow chicks beg more loudly when broodmates are unrelated. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21, 256-262.
Jesseau SA, Holmes WG, Lee TM (2008) Mother-offspring recognition in communally nesting degus, Octodon degus. Animal Behaviour 75, 573-582.
Villinger J, Waldman B (2008) Self-referent MHC type matching in frog tadpoles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 275, 1225-1230.
