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Kokko, H., Jennions, M.D. & Brooks. in press. Unifying and testing models of sexual selection. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.

Hunt, J., Jennions, M.D., Spyrou, N. & Brooks, R. in press. Artificial selection on male longevity influences age-dependent reproductive effort in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus. The American Naturalist.

Bussière, L.F., Hunt, J., Jennions, M.D. & Brooks, R. in press. Sexual conflict and cryptic female choice in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus. Evolution.

Mariette, M., Kelley, J.L., Brooks, R. & Evans, J.P. in press. The effects of inbreeding on male courtship behaviour and coloration in male guppies. Ethology.

Head, M.L., Hunt, J. & Brooks, R. 2006. Genetic association between male attractiveness and female differential allocation, Biology Letters.

Bentsen, C.L., Hunt, J., Jennions, M.D. & Brooks, R. (2006) Complex Multivariate Sexual Selection on Male Acoustic Signalling in a Wild Population of Teleogryllus commodus. The American Naturalist E102-E116.

Miller, L.K. & Brooks, R. 2006. The effects of genotype, age and social environment on male ornamentation, mating behaviour and attractiveness. Evolution 59: 2414-2425 .

Head, M.L. & Brooks, R. 2006. Sexual coercion and the opportunity for sexual selection in guppies. Animal Behaviour 71: 515-522 .

Brooks, R., Hunt, J., Blows, M.W., Smith M.J., Bussière, L., & Jennions , MD. 2005. Experimental evidence for multivariate stabilizing sexual selection. Evolution 59: 871-880

Lindholm, A.K., Breden, F., Alexander, H.J., Chan, W-K., Thakurta, S.G., & Brooks, R. 2005. Invasion success and genetic diversity of introduced populations of guppies Poecilia reticulata in Australia . Molecular Ecology 14: 3671-3682.

Hunt, J., Brooks, R. & Jennions, M.D. 2005. Female mate choice as a condition dependent life-history trait. The American Naturalist 166: 79-92 .

Head, M.L., Hunt, J., Jennions, M.D., Brooks, R. 2005. The indirect benefits of mating with attractive males outweigh the direct costs. PLoS Biology 3: e33 : Synopsis: Why bad boys get the girl and other tales of evolutionary madness

Savage, K., Hunt, J., Jennions, M.D., & Brooks, R. 2005. Male attractiveness is positively associated with fighting ability but not confidence in the house cricket Acheta domesticus. Behavioural Ecology. 16: 196-200.

Hunt, J., Brooks, R., Jennions, M.D., Smith, M.J., Bentsen, C.L., Bussière, L.F. 2004. High quality male field crickets invest heavily in sexual display but die young. Nature. 432: 1024-1027. : Story in Science

Jennions, M.D., Hunt, J., Brooks, R. & Graham, R. 2004. No evidence for inbreeding avoidance through post-copulatory mechanisms in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus. Evolution 58: 2472-2477.

Brooks, R., Bussiere, L.F., Jennions, M.D. & Hunt, J. 2004. Sinister strategies succeed at the 2003 cricket world cup. Biology Letters Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B (Suppl) 271:S64-S66.

Hall, M., Lindholm, A.K., Brooks, R. 2004. Direct selection on male attractiveness and female preference fails to produce a response. BMC Evolutionary Biology 4:1

Hunt, J., Bussiere, L.F., Jennions, M.D. & Brooks, R. 2004. What is genetic quality? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 329-333.

Syriatowicz, A. & Brooks, R. 2004. Sexual responsiveness is condition-dependent in female guppies, but preference functions are not. BMC Ecology 4:5

Lindholm, AK, Brooks, R & F Breden. 2004. Extreme polymorphism of a Y-linked sexually selected trait. Heredity, 92(3) 156 -162.

Brooks, R.; Poore, A. & Bonser, S. 2004. Exploring the broader social context of a conceptually-rich science course: a collaborative learning program. UNSW Compendium of Good Practice in Teaching and Learning.

Blows, M.W. & Brooks, R. 2003. Measuring non-linear selection. The American Naturalist 162: 815- 820.

McNamara, J., Houston, A.I., dos Santos, M.M., Kokko, H., & Brooks, R. 2003. Quantifying male attractiveness. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. 270: 1925 - 1932.

Blows, M.W., Kraft, P. & Brooks, R. 2003. Exploring complex fitness surfaces: multiple ornamentation and polymorphism in male guppies. Evolution 57: 622-630.

Kokko, H., Brooks, R., Jennions, M.D. & Morley, J. 2003. The evolution of mate choice and mating biases. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 270: 652-664.

Kokko, H. & Brooks, R. 2003. Sexy to die for? Sexual selection and the risk of extinction. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 40: 207-219.

Krützen, M., Sherwin, W.B., Connor, R.C., Barre, L.M., Van de Casteele, T., Mann, J. & Brooks, R. Contrasting evolutionary strategies within a population of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. 270: 497-502.

McAlpine, I. Brooks, R., & Scoufis, M. 2003. An application of online technologies to support collaborative learning in groups for a Bioscience course. ED-MEDIA 2003 â€“ World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications.

Brooks, R. 2003. Variation in mate choice within guppy populations: multiple ornaments, population divergence and the maintenance of polymorphism. In Etges, W. & Noor, M. (ed.) The Genetics of Premating Isolation. Kluwer.

Gamble, S., Lindholm, A., Endler, J.A. & Brooks, R. 2003. Environmental variation and the maintenance of polymorphism: The effect of ambient light spectrum on mating behaviour and sexual selection in guppies. Ecology Letters 6: 463-472.

Fox. S., Brooks, R., Lewis, M.J. & Johnson, C.N. 2002. Polymorphism, mate choice and sexual selection in the Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae) Australian Journal of Zoology 50: 125-134.

Kokko, H., Brooks, R., McNamara, J. & Houston, A. 2002. The sexual selection continuum. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. 269:1331-1340.

Brooks, R. 2002. Variation in mate choice within guppy populations: multiple ornaments, population divergence and the maintenance of polymorphism. Genetica. 116 (2-3): 343-358.

Brooks, R. & Endler, J.A. 2001. Female guppies agree to differ: phenotypic and genetic variation in mate choice behaviour and the consequences for sexual selection. Evolution 55: 1644-1655.

Brooks, R. & Kemp, D.J. 2001. Can older males deliver the good genes? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 308-313.

Brooks, R. & Endler, J.A. 2001. Direct and indirect selection and quantitative genetics of male traits in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Evolution 55: 1002-1015.

Jennions, M.D. & Brooks, R. 2001. A sense of history. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 113-115.

Brooks, R. 2000. Negative genetic correlation between male sexual attractiveness and survival. Nature 406: 67-70.

Brooks, R. & Couldridge, V. 1999. Multiple sexual ornaments coevolve with multiple mating preferences. The American Naturalist 154: 37-45 .

Brooks, R. & Jennions, M.D. 1999. The dark side of sexual selection, Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14: 336-337.

Brooks, R. 1999. Mate choice copying in guppies: females avoid the place where they saw courtship. Behaviour 136: 411-421.

Alexander, G.J. & Brooks, R. 1999. Circannual rhythms of appetite and ecdysis in the elapid snake Hemachatus haemachatus . Copiea 99: 146-152.

Brooks, R. & Caithness, N. 1999. Intersexual and intrasexual selection, sneak copulation and male ornamentation in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). South African Journal of Zoology 34: 48-52.

Brooks, R. 1998. The importance of mate copying and cultural inheritance of mating preferences. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13: 45-6.

Brooks, R. & Osberg, D.C. 1997. Biological classification. In Osberg, D. (ed) College of Science: Biology Skills pp 15 - 19 Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg.

Brooks, R. 1996. Melanin pigment as a visual signal amplifier in male guppies. Naturwissenschaften 83: 39-41.

Brooks, R. 1996. Copying and the repeatability of mate choice. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 39: 323-329.

Brooks, R. & Caithness, N. 1995. Does a males attractiveness to a female depend onher previous experience? South African Journal of Science 91: 156-158.

Brooks, R. & Caithness, N. 1995. Multiple cues for female choice in a feral guppy population? Animal Behaviour 50: 301-307 .

Brooks, R. & Caithness, N. 1995. Manipulating a seemingly non-preferred ornament reveals a role in female choice. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 261: 7-10.

Brooks, R. & Caithness, N. 1995. Female Guppies use orange as a mate choice cue: a manipulative test. South African Journal of Zoology 30: 200-210.

Brooks, R.C. & Owen-Smith, N. 1994. Plant defences against mammalian herbivores:Are juvenile Acacia more heavily defended than mature trees. Bothalia 24(2).