School of BEES - Brooks Lab Research Group Publications

PUBLISHED WORK FROM THE BROOKS LABORATORY AT UNSW

| Brooks Lab members' names in bold |

2005

Miller, L.K. & Brooks, R. in press. The effects of genotype, age and social environment on male ornamentation, mating behaviour and attractiveness. Evolution (accepted 22 August 2005).

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 (accepted 23 September 2005).

Head, M.L. & Brooks, R. in press. Sexual coercion and the opportunity for sexual selection in guppies. Animal Behaviour (accepted 23 November 2004).

Bonduriansky,R. & Brassil,C.E. Reproductive ageing and sexual selection on male body size in a wild population of antler flies (Protopiophila litigata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18, 1332-1340 (2005).

Bonduriansky,R. & Rowe,L. Intralocus sexual conflict and the genetic architecture of sexually dimorphic traits in Prochyliza xanthostoma (Diptera: Piophilidae). Evolution 59, 1965-1975 (2005).

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.

2004

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.

Marshall, D. J., Steinberg, P. D. & Evans, J. P. 2004. The early sperm gets the good egg: mating order effects in marine free spawners. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 271, 1585-1589.

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

Hunt, J., & Brooks, R. 2004. The mother-in-law effect. 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. 2003. Extreme polymorphism of a Y-linked sexually selected trait. Heredity, 92(3) 156 -162.

2003

Gamble, S, Lindholm, AK, Endler, JA; 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.

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.

Krutzen, 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; 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.

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.

2002

Lindholm, A., F. Breden. 2002. Sex chromosomes and sexual selection in poeciliid fishes. The American Naturalist 160: S214-S224.

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.

2001

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

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