Publications

Recent publications of some of the Principal Investigators in the group are listed below. You can also find these publications on the University of St Andrews research portal.

A high-quality reference genome and comparative genomics of the widely farmed banded cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus) identifies selective breeding targets
Zhang, S., Duffield, K. R., Foquet, B., Ramirez, J. L., Sadd, B. M., Sakaluk, S. K., Hunt, J. & Bailey, N. W., 16 Mar 2025, In: Ecology and Evolution. 15, 3, 12 p., e71134.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A history of studies of reproductive isolation between Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis
Leigh, S. & Ritchie, M. G., 1 Jan 2025, In: Fly. 19, 1, 22 p., 2439111.
Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

A model of optimal digestive strategy in infrequently-feeding snakes
Wood, M. E. & Ruxton, G. D., 15 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Evolutionary Ecology. Online First, 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A reinvestigation of cognitive styles in sticklebacks: decision success varies with behavioral type
Jones, N. A. R., Gaffney, K., Gardella, G., Rowe, A., Spence-Jones, H. C., Munson, A., Houslay, T. M. & Webster, M. M., 1 Jan 2025, In: Behavioral Ecology. 36, 1, 11 p., arae097.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Animal culture: conservation in a changing world
Brakes, P., Aplin, L., Carroll, E. L., Greggor, A. L., Whiten, A. & Garland, E. C., 1 May 2025, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 308, 1925, p. 1-15 15 p., 20240127.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Bayesian networks for network inference in biology
Hammond, J. & Smith, V. A., 7 May 2025, In: Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 22, 226, p. 1-10 10 p., 20240893.
Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Concerted conservation actions to support chimpanzee cultures
Wessling, E. G., Whiten, A., Soiret, S., Schofield, K., Samuni, L., Rutz, C., Redmond, I., Pintea, L., Lanjouw, A., Koops, K., Kamgang, S., Kalan, A., Ikemeh, R., Humle, T., Hobaiter, C., Frisch-Nwakanma, H., Freymann, E., Doumbe, O., Brakes, P. & Abwe, E. & 1 others, Sanz, C., 1 May 2025, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 380, 1925, 20240143.
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Confirmed vocal activity of Mediterranean monk seals in the Inner Ionian Sea Archipelago, Greece
Amlin, A., Rendell, L. E., Pierantonio, N., Carmen Andrés-Hervías , C., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Hastie, G. D. & Gonzalvo, J., Apr 2025, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 157, 4, p. 3204–3213 10 p.
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Culture and conservation in baleen whales
Garland, E. C., Corkeron, P., Noad, M. J., Abrahms, B., Allen, J. A., Constantine, R., Rendell, L., Sousa-Lima, R. S., Stafford, K. M. & Carroll, E. L., 1 May 2025, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 380, 1925, p. 1-11 11 p., 20240133.
Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth
Davidson, S. C., Cagnacci, F., Newman, P., Dettki, H., Urbano, F., Desmet, P., Bajona, L., Bryant, E., Carneiro, A. P. B., Dias, M. P., Fujioka, E., Gambin, D., Hoenner, X., Hunter, C., Kato, A., Kot, C. Y., Kranstauber, B., Lam, C. H., Lepage, D. & Naik, H. & 6 others, Pye, J. D., Sequeira, A. M. M., Tsontos, V. M., van Loon, E., Vo, D. & Rutz, C., Feb 2025, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 9, 2, p. 204-213 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

Exploring the importance of stochasticity to hybrid equilibria in a discrete signaling game
Chisausky, J., Zollman, K. & Ruxton, G. D., Feb 2025, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 38, 2, p. 157-166
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Facultative parthenogenesis
Smith, E. B. W. & Shuker, D. M., 24 Mar 2025, In: Current Biology. 35, 6, p. R204-R206
Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

Hamilton's rule predicts sibling cannibalism in a wild population of insects
Abbs, M. M., Kennedy, J. R., Drago Rosa, A. & Shuker, D. M., 12 May 2025, In: Animal Behaviour. 224, 123196.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Humpback whale song complexity and evolution on a North-western Pacific breeding ground: Okinawa, Japan
Marwood, E. M., Eichenberger, F., Kobayashi, N., Okabe, H., Ozawa, S., Rendell, L. E. & Garland, E. C., Feb 2025, In: Royal Society Open Science. 12, 2, 15 p., 241388.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Integrating cultural dimensions in sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) conservation: threats, challenges and solutions
Eguiguren, A., Avila, I., Mesnick, S., Cantor, M., Hersh, T., Pérez-Puig, H., Rosero, P., Rendell, L., Whitehead, H., Rojas, C. & Alava, J. J., 1 May 2025, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 380, 1925, p. 1-13 13 p., 20240142.
Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Kin competition drives the evolution of earlier metamorphosis
Dong, B. & Gardner, A., Jan 2025, In: Ecology and Evolution. 15, 1, 6 p., e70806.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping
Scott, T., Wild, G. & Gardner, A., 16 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Evolution. Advance Article, 11 p.
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Mixed-species fish shoals: any port in a storm?
Webster, M. M., Jones, N., Shah, A. & Ward, A., 19 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fish and Fisheries. Early View, p. 1-13 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Non-visual crypsis: an updated review of current understanding
Day-Dell’Olio, I., Neirink, S., McKenna, R. K. & Ruxton, G. D., 22 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Evolutionary Ecology. Online first
Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

On the biological basis of beauty
Mendelson, T. C., Renoult, J. P., Rosenthal, G. G. & Shuker, D. M., 10 Apr 2025, In: Biological Reviews. Early View, 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Patterns of antibiotic resistance in urinary tract infections before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda and Tanzania
Silago, V., Keenan, K., Mushi, M. F., Kansiime, C., Asiimwe, B., Sunday, B., Bazira, J., Sandeman, A., Sabiiti, W., Seni, J., Holden, M. T. G., Mshana, S. E. & behalf of the HATUA and CARE Consortia, Apr 2025, In: JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 7, 2, p. 1-4 4 p., dlaf038.
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Patterns of paternity: insights into mating competition and gene flow in a recovering population of humpback whales
Eichenberger, F., Garrigue, C., Steele, D., Bonneville, C. D., Rendell, L. E. & Garland, E. C., 8 Jan 2025, In: Royal Society Open Science. 12, 1, 20 p., 241424.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Previous reproductive success informs nest-building decisions
Alexander, E. J., Edwards, S. C., Chapman, E. G. & Healy, S. D., 1 Mar 2025, In: Behavioral Ecology. 36, 2, 10 p., araf009.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Sexual selection, genomic evolution and population fitness in Drosophila pseudoobscura
Leigh, S., Thorpe, P. J., Snook, R. R. & Ritchie, M. G., Apr 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 292, 2044, p. 1-12 12 p., 20242744.
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Spatiotemporal variation in size-dependent growth rates in small isolated populations of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)
Mittell, E. A., Leblanc, C. A., Kristjánsson, B. K., Ferguson, M. M., Räsänen, K. & Morrissey, M. B., Jan 2025, In: Royal Society Open Science. 12, 1, p. 1-17 17 p., 241802.
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The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour
Twyman, K. Z. & Gardner, A., 7 May 2025, In: Evolution.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals
Whiten, A. & Rutz, C., 1 May 2025, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 380, 1925, 20240140.
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Tracking individual animals can reveal the mechanisms of species loss
Yanco, S. W., Rutz, C., Abrahms, B., Cooper, N. W., Marra, P. P., Mueller, T., Weeks, B. C., Wikelski, M. & Oliver, R. Y., Jan 2025, In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 40, 1, p. 47-56
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Whale song shows language-like statistical structure
Arnon, I., Kirby, S., Allen, J. A., Garrigue, C., Carroll, E. L. & Garland, E. C., 7 Feb 2025, In: Science. 387, 6734, p. 649 - 653 5 p.
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Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds
Allen, J., Garland, E. C., Arnon, I. & Kirby, S., 6 Feb 2025, The Conversation.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationArticle

A broader cultural view is necessary to study the evolution of sexual orientation
Savolainen, V., Bailey, N. W., Diamond, L., Swift-Gallant, A., Gavrilets, S., Raymond, M. & Verweij, K. J. H., 8 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

A geometric approach to the evolution of altruism
Gardner, A., 7 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Theoretical Biology. 576, 4 p., 111653.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A mathematical framework for evo-devo dynamics
Gonzalez Forero, M., Feb 2024, In: Theoretical Population Biology. 155, p. 24-50 27 p.
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A note on the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test and tied observations
Neuhäuser, M. & Ruxton, G. D., 21 Aug 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 8, 6 p., e0309074.
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A pan-cetacean MHC amplicon sequencing panel developed and evaluated in combination with genome assemblies
Heimeier, D., Garland, E. C., Eichenberger, F., Garrigue, C., Vella, A., Baker, C. S. & Carroll, E. L., 23 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Molecular Ecology Resources. Early View, 19 p.
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