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List of works by Rebecca Kilner

A direct physiological trade-off between personal and social immunity

scientific article published on 30 January 2013

A gene associated with social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

A gene for social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides?

article

A limit on the extent to which increased egg size can compensate for a poor postnatal environment revealed experimentally in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides

scientific article

A sustained change in the supply of parental care causes adaptive evolution of offspring morphology

scientific article published in Nature Communications

A weapons-testes trade-off in males is amplified in female traits

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

A window on the past: male ornamental plumage reveals the quality of their early-life environment

scientific article published on 13 February 2013

Adaptation to a novel family environment involves both apparent and cryptic phenotypic changes.

scientific article published in September 2017

Adaptive evolution of synchronous egg-hatching in compensation for the loss of parental care

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Age-specific reproductive investment in female burying beetles: independent effects of state and risk of death

article by Sheena C. Cotter et al published 23 December 2010 in Functional Ecology

An evolutionary switch from sibling rivalry to sibling cooperation, caused by a sustained loss of parental care

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Aposematism in the burying beetle? Dual function of anal fluid in parental care and chemical defense

scientific article published in 2017

Begging the question: are offspring solicitation behaviours signals of need? ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Behaviorally Induced Camouflage: A New Mechanism of Avian Egg Protection.

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Behavioural ecology: Learn to beat an identity cheat

scientific article published in January 2010

Brood parasitic cowbird nestlings use host young to procure resources

scientific article

Chapter 6 Information Warfare and Parent–Offspring Conflict

scientific article published in 2008

Coevolution, communication, and host chick mimicry in parasitic finches: who mimics whom?

article

Conflict within species determines the value of a mutualism between species

article

Conspicuous, ultraviolet-rich mouth colours in begging chicks.

scientific article

Cooperative interactions within the family enhance the capacity for evolutionary change in body size.

scientific article

Cuckoos versus hosts in insects and birds: adaptations, counter-adaptations and outcomes

scientific article

Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict offspring desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

scientific article published in 2009

Development and application of 14 microsatellite markers in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides reveals population genetic differentiation at local spatial scales

scientific article

Early-life effects on body size in each sex interact to determine reproductive success in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Egg speckling patterns do not advertise offspring quality or influence male provisioning in great tits

scientific article

Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race through host rejection of brood parasitic young

scientific article

Experimental evolution of a more restrained clutch size when filial cannibalism is prevented in burying beetles <i>Nicrophorus vespilloides</i>

scientific article published on 15 April 2022

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Difference in plumage color used in species recognition between incipient species is linked to a single amino acid substitution in the melanocortin-1 receptor

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Sequential sympatric speciation across trophic levels

Female burying beetles benefit from male desertion: sexual conflict and counter-adaptation over parental investment

scientific article

Fitness costs associated with building and maintaining the burying beetle's carrion nest

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Foraging for carotenoids: do colorful male hihi target carotenoid-rich foods in the wild?

scientific article

Friend or foe: inter-specific interactions and conflicts of interest within the family.

scientific article

From micro- to macroevolution: brood parasitism as a driver of phenotypic diversity in birds

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Host life-history strategies and the evolution of chick-killing by brood parasitic offspring

scientific article published in 2007

Indole: An evolutionarily conserved influencer of behavior across kingdoms.

scientific article published on 23 December 2016

Interspecific Interactions and the Scope for Parent-Offspring Conflict: High Mite Density Temporarily Changes the Trade-Off between Offspring Size and Number in the Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides.

scientific article

Interspecific interactions change the outcome of sexual conflict over prehatching parental investment in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Interspecific interactions explain variation in the duration of paternal care in the burying beetle

scientific article published in November 2015

Multimodal mimicry of hosts in a radiation of parasitic finches

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Negotiations within the family over the supply of parental care.

scientific article published in January 2007

Niche construction through a Goldilocks principle maximizes fitness for a nest-sharing brood parasite

scientific article published in 2022

No evidence of a cleaning mutualism between burying beetles and their phoretic mites.

scientific article

Parent-offspring conflict and coadaptation

scientific article published in March 2010

Parental care and sibling competition independently increase phenotypic variation among burying beetle siblings

article

Parental care masks a density-dependent shift from cooperation to competition among burying beetle larvae

scientific article published on 21 March 2015

Parental effects alter the adaptive value of an adult behavioural trait

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

Parental effects and flight behaviour in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides

scientific article

Parent–offspring conflict

scientific article published on 9 August 2012

Pattern recognition algorithm reveals how birds evolve individual egg pattern signatures

scientific article

Prenatal environmental effects match offspring begging to parental provisioning

scientific article published on 6 May 2009

Primary and secondary sex ratio manipulation by zebra finches ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1998

Privatization of a breeding resource by the burying beetle /Nicrophorus vespilloides/ is associated with shifts in bacterial communities

Rapid local adaptation linked with phenotypic plasticity

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

SOCIALLY ACQUIRED HOST-SPECIFIC MIMICRY AND THE EVOLUTION OF HOST RACES IN HORSFIELD'S BRONZE-CUCKOOCHALCITES BASALIS

scientific article (publication date: July 2008)

Sense and sensitivity: responsiveness to offspring signals varies with the parents' potential to breed again

scientific article published on 26 January 2011

Sexual division of antibacterial resource defence in breeding burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides

scientific article published on 16 July 2009

Social immunity of the family: parental contributions to a public good modulated by brood size

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Strategies for managing rival bacterial communities: Lessons from burying beetles

scientific article

Superior stimulation of female fecundity by subordinate males provides a mechanism for telegony

scientific article published on 17 March 2018

Temperature stress induces mites to help their carrion beetle hosts by eliminating rival blowflies

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

The early-life environment and individual plasticity in life-history traits

scientific article published on 30 December 2018

Using Experimental Evolution to Study Adaptations for Life within the Family

scientific article published on 13 February 2015

Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos

scientific article published on 22 August 2011

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