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List of works by Ben C. Sheldon

A comparative study of sperm-egg interactions in birds

scientific article published on 01 July 1994

A comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the hornbills (Aves: Bucerotidae).

scientific article

A multievent approach to estimating pair fidelity and heterogeneity in state transitions

scientific article published on 04 October 2013

A new permutation technique to explore and control for spatial autocorrelation

scientific article published in 2015

Accounting for interspecific competition and age structure in demographic analyses of density dependence improves predictions of fluctuations in population size

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Adaptive maternal effects and rapid population differentiation

scientific article published in 2002

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in response to climate change in a wild bird population

scientific article

Adaptive plasticity in mate preference linked to differences in reproductive effort.

scientific article

Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Age-dependent genetic variance in a life-history trait in the mute swan

scientific article published in 2006

Age-specific reproduction in a long-lived species: the combined effects of senescence and individual quality

scientific article published in April 2008

An experimental test of the causes of small-scale phenotypic differentiation in a population of great tits

article

And the winner of the inaugural Sidnie Manton Award is…

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Animal behaviour: Wise fathers

scientific article published in April 2003

Antibody responses to avian influenza viruses in wild birds broaden with age.

scientific article published in December 2016

Are great tits (Parus major) inhabiting the vicinity of a pulp mill healthy? Impacts on physiology and breeding performance.

scientific article published on 2 April 2010

Association between DRD4 gene polymorphism and personality variation in great tits: a test across four wild populations

scientific article

Avian haematozoan parasites and their associations with mosquitoes across Southwest Pacific Islands.

scientific article published in October 2008

Basal metabolic rate and the rate of senescence in the great tit

scientific article published in 2011

Behavioural ecology: Love thy neighbour

scientific article published in August 2014

Biogeographical patterns of blood parasite lineage diversity in avian hosts from southern Melanesian islands

scholarly article by Farah Ishtiaq et al published 18 August 2009 in Journal of Biogeography

CLIMATIC AND TEMPORAL EFFECTS ON THE EXPRESSION OF SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS: GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENTS

article published in 2004

CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN TWO GREAT TIT (PARUS MAJOR) POPULATIONS

scientific article published on 18 March 2010

Calcium effects on life-history traits in a wild population of the great tit (Parus major): analysis of long-term data at several spatial scales

scientific article

Carry-over effects of the social environment on future divorce probability in a wild bird population

scientific article published in October 2015

Causes and consequences of individual variation in the extent of post-juvenile moult in the blue titCyanistes caeruleus(Passeriformes: Paridae)

Certainty of paternity and paternal effort in the collared flycatcher

scientific article published in 1997

Characterisation of the transcriptome of a wild great tit Parus major population by next generation sequencing

scientific article

Characterization and 454 pyrosequencing of major histocompatibility complex class I genes in the great tit reveal complexity in a passerine system

scientific article

Chronic malaria infections increase family inequalities and reduce parental fitness: experimental evidence from a wild bird population

scientific article published on 7 January 2010

Climatic and temporal effects on the expression of secondary sexual characters: genetic and environmental components

scientific article

Collective decision making and social interaction rules in mixed-species flocks of songbirds ⬇️

scientific article

Colour in a new light: a spectral perspective on the quantitative genetics of carotenoid colouration

article

Comparative micro-epidemiology of pathogenic avian influenza virus outbreaks in a wild bird population

scientific article published on 6 May 2019

Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds

scientific article

Confounded correlations: a reply to Lifjeld et al. and Wagner et al ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: the SPI-Birds data hub

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Consistent individual differences in the social phenotypes of wild great tits, Parus major

scientific article

Constraints in the evolution of sex ratio adjustment

scientific article published on 31 January 2002

Context-dependent effects of parental effort on malaria infection in a wild bird population, and their role in reproductive trade-offs.

scientific article published on 13 July 2010

Cooperative Breeders Adjust Offspring Sex Ratios to Produce Helpful Helpers

scientific article published on 09 September 2005

Correlates of the occurrence of inbreeding in a wild bird population

scientific article published in 2008

Correlations between ultraviolet coloration, overwinter survival and offspring sex ratio in the blue tit.

scientific article published on September 2003

Corrigendum to “A comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the hornbills (Aves: Bucerotidae)” [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 67 (2013) 468–483]

scholarly article by Juan-Carlos T. Gonzalez et al published September 2013 in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Counting conformity: evaluating the units of information in frequency-dependent social learning

Cue identification in phenology: A case study of the predictive performance of current statistical tools

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

DIVERGENT PATTERNS OF AGE-DEPENDENCE IN ORNAMENTAL AND REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN THE COLLARED FLYCATCHER

scientific article published on 11 March 2011

Debating sexual selection and mating strategies

scientific article published in Science

Debating sexual selection and mating strategies

scientific article published in May 2006

Density effects on life-history traits in a wild population of the great tit Parus major: analyses of long-term data with GIS techniques

scientific article

Differential allocation: tests, mechanisms and implications

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Dispersal as a means of inbreeding avoidance in a wild bird population

scientific article published in 2008

Dispersal in a patchy landscape reveals contrasting determinants of infection in a wild avian malaria system.

scientific article published on 22 November 2013

Diurnal variation in the production of vocal information about food supports a model of social adjustment in wild songbirds

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Ecological causes of multilevel covariance between size and first-year survival in a wild bird population

scientific article published on 17 July 2014

Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology.

scientific article

Ecology. The Seven Ages of Pan.

scientific article published in March 2010

Edge effects in the great tit: analyses of long-term data with GIS techniques

scientific article

Effects of neighbor familiarity on reproductive success in the great tit (Parus major)

scientific article published in 2011

Egg patterning is not a reliable indicator of intraspecific brood parasitism in the blue titCyanistes caeruleus

article by Simon Griffith et al published May 2009 in Journal of Avian Biology

Elevated reproductive effort increases blood parasitaemia and decreases immune function in birds: a meta-regression approach

scientific article published in 2009

Emergence of a novel avian pox disease in British tit species

scientific article published in 2012

Environmental and genetic variation in body condition and blood profile of great titParus majornestlings

Environmental sensitivity in relation to size and sex in birds: meta-regression analysis.

scientific article published in July 2009

Environmental stability and the evolution of cooperative breeding in hornbills

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2013)

Epidemiology of the emergent disease Paridae pox in an intensively studied wild bird population

scientific article

Evidence of a link between survival and pair fidelity across multiple tit populations

article

Evolution driven by differential dispersal within a wild bird population

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Evolution in a changing environment: a case study with great tit fledging mass

scientific article

Evolution. The benefits of allocating sex.

scientific article published in October 2000

Evolutionary biology: Rare bird of evolution

scientific article published in Nature

Evolutionary biology: parasite, know thyself

scientific article published in August 2008

Evolutionary response to selection on clutch size in a long-term study of the mute swan

scientific article published on 9 January 2006

Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome.

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Experimental Evidence that Social Relationships Determine Individual Foraging Behavior.

scientific article

Experimental analysis of sperm competition mechanisms in a wild bird population

scientific article

Experimental manipulation of avian social structure reveals segregation is carried over across contexts

scientific article

Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

scientific article

Explaining stasis: microevolutionary studies in natural populations.

scientific article

Explaining variance of avian malaria infection in the wild: the importance of host density, habitat, individual life-history and oxidative stress

scientific article

Fecundity selection on ornamental plumage colour differs between ages and sexes and varies over small spatial scales.

scientific article published on 17 May 2011

Fine-scale genetic structure in a wild bird population: the role of limited dispersal and environmentally based selection as causal factors

scientific article published on 29 April 2013

Fitness effects of endemic malaria infections in a wild bird population: the importance of ecological structure.

scientific article published on 22 March 2011

Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

GENDER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY IN NESTLING COLLARED FLYCATCHERS

scientific article published in 1998

Genetic basis of fitness differences in natural populations

scientific article published on March 2008

Genomic dissection of variation in clutch size and egg mass in a wild great tit (Parus major) population

scientific article published in August 2013

Goodbye and farewell to print

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Great tits growing old: selective disappearance and the partitioning of senescence to stages within the breeding cycle

scientific article published on 29 April 2009

Habitat quality, nestling diet, and provisioning behaviour in great tits Parus major

article by Teddy A. Wilkin et al published 25 February 2009 in Journal of Avian Biology

Heterogeneous selection on a heritable temperament trait in a variable environment

scientific article published on 25 June 2009

Heterozygosity is unrelated to adult fitness measures in a large, noninbred population of great tits (Parus major)

scientific article published on 03 June 2011

Highly variable recombinational landscape modulates efficacy of natural selection in birds

scientific article published on August 2014

How to deal with PCR contamination in molecular microbial ecology.

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Hybridization and adaptive mate choice in flycatchers

scientific article published in Nature

In vitro tests of natural allelic variation of innate immune genes (avian β-defensins) reveal functional differences in microbial inhibition.

scientific article published in December 2010

Inbreeding avoidance under different null models of random mating in the great tit.

scientific article

Inbreeding depression along a life-history continuum in the great tit

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Inbreeding: When Parents Transmit More Than Genes

article

Incubation behavior adjustments, driven by ambient temperature variation, improve synchrony between hatch dates and caterpillar peak in a wild bird population

scientific article

Indirectly connected: simple social differences can explain the causes and apparent consequences of complex social network positions.

scientific article published in November 2017

Individual and population-level impacts of an emerging poxvirus disease in a wild population of great tits

scientific article

Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major).

scientific article published on 17 September 2013

Individual variability and versatility in an eco-evolutionary model of avian migration

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Individual variation in rates of senescence: natal origin effects and disposable soma in a wild bird population.

scientific article published in November 2010

Individual variation in winter supplementary food consumption and its consequences for reproduction in wild birds

article

Individual-level personality influences social foraging and collective behaviour in wild birds ⬇️

scientific article published in August 2014

Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology

scientific article published on 07 September 2010

Infection dynamics of endemic malaria in a wild bird population: parasite species-dependent drivers of spatial and temporal variation in transmission rates.

scientific article published on 16 August 2011

Inferring social network structure in ecological systems from spatio-temporal data streams

scientific article

Inferring social structure from temporal data

article

Integrating candidate gene and quantitative genetic approaches to understand variation in timing of breeding in wild tit populations

scientific article

Interspecific patterns of genetic diversity in birds: correlations with extinction risk

scientific article published on 9 July 2008

Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds

scientific article published in March 2015

Investigating the effects of age-related spatial structuring on the transmission of a tick-borne virus in a colonially breeding host

scientific article published on 12 November 2017

It takes two: Heritable male effects on reproductive timing but not clutch size in a wild bird population

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Like a rolling stone: the dynamic world of animal ecology publishing

scientific article published in January 2017

Locus-specific protocol for nine different innate immune genes (antimicrobial peptides: β-defensins) across passerine bird species reveals within-species coding variation and a case of trans-species polymorphisms

scientific article (publication date: 15 February 2011)

Long-term familiarity promotes joining in neighbour nest defence

scientific article

Low but contrasting neutral genetic differentiation shaped by winter temperature in European great tits

article

Low variability and absence of phenotypic correlates of Clock gene variation in a great tit Parus major population

article

Male great tits assort by personality during the breeding season

scientific article

Mate replacement in experimentally widowed collared flycatchers ( Ficedula albicollis ): determinants and outcomes

scientific article published in 1999

Maternal dominance, maternal condition, and offspring sex ratio in ungulate mammals

scientific article published on 14 January 2004

Mhc supertypes confer both qualitative and quantitative resistance to avian malaria infections in a wild bird population

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

Mhc-linked survival and lifetime reproductive success in a wild population of great tits

scientific article published on 28 November 2012

Microsatellite 'evolution': directionality or bias?

scientific article published in December 1995

Microsatellite evolution--a reciprocal study of repeat lengths at homologous loci in cattle and sheep.

scientific article published on August 1997

Milk bottles revisited: social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus

article by Lucy M. Aplin et al published June 2013 in Animal Behaviour

Molecular epidemiology of malaria prevalence and parasitaemia in a wild bird population.

scientific article

Movement and conformity interact to establish local behavioural traditions in animal populations

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Multivariate selection and intersexual genetic constraints in a wild bird population

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

NATURAL SELECTION AND GENETIC VARIATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE REACTION NORMS IN A WILD BIRD POPULATION

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

NATURAL SELECTION AND GENETIC VARIATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE REACTION NORMS IN A WILD BIRD POPULATION

Natural selection and inheritance of breeding time and clutch size in the collared flycatcher.

scientific article published in February 2003

Neural ordinary differential equations for ecological and evolutionary time‐series analysis

scientific article published in 2021

New tools for sex identification and the study of sex allocation in birds

scientific article published in July 1997

No evidence for MHC class I-based disassortative mating in a wild population of great tits.

scientific article published on 23 February 2015

No evidence for avian malaria infection during the nestling phase in a passerine bird.

scientific article published in December 2006

Nonautosomal genetic variation in carotenoid coloration

scientific article published on 6 August 2014

Nonlethal predator effects on the turn-over of wild bird flocks

scientific article published on 16 September 2016

Ornithology: Under their wing

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-01-08

Overlapping community detection using Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization

scientific article published on 22 June 2011

Partitioning of genetic variation across the genome using multimarker methods in a wild bird population.

scientific article published on 13 July 2013

Paternal effort related to experimentally manipulated paternity of male collared flycatchers.

scientific article published in September 1998

Paternal genetic contribution to offspring condition predicted by size of male secondary sexual character

scientific article published in 1997

Pathways of information transmission among wild songbirds follow experimentally imposed changes in social foraging structure

scientific article published on June 2016

Personality and basal metabolic rate in a wild bird population

scientific article published in 2013

Personality shapes pair bonding in a wild bird social system

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Phenological asynchrony: a ticking time-bomb for seemingly stable populations?

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

Phenotypic correlates of Clock gene variation in a wild blue tit population: evidence for a role in seasonal timing of reproduction

scientific article

Phenotypic plasticity in the expression of sexually selected traits: neglected components of variation

scholarly article by Simon Griffith & Ben C. Sheldon published May 2001 in Animal Behaviour

Phenotypic selection on a heritable size trait revisited.

scientific article published in December 2001

Physiological Condition and Breeding Performance of the Great TIT

scientific article published in 2010

Pigments versus structure: examining the mechanism of age‐dependent change in a carotenoid‐based colour ⬇️

scientific article published on November 29, 2012

Population density, social behaviour and sex allocation

Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection.

scientific article published in March 2017

Predicting bird phenology from space: satellite-derived vegetation green-up signal uncovers spatial variation in phenological synchrony between birds and their environment

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Promiscuity, inbreeding and dispersal propensity in great tits

Promiscuity, paternity and personality in the great tit.

scientific article published on 30 November 2011

Quantitative Genetics of a Carotenoid-Based Color: Heritability and Persistent Natal Environmental Effects in the Great Tit ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Quantitative assessment of the importance of phenotypic plasticity in adaptation to climate change in wild bird populations

scientific article

Quantitative genetics of age at reproduction in wild swans: support for antagonistic pleiotropy models of senescence

scholarly article

Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait.

scientific article

Recent studies of avian sex ratios

Reduced costs of mixed-species pairings in flycatchers: by-product or female strategy?

article

Relating paternity to paternal care

scientific article

Repeatability and Method-Dependent Variation of Blood Parameters in Wild-Caught Great TitsParus major

Replicated analysis of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits in two wild great tit populations

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

Replicated high-density genetic maps of two great tit populations reveal fine-scale genomic departures from sex-equal recombination rates.

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Reply from H. Ellegren and B.C. Sheldon

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Response to Comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection".

scientific article

Response to Perrier and Charmantier: On the importance of time scales when studying adaptive evolution.

scientific article published on 4 April 2019

SEX-RATIO ADJUSTMENT WHEN RELATIVES INTERACT: A TEST OF CONSTRAINTS ON ADAPTATION

Scale and state dependence of the relationship between personality and dispersal in a great tit population

scientific article

Scale-dependent phenological synchrony between songbirds and their caterpillar food source

scientific article published on 5 May 2015

Seasonal variation in Plasmodium prevalence in a population of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus.

scientific article

Seasonality of carotenoid-based plumage coloration: modelling wavelength-specific change through spectral reconstruction

article

Selection for territory acquisition is modulated by social network structure in a wild songbird.

scientific article published on 6 February 2015

Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast-slow life-history continuum

scientific article published on 28 April 2008

Sequential Assessment and Decision-Making in Humans

article published in 1995

Severe inbreeding depression in collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis).

scientific article published in August 2002

Sex Ratios: Human Twins and Fraternal Effects

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Sex allocation: At the females' whim

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Sex chromosome evolution and speciation in Ficedula flycatchers.

scientific article published in January 2003

Sex differences in the persistence of natal environmental effects on life histories

scientific article published in December 2009

Sex-ratio adjustment when relatives interact: a test of constraints on adaptation

scientific article

Sexual selection resulting from extrapair paternity in collared flycatchers

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Sexually antagonistic genetic variation for fitness in red deer

scientific article published in June 2007

Similar patterns of age-specific reproduction in an island and mainland population of great tits Parus major

Sire coloration influences offspring survival under predation risk in the moorfrog

scientific article published in November 2003

Site-occupancy modelling as a novel framework for assessing test sensitivity and estimating wildlife disease prevalence from imperfect diagnostic tests

article

Social and spatial effects on genetic variation between foraging flocks in a wild bird population.

scientific article

Social carry-over effects underpin trans-seasonally linked structure in a wild bird population.

scientific article published on 13 September 2016

Social learning of acoustic anti-predator cues occurs between wild bird species

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Social network analysis of mixed-species flocks: exploring the structure and evolution of interspecific social behaviour

article

Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Song rate and fertility in the chaffinch

article by Ben C. Sheldon published April 1994 in Animal Behaviour

Spatial determinants of infection risk in a multi-species avian malaria system

article

Speciation, introgressive hybridization and nonlinear rate of molecular evolution in flycatchers.

scientific article published in March 2001

Stability of genetic variance and covariance for reproductive characters in the face of climate change in a wild bird population

scientific article

Stable multi-level social structure is maintained by habitat geometry in a wild bird population

Temporal differences in food abundance promote coexistence between two congeneric passerines

scientific article

Testing for effects of climate change on competitive relationships and coexistence between two bird species.

scientific article published in May 2015

Testing genetic models of mate choice evolution in the wild

scientific article

Testis size variation in the greenfinch Carduelis chloris  : relevance for some recent models of sexual selection

scientific article published in 1999

The Challenges of Integrating Oxidative Stress into Life-history Biology

The contribution of an avian top predator to selection in prey species

scientific article published on 5 August 2013

The design and cross-population application of a genome-wide SNP chip for the great tit Parus major.

scientific article published on 5 April 2012

The ecology and age structure of a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus outbreak in wild mute swans.

scientific article published on 20 February 2012

The effects of environmental heterogeneity on multivariate selection on reproductive traits in female great tits

scientific article published in July 2007

The environmental dependence of inbreeding depression in a wild bird population

scientific article

The epidemiology underlying age-related avian malaria infection in a long-lived host: the mute swanCygnus olor

scholarly article by Matt J. Wood et al published 30 April 2013 in Journal of Avian Biology

The evolution of labile traits in sex- and age-structured populations

scientific article published on March 2016

The forms and fitness cost of senescence: age-specific recapture, survival, reproduction, and reproductive value in a wild bird population

scientific article published on 22 November 2011

The influence of nonrandom extra-pair paternity on heritability estimates derived from wild pedigrees

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

The misuse of BLUP in ecology and evolution

scientific article published in January 2010

The role of social and ecological processes in structuring animal populations: a case study from automated tracking of wild birds

scientific article

The shifting phenological landscape: Within- and between-species variation in leaf emergence in a mixed-deciduous woodland.

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

To graze or gorge: consistency and flexibility of individual foraging tactics in tits.

scientific article

Trade-offs between life-history traits and a secondary sexual character in male collared flycatchers

scientific article published in Nature

Trading up: the fitness consequences of divorce in monogamous birds

scientific article

Trans-generational effects on ageing in a wild bird population

scientific article published on 13 January 2010

Transparency and open processes in Journal of Animal Ecology

scientific article published in January 2018

Tritrophic phenological match–mismatch in space and time

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

Ultraviolet colour variation influences blue tit sex ratios

scientific article published in Nature

Urban behavioural adaptation

scientific article

Using cross-classified multivariate mixed response models with application to life history traits in great tits (Parus major)

article

When environmental variation short-circuits natural selection

scientific article published in 2003

Wherever I may roam: social viscosity and kin affiliation in a wild population despite natal dispersal

scientific article published on April 2016

Who escapes detection? Quantifying the causes and consequences of sampling biases in a long-term field study

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others.

scientific article published in May 2017

Within-population variation in prevalence and lineage distribution of avian malaria in blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus.

scientific article published on August 2007

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