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List of works by Michael D. Jennions

14. Publication and Related Biases

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23. Role of Meta-analysis in Interpreting the Scientific Literature

24. Using Meta-analysis to Test Ecological and Evolutionary Theory

A farewell to arms: males with regenerated claws fight harder over resources

A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis

scientific article published in 2021

A sense of history

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A survey of the statistical power of research in behavioral ecology and animal behavior

scientific article published in 2003

Adaptive sex allocation in anticipation of changes in offspring mating opportunities.

scientific article

An experimental test for body size-dependent effects of male harassment and an elevated copulation rate on female lifetime fecundity and offspring performance

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

An experimental test of the role of male mating history on paternal effects in the livebearer fish Gambusia holbrooki

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

An experimental test to separate the effects of male age and mating history on female mate choice

scientific article published on 7 October 2020

Animal behaviour: coalition among male fiddler crabs

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Are females in good condition better able to cope with costly males?

scientific article published in 2018

Are sexually selected traits affected by a poor environment early in life?

scientific article

Artificial selection on male genitalia length alters female brain size.

scientific article published in November 2016

Artificial selection on male longevity influences age-dependent reproductive effort in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus

scientific article published on 10 August 2006

Behavioural ecology: Ways to raise tadpoles

scientific article published in April 2010

Causality and sex roles: prejudice against patterns? A reply to Ah-King ⬇️

scientific article published on September 11, 2012

Causes of cricket synchrony

scientific article published in November 1994

Coevolution of parental investment and sexually selected traits drives sex-role divergence

scientific article published on 18 August 2016

Combined effects of rearing and testing temperatures on sperm traits

scientific article published on 18 October 2020

Complex multivariate sexual selection on male acoustic signaling in a wild population of Teleogryllus commodus

scientific article published on 7 March 2006

Condition-dependent trade-offs between sexual traits, body condition and immunity: the effect of novel habitats

scientific article

Context-dependent male mate choice: the effects of competitor presence and competitor size

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Cooperative breeding in mammals

scientific article (publication date: March 1994)

Costs influence male mate choice in a freshwater fish.

scientific article

Debating sexual selection and mating strategies

scientific article published in May 2006

Direct reciprocity stabilizes simultaneous hermaphroditism at high mating rates: A model of sex allocation with egg trading.

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Dishonest signalling in a fiddler crab.

scientific article published in April 2000

Do female black field crickets Teleogryllus commodus benefit from polyandry?

scientific article published in July 2007

Do females preferentially associate with males given a better start in life?

scientific article

Do invasive species show higher phenotypic plasticity than native species and, if so, is it adaptive? A meta-analysis

scientific article

Do male secondary sexual characters signal ejaculate quality? A meta-analysis

scientific article published on 04 February 2013

Does male reproductive effort increase with age? Courtship in fiddler crabs.

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Does the environmental context of a signalling male influence his attractiveness?

Does the winner-loser effect determine male mating success?

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Eavesdropping in crabs: an agency for lady detection

scientific article

Effects of juvenile and adult diet on ageing and reproductive effort of male and female black field crickets,Teleogryllus commodus

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Elevated predation risk changes mating behaviour and courtship in a fiddler crab

article published in 1998

Establishing cryptic female choice in animals.

scientific article published on June 1998

Estimating genetic benefits of polyandry from experimental studies: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 5 May 2011

Even Weak Males Help Their Neighbours: Defence Coalitions in a Fiddler Crab

article by Jessica Bolton et al published 3 October 2011 in Ethology

Evidence for inbreeding depression in a species with limited opportunity for maternal effects

scientific article

Evidence of Experimental Bias in the Life Sciences: Why We Need Blind Data Recording

scientific article

Evidence that nonsignificant results are sometimes preferred: Reverse P-hacking or selective reporting?

scientific article published on 25 January 2019

Evolution of frequency-dependent mate choice: keeping up with fashion trends

scientific article published in May 2007

Experimental evidence for a seasonal shift in the strength of a female mating preference

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Experimental evidence for multivariate stabilizing sexual selection.

scientific article published in April 2005

Experimental evidence for sexual selection against inbred males

scientific article published on 14 December 2016

Experiments with robots explain synchronized courtship in fiddler crabs

scientific article published in January 2008

Facultative adjustment of the offspring sex ratio and male attractiveness: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Fees could damage public data archives

scientific article published in Nature

Female choice in birds and the cost of long tails

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Female choice over short and long distances: neighbour effects

scientific article published in 2011

Female mate choice as a condition-dependent life-history trait

scientific article published on 21 April 2005

Female promiscuity and genetic incompatibility ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1997

Females prefer to associate with males with longer intromittent organs in mosquitofish

scientific article

Fighting success and attractiveness as predictors of male mating success in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus: the effectiveness of no-choice tests

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Fine-scale genital morphology affects male ejaculation success: an experimental test

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Fitness consequences of artificial selection on relative male genital size

scientific article

Gender differences in individual variation in academic grades fail to fit expected patterns for STEM

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Geographical variation in male genitalia in Brachyrhaphis episcopi (Poeciliidae): is it sexually or naturally selected?

scientific article published in 2002

Graphic illustration of a potential problem: a commentary on Morrissey (2016).

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

H-index: age and sex make it unreliable

scientific article published in Nature

Hiding behaviour in fiddler crabs: how long should prey hide in response to a potential predator?

article

High-quality male field crickets invest heavily in sexual display but die young

scientific article

How do weaponless male fiddler crabs avoid aggression?

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How important are direct fitness benefits of sexual selection?

scientific article (publication date: October 2001)

How male insects score

scientific article published in 2002

How much variance can be explained by ecologists and evolutionary biologists?

scientific article published on August 2002

How to quantify (the response to) sexual selection on traits

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

Hunting and predation in a fiddler crab

Immune Challenge and Pre- and Post-copulatory Female Choice in the Cricket Teleogryllus commodus

In the shadows: wildlife behaviour in tree plantations

scientific article published in 2022

Inbreeding and advertisement calling in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus: laboratory and field experiments.

scientific article

Inbreeding and courtship calling in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus

scientific article published on 4 November 2010

Inbreeding and measures of immune function in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus

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Inbreeding depression does not increase after exposure to a stressful environment: a test using compensatory growth

scientific article

Increased behavioural lateralization in parasitized coral reef fish

scientific article published in 2013

Interspecific assistance: fiddler crabs help heterospecific neighbours in territory defence

scientific article

Intraspecific Sexual Size and Shape Dimorphism in an Australian Freshwater Fish Differs with Respect to a Biogeographic Barrier and Latitude

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Investigating the ‘dear enemy’ phenomenon in the territory defence of the fiddler crab, Uca mjoebergi

article published in 2010

It takes two to tango

scholarly article

Keeping up appearances: male fiddler crabs wave faster in a crowd.

scientific article

Know thine enemy’s neighbor: neighbor size affects floaters’ choice of whom to fight

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Life-history phenotypes in a live-bearing fish Brachyrhaphis episcopi living under different predator regimes: seasonal effects?

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Life-history phenotypes in populations of Brachyrhaphis episcopi (Poeciliidae) with different predator communities.

scientific article published on June 2002

Limited plasticity in the phenotypic variance-covariance matrix for male advertisement calls in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus

scientific article

Local gamete competition explains sex allocation and fertilization strategies in the sea.

scientific article

Male attractiveness covaries with fighting ability but not with prior fight outcome in house crickets

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Male body size and condition affects sperm number and production rates in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki

scientific article

Male fiddler crabs defend multiple burrows to attract additional females

scientific article published in 2011

Male fiddler crabs prefer conspecific females during simultaneous, but not sequential, mate choice

Male mating history and female fecundity in the Lepidoptera: do male virgins make better partners?

scholarly article by Luis M. Torres-Vila & Michael D. Jennions published 23 November 2004 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Males can evolve lower resistance to sexually transmitted infections to infect their mates and thereby increase their own fitness

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Mate choice and the operational sex ratio: an experimental test with robotic crabs

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Mate choice for genetic quality when environments vary: suggestions for empirical progress.

scientific article

Mate choice in the Neotropical frog, Hyla ebraccata: sexual selection, mate recognition and signal selection

Mate guarding and frequent copulation in birds: A meta-analysis of their relationship to paternity and male phenotype

scientific article published on 7 October 2016

Mate recognition in a freshwater fish: geographical distance, genetic differentiation, and variation in female preference for local over foreign males.

scientific article published in May 2004

Mate-sampling costs and sexy sons.

scientific article published on 16 November 2014

Maternal effects on offspring size and number in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki

scientific article

Maternal-by-environment but not genotype-by-environment interactions in a fish without parental care

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Meta-analysis and sexual selection: past studies and future possibilities

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Meta-analysis can “fail”: reply to Kotiaho and Tomkins

scientific article published in 2004

Methods for testing publication bias in ecological and evolutionary meta‐analyses

scientific article published on 10 November 2021

Multimodal communication in courting fiddler crabs reveals male performance capacities.

scientific article

No evidence for inbreeding avoidance through postcopulatory mechanisms in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus

scientific article published in November 2004

No intra-locus sexual conflict over reproductive fitness or ageing in field crickets

scientific article

Non-independent mate choice in a fiddler crab: a case of stimulus enhancement

scientific article published in 2011

Not all sex ratios are equal: the Fisher condition, parental care and sexual selection

scientific article published in September 2017

Parental investment, sexual selection and sex ratios.

scientific article published on 06 May 2008

Penis size interacts with body shape and height to influence male attractiveness.

scientific article

Pillar building in the fiddler crab Uca beebei : evidence for a condition-dependent ornament

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Plan S will hit some academic societies hard

scientific article published in Nature

Polyandry and fecundity in the Lepidoptera: can methodological and conceptual approaches bias outcomes?

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Polyandry occurs because females initially trade sex for protection

Post-mating sexual selection increases lifetime fitness of polyandrous females in the wild

scientific article published in November 2006

Predictors of male insemination success in the mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki).

scientific article

Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension

scientific article

Publication bias in ecology and evolution: an empirical assessment using the 'trim and fill' method

scientific article

Quantifying the costs of pre‐ and postcopulatory traits for males: Evidence that costs of ejaculation are minor relative to mating effort

scientific article published in 2021

Reconciling strong stabilizing selection with the maintenance of genetic variation in a natural population of black field crickets (Teleogryllus commodus).

scientific article

Relationships fade with time: a meta-analysis of temporal trends in publication in ecology and evolution

scientific article published in January 2002

Robotic crabs reveal that female fiddler crabs are sensitive to changes in male display rate.

scientific article published in January 2018

SEXUAL CONFLICT AND CRYPTIC FEMALE CHOICE IN THE BLACK FIELD CRICKET, TELEOGRYLLUS COMMODUS

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SEXUAL TENSION: DOES CONFLICT LEAD TO COSTLY MATE CHOICE?1

Safe sex: male-female coalitions and pre-copulatory mate-guarding in a fiddler crab

scientific article

Secondary compounds from exotic tree plantations change female mating preferences in the palmate newt (Lissotriton helveticus).

scientific article

Sex allocation, juvenile mortality and the costs imposed by offspring on parents and siblings.

scientific article published on 30 January 2015

Sex ratios

scientific article

Sex-specific maternal effects in a viviparous fish

scientific article

Sexual Selection: The Weevils of Inbreeding ⬇️

scientific article published on August 24, 2010

Sexual conflict and cryptic female choice in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus.

scientific article published in April 2006

Sexual conflict: the battle of the sexes reversed

scientific article published in February 2008

Sexual selection and sperm quantity: meta-analyses of strategic ejaculation.

scientific article

Sexual selection on male body size, genital length and heterozygosity: Consistency across habitats and social settings.

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Sexual selection, body mass and molecular evolution interact to predict diversification in birds

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Sexual selection, phenotypic plasticity and female reproductive output

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Sexual signaling and immune function in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus

scientific article

Sexually dimorphic immune response in the harem polygynous Wellington tree wetaHemideina crassidens

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Sexually selected traits and adult survival: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on March 2001

Shifts in Reproductive Investment in Response to Competitors Lower Male Reproductive Success

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Sinister strategies succeed at the cricket World Cup

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Sounds different: inbreeding depression in sexually selected traits in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus

scientific article published in May 2007

Sperm competition in frogs: testis size and a 'sterile male' experiment on Chiromantis xerampelina (Rhacophoridae)

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Stability and invasibility of coral communities Reply from M.D. Jennions

scientific article published on 01 May 1997

Staibility in coral communities: a natural experiment ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1997

Stress in the city: meta-analysis indicates no overall evidence for stress in urban vertebrates

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Symmetry and sexual selection ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

Synchronized courtship in fiddler crabs

scientific article published in Nature

Synchronous waving in two species of fiddler crabs

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Testing and adjusting for publication bias

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The Economics of Egg Trading: Mating Rate, Sperm Competition and Positive Frequency-Dependence

scientific article published on 18 March 2014

The Effect of an Experimental Brood Reduction on Male Desertion in the Panamanian Blue Acara Cichlid Aequidens coeruleopunctatus

The battle of the sexes? Territory acquisition and defence in male and female fiddler crabs

The cost of reliable signaling: experimental evidence for predictable variation among males in a cost-benefit trade-off between sexually selected traits.

scientific article

The dark side of sexual selection

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The effect of claw size and wave rate on female choice in a fiddler crab

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The effect of competitor presence and relative competitive ability on male mate choice

article published in 2011

The effect of leg band symmetry on female–male association in zebra finches ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

The effect of partial brood loss on male desertion in a cichlid fish: an experimental test

scientific article (publication date: 2001)

The effects of neighbor familiarity and size on cooperative defense of fiddler crab territories

scientific article published in 2011

The evolution of mate choice and mating biases

scientific article

The evolution of sex roles in mate searching

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

The extent and consequences of p-hacking in science

scientific article

The h index and career assessment by numbers

scientific article (publication date: April 2006)

The indirect benefits of mating with attractive males outweigh the direct costs

scientific article

The many costs of sex ⬇️

scientific article published on October 21, 2011

The mismeasurement of sexual selection

scientific article published on 18 January 2010

The opportunity to be misled in studies of sexual selection.

scientific article

The relationship between sexual selection and sexual conflict

scientific article

The role of body size and fighting experience in predicting contest behaviour in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus

scientific article published in 2010

The strategic reference gene: an organismal theory of inclusive fitness

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Tibial coloration, fluctuating asymmetry and female choice behaviour in the damselfly Platycypha caligata ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: June 1998)

Troubleshooting public data archiving: suggestions to increase participation

scientific article published in January 2014

Twenty-five new polymorphic microsatellites for the eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki (Actinopterygii : Poeciliidae), an invasive species in Australia

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Unifying and Testing Models of Sexual Selection

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Unifying cornerstones of sexual selection: operational sex ratio, Bateman gradient and the scope for competitive investment

scientific article published on 28 August 2012

Variation in mate choice and mating preferences: a review of causes and consequences.

scientific article

What are the consequences of being left-clawed in a predominantly right-clawed fiddler crab?

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What factors contribute to an ownership advantage?

scientific article published on April 2008

What happens to offspring when parents are inbred, old or had a poor start in life? Evidence for sex-specific parental effects

scientific article published on 07 June 2018

What is genetic quality?

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When and why do territorial coalitions occur? Experimental evidence from a fiddler crab

scientific article

Why do females mate multiply? A review of the genetic benefits

scientific article

Why does inbreeding reduce male paternity? Effects on sexually selected traits

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Why pair? Evidence of aggregative mating in a socially monogamous marine fish (Siganus doliatus, Siganidae).

scientific article

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