List of works - Alastair J Wilson

A Localized Negative Genetic Correlation Constrains Microevolution of Coat Color in Wild Sheep

scientific article published in Science

A cost of cryptic female choice in the yellow dung fly.

scientific article

A framework for power and sensitivity analyses for quantitative genetic studies of natural populations, and case studies in Soay sheep (Ovis aries).

scientific article published in November 2007

Accounting for female space sharing in St. Kilda Soay sheep (Ovis aries) results in little change in heritability estimates.

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Additive genetic variance of quantitative traits in natural and pond-bred populations of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid Tropheus moorii.

scientific article

Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women

scientific article published on 4 July 2008

Ageing in a variable habitat: environmental stress affects senescence in parasite resistance in St Kilda Soay sheep

scientific article published on 08 July 2009

Altruistic bet-hedging and the evolution of cooperation in a Kalahari bird

scientific article published in 2021

An ecologist's guide to the animal model

scientific article published in January 2010

Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour.

scientific article

Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies

scientific article

Behavioural mediators of genetic life-history trade-offs: a test of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis in field crickets.

scientific article published in October 2017

Blood thicker than water: kinship, disease prevalence and group size drive divergent patterns of infection risk in a social mammal.

scientific article published in July 2016

Breeding experience and the heritability of female mate choice in collared flycatchers

scientific article

Breeding racehorses: what price good genes?

scientific article published on April 2008

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

scientific article published on 18 March 2010

Choice consequences: salinity preferences and hatchling survival in the mangrove rivulus (Kryptolebias marmoratus)

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Competition as a source of constraint on life history evolution in natural populations

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Constrained evolution of the sex comb in Drosophila simulans.

scientific article

Cryptic evolution: does environmental deterioration have a genetic basis?

scientific article

Desperate Prawns: Drivers of Behavioural Innovation Vary across Social Contexts in Rock Pool Crustaceans.

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Development of G: a test in an amphibious fish

article

Environmental coupling of selection and heritability limits evolution

scientific article

Epidemiological, evolutionary, and coevolutionary implications of context-dependent parasitism

scientific article published on April 2011

Evidence for Selection-by-Environment but Not Genotype-by-Environment Interactions for Fitness-Related Traits in a Wild Mammal Population.

scientific article

Evidence for a Genetic Basis of Aging in Two Wild Vertebrate Populations

article

Evolutionary genetics of personality in the Trinidadian guppy I: maternal and additive genetic effects across ontogeny

scientific article published on 17 May 2018

Evolutionary genetics of personality in the Trinidadian guppy II: sexual dimorphism and genotype-by-sex interactions

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

Exploring plasticity in the wild: laying date-temperature reaction norms in the common gull Larus canus.

scientific article published in March 2008

Exploring the genetics of aging in a wild passerine bird.

scientific article published on 6 August 2007

Fisher's sons' effect in sexual selection: absent, intermittent or just low experimental power?

scientific article

Genetic and environmental variation in condition, cutaneous immunity, and haematocrit in house wrens.

scientific article

Genotype-by-sex-by-diet interactions for nutritional preference, dietary consumption, and lipid deposition in a field cricket

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

Habituation and individual variation in the endocrine stress response in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

scientific article published on 16 October 2018

Heritabilities and co-variation among cognitive traits in red junglefowl

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

How integrated are behavioral and endocrine stress response traits? A repeated measures approach to testing the stress-coping style model

scientific article

Indirect genetic effects and the evolution of aggression in a vertebrate system

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

Indirect genetic effects: a key component of the genetic architecture of behaviour

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Indirect genetics effects and evolutionary constraint: an analysis of social dominance in red deer, Cervus elaphus.

scientific article published on 3 February 2011

Integrating personality research and animal contest theory: aggressiveness in the green swordtail Xiphophorus helleri

scientific article

Little evidence for intralocus sexual conflict over the optimal intake of nutrients for life span and reproduction in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus.

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

Marker-assisted estimation of quantitative genetic parameters in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Maternal genetic effects set the potential for evolution in a free-living vertebrate population

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Natural selection on individual variation in tolerance of gastrointestinal nematode infection

scientific article (publication date: July 2014)

No evidence for warming climate theory of coat colour change in Soay sheep: a comment on Maloney et al.

scientific article published on 7 April 2010

Ontogenetic patterns in heritable variation for body size: using random regression models in a wild ungulate population.

scientific article published on 4 October 2005

Ontogeny of additive and maternal genetic effects: lessons from domestic mammals.

scientific article published on 29 November 2005

Ontogeny of the morphology-performance axis in an amphibious fish (Kryptolebias marmoratus )

scientific article published on 01 December 2017

Opposite environmental and genetic influences on body size in North American Drosophila pseudoobscura

scientific article

Partial sex linkage and linkage disequilibrium on the guppy sex chromosome

scientific article published in 2022

Phenotypic and genetic integration of personality and growth under competition in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni

scientific article

Population genetic structure of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus from northwest Europe on large and small spatial scales

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Quantitative genetics and sex-specific selection on sexually dimorphic traits in bighorn sheep

article

Quantitative genetics of gastrointestinal strongyle burden and associated body condition in feral horses

article

Quantitative genetics of immunity and life history under different photoperiods

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Racehorses are getting faster

scientific article published in June 2015

Rock pool fish use a combination of colour change and substrate choice to improve camouflage

article published in 2018

SELECTION ON MOTHERS AND OFFSPRING: WHOSE PHENOTYPE IS IT AND DOES IT MATTER?

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Selective and genetic constraints on the evolution of body size in a stream-dwelling salmonid fish.

scientific article published in July 2003

Sex-specific genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism: a systematic review of cross-sex genetic correlations.

scientific article published on 30 July 2009

Sex-specific plasticity and genotype × sex interactions for age and size of maturity in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni.

scientific article published on 20 December 2015

Sexual conflict and interacting phenotypes: a quantitative genetic analysis of fecundity and copula duration in Drosophila melanogaster.

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

Sexual selection and population divergence I: The influence of socially flexible cuticular hydrocarbon expression in male field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus).

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Sexual selection and population divergence II. Divergence in different sexual traits and signal modalities in field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus).

scientific article

Solutions for Archiving Data in Long-Term Studies: A Reply to Whitlock et al.

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Telomere length is highly heritable and independent of growth rate manipulated by temperature in field crickets

scientific article published on 31 May 2020

Testing for genetic trade-offs between early- and late-life reproduction in a wild red deer population.

scientific article

Testing the stability of behavioural coping style across stress contexts in the Trinidadian guppy

scientific article published on 24 September 2017

The danger of applying the breeder's equation in observational studies of natural populations.

scientific article published on 9 September 2010

The evolution of flexible parenting.

scientific article

The evolutionary ecology of individual phenotypic plasticity in wild populations

scientific article

The impact of environmental heterogeneity on genetic architecture in a wild population of Soay sheep.

scientific article published on 09 February 2009

The misuse of BLUP in ecology and evolution

scientific article published in January 2010

The potential costs of accounting for genotypic errors in molecular parentage analyses.

scientific article published in November 2005

The prediction of adaptive evolution: empirical application of the secondary theorem of selection and comparison to the breeder's equation.

scientific article published on 10 April 2012

The role of genetic constraints and social environment in explaining female extra-pair mating

scientific article published on 11 January 2020

The role of indirect genetic effects in the evolution of interacting reproductive behaviors in the burying beetle,

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Timing is everything: flexible phenology and shifting selection in a colonial seabird.

scientific article

Trading offspring size for number in a variable environment: selection on reproductive investment in female Soay sheep.

scientific article published in March 2009

What is individual quality? An evolutionary perspective.

scientific article published on 10 November 2009

Why h2 does not always equal V A/V P?

scientific article published on 07 February 2008

pedantics: an r package for pedigree-based genetic simulation and pedigree manipulation, characterization and viewing.

scientific article published on 16 December 2009

List of works by Alastair J Wilson

A Localized Negative Genetic Correlation Constrains Microevolution of Coat Color in Wild Sheep

A cost of cryptic female choice in the yellow dung fly.

A framework for power and sensitivity analyses for quantitative genetic studies of natural populations, and case studies in Soay sheep (Ovis aries).

Accounting for female space sharing in St. Kilda Soay sheep (Ovis aries) results in little change in heritability estimates.

Additive genetic variance of quantitative traits in natural and pond-bred populations of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid Tropheus moorii.

Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women

Ageing in a variable habitat: environmental stress affects senescence in parasite resistance in St Kilda Soay sheep

Altruistic bet-hedging and the evolution of cooperation in a Kalahari bird

An ecologist's guide to the animal model

Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour.

Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies

Behavioural mediators of genetic life-history trade-offs: a test of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis in field crickets.

Blood thicker than water: kinship, disease prevalence and group size drive divergent patterns of infection risk in a social mammal.

Breeding experience and the heritability of female mate choice in collared flycatchers

Breeding racehorses: what price good genes?

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

Choice consequences: salinity preferences and hatchling survival in the mangrove rivulus (Kryptolebias marmoratus)

Competition as a source of constraint on life history evolution in natural populations

Constrained evolution of the sex comb in Drosophila simulans.

Cryptic evolution: does environmental deterioration have a genetic basis?

Desperate Prawns: Drivers of Behavioural Innovation Vary across Social Contexts in Rock Pool Crustaceans.

Development of G: a test in an amphibious fish

Environmental coupling of selection and heritability limits evolution

Epidemiological, evolutionary, and coevolutionary implications of context-dependent parasitism

Evidence for Selection-by-Environment but Not Genotype-by-Environment Interactions for Fitness-Related Traits in a Wild Mammal Population.

Evidence for a Genetic Basis of Aging in Two Wild Vertebrate Populations

Evolutionary genetics of personality in the Trinidadian guppy I: maternal and additive genetic effects across ontogeny

Evolutionary genetics of personality in the Trinidadian guppy II: sexual dimorphism and genotype-by-sex interactions

Exploring plasticity in the wild: laying date-temperature reaction norms in the common gull Larus canus.

Exploring the genetics of aging in a wild passerine bird.

Fisher's sons' effect in sexual selection: absent, intermittent or just low experimental power?

Genetic and environmental variation in condition, cutaneous immunity, and haematocrit in house wrens.

Genotype-by-sex-by-diet interactions for nutritional preference, dietary consumption, and lipid deposition in a field cricket

Habituation and individual variation in the endocrine stress response in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

Heritabilities and co-variation among cognitive traits in red junglefowl

How integrated are behavioral and endocrine stress response traits? A repeated measures approach to testing the stress-coping style model

Indirect genetic effects and the evolution of aggression in a vertebrate system

Indirect genetic effects: a key component of the genetic architecture of behaviour

Indirect genetics effects and evolutionary constraint: an analysis of social dominance in red deer, Cervus elaphus.

Integrating personality research and animal contest theory: aggressiveness in the green swordtail Xiphophorus helleri

Little evidence for intralocus sexual conflict over the optimal intake of nutrients for life span and reproduction in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus.

Marker-assisted estimation of quantitative genetic parameters in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

Maternal genetic effects set the potential for evolution in a free-living vertebrate population

Natural selection on individual variation in tolerance of gastrointestinal nematode infection

No evidence for warming climate theory of coat colour change in Soay sheep: a comment on Maloney et al.

Ontogenetic patterns in heritable variation for body size: using random regression models in a wild ungulate population.

Ontogeny of additive and maternal genetic effects: lessons from domestic mammals.

Ontogeny of the morphology-performance axis in an amphibious fish (Kryptolebias marmoratus )

Opposite environmental and genetic influences on body size in North American Drosophila pseudoobscura

Partial sex linkage and linkage disequilibrium on the guppy sex chromosome

Phenotypic and genetic integration of personality and growth under competition in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni

Population genetic structure of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus from northwest Europe on large and small spatial scales

Quantitative genetics and sex-specific selection on sexually dimorphic traits in bighorn sheep

Quantitative genetics of gastrointestinal strongyle burden and associated body condition in feral horses

Quantitative genetics of immunity and life history under different photoperiods

Racehorses are getting faster

Rock pool fish use a combination of colour change and substrate choice to improve camouflage

SELECTION ON MOTHERS AND OFFSPRING: WHOSE PHENOTYPE IS IT AND DOES IT MATTER?

Selective and genetic constraints on the evolution of body size in a stream-dwelling salmonid fish.

Sex-specific genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism: a systematic review of cross-sex genetic correlations.

Sex-specific plasticity and genotype × sex interactions for age and size of maturity in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni.

Sexual conflict and interacting phenotypes: a quantitative genetic analysis of fecundity and copula duration in Drosophila melanogaster.

Sexual selection and population divergence I: The influence of socially flexible cuticular hydrocarbon expression in male field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus).

Sexual selection and population divergence II. Divergence in different sexual traits and signal modalities in field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus).

Solutions for Archiving Data in Long-Term Studies: A Reply to Whitlock et al.

Telomere length is highly heritable and independent of growth rate manipulated by temperature in field crickets

Testing for genetic trade-offs between early- and late-life reproduction in a wild red deer population.

Testing the stability of behavioural coping style across stress contexts in the Trinidadian guppy

The danger of applying the breeder's equation in observational studies of natural populations.

The evolution of flexible parenting.

The evolutionary ecology of individual phenotypic plasticity in wild populations

The impact of environmental heterogeneity on genetic architecture in a wild population of Soay sheep.

The misuse of BLUP in ecology and evolution

The potential costs of accounting for genotypic errors in molecular parentage analyses.

The prediction of adaptive evolution: empirical application of the secondary theorem of selection and comparison to the breeder's equation.

The role of genetic constraints and social environment in explaining female extra-pair mating

The role of indirect genetic effects in the evolution of interacting reproductive behaviors in the burying beetle,

Timing is everything: flexible phenology and shifting selection in a colonial seabird.

Trading offspring size for number in a variable environment: selection on reproductive investment in female Soay sheep.