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List of works by Erik Postma

Bigger Is Fitter? Quantitative Genetic Decomposition of Selection Reveals an Adaptive Evolutionary Decline of Body Mass in a Wild Rodent Population

scientific article

Consistent cooperation in a cichlid fish is caused by maternal and developmental effects rather than heritable genetic variation.

scientific article published in July 2017

Evolutionary genetics: evolution of mate choice in the wild.

scientific article published in December 2006

Health and lifespan of Swiss men born in an alpine region in 1905–1907

scientific article published on 25 July 2022

Heritable spouse effects increase evolutionary potential of human reproductive timing.

scientific article published in April 2018

Humans as a model for understanding biological fundamentals.

scientific article published in December 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

Limited mass-independent individual variation in resting metabolic rate in a wild population of snow voles (Chionomys nivalis)

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Low-coverage reduced representation sequencing reveals subtle within-island genetic structure in Aldabra giant tortoises

scientific article published on 18 March 2022

NO SUPPORT FOR A GENETIC BASIS OF MANDIBLE CROSSING DIRECTION IN CROSSBILLS (LOXIA SPP)

scholarly article published in The Auk, January 2005

Pedigree-based inbreeding coefficient explains more variation in fitness than heterozygosity at 160 microsatellites in a wild bird population

scientific article published in March 2017

Selection on heritable phenotypic plasticity in a wild bird population

scientific article

The more you get, the more you give: Positive cascading effects shape the evolutionary potential of prenatal maternal investment

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Why breeding time has not responded to selection for earlier breeding in a songbird population.

scientific article published in November 2006

Why we should not dismiss a relationship between attractiveness and performance: a comment on Smoliga & Zavorsky (2015)

scientific article published on November 2016