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List of works by Stephen H Montgomery

A modified method to analyse cell proliferation using EdU labelling in large insect brains

scientific article published in 2023

ASPM and mammalian brain evolution: a case study in the difficulty in making macroevolutionary inferences about gene-phenotype associations.

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Are brain weights estimated from scaling relationships suitable for comparative studies of animal cognition?

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Brain composition in Heliconius butterflies, posteclosion growth and experience-dependent neuropil plasticity.

scientific article

Brain evolution and development: adaptation, allometry and constraint

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Co-evolution of cerebral and cerebellar expansion in cetaceans

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

Divergence in brain composition during the early stages of ecological specialization in Heliconius butterflies

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Evidence of a Conserved Molecular Response to Selection for Increased Brain Size in Primates

scientific article published on March 2017

Evolution of ASPM is associated with both increases and decreases in brain size in primates

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Evolutionary dynamics of genome size and content during the adaptive radiation of Heliconiini butterflies

scientific article published in 2023

Genetics of Cerebellar and Neocortical Expansion in Anthropoid Primates: A Comparative Approach

scientific article published on 06 July 2017

Hominin Brain Evolution: The Only Way Is Up?

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Independent stratum formation on the avian sex chromosomes reveals inter-chromosomal gene conversion and predominance of purifying selection on the W chromosome

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Inferring regulatory change from gene expression: the confounding effects of tissue scaling.

scientific article published on 26 August 2016

Microcephaly genes evolved adaptively throughout the evolution of eutherian mammals

scientific article (publication date: 5 June 2014)

No evidence of social learning in a socially roosting butterfly in an associative learning task

scientific article published in 2023

Phylogeny and adaptive evolution of the brain-development gene microcephalin (MCPH1) in cetaceans

scientific article (publication date: 14 April 2011)

Plasticity and genetic effects contribute to different axes of neural divergence in a community of mimetic Heliconius butterflies

scientific article published in 2023

Positive selection on NIN, a gene involved in neurogenesis, and primate brain evolution

scientific article published on September 27, 2012

Proportional versus relative size as metrics in human brain evolution

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Rapid expansion and visual specialisation of learning and memory centres in the brains of Heliconiini butterflies

scientific article published in 2023

SWAMP: Sliding Window Alignment Masker for PAML.

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Sexual selection drives evolution and rapid turnover of male gene expression

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The human frontal lobes: not relatively large but still disproportionately important? A commentary on Barton and Venditti

scientific article published on 6 September 2013

True site fidelity in pollen‐feeding butterflies

scientific article published on 26 November 2021