2012

Refereed Articles in Journals

R. Bijlsma & V. Loeschcke (2012): Genetic erosion impedes adaptive responses to stressful environments. Evol. Applic. 5, 117-129. pdf

V.S. Brauer, M. Stomp & J. Huisman (2012): The nutrient-load hypothesis: Patterns of resource limitation and community structure driven by competition for nutrients and light. Am. Nat. 179, 721-740.

Marie Curie Speciation Network (incl. R.F. Castillo & F.J. Weissing) (2012): What do we need to know about speciation? Trends Ecol. Evol. 27, 27-39. pdf

R.F. Castillo Cajas, O.M. Selz, E.P. Ripmeester, O. Seehausen & M. Maan (2012): Species-specific relationships between water transparency and male coloration within and between two closely related Lake Victoria cichlid species. Int. J. Evol. Biol., in press. pdf

J.G. de Boer, B. Kuijper, G.E. Heimpel & L.W. Beukeboom (2012): Sex determination meltdown upon biological control introduction of the parasitoid Cotesia rubecula? Evol. Applic. 5, 444-454. pdf, supplement, figures

A. Duarte, I. Pen, L. Keller & F.J. Weissing (2012): Evolution of self-organized division of labor in a response threshold model. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 66, 947-957. pdf, supplement

A. Duarte, E. Scholtens & F.J. Weissing (2012): Implications of behavioral architecture for the evolution of self-organized division of labor. PLoS Comput. Biol. 8, e1002430. pdf

A.B.F. Ivens, D.J.C. Kronauer, I. Pen, F.J. Weissing & J.J. Boomsma (2012): Ants farm subterranean aphids mostly in clone groups: An example of prudent husbandry for carbohydrates and proteins? BMC Evol. Biol. 12, 106. pdf, supplement

A.B.F. Ivens, D.J.C. Kronauer, I. Pen, F.J. Weissing & J.J. Boomsma (2012): Reproduction and dispersal in an ant-associated root aphid community. Mol. Ecol. 21, 4257-4269. pdf, supplement

M. de Jager, F.J. Weissing, P.M.J. Herman, B.A. Nolet & J. van de Koppel (2012): Response to comment on "Lévy walks evolve through interaction between movement and environmental complexity" Science 335, 918. pdf

B. Kuijper, I. Pen & F.J. Weissing (2012): A guide to sexual selection theory. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 43, 287–311. pdf, supplement

Á.T. Kovács, J. van Gestel & O.P. Kuipers (2012): The protective layer of biofilm: a repellent function for a new class of amphiphilic proteins. Mol. Microbiol. 85, 8-11. pdf

N. Osinga, I. Pen, H.A. Udo de Haes & P.M. Brakefield (2012): Evidence for a progressively earlier pupping season of the common seal (Phoca vitulina) in the Wadden Sea. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. UK, in press. pdf

S.C. Patrick, J.R. Chapman, H.L. Dugdale, J.L Quinn & B.C. Sheldon (2012): Promiscuity, paternity trade-offs and personality in the great tit. Proc. R. Soc. B 279, 1724–1730.

D.A.P. Reid, H. Hildenbrandt, J.T. Padding & C.K. Hemelrijk (2012): Fluid dynamics of moving fish in a two-dimensional multiparticle collision dynamics model. Physical Review E 85, 021901. pdf

M.R. Robinson, G.S. van Doorn, L. Gustafsson & A. Qvarnström (2012): Environment-dependent selection on mate choice in a natural population of birds. Ecol. Lett. 15, 611-618. pdf

L. Ross, D.M. Shuker, B.B. Normark & I. Pen (2012): The role of endosymbionts in the evolution of haploid-male genetic systems in scale insects (Coccoidea). Ecol. Evol. 2, 1071–1081, doi:10.1002/ece3.222. pdf

Y.W. Sin, H.L. Dugdale, C. Newman, D.W. Macdonald & T. Burke (2012): Evolution of MHC class I genes in the European badger (Meles meles). Ecol. Evol. 2, 1644–1662.

Y.W. Sin, H.L. Dugdale, C. Newman, D.W. Macdonald & T. Burke (2012): MHC class II genes in the European badger (Meles meles): Characterization, patterns of variation and transcription analysis. Immunogenet. 64, 313–327.

T. Thünken, D. Meuthen, T.C.M. Bakker & S.A. Baldauf (2012): Sex-specific trade-off between mating preferences for genetic compatibility and body size in a cichlid fish with mutual mate choice. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 279, 2959-2964, doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0333.

P. van den Berg, L. Molleman & F.J. Weissing (2012): The social costs of punishment. Behav. Brain Sci. 35, 42-43. pdf

R.E. van Dijk, T. Székely, J. Komdeur, Á. Pogány, T.W. Fawcett & F.J. Weissing (2012): Individual variation and the resolution of conflict over parental care in penduline tits. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 279, 1927-1931. pdf, supplement pdf

G.S. van Doorn & M. Taborsky (2012): The evolution of generalized reciprocity on social interaction networks. Evolution 66, 651-664. pdf, supplement

J. van Gestel, M.A. Nowak, & C.E. Tarnita (2012): The evolution of cell-to-cell communication in a sporulating bacterium. PLoS Comp. Biol. 8, e1002818, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002818.

M. Wolf & F.J. Weissing (2012): Animal personalities: consequences for ecology and evolution. Trends Ecol. Evol. 27, 452-461. pdf

C. Zhang, J. Zhang, F.J. Weissing, M. Perc, G. Xie & L. Wang (2012): Different reactions to adverse neighborhoods in games of cooperation. PLoS One 7, e35183. pdf

Books & Book Chapters

S.R.X. Dall, S.D. Gosling, G.D.A. Brown, N.J. Dingemanse, I. Erev, M. Kocher, L. Schulz, P.M. Todd, F.J. Weissing & M. Wolf (2012): Variation in decision making. In: P. Hammerstein & J.R. Stevens (eds) Evolution and the mechanimsms of decision making, Strüngmann Forum Report, vol. 11, pp. 243-272. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. pdf

Doctoral Dissertations

A.L.F. Duarte (2012): Evolution of self-organized division of labor in social insects. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. pdf

A.B.F. Ivens (2012): The evolutionary ecology of mutualism. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. pdf