David Fisher

Research output

Research output per year 2013 2019 2024

• 45 Article
• 1 Chapter
• 1 Review article
• 1 Other contribution

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Indirect genetic effects should make group size more evolvable than expected

  Fisher, D. N., Apr 2024, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 37, 4, p. 464-470 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • genetic effect 100%
  • group size 86%
  • genetic variance 32%
  • social group 12%
  • social class 11%

• A simpler way to organize society: response to a risky stimulus is related to the spatial distribution of the individuals within a spider colonial web

  Resende, L. P. A., Fisher, D., Luz, I. O. L. & Japyassú, H. F., 20 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Insect Behavior. 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Anelosimus eximius 100%
  • spider 64%
  • social class 60%
  • Araneae 49%
  • spatial distribution 43%
• 2023

  Dolphin social phenotypes vary in response to food availability but not the North Atlantic Oscillation index

  Fisher, D. & Cheney, B., 11 Oct 2023, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 290, 2008

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • North Atlantic Oscillation 100%
  • Dolphins 90%
  • individual variation 77%
  • dolphins 72%
  • food availability 72%

• The eyes have it: The response of European Herring Gulls Larus argentatus to human eye-gaze

  Fisher, D. & Lamond, L. M., 15 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Bird Study.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Larus argentatus 100%
  • predator 61%
  • flight 60%
  • eyes 56%
  • Laridae 26%

• When do we start caring about insect welfare?

  Klobučar, T. & Fisher, D., 1 Feb 2023, In: Neotropical Entomology. 52, 1, p. 5-10 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

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  • insects 100%
  • animal welfare 65%
  • entomophagy 53%
  • farming systems 52%
  • deforestation 38%
  11 Citations (Scopus)

  2 Downloads (Pure)

• Direct and indirect phenotypic effects on sociability indicate potential to evolve

  Fisher, D., Jan 2023, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36, 1, p. 209-220 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • genetic effect 100%
  • phenotype 37%
  • sexual conflict 32%
  • Blaptica dubia 26%
  • gene 26%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)
• 2022

  Social associations in lactating dairy cows housed in a robotic milking system

  Marumo, J. L., Fisher, D. N., Lusseau, D., Mackie, M., Speakman, J. R. & Hambly, C., Apr 2022, In: Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 249, 8 p., 105589.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Robotics 100%
  • milking 99%
  • Milk 89%
  • dairy cows 80%
  • cows 67%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Social Selection and the Evolution of Maladaptation

  McGlothlin, J. W. & Fisher, D. N., 1 Jan 2022, In: Journal of Heredity. 113, 1, p. 61-68 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Population Dynamics 100%
  • Genetic Selection 72%
  • Genetic Models 31%
  • Direction compound 20%
  • Costs and Cost Analysis 17%
  5 Citations (Scopus)
• 2021

  Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions

  Fisher, D. N., Kilgour, R. J., Siracusa, E. R., Foote, J. R., Hobson, E. A., Montiglio, P-O., Saltz, J. B., Wey, T. W. & Wice, E. W., 1 Dec 2021, In: Biological Reviews. 96, 6, p. 2661-2693 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Interpersonal Relations 100%
  • social behavior 93%
  • Environment 53%
  • Ecology 31%
  • Social Behavior 22%
  33 Citations (Scopus)

  13 Downloads (Pure)

• Social selection is density dependent but makes little contribution to total selection in New Zealand giraffe weevils

  Fisher, D., LeGrice, R. J. & Painting, C. J., 9 Jun 2021, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288, 1952, 8 p., 20210696.

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  • Weevils 100%
  • Giraffes 93%
  • Giraffa camelopardalis 74%
  • Body Size 59%
  • New Zealand 53%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  5 Downloads (Pure)

• Episodic correlations in behavioural lateralization differ between a poison frog and its mimic

  Anderson, H. M., Fisher, D. N., McEwen, B. L., Yeager, J., Pruitt, J. N. & Barnett, J. B., 1 Apr 2021, In: Animal Behaviour. 174, p. 207-215 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • poison 100%
  • frog 87%
  • frogs 68%
  • social behavior 57%
  • Ameerega 16%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Multilayer network analysis: new opportunities and challenges for studying animal social systems

  Hasenjager, M. J., Fisher, D. & Silk, M. J., 1 Feb 2021, In: Current Zoology. 67, 1, p. 45-48 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • disease transmission 100%
  • social behavior 85%
  • animals 36%
  3 Downloads (Pure)

• Using multilayer network analysis to explore the temporal dynamics of collective behavior

  Fisher, D. N. & Pinter-Wollman, N., Feb 2021, In: Current Zoology. 67, 1, p. 71-80 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • group behavior 100%
  • social networks 69%
  • social behavior 52%
  • social structure 14%
  • Araneae 12%
  1 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  Orb-weaving spiders show a correlated syndrome of morphology and web structure in the wild

  Fisher, D. N., Pruitt, J. N. & Yeager, J., 1 Oct 2020, In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 131, 2, p. 449-463 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Araneidae 100%
  • spider 91%
  • phenotype 57%
  • Araneae 34%
  • organism 21%

• The performance of permutations and exponential random graph models when analyzing animal networks

  Evans, J. C., Fisher, D. N. & Silk, M. J., 12 Sept 2020, In: Behavioral Ecology. 31, 5, p. 1266-1276 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • graphs 100%
  • social networks 70%
  • animal 61%
  • social network 39%
  • animals 38%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Territory acquisition mediates the influence of predators and climate on juvenile red squirrel survival

  Hendrix, J. G., Fisher, D. N., Martinig, A. R., Boutin, S., Dantzer, B., Lane, J. E. & McAdam, A. G., Jun 2020, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 89, 6, p. 1408-1418 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • squirrels 100%
  • predator 71%
  • climate 65%
  • predators 61%
  • winter 36%
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Assessing the repeatability, robustness to disturbance, and parent–offspring colony resemblance of collective behavior

  Fisher, D. N., Lichtenstein, J. L. L., Costa‐Pereira, R., Yeager, J. & Pruitt, J. N., Apr 2020, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33, 4, p. 410-421 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • group behavior 100%
  • repeatability 84%
  • phenotype 74%
  • disturbance 55%
  • aggression 28%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Insights from the study of complex systems for the ecology and evolution of animal populations

  Fisher, D. N. & Pruitt, J. N., Feb 2020, In: Current Zoology. 66, 1, p. 1-14 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • ecology 100%
  • animals 56%
  • uncertainty 33%
  • population dynamics 30%
  • ecologists 20%
  8 Downloads (Pure)

• Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance

  Anderson, H. M., Little, A. G., Fisher, D., McEwen, B. M., Culbert, B. M., Balshine, S. & Pruitt, J. N., 2020, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 223, 14, 8 p., jeb217075.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • social impact 100%
  • group size 87%
  • disturbance 48%
  • perturbation 41%
  • Neolamprologus pulcher 39%
  5 Citations (Scopus)
• 2019

  Collective aggressiveness limits colony persistence in high- but not low-elevation sites at Amazonian social spiders

  Lichtenstein, J. L. L., Fisher, D. N., McEwen, B. L., Nondorf, D. T., Calvache, E., Schmitz, C., Elässer, J. & Pruitt, J. N., Dec 2019, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32, 12, p. 1362-1367 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • aggression 100%
  • spider 97%
  • Araneae 74%
  • persistence 68%
  • Anelosimus eximius 60%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Collective behaviour is not robust to disturbance, yet parent and offspring colonies resemble each other in social spiders

  Fisher, D. N., Lichtenstein, J. L. L., Costa-Pereira, R., Yeager, J. & Pruitt, J. N., 8 Sept 2019, 31 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

  • group behavior 100%
  • Araneae 74%
  • aggression 55%
  • phenotype 53%
  • Anelosimus eximius 37%

• Dynamic networks of fighting and mating in a wild cricket population

  Fisher, D. N., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R. & Tregenza, T., Sept 2019, In: Animal Behaviour. 155, p. 179-188 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • cricket 100%
  • fighting 84%
  • Orthoptera 69%
  • mating behavior 53%
  • mating success 49%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  7 Downloads (Pure)

• Egg discrimination is mediated by individual differences in queen olfactory responsiveness and boldness

  Wright, C. M., McEwen, B. L., Fisher, D. N., Lichtenstein, J. L. L., Antoun, A., Tibbetts, E. A. & Pruitt, J. N., Sept 2019, In: Behavioral Ecology. 30, 5, p. 1306-1313 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • queen insects 100%
  • egg 89%
  • eggs 55%
  • egg rejection 33%
  • nest 31%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Foundress number, but not queen size or boldness, predicts colony life-history in wild paper wasps

  Wright, C. M., Fisher, D. N., Nerone, W. V., Lichtenstein, J. L. L., Tibbetts, E. A. & Pruitt, J. N., Sept 2019, In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 128, 1, p. 20-29 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • paper wasps 100%
  • wasp 96%
  • queen insects 73%
  • life history 66%
  • life history trait 33%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Call-to-Action: A Global Consortium for Tropical Cyclone Ecology

  Pruitt, J. N., Little, A. G., Majumdar, S. J., Schoener, T. W. & Fisher, D. N., Jul 2019, In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 34, 7, p. 588-590 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • hurricanes 100%
  • tropical cyclone 75%
  • cyclone 71%
  • ecology 57%
  • ecological impact 40%
  27 Citations (Scopus)

• Older males attract more females but get fewer matings in a wild field cricket

  Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Hopwood, P., Fisher, D., Skicko, I., Tucker, R., Woodcock, K., Slate, J., Walling, C. & Tregenza, T., Jul 2019, In: Animal Behaviour. 153, p. 1-14 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • cricket 100%
  • Orthoptera 69%
  • wild population 21%
  • prediction 11%
  • testing 6%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  3 Downloads (Pure)

• Social effects of territorial neighbours on the timing of spring breeding in North American red squirrels

  Fisher, D. N., Wilson, A. J., Boutin, S., Dantzer, B., Lane, J. E., Coltman, D. W., Gorrell, J. C. & McAdam, A. G., Jun 2019, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32, 6, p. 559-571 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • squirrels 100%
  • breeding 82%
  • genetic effect 68%
  • population density 44%
  • phenotype 38%
  16 Citations (Scopus)

• Opposite responses to selection and where to find them

  Fisher, D. N. & Pruitt, J. N., May 2019, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32, 5, p. 505-518 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • genetic covariance 100%
  • animal breeding 86%
  • quantitative genetics 84%
  • genetic models 82%
  • plant breeding 72%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Indirect effects on fitness between individuals that have never met via an extended phenotype

  Fisher, D. N., Haines, J. A., Boutin, S., Dantzer, B., Lane, J. E., Coltman, D. W. & McAdam, A. G., Apr 2019, In: Ecology Letters. 22, 4, p. 697-706 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • phenotype 100%
  • fitness 90%
  • squirrels 83%
  • caching 67%
  • Tamiasciurus hudsonicus 35%
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Slower senescence in a wild insect population in years with a more female-biased sex ratio

  Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Boonekamp, J. J., Fisher, D., Hopwood, P. & Tregenza, T., Apr 2019, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286, 1900, 20190286.

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  • senescence 100%
  • sex ratio 98%
  • Sex Ratio 90%
  • Insecta 83%
  • insect 74%
  16 Citations (Scopus)

  3 Downloads (Pure)

• Comparing individual and population measures of senescence across 10 years in a wild insect population

  Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Boonekamp, J. J., Liu, X. P., Skicko, I., Pedersen, S. H., Fisher, D. N., Hopwood, P. & Tregenza, T., Feb 2019, In: Evolution. 73, 2, p. 293-302 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • senescence 100%
  • Insecta 83%
  • insect 74%
  • insects 49%
  • video cameras 34%
  24 Citations (Scopus)

  7 Downloads (Pure)

• Indirect genetic effects clarify how traits can evolve even when fitness does not

  Fisher, D. N. & McAdam, A., Feb 2019, In: Evolution Letters. 3, 1, p. 4-14 11 p.

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  • genetic effect 100%
  • Genetic Selection 89%
  • fitness 68%
  • natural selection 64%
  • social environment 57%
  25 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)

• Testing the effect of early‐life reproductive effort on age‐related decline in a wild insect

  Rodríguez‐Muñoz, R., Boonekamp, J. J., Liu, X. P., Skicko, I., Fisher, D. N., Hopwood, P. & Tregenza, T., Feb 2019, In: Evolution. 73, 2, p. 317-328 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • reproductive effort 100%
  • senescence 81%
  • Invertebrates 73%
  • Insecta 67%
  • Reproduction 62%
  31 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)

• Population differences in aggression are shaped by tropical cyclone-induced selection

  Little, A. G., Fisher, D. N., Schoener, T. W. & Pruitt, J. N., 2019, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3, p. 1294-1297 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • hurricanes 100%
  • aggression 92%
  • tropical cyclone 75%
  • swans 49%
  • phenotype 39%
  12 Citations (Scopus)
• 2018

  A brief introduction to mixed effects modelling and multi-model inference in ecology

  Harrison, X. A., Donaldson, L., Correa-Cano, M. E., Evans, J., Fisher, D. N., Goodwin, C. E. D., Robinson, B. S., Hodgson, D. J. & Inger, R., 23 May 2018, In: PeerJ. 6, p. 1-32 32 p., e4794.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Biological Models 100%
  • Ecology 99%
  • Biological Property 72%
  • Information Theory 55%
  • ecology 54%
  1218 Citations (Scopus)

  5 Downloads (Pure)

• Lifespan and age, but not residual reproductive value or condition, are related to behaviour in wild field crickets

  Fisher, D. N., David, M., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R. & Tregenza, T., May 2018, In: Ethology. 124, 5, p. 338-346 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • cricket 100%
  • Orthoptera 69%
  • personality 56%
  • shelter 36%
  • Gryllus campestris 29%
  11 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)

• Complex dynamics and the development of behavioural individuality

  Fisher, D. N., Brachmann, M. & Burant, J. B., Apr 2018, In: Animal Behaviour. 138, p. e1-6 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • individual variation 100%
  • genetic variation 96%
  • chaotic dynamics 88%
  • experimental design 82%
  • testing 31%
  13 Citations (Scopus)
• 2017

  Social traits, social networks and evolutionary biology

  Fisher, D. N. & McAdam, A. G., Dec 2017, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 30, 12, p. 2088-2103 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • evolutionary biology 100%
  • social networks 99%
  • social network 88%
  • phenotype 82%
  • social environment 47%
  37 Citations (Scopus)

• A description of the gross pathology of drowning and other causes of mortality in seabirds

  Simpson, V. R. & Fisher, D. N., 12 Oct 2017, In: BMC Veterinary Research. 13, 302.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Drowning 100%
  • Birds 79%
  • polyisobutylene 46%
  • Pathology 46%
  • Air Sacs 38%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  12 Downloads (Pure)

• Understanding animal social structure: exponential random graph models in animal behaviour research

  Silk, M. J. & Fisher, D. N., Oct 2017, In: Animal Behaviour. 132, p. 137-146 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • animal behavior 100%
  • social structure 93%
  • graphs 80%
  • animal 49%
  • animals 30%
  40 Citations (Scopus)

  16 Downloads (Pure)

• Determinants of Contests in Ugandan Female Ground-Nesting Bees (Tetralonia sp. n.)

  Fisher, D. N., Melgar, J., Macleod, A. & Nuttman, C. V., 1 Sept 2017, In: African Entomology. 25, 2, p. 319-327 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Tetralonia 100%
  • burrows 55%
  • bees 46%
  • ownership 31%
  • nests 10%

• Multilevel and sex‐specific selection on competitive traits in North American red squirrels

  Fisher, D. N., Boutin, S., Dantzer, B., Humphries, M. M., Lane, J. E. & McAdam, A. G., Jul 2017, In: Evolution. 71, 7, p. 1841-1854 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sciuridae 100%
  • squirrels 82%
  • natural selection 64%
  • Tamiasciurus hudsonicus 52%
  • Genetic Selection 44%
  28 Citations (Scopus)

• The Perceived Assortativity of Social Networks: Methodological Problems and Solutions

  Fisher, D. N., Silk, M. J. & Franks, D. W., 30 Apr 2017, Trends in Social Network Analysis. Missaoui, R., Abdessalem, T. & Latapy, M. (eds.). Springer , p. 1-19 19 p. ( Lecture Notes in Social Networks).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • social network 100%
  • trend 15%
  • census 13%
  • Group 9%
  • evidence 6%

• Analysing animal social network dynamics: the potential of stochastic actor-oriented models

  Fisher, D. N., Ilany, A., Silk, M. J. & Tregenza, T., Mar 2017, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 86, 2, p. 202-212 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • social networks 100%
  • social network 88%
  • animal 52%
  • animals 32%
  • ecologists 16%
  34 Citations (Scopus)

  8 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Wild cricket social networks show stability across generations

  Fisher, D. N., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R. & Tregenza, T., 27 Jul 2016, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 151, 151.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • cricket 100%
  • social networks 89%
  • social network 79%
  • Orthoptera 69%
  • graphs 37%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)
• 2015

  Dynamics of among-individual behavioral variation over adult lifespan in a wild insect

  Fisher, D. N., David, M., Tregenza, T. & Rodriguez-Munoz, R., Jul 2015, In: Behavioral Ecology. 26, 4, p. 975-985 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • insect 100%
  • phenotype 76%
  • insects 66%
  • Gryllus campestris 61%
  • cricket 51%
  43 Citations (Scopus)

• Behaviour in captivity predicts some aspects of natural behaviour, but not others, in a wild cricket population

  Fisher, D. N., James, A., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R. & Tregenza, T., 22 Jun 2015, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282, 1809, 9 p., 20150708.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Gryllidae 100%
  • cricket 96%
  • captivity 93%
  • Orthoptera 67%
  • personality 58%
  58 Citations (Scopus)

  3 Downloads (Pure)
• 2013

  True polyandry and pseudopolyandry: Why does a monandrous fly remate?

  Fisher, D. N., Doff, R. J. & Price, T. A. R., 25 Jul 2013, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 157, 157.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • polyandry 100%
  • Drosophila subobscura 38%
  • sperm competition 36%
  • reproductive strategy 34%
  • mating systems 26%
  27 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)