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Journal articles
, 2021, 'A practical guide to question formation, systematic searching and study screening for literature reviews in ecology and evolution', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, pp. 1705 - 1720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13654
, 2021, 'Beneficial intergenerational effects of exercise on brain and cognition: a multilevel meta-analysis of mean and variance', Biological Reviews, 96, pp. 1504 - 1527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12712
, 2021, 'Collaboration and term usage dynamics in agricultural buffer strip research: A research weaving protocol', Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12084
, 2021, 'Nonadditive genetic effects induce novel phenotypic distributions in male mating traits of F1 hybrids', Evolution, 75, pp. 1304 - 1315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.14224
, 2021, 'An efficient new assay for measuring zebrafish anxiety: Tall tanks that better characterize between-individual differences', Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2021.109138
, 2021, 'Correction to: Assessment of the dunnocks’ introduction to New Zealand using innate immune-gene diversity (Evolutionary Ecology, (2020), 34, 5, (803-820), 10.1007/s10682-020-10070-0)', Evolutionary Ecology, 35, pp. 365 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-021-10100-5
, 2021, 'The orchard plot: Cultivating a forest plot for use in ecology, evolution, and beyond', Research Synthesis Methods, 12, pp. 4 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1424
, 2020, 'Mapping the past, present and future research landscape of paternal effects', BMC Biology, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00892-3
, 2020, 'Optimism, pessimism and judgement bias in animals: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 118, pp. 3 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.07.012
, 2020, 'The jury is still out regarding the generality of adaptive ‘transgenerational’ effects', Ecology Letters, 23, pp. 1715 - 1718, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13479
, 2020, 'Assessment of the dunnocks’ introduction to New Zealand using innate immune-gene diversity', Evolutionary Ecology, 34, pp. 803 - 820, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-020-10070-0
, 2020, 'Sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications', eLife, 9, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63170
, 2020, 'Intervention for children with developmental coordination disorder: How robust is our recent evidence?', Child Care Health and Development, 46, pp. 397 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cch.12763
, 2020, 'A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis', Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4, pp. 498 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1153-2
, 2020, 'Pharmacological manipulations of judgement bias: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 108, pp. 269 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.11.008
, 2019, 'Developmental temperature affects phenotypic means and variability: A meta-analysis of fish data', Fish and Fisheries, 20, pp. 1005 - 1022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faf.12394
, 2019, 'A visualized overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on low-carbon built environments: An evidence review map', Solar Energy, 186, pp. 291 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.04.062
, 2019, 'How good does our map of knowledge have to be?: A comment on Berger-Tal et al.', Behavioral Ecology, 30, pp. 13 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary137
, 2019, 'Research Weaving: Visualizing the Future of Research Synthesis', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 34, pp. 224 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.11.007
, 2019, 'Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search', Database, 2019, pp. 1 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baz085
, 2018, 'Gender differences in individual variation in academic grades fail to fit expected patterns for STEM', Nature Communications, 9, pp. 3777, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06292-0
, 2018, 'Meta-analysis of lamb birth weight as influenced by pregnancy nutrition of multiparous ewes', Journal of Animal Science, 96, pp. 1962 - 1977, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/sky072
, 2018, 'Computer Animation Technology in Behavioral Sciences: A Sequential, Automatic, and High-Throughput Approach to Quantifying Personality in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)', Zebrafish, 15, pp. 206 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/zeb.2017.1532
, 2018, 'Maternal Testosterone and Offspring Sex-Ratio in Birds and Mammals: A Meta-Analysis', Evolutionary Biology, 45, pp. 96 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11692-017-9432-9
, 2018, 'Not all predators are equal: a continent-scale analysis of the effects of predator control on Australian mammals', Mammal Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mam.12115
, 2018, 'The French press: A repeatable and high-throughput approach to exercising zebrafish (Danio rerio)', Peerj, 2018, pp. e4292, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4292
, 2017, 'Divide and conquer? Size adjustment with allometry and intermediate outcomes', BMC Biology, 15, pp. 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0448-5
, 2017, 'A narrative meta-review of a series of systematic and meta-analytic reviews on the intervention outcome for children with developmental co-ordination disorder', Child Care Health and Development, 43, pp. 733 - 742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cch.12437
, 2017, 'Does Urbanization Affect Predation of Bird Nests? A Meta-Analysis', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00029
, 2017, 'Meta-evaluation of meta-analysis: Ten appraisal questions for biologists', BMC Biology, 15, pp. 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0357-7
, 2017, 'Metabolic rates, and not hormone levels, are a likely mediator of between-individual differences in behaviour: a meta-analysis', Functional Ecology, 31, pp. 685 - 696, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12779
, 2017, 'Nonindependence and sensitivity analyses in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses', Molecular Ecology, 26, pp. 2410 - 2425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.14031
, 2016, 'Heterogeneity in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses: Its magnitude and implications', Ecology, 97, pp. 3293 - 3299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1591
, 2016, 'Effect of maternal diet on offspring coping styles in rodents: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Biological Reviews, 91, pp. 1065 - 1080, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12210
, 2016, 'The effect of dietary restriction on reproduction: a meta-analytic perspective', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0768-z
, 2016, 'The effect of dietary restriction on reproduction: a meta-analytic perspective', BMC evolutionary biology, 16, pp. 199
, 2016, 'Visualizing unbiased and biased unweighted meta-analyses', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29, pp. 1914 - 1916, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12945
, 2016, 'Sex differences in DNA methylation and expression in zebrafish brain: a test of an extended ‘male sex drive’ hypothesis', Gene, 590, pp. 307 - 316, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2016.05.042
, 2016, 'Association of Amine-Receptor DNA Sequence Variants with Associative Learning in the Honeybee', Behavior Genetics, 46, pp. 242 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10519-015-9749-z
, 2016, 'Population differentiation and behavioural association of the two 'personality' genes DRD4 and SERT in dunnocks (Prunella modularis)', Molecular Ecology, 25, pp. 706 - 722, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.13514
, 2015, 'Little appetite for obesity: Meta-analysis of the effects of maternal obesogenic diets on offspring food intake and body mass in rodents', International Journal of Obesity, 39, pp. 1669 - 1678, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2015.160
, 2015, 'Conflict and cooperation over sex: The consequences of social and genetic polyandry for reproductive success in dunnocks', Journal of Animal Ecology, 84, pp. 1509 - 1519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12432
, 2015, 'Proteomic analysis of early-stage embryos: implications for egg quality in hapuku (Polyprion oxygeneios)', Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 41, pp. 1403 - 1417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10695-015-0095-0
, 2015, 'Meta-analysis of variation: Ecological and evolutionary applications and beyond', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 143 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12309
, 2014, 'Transgenerational effects of caloric restriction on appetite: A meta-analysis', Obesity Reviews, 15, pp. 294 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12138
, 2013, 'Life extension after heat shock exposure: Assessing meta-analytic evidence for hormesis', Ageing Research Reviews, 12, pp. 653 - 660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2013.03.005
, 2013, 'You are where you live: Parasitic nematode mitochondrial genome size is associated with the thermal environment generated by hosts', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, pp. 683 - 690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12068
, 2012, 'The effect of resveratrol on longevity across species: A meta-analysis', Biology Letters, 8, pp. 790 - 793, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0316
, 2012, 'The long and the short of avian W chromosomes: No evidence for gradual W shortening', Biology Letters, 8, pp. 636 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0083
, 2012, 'Comparative and meta-analytic insights into life extension via dietary restriction', Aging Cell, 11, pp. 401 - 409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2012.00798.x