By Professor Shinichi Nakagawa

Journal articles

Rutkowska J; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 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

McLean MJ; Bishop PJ; Nakagawa S, 2012, 'Male quality, signal reliability and female choice: Assessing the expectations of inter-sexual selection', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25, pp. 1513 - 1520, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02533.x

Schroeder J; Nakagawa S; Cleasby IR; Burke T, 2012, 'Passerine birds breeding under chronic noise experience reduced fitness', Plos One, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039200

Nakagawa S; Lagisz M; Hector KL; Spencer HG, 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

Dawson DA; Horsburgh GJ; Krupa AP; Stewart IRK; Skjelseth S; Jensen H; Ball AD; Spurgin LG; Mannarelli ME; Nakagawa S; Schroeder J; Vangestel C; Hinten GN; Burke T, 2012, 'Microsatellite resources for Passeridae species: A predicted microsatellite map of the house sparrow Passer domesticus', Molecular Ecology Resources, 12, pp. 501 - 523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2012.03115.x

Hector KL; Nakagawa S, 2012, 'Quantitative analysis of compensatory and catch-up growth in diverse taxa', Journal of Animal Ecology, 81, pp. 583 - 593, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01942.x

Koren L; Nakagawa S; Burke T; Soma KK; Wynne-Edwards KE; Geffen E, 2012, 'Non-breeding feather concentrations of testosterone, corticosterone and cortisol are associated with subsequent survival in wild house sparrows', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 279, pp. 1560 - 1566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.2062

Vanderpham JP; Nakagawa S; Closs GP, 2012, 'Diel variation in use of cover and feeding activity of a benthic freshwater fish in response to olfactory cues of a diurnal predator', Environmental Biology of Fishes, 93, pp. 547 - 556, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-011-9949-1

McQuillan HJ; Nakagawa S; Mercer AR, 2012, 'Mushroom bodies of the honeybee brain show cell population-specific plasticity in expression of amine-receptor genes', Learning and Memory, 19, pp. 151 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.025353.111

Cleasby IR; Nakagawa S, 2012, 'The influence of male age on within-pair and extra-pair paternity in passerines', Ibis, 154, pp. 318 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01209.x

Hector KL; Bishop PJ; Nakagawa S, 2012, 'Consequences of compensatory growth in an amphibian', Journal of Zoology, 286, pp. 93 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00850.x

Schroeder J; Burke T; Mannarelli ME; Dawson DA; Nakagawa S, 2012, 'Maternal effects and heritability of annual productivity', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25, pp. 149 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02412.x

Hammond-Tooke CA; Nakagawa S; Poulin R, 2012, 'Parasitism and behavioural syndromes in the fish Gobiomorphus cotidianus', Behaviour, 149, pp. 601 - 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853912X648903

Asmad K; Lopez-Villalobos N; Nakagawa S; Keyon PR; Pain SJ; Blair HT, 2012, 'Effects of maternal nutrition during pregnancy on the growth and reproductive development of male sheep: a meta-analysis', Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, 72, pp. 51 - 58, http://www.nzsap.org/

Cleasby IR; Nakagawa S, 2011, 'Neglected biological patterns in the residuals', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65, pp. 2361 - 2372, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-011-1254-7

Sutton JT; Nakagawa S; Robertson BC; Jamieson IG, 2011, 'Disentangling the roles of natural selection and genetic drift in shaping variation at MHC immunity genes', Molecular Ecology, 20, pp. 4408 - 4420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05292.x

Wehi PM; Nakagawa S; Trewick SA; Morgan-Richards M, 2011, 'Does predation result in adult sex ratio skew in a sexually dimorphic insect genus?', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24, pp. 2321 - 2328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02366.x

Watt PJ; Skinner A; Hale M; Nakagawa S; Burke T, 2011, 'Small Subordinate Male Advantage in the Zebrafish', Ethology, 117, pp. 1003 - 1008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01953.x

Cleasby IR; Burke T; Schroeder J; Nakagawa S, 2011, 'Food supplements increase adult tarsus length, but not growth rate, in an island population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus)', BMC Research Notes, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-431

Schuett W; Dall SRX; Baeumer J; Kloesener MH; Nakagawa S; Beinlich F; Eggers T, 2011, 'Personality variation in a clonal insect: The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum', Developmental Psychobiology, 53, pp. 631 - 640, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.20538

Dean R; Nakagawa S; Pizzari T, 2011, 'The risk and intensity of sperm ejection in female birds', American Naturalist, 178, pp. 343 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/661244

Schroeder J; Nakagawa S; Hinsch M, 2011, 'Behavioural ecology is not an endangered discipline', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 26, pp. 320 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2011.03.013

Grueber CE; Nakagawa S; Laws RJ; Jamieson IG, 2011, 'Corrigendum', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24, pp. 1627, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02328.x

Santos ESA; Scheck D; Nakagawa S, 2011, 'Dominance and plumage traits: Meta-analysis and metaregression analysis', Animal Behaviour, 82, pp. 3 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.03.022

Chapman JR; Nakagawa S; Coltman DW; Slate J; Sheldon BC, 2011, 'Erratum: A quantitative review of heterozygosity-fitness correlations in animal populations (Molecular Ecology (2009) 18 (2746-2765))', Molecular Ecology, 20, pp. 2655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05146.x

Schroeder J; Cleasby IR; Nakagawa S; Ockendon N; Burke T, 2011, 'No evidence for adverse effects on fitness of fitting passive integrated transponders (PITs) in wild house sparrows Passer domesticus', Journal of Avian Biology, 42, pp. 271 - 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.05271.x

Grueber CE; Nakagawa S; Laws RJ; Jamieson IG, 2011, 'Multimodel inference in ecology and evolution: Challenges and solutions', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24, pp. 699 - 711, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02210.x

Nakagawa S; Ockendon N; Gillespie DOS; Hatchwell BJ; Burke T, 2011, 'Erratum: Assessing the function of house sparrows' bib size using a flexible metaanalysis method (Behavioral Ecology 18 (831-840))', Behavioral Ecology, 22, pp. 445 - 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq212

Ninnes CE; Waas JR; Ling N; Nakagawa S; Banks JC; Bell DG; Bright A; Carey PW; Chandler J; Hudson QJ; Ingram JR; Lyall K; Morgan DKJ; Stevens MI; Wallace J; Möstl E, 2011, 'Environmental influences on Adelie penguin breeding schedules, endocrinology, and chick survival', General and Comparative Endocrinology, 173, pp. 139 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.05.006

Nakagawa S; Hauber ME, 2011, 'Great challenges with few subjects: Statistical strategies for neuroscientists', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, pp. 462 - 473, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.06.003

Nakagawa S; Freckleton RP, 2011, 'Model averaging, missing data and multiple imputation: A case study for behavioural ecology', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65, pp. 103 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-010-1044-7

Horváthová T; Nakagawa S; Uller T, 2011, 'Strategic female reproductive investment in response to male attractiveness in birds', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 279, pp. 163 - 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0663

Grueber CE; Laws RJ; Nakagawa S; Jamieson IG, 2010, 'Inbreeding depression accumulation across life-history stages of the endangered takahe', Conservation Biology, 24, pp. 1617 - 1625, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01549.x

Laws RJ; Townsend SM; Nakagawa S; Jamieson IG, 2010, 'Limited inbreeding depression in a bottlenecked population is age but not environment dependent', Journal of Avian Biology, 41, pp. 645 - 652, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.05164.x

Nakagawa S; Schielzeth H, 2010, 'Repeatability for Gaussian and non-Gaussian data: A practical guide for biologists', Biological Reviews, 85, pp. 935 - 956, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00141.x

Cleasby IR; Nakagawa S; Gillespie DOS; Burke T, 2010, 'The influence of sex and body size on nestling survival and recruitment in the house sparrow', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 101, pp. 680 - 688, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01515.x

English S; Nakagawa S; Clutton-Brock TH, 2010, 'Consistent individual differences in cooperative behaviour in meerkats (Suricata suricatta)', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23, pp. 1597 - 1604, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02025.x

Hadfield JD; Nakagawa S, 2010, 'General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology: Phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous and categorical characters', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23, pp. 494 - 508, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01915.x

Coats J; Poulin R; Nakagawa S, 2010, 'The consequences of parasitic infections for host behavioural correlations and repeatability', Behaviour, 147, pp. 367 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/000579509X12574307194101

Ninnes CE; Waas JR; Ling N; Nakagawa S; Banks JC; Bell DG; Bright A; Carey PW; Chandler J; Hudson QJ; Ingram JR; Lyall K; Morgan DKJ; Stevens MI; Wallace J; Möstl E, 2010, 'Comparing plasma and faecal measures of steroid hormones in Adelie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae', Journal of Comparative Physiology B Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology, 180, pp. 83 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00360-009-0390-0

Garamszegi LZ; Calhim S; Dochtermann N; Hegyi G; Hurd PL; Jørgensen C; Kutsukake N; Lajeunesse MJ; Pollard KA; Schielzeth H; Symonds MRE; Nakagawa S, 2009, 'Changing philosophies and tools for statistical inferences in behavioral ecology', Behavioral Ecology, 20, pp. 1363 - 1375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arp137

Nakagawa S; Cuthill IC, 2009, 'Effect size, confidence interval and statistical significance: A practical guide for biologists: (Biological Reviews (2007) 82 (591-605))', Biological Reviews, 84, pp. 515, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00083.x

Chapman JR; Nakagawa S; Coltman DW; Slate J; Sheldon BC, 2009, 'A quantitative review of heterozygosity-fitness correlations in animal populations', Molecular Ecology, 18, pp. 2746 - 2765, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04247.x

Jones KS; Nakagawa S; Sheldon BC, 2009, 'Environmental sensitivity in relation to size and sex in birds: Meta-regression analysis', American Naturalist, 174, pp. 122 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/599299

Suzuki M; Nakagawa S; Kamide Y; Kobayashi K; Ohyama K; Hashinokuchi H; Kiuchi R; Saito K; Muranaka T; Nagata N, 2009, 'Complete blockage of the mevalonate pathway results in male gametophyte lethality', JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 60, pp. 2055 - 2064, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erp073

Knowles SCL; Nakagawa S; Sheldon BC, 2009, 'Elevated reproductive effort increases blood parasitaemia and decreases immune function in birds: A meta-regression approach', Functional Ecology, 23, pp. 405 - 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01507.x

Nakagawa S; Lee JW; Woodward BK; Hatchwell BJ; Burke T, 2008, 'Differential selection according to the degree of cheating in a status signal', Biology Letters, 4, pp. 667 - 669, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0349

Nakagawa S; Freckleton RP, 2008, 'Missing inaction: the dangers of ignoring missing data', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23, pp. 592 - 596, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.06.014

Nakagawa S; Burke T, 2008, 'The mask of seniority? A neglected age indicator in house sparrows Passer domesticus', Journal of Avian Biology, 39, pp. 222 - 225, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2008.0908-8857.04171.x

Nakagawa S; Cuthill IC, 2007, 'Effect size, confidence interval and statistical significance: A practical guide for biologists', Biological Reviews, 82, pp. 591 - 605, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00027.x

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