Hawkes, M., Lane, S.M., Rapkin, J., Jensen, K., House, C.M., Sakaluk, S.K. and J. Hunt. in press. Intralocus sexual conflict over optimal nutrient intake and the evolution of sex differences in lifespan and reproduction. Functional Ecology.
Duffield, K.R., Hunt, J., Sadd, B.M., Sakaluk, S.K., Oppert, B., Rosario-Cora, K., Behle, R.W. and J.L. Ramirez. in press. Active and covert infections of cricket iridovirus and Acheta domesticus densovirus in reared Gryllodes sigillatus crickets. Frontiers in Microbiology.
Thompson, C.F., Hodges, K.E., Mortimer, N.T., Vrailas-Mortimer, A.D., Sakaluk, S.K. and M.E. Hauber. in press. Avian eggshell coloration predicts shell-matrix protoporphyrin content. Canadian Journal of Zoology.
Jenkins, J.B., Mueller, A.J., Thompson, C.F., Sakaluk, S.K. and E. K. Bowers. 2021. Female birds monitor the activity of their mates while brooding nest-bound young. Animal Cognition 24: 613-628.
Hampton, K.J., Duffield, K.R., Hunt, J., Sakaluk, S.K. and B.M. Sadd. 2021. Male and female genotype and a genotype-by-genotype interaction mediate the effects of mating on cellular but not humoral immunity in female decorated crickets. Heredity 126: 477–490.
Duffield, K.R., Hampton, K.J., Houslay, T.M., Rapkin, J., Hunt, J., Sadd, B.M. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2020. Macronutrient intake and simulated infection threat independently affect life history traits of male decorated crickets. Ecology and Evolution 10: 11766–11778.
Farchmin, P.A., Eggert, A. K., Duffield, K. R. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2020. Dynamic terminal investment in male burying beetles. Animal Behaviour 163: 1-7.
Hodges, K.E., Mortimer, N.T., Vrailas-Mortimer, A.D., Sakaluk, S.K., and C.F. Thompson. 2020. Connecting the dots: avian eggshell pigmentation, female condition and paternal provisioning effort. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 130: 114–127.
Bowers, E.K., Thompson, C.F., Bowden, R.M. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2019. Post-hatching parental care and offspring growth vary with maternal corticosterone level in a wild bird population. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 92: 496-504.
Sakaluk, S.K., Oldzej, J., Hodges, C.J., Harper, J.L., Rines, I.G., Hampton, K.J., Duffield, K.R., Hunt, J. and B.M. Sadd. 2019. Effects of inbreeding on life-history traits and sexual competency in decorated crickets. Animal Behaviour 155: 241-248.
DiSciullo, R.A., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2019. Perceived threat to paternity reduces likelihood of paternal provisioning in house wrens. Behavioral Ecology 30: 1336–1343.
Duffield, K.R., Hampton, K.J., Houslay, T.M., Hunt, J., Sadd, B.M. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2019. Inbreeding alters context-dependent reproductive effort and immunity in male crickets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32: 731-741.
Bowers, E.K., Jenkins, J.B., Mueller, A.J., Miller, K.D., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2019. Condition-dependent begging elicits increased parental investment in a wild bird population. American Naturalist 193: 725-737.
Sakaluk, S.K., Duffield, K.R., Rapkin, J., Sadd, B.M and J. Hunt. 2019. The troublesome gift: the spermatophylax as a purveyor of sexual conflict and coercion in crickets. Advances in the Study of Behavior 51: 1-30.
Capodeanu-Nägler, A., Prang, M.A., Trumbo, S.T., Vogel, H., Eggert, A.-K., Sakaluk, S.K. and S. Steiger. 2018. Offspring dependence on parental care and the role of parental transfer of oral fluids in burying beetles. Frontiers in Zoology 15: 33. Link to paper
Poorboy, D.M., Bowers, E.K., Sakaluk, S.K. and C.F. Thompson. 2018. Experimental cross-fostering of eggs reveals effects of territory quality on reproductive allocation. Behavioral Ecology 29: 1190-1198. Link to paper
Capodeanu-Nägler, A., Ruiz de la Torre, E., Eggert, A.-K., Sakaluk, S.K. and S. Steiger. 2018. Divergent co-evolutionary trajectories in parent-offspring interactions and discrimination against brood parasites revealed by interspecific cross-fostering. Royal Society Open Science 5: 180189. Link to paper
Weber, B.M., Bowers, E.K., Terrell, K.A., Falcone, J.F., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2018. Pre- and post-natal effects of experimentally manipulated maternal corticosterone on growth, stress reactivity, and survival of nestling house wrens. Functional Ecology 32: 1995-2007.
Duffield, K.R., Hampton, K.J., Houslay, T.M., Hunt, J., Rapkin, J., Sakaluk, S.K. and B.M. Sadd. 2018. Age-dependent variation in the terminal investment threshold in male crickets. Evolution 72: 578-589.
Rapkin, J., Jensen, K., Archer, R., House, C.M., Sakaluk, S.K., del Castillo, E. and J. Hunt. 2018. The geometry of nutrient-space based life-history trade-offs: sex-specific effects of macronutrient intake on the trade-off between encapsulation ability and reproductive effort in decorated crickets. American Naturalist 191: 452–474.
Sakaluk, S.K., Thompson, C.F. and E.K. Bowers. 2018. Experimental manipulation of incubation period reveals no apparent costs of incubation in house wrens. Animal Behaviour 137: 169-177.
Capodeanu-Nägler, A., Eggert, A.-K., Vogel, H., Sakaluk, S.K. and S. Steiger. 2018. Species divergence in offspring begging and parental provisioning is linked to nutritional dependency of larval burying beetles. Behavioral Ecology 29: 42-50.
Duffield, K.R., Bowers, E.K., Sakaluk, S.K. and B.M. Sadd. 2017. A dynamic threshold model for terminal investment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71: 185.
Bowers, E.K., Sakaluk, S.K. and C.F. Thompson. 2017. Interactive effects of parental age on offspring fitness and age-assortative mating in a wild bird. Journal of Experimental Zoology 327: 302-310.
Rapkin, J., Jensen, K., House, C.M., Sakaluk, S.K., Sakaluk, J.K. and J. Hunt. 2017. The complex interplay between macronutrient intake, cuticular hydrocarbon expression and mating success in male decorated crickets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 711-727.
Dorset, E.E., Sakaluk, S.K. and C.F. Thompson. 2017. Behavioral plasticity in response to perceived predation risk in breeding house wrens. Evolutionary Biology 44: 227-239.
Ower, G.D., Hunt, J. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2017. Multivariate sexual selection on male tegmina in wild populations of sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans (Orthoptera: Haglidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 338-351.
Will, D.S., Dorset, E.E., Thompson, C.F., Sakaluk, S.K. and E. Keith Bowers. 2017. Size of nest-cavity entrance influences male attractiveness and paternal provisioning in house wrens. Journal of Zoology 302: 1-7.
Luzar, A.B., Schweizer, R., Sakaluk, S.K. and S. Steiger. 2017. Access to a carcass, but not mating opportunities, influence paternal care in burying beetles. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71:7.
Bowers, E.K., Thompson C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2017. Maternal natal environment and breeding territory predict the condition and sex ratio of offspring. Evolutionary Biology 44: 11-20.
Capodeanu-Nägler, A., Keppner, E.M., Vogel, H., Ayasse, M., Eggert, A.-K., Sakaluk, S.K. and S. Steiger. 2016. From facultative to obligatory parental care: interspecific variation in offspring dependency on post-hatching care in burying beetles. Scientific Reports 6: 29323.
Bowers, E.K., Grindstaff, J.L., Soukup, S.S., Drilling, N.E., Eckerle, K.P., Sakaluk, S.K. and C.F. Thompson. 2016. Spring temperatures influence selection on breeding date and the potential for phenological mismatch in a migratory bird. Ecology 97: 2880-2891.
Strange, M.S., Bowden, R.M., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2016. Pre- and post-natal effects of corticosterone on fitness-related traits and the timing of endogenous corticosterone production in a songbird. Journal of Experimental Zoology 325A: 347-359.
Bowers, E.K., Bowden, R.M., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2016. Elevated corticosterone during egg production elicits increased maternal investment and promotes nestling growth in a wild songbird. Hormones and Behavior 83: 6-13.Bowers, E.K., Sakaluk, S.K. and C.F. Thompson. 2016. No effect of blood sampling or phytohaemagglutinin injection on post-fledging survival in a wild songbird. Ecology and Evolution 6: 3107-3114.
Bowers, E.K., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2016. Within-female plasticity in sex allocation is associated with a behavioral polyphenism in house wrens. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29: 602-616.
Rapkin, J., Jensen, K., Lane, S.M., House, C.M., Sakaluk, S.K. and J. Hunt. 2016. Macronutrient intake regulates sexual conflict in decorated crickets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29: 395-406.
Pauchet, Y., Wielsch, N., Wilkinson, P.A., Sakaluk, S.K., Svatoš, A., ffrench-Constant, R.H., Hunt, J. and D.G. Heckel. 2015. What’s in the gift? Towards a molecular dissection of nuptial feeding in a cricket. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0140191. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140191. Featured in Newsweek.
Steiger, S, Capodeanu-Nägler, A., Gershman, S.N., Weddle, C.B., Rapkin, J., Sakaluk, S.K. and J. Hunt. 2015. Female choice for male cuticular hydrocarbon profile in decorated crickets is not based on similarity to their own profile. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 2175-2186.
Bowers, E.K., Forsman, A.M., Masters, B.S., Johnson, B.G.P., Johnson, L.S., Sakaluk, S.K. and C.F. Thompson. 2015. Increased extra-pair paternity in broods of aging males and enhanced recruitment of extra-pair young in a migratory bird. Evolution 69: 2533-2541.
Duffield, K.R., Hunt, J., Rapkin, J., Sadd, B.M. and S. K. Sakaluk. 2015. Terminal investment in the gustatory appeal of nuptial food gifts in crickets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 1872-1881.
Mulrey, T.E.P., Eggert, A.-K. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2015 Switching tactics: phenotypic plasticity in the alternative mate-finding tactics of burying beetles. Animal Behaviour 108: 175-182. Featured as an In Focus selection
Hodges, C.J., Bowers, E.K., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2015. Cascading costs of reproduction in female house wrens induced to lay larger clutches. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 1383-1393.
Bowers, E.K., White, A., Lang, A., Podgorski, L., Thompson, C.F., Sakaluk, S.K., Jaeckle, W.B. and R.G. Harper. 2015. Eggshell porosity covaries with egg size among female House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon) but is unrelated to incubation onset and egg-laying order within clutches. Canadian Journal of Zoology 93: 421-425.
Bowers, E.K., Bowden, R.M., Sakaluk, S.K. and C.F. Thompson. 2015. Immune activation generates corticosterone-mediated terminal reproductive investment in a wild bird. American Naturalist 185: 769-783.
Barnett, C.A., Suzuki, T.N., Sakaluk, S.K. and C.F. Thompson. 2015. Mass-based condition measures and their relationship with fitness: in what condition is condition? Journal of Zoology 296: 1-5.
Bowers, E.K., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2015. Persistent sex-by-environment effects on offspring fitness and sex-ratio adjustment in a wild bird population. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 473-486. Featured in BBC.
Sakaluk, S.K., Wilson, A.J., Bowers, E.K., Johnson, L.S., Masters, B.S., Johnson, B.G.P., Vogel, L.A., Forsman, A.M. and C.F. Thompson. 2014. Genetic and environmental variation in condition, cutaneous immunity, and haematocrit in house wrens. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14:242. PDF
Capodeanu-Nägler, A., Rapkin, J., Sakaluk, S.K., Hunt, J. and S. Steiger. 2014. Experimental alteration of cuticular hydrocarbons reveals self-recognition in crickets via on-line processing. Current Biology 24(23): R1117-R1118.
Lothery, C.J., Thompson, C.F., Lawler, M.L. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2014. Food supplementation fails to reveal a trade-off between incubation and maintenance in female house wrens. PLoS One 9(9): e106260. PDF
Bowers, E.K., Nietz, D, Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2014. Parental provisioning in house wrens: effects of varying brood size and consequences for offspring. Behavioral Ecology 25: 1485-1493.
Bowers, E.K., Hodges, C.J., Forsman, A.M., Vogel, L.A., Masters, B.S., Johnson, B.G.P., Johnson, L.S., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2014. Neonatal body condition, immune responsiveness, and hematocrit predict longevity in a wild bird population. Ecology 95: 3027-3034.
Barnett, C.A., Sakaluk, S.K. and C.F. Thompson. 2014. Aggressive displays by male house wrens (Troglodytes aedon) are comprised of multiple components that predict attack. Journal of Field Ornithology 85: 56-62. PDF
Hunt, J. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2014. Mate choice. In The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems ( D.M. Shuker and L.W. Simmons, eds.), pp. 129-158. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Thompson, C.F., Sakaluk, S.K., Masters, B.S., Johnson, B.P.G., Vogel, L.A., Forsman, A.M. and L.S. Johnson. 2014. Condition-dependent sex difference in nestling house wren (Troglodytes aedon) response to phytohaemagglutinin injection. Canadian Journal of Zoology 92: 1-7. PDF
Bowers, E.K., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2014. Offspring sex ratio varies with clutch size for female house wrens induced to lay supernumerary eggs. Behavioral Ecology 25: 165-171. PDF
Sakaluk, S.K., Weddle, C.B., Mitchell, C. and J. Hunt. 2014. Signal reliability, sex-specific genotype-by-environment interactions in cuticular hydrocarbon expression, and the maintenance of polyandry through chemosensory self-referencing in decorated crickets, Gryllodes sigillatus. In Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Sexual Selection (J. Hunt & D.J. Hosken, eds.), pp. 312-330. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Steiger, S., Ower, G.D., Stökl, J., Mitchell, C., Hunt, J. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2013. Sexual selection on cuticular hydrocarbons of male sagebrush crickets in the wild. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20132353. PDF
Ower, G.D., Judge, K.A., Steiger, S., Caron, K.J., Smith, R.A. Hunt, J. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2013. Multivariate sexual selection on male song structure in wild populations of sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans (Orthoptera: Haglidae). Ecology and Evolution 3: 3590-3603. PDF
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Bowers, E.K., Sakaluk, S.K. and C.F. Thompson. 2013. Sibling cooperation influences age of nest leaving in an altricial bird. American Naturalist 181: 775-786. PDF
Weddle, C.B., Hunt, J. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2013. Self-referent phenotype matching and its role in female mate choice in arthropods. Current Zoology 59: 239-248. PDF
Gershman, S.N., Hunt, J. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2013. Food fight: sexual conflict over free amino acids in the nuptial gifts of male decorated crickets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26: 693-704. PDF Featured in dugdug
Weddle, C.B., Steiger, S., Hamaker, C.G., Mitchell, C., Sakaluk, S.K. and J. Hunt. 2013. Cuticular hydrocarbons as a basis for chemosensory self-referencing in crickets: a potentially universal mechanism facilitating polyandry in insects. Ecology Letters 16: 346-353. PDF Faculty of 1000 recommended
Archer, C.R., Sakaluk, S.K., Selman, C., Royle, N.J. and J. Hunt. 2013. Oxidative stress and the evolution of sex differences in lifespan and ageing in the decorated cricket, Gryllodes sigillatus. Evolution 67: 620-634. PDF
Barnett, C.A., Thompson, C.F. and S.K. Sakaluk. 2012. Aggressiveness, boldness and parental food provisioning in male house wrens (Troglodytes aedon). Ethology 118: 984-993. PDF
Weddle, C.B., Mitchell, C., Bay, S.K., Sakaluk, S.K. and J. Hunt. 2012. Sex-specific genotype-by-environment interactions for cuticular hydrocarbon expression in decorated crickets, Gryllodes sigillatus: implications for the evolution of signal reliability. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 2112-2125. PDF
Grana, S.C., Sakaluk, S.K., Bowden, R.M., Doellman, M.A., Vogel, L.A. and C.F. Thompson. 2012. Reproductive allocation in female house wrens is not influenced by experimentally altered male attractiveness. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66: 1247-1258.