selected publications
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article
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Polyandry and fitness of offspring reared under varying nutritional stress in decorated crickets..
Evolution.
56:1999-2007.
2002
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Repeatability of sperm number across multiple matings in three cricket species, Gryllodes sigillatus, Gryllus veletis, and Gryllus texensis..
Canadian Journal of Zoology.
80:582-585.
2002
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The role of the male's cerci in copulation and mate guarding in decorated crickets..
Journal of Zoology.
257:519-523.
2002
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Ejaculate expenditures of male crickets in response to varying risk and intensity of sperm competition: not all species play games..
Behavioral Ecology.
12:740-745.
2001
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Benefits of communal breeding in burying beetles: a field experiment..
Ecological Entomology.
25:262-266.
2000
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Nutritional condition influences investment by male katydids in nuptial food gifts..
Ecological Entomology.
25:115-118.
2000
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Sensory exploitation as an evolutionary origin to nuptial food gifts in insects..
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences.
267:339-343.
2000
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Female remating propensity contingent on sexual cannibalism in sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans: a mechanism of cryptic female choice..
Behavioral Ecology.
10:227-233.
1999
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Hydration benefits to courtship feeding in crickets..
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences.
266:1523-1528.
1999
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Virgin-male mating advantage in sagebrush crickets: differential male competitiveness or non-independent mate choice?.
Behaviour.
136:1335-1346.
1999
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Carcass maintenance and biparental brood care in burying beetles: are males redundant?.
Eological Entomology.
23:195-200.
1998
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Paternity of offspring in multiply-mated female crickets: the effect of nuptial food gifts and the advantage of mating first..
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences.
265:2191-2195.
1998
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The 'window effect' and its consequences for reproduction in burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides..
Ethology.
104:553-564.
1998
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Cryptic female choice predicated on wing dimorphism in decorated crickets..
Behavioral Ecology.
8:326-331.
1997
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Female control of sperm transfer and intraspecific variation in sperm precedence: antecedents to the evolution of a courtship food gift..
Evolution.
50:694-703.
1996
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Female-coerced monogamy in burying beetles..
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
37:147-153.
1995
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Sexual competition in sagebrush crickets: must males hear calling rivals?.
Behavioral Ecology.
6:250-257.
1995
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The gin trap as a device facilitating coercive mating in sagebrush crickets..
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences.
261:65-71.
1995
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Courtship feeding in decorated crickets:is the spermatophylax a sham?.
Animal Behaviour.
48:1309-1315.
1994
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Fluctuating asymmetry and variation in the size of courtship food gifts in decorated crickets..
American Naturalist.
144:708-716.
1994
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Post-copulatory mate guarding delays promiscuous mating by female decorated crickets..
Animal Behaviour.
48:1479-1481.
1994
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Sexual Cannibalism and its relation to male mating success in sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris Strepitans (Orthoptera: Haglidae)..
Animal Behaviour.
47:1171-1177.
1994
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Repeated matings offset costs of reproduction in female crickets..
Evolutionary Ecology.
7:240-250.
1993
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The effect of pair formation on diel calling patterns in two cricket species, Gryllus veletis and Gryllodes sigillatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)..
Journal of Insect Behaviour.
6:431-440.
1993
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Phenotypic and genetic variation in the stridulatory organs of male decorated crickets, Gryllodes sigillatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)..
Canadian Journal of Zoology.
70:453-457.
1992
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Post-copulatory mate guarding in decorated crickets..
Animal Behaviour.
41:207-216.
1991
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Sex for a song (dinner included)..
Natural History.
100:66-73.
1991
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Nightly calling durations of male sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans: size, mating and seasonal effects..
Oikos.
57:153-160.
1990
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A simple and inexpensive electronic device for automatic recording and analysis of insect acoustical activity..
Florida Entomologist.
72:642-649.
1989
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Virgin male mating advantage in a primitive acoustic insect (Orthoptera: Haglidae)..
Joornal of Insect Behavior.
2:173-185.
1989
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Inheritance of male parental investment in an insect..
American Naturalist.
132:594-601.
1988
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Mating and its effect on acoustic signalling behavior in a primitive orthopteran, Cyphoderris strepitans (Haglidae): the cost of feeding females..
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
21:173-178.
1987
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Reproductive behaviour of the decorated cricket, Gryllodes Supplicans (Orthoptera: Gryllidae): calling schedules, spatial distribution, and mating..
Behaviour.
100:202-225.
1987
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Is courtship feeding by male insects parental investment?.
Ethology.
73:161-166.
1986
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Prezygotic male reproductive effort in insects: why do males provide more than sperm?.
Florida Entomologist.
69:84-94.
1986
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Sperm competition and the evolution of nuptial feeding behavior in the cricket, Gryllodes supplicans (Walker)..
Evolution.
40:584-593.
1986
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Spermatophore size and its role in the reproductive behaviour of the cricket, Gryllodes supplicans (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)..
Canadian Journal of Zoology.
63:1652-1656.
1985
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Gecko phonotaxis to cricket calling song: a case of salellite predation..
Animal Behaviour.
32:659-662.
1984
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Hoechst staining and quantification of sperm in the spermatophore and spermatheca of the decorated cricket, Gryllodes supplicans (Orthoptera, Gryllidae)..
Canadian Entomologist.
116:1585-1589.
1984
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Onset of phonotaxis and age at first mating in female house crickets, Acheta domesticus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)..
Journal of the New York Entomological Society.
90:136-141.
1982
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Female mating frequency and progeny production in singly and doubly mated house and field crickets..
Canadian Journal of Zoology.
58:404-411.
1980
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Hemolymph loss during nuptial feeding constrains male mating success in sagebrush crickets..
Behavioral Ecology.
15:845-849.
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Ingestion of male hemolymph and mating propensity of female sagebrush crickets: no evidence of a male-derived anti-aphrodisiac..
Animal Behavior.
65:83-88.
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Linear models for assessing mechanisms of sperm competition: the trouble with transformations..
Evolution.
57:173-176.
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Male crickets feed females to ensure complete sperm transfer..
Science.
Science:609-610.
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Polyandry promotes enhanced offspring survival in decorated crickets..
Evolution.
59:152-159.
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Sexual conflict over remating in house crickets: no evidence of an anti-aphrodisiac in males' ejaculates..
Behavior.
141:633-646.
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Polyandry and fitness of offspring reared under varying nutritional stress in decorated crickets..
Evolution.
56:1999-2007.
2002
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thesis or dissertation
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unclassified publications
- Sexual selection and predation balancing reproductive and survival needs. In Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators, edited by D.L Evans and J.O Schmidt, 63-90.
- The adaptive significance of female multiple matings in house and field crickets. In Orthoptera Mating Systems: Sexual Competition in a Diverse Group of Insects, edited by D.T. Gwynne and G.K. Morris, 319-336.