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Institute of Evolutionary Biology

University of Edinburgh

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Publications

Links to all the papers listed below will shortly be availablefrom our central server at www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk. Please look back soon or contact me by email at e.cunningham@ed.ac.uk if you are interesting in obtaining reprints.

Submitted manuscripts

Reed, TE, Daunt,  F, Kiploks, AJ, Burthe, S, Granroth-Wilding, HMV,  Takahashi, EA, Wanless, S Cunningham, EJA Impact of parasites in early life: Contrasting effects on juvenile growth for different family members.

Dixon, M.F., Colegrave, N. and Cunningham, E.J.A. The effects of maternal age on their daughter's fitness.

Cunningham, E.J.A., Linder, J., Kaplan, A. and Rice, W.R. Female resistance influences patterns of paternity in response to sexual conflict.

Scientific publications in peer reviewed journals

Staszewski, V, Reece, SE, O’Donell, AJ, Cunningham, EJA (in press) Drug treatment of malaria infections can reduce levels of protection transferred to offspring via maternal immunity. Proc. Roy. Soc. B.

Reed, TE, Daunt, F, Hall, ME, Phillips RA, Wanless, S, Cunningham, EJA (2008)  Parasite treatment affects maternal investment in sons. Science 321: 1681-1682.

Reed, TE, Kruuk, LEB, Wanless, S, Frederiksen, M, Cunningham EJA and Harris MP (2007) Reproductive senescence in a long-lived seabird: rates of decline in late life performance are associated with varying costs of early reproduction. American Naturalist 171, 89-101

Kolm, N., Stein, R.W., Mooers, A.Ø., Cunningham, E.J.A. (2006) Sexual selection can drive female life histories: A comparative study on Galliform birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20, 627-638

Reed, T, Wanless, S, Harris M.P., Frederiksen, M. Kruuk, L.E.B. and Cunningham, E.J.A.(2006) Responding to environmental change: individual plasticity is limited by social constraints. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 273 (1602), 2713-2719

Cunningham E. J. A. and Lewis S. (2005) Parasitism of maternal investment selects for increased clutch size and brood reduction in a host. Behavioral Ecology 17, 126-131

Cunningham, E.J.A. (2003) Forced copulation or mate choice: Female preferences and subsequent resistance to copulation. Behavioral Ecology 14, 326-333.

Cunningham, E.J.A. and Russell, A.F. (2001) Sex differences in avian yolk hormone levels. Nature 412, 498-499.

Cunningham, E.J.A. and Russell, A.F (2001) Differential allocation and ‘good genes’. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16, 21.

Cunningham, E.J.A. and Russell, A.F. (2000) Egg investment is influenced by male attractiveness in the mallard. Nature 404, 74-76.

Cunningham, E.J.A. and Cheng, K.M (1999) Biases in sperm use in the mallard: no evidence for selection by females based on sperm genotype. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 266, 905-910.

Cunningham, E.J.A. and Birkhead, T.R. (1998) Sex roles and sexual selection. Animal Behaviour 56, 1311-1321.

Cunningham, E.J.A. and Birkhead, T.R. (1997) Female roles in perspective? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12, 337-338.

Birkhead, T.R., Cunningham, E.J.A. and Cheng, K.M. (1996) The insemination window provides a distorted view of sperm competition in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 263, 1187-1192.

Cunningham, E.J., Tierney, J.F. and Huntingford, F.A. (1994) The effect of the cestode Schistocephalus solidus on the food intake and foraging decisions of the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculaetus. Ethology 79, 65-75.

Selected general articles

Aves. Encycopedia of Life Sciences. McMillan Publishers, London, 2001.

Science Promotion penalties must go. The Times Higher Education Supplement  29th September 2000

Peace Prose and Alchemy: Change the world and you'll win the prize. The Times Higher Education Supplement  29 September 2000

In the fashion of human life. Cambridge Evening News February 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

Some of our research

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Sex specific effects of parasites affect maternal investment in sons and explains seasonal declines in breeding success. Science 321: 1681-1682.


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Parasitism can alter the optimal amount females should invest in reproduction - see Cunningham and Lewis (2005) Behavioral Ecology 17, 126-131.