By Professor Shinichi Nakagawa

Journal articles

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

Nakagawa S; Ockendon N; Gillespie DOS; Hatchwell BJ; Burke T, 2007, 'Assessing the function of house sparrows' bib size using a flexible meta-analysis method', Behavioral Ecology, 18, pp. 831 - 840, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arm050

Nakagawa S; Ockendon N; Gillespie DOS; Hatchwell BJ; Burke T, 2007, 'Does the badge of status influence parental care and investment in house sparrows? An experimental test', Oecologia, 153, pp. 749 - 760, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-007-0765-4

Nakagawa S; Gillespie DOS; Hatchwell BJ; Burke T, 2007, 'Predictable males and unpredictable females: Sex difference in repeatability of parental care in a wild bird population', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20, pp. 1674 - 1681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01403.x

Nakagawa S; Foster TM, 2004, 'The case against retrospective statistical power analyses with an introduction to power analysis', Acta Ethologica, 7, pp. 103 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10211-004-0095-z

Nakagawa S; Etheredge RJM; Foster TM; Sumpter CE; Temple W, 2004, 'The effects of changes in consequences on hens' performance in delayed-matching-to-sample tasks', Behavioural Processes, 67, pp. 441 - 451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2004.07.005

Nakagawa S, 2004, 'A farewell to Bonferroni: The problems of low statistical power and publication bias', Behavioral Ecology, 15, pp. 1044 - 1045, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arh107

Nakagawa S, 2004, 'Is avian sex determination unique?: Clues from a warbler and from chickens', Trends in Genetics, 20, pp. 479 - 480, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2004.07.010

Nakagawa S; Gemmell NJ; Burke T, 2004, 'Measuring vertebrate telomeres: Applications and limitations', Molecular Ecology, 13, pp. 2523 - 2533, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02291.x

Nakagawa S; Waas JR, 2004, 'The effect of acoustic and visual priming stimuli on the reproductive behaviour of female zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata', Acta Ethologica, 7, pp. 43 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10211-004-0097-x

Nakagawa S; Waas JR, 2004, ''O sibling, where art thou?' - A review of avian sibling recognition with respect to the mammalian literature', Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79, pp. 101 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1464793103006249

Nakagawa S, 2004, 'Changes in house sparrow population size, breeding success and breeding pattern on Lundy', The Annual Report of the Lundy Field Society, http://www.lundy.org.uk/publications/volume.php?vol=54-18

Nakagawa S; Möstl E; Waas JR, 2003, 'Validation of an enzyme immunoassay to measure faecal glucocorticoid metabolites from Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae): A non-invasive tool for estimating stress?', Polar Biology, 26, pp. 491 - 493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-003-0506-z

Nakagawa S; Bannister TD; Jensen FR; McLean DA; Waas JR, 2002, 'Relatedness does not affect the mating effort of Eisenia fetida Sav. (Oligochaeta) despite evidence for outbreeding depression', Biology and Fertility of Soils, 35, pp. 390 - 392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00374-002-0473-5

Nakagawa S; Waas JR; Miyazaki M, 2001, 'Heart rate changes reveal that little blue penguin chicks (Eudyptula minor) can use vocal signatures to discriminate familiar from unfamiliar chicks', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 50, pp. 180 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002650100355

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