By Professor Shinichi Nakagawa

Journal articles

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

Conference Abstracts

Mueller S; Adolfsson S; Senior AM; Kottler V; Pichler M; Schartl M; Nakagawa S; Lamatsch DK, 2019, 'Cytogenomics of a sex specific marker on the W chromosome of the invasive mosquitofish Gambusia affinis', in MOLECULAR CYTOGENETICS, BMC, Vol. 12, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000474609600179&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Reports

Upadhyay A; Nakagawa-Lagisz L; Samarasinghe G; Nakagawa S; De La Peña Suarez F; Twomey P, 2018, Do green-rated office buildings save operational energy? Rapid review of comparative evidence, SP0008e1, http://builtbetter.org/node/7555

Working Papers

Lagisz M; Samarasinghe G; Santamouris M; Yenneti K; Upadhyay AK; De La Peña Suarez F; Taunk B; Nakagawa S, 2019, A visualized overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on low-carbon built environments: an evidence review map, http://dx.doi.org10.31222/osf.io/d34v8

Preprints

Lacza H; Mizuno A; Williams C; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2026, One dataset, four meta-analyses: synthesising mean effects, within-population variability, and between-population heterogeneity in ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2jq0t

Williams C; McGillycuddy M; Drobniak SM; Bolker BM; Warton DI; Nakagawa S, 2025, Fast phylogenetic generalised linear mixed-effects modelling using the glmmTMB R package, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.20.695312

Meehan K; Class B; Nakagawa S; Foroughirad V; Mann J; Frere C, 2025, The age of change: social aging in dolphins, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2kw8w

Nakagawa S; Cornwell WK; Callaghan CT, 2025, Decoupling both local and global abundance from global range size, challenging the abundance-occupancy relationship in birds., http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.95857

Nakagawa S; Cornwell WK; Callaghan CT, 2025, Decoupling both local and global abundance from global range size: challenging the abundance-occupancy relationship in birds, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.95857.2

Wang J; Nakagawa S; Wang J; Stewart R; Florea A; Dunham RA; Ling F; Wang G; Liu L; Robledo D, 2025, Evidence that genome editing is preferable to transgenesis for enhancing animal traits, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.25.650727

Pottier P; Oh R; Pollo P; Rivera-Villanueva N; Yang Y; Varon S; Longo A; Burke S; Lin H-Y; Valdebenito J; Amano T; Drobniak S; Nakagawa S, 2025, AmphiTherm: a comprehensive database of amphibian thermal tolerance and preference, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2hw6h

Pollo P; Drobniak S; Haselimashhadi H; Lagisz M; Mizuno A; Noble D; Wilson L; Nakagawa S, 2025, Beyond sex differences in mean: meta-analysis of differences in skewness, kurtosis, and correlation, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x20k9w

Yang Y; Liu M; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2025, Catalysing mathematical, computing, and statistical innovation towards applied sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/6pjbc_v1

Martinig A; Burk S; Drobniak S; Perry I; Morrison K; Petersohn M; Nakagawa S; Pollo P; Ricolfi L; Williams C; Chhen A; Mizuno A; Tam J; Yang Y; de Jong J; Ceccacci A; Cuadros S; Lagisz M, 2025, Dragon Kill Points: applying a transparent working template to relieve authorship stress, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2w05k

Lagisz M; Westgate M; Kellie D; Nakagawa S, 2025, Going Global by Going Local: Impacts and Opportunities of Geographically Focused Data Integration, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2fp76

Pollo P; Martinig A; Mizuno A; Morrison K; Pottier P; Ricolfi L; Tam J; Williams C; Yang Y; Drobniak S; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2025, Harnessing meta-analyses’ insights in ecology and evolution research, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2pw5p

Nakagawa S; Mizuno A; Morrison K; Ricolfi L; Williams C; Drobniak S; Lagisz M; Yang Y, 2025, Location-scale Meta-analysis and Meta-regression as a Tool to Capture Large-scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: a Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2263f

Mizuno A; Drobniak S; Williams C; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2025, Promoting the use of phylogenetic multinomial generalised mixed-effects model to understand the evolution of discrete traits, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2ss5k

Nakagawa S; Mizuno A; Williams C; Lagisz M; Yang Y; Drobniak S, 2025, Quantifying macro-evolutionary patterns of trait mean and variance with phylogenetic location-scale models, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2xs7k

Sanghvi K; Dean R; Nakagawa S; Reinhardt K; Sepil I; Vega-Trejo R, 2025, Sperm storage reduces sperm and embryo quality in animals, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.10.647966

Ivimey-Cook E; Culina A; Dimri S; Grainger M; Kar F; Lagisz M; Moran N; Nakagawa S; Roche D; Sanchez-Tojar A; Windecker S; Pick J, 2025, TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2d93k

Nakagawa S; Westneat D; Mizuno A; Araya Ajoy Y; Dochtermann N; Laskowski K; Pick J; Réale D; Williams C; Wright J; Schielzeth H, 2025, Understanding different types of repeatability and intra-class correlation for an analysis of biological variation, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x22d1r

Lagisz M; Mizuno A; Morrison K; Pollo P; Ricolfi L; Yang Y; Nakagawa S, 2025, Using Elicit AI research assistant for data extraction in systematic reviews: a feasibility study across environmental and life sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x2f346

, 2024, A systematic review and meta-analysis of eyespot anti-predator mechanisms, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.96338

Yang Y; Noble DWA; Senior AM; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2024, Interpreting prediction intervals and distributions for decoding biological generality in meta-analyses, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.10.612386

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