By Scientia Professor Robert Clinton Brooks

Journal articles

Brooks RC; Hasley PB; Jasti H; Macpherson D, 2012, 'Update in General Internal Medicine: Evidence Published in 2011', ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, 156, pp. 649 - U85, http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-156-9-201205010-00410

Jordan LA; Brooks RC, 2012, 'Recent social history alters male courtship preferences', Evolution, 66, pp. 280 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01421.x

Brooks R, 2012, '"Asia's missing women" as a problem in applied evolutionary psychology?', Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior, 10, pp. 910 - 925

Kasumovic M; Hall MD; Try H; Brooks RC, 2012, 'Developmental plasticity affects condition dependent trait expression', Behavioral Ecology, doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars180, http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/10/24/beheco.ars180.abstract?sid=f7084ca7-c3f1-4826-863a-b1235941ab9c

Brooks RC; Garratt M, 2012, 'Oxidative stress and condition-dependent sexual signals: More than just seeing red', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences, 279, pp. 3121 - 3130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0568

Lailvaux SP; Zajitschek F; Dessman J; Brooks R, 2011, 'Differential aging of bite and jump performance in virgin and mated teleogryllus commodus crickets', Evolution, 65, pp. 3138 - 3147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01358.x

McKenzie LA; Brooks R; Johnston EL, 2011, 'Heritable pollution tolerance in a marine invader', Environmental Research, 111, pp. 926 - 932, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2010.12.007

Kasumovic MM; Brooks RC, 2011, 'It's all who you know: The evolution of socially cued anticipatory plasticity as a mating strategy', Quarterly Review of Biology, 86, pp. 181 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/661119

Cayetano L; Maklakov AA; Brooks RC; Bonduriansky R, 2011, 'Evolution of male and female genitalia following release from sexual selection', Evolution, 65, pp. 2171 - 2183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01309.x

Postma E; Spyrou N; Rollins LA; Brooks RC, 2011, 'Sex-dependent selection differentially shapes genetic variation on and off the guppy Y chromosome', Evolution, 65, pp. 2145 - 2156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01314.x

Kasumovic MM; Hall MD; Try H; Brooks RC, 2011, 'The importance of listening: Juvenile allocation shifts in response to acoustic cues of the social environment', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24, pp. 1325 - 1334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02267.x

Brooks R; Scott IM; Maklakov AA; Kasumovic MM; Clark AP; Penton-Voak IS, 2011, 'National income inequality predicts women's preferences for masculinized faces better than health does', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 278, pp. 810 - 812, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.0964

Head ML; Wong BBM; Brooks R, 2010, 'Sexual display and mate choice in an energetically costly environment', Plos One, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015279

Brooks RC; Simpson SJ; Raubenheimer D, 2010, 'The price of protein: Combining evolutionary and economic analysis to understand excessive energy consumption', Obesity Reviews, 11, pp. 887 - 894, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2010.00733.x

Jordan LA; Brooks RC, 2010, 'The lifetime costs of increased male reproductive effort: Courtship, copulation and the Coolidge effect', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23, pp. 2403 - 2409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02104.x

Brooks R; Shelly JP; Fan J; Zhai L; Chau DKP, 2010, 'Much more than a ratio: Multivariate selection on female bodies', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23, pp. 2238 - 2248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02088.x

Mariette MM; Zajitschek SRK; Garcia CM; Brooks RC, 2010, 'The effects of familiarity and group size on mating preferences in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23, pp. 1772 - 1782, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02042.x

Hall MD; Lailvaux SP; Blows MW; Brooks RC, 2010, 'Sexual conflict and the maintenance of multivariate genetic variation', Evolution, 64, pp. 1697 - 1703, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00932.x

Lailvaux SP; Hall MD; Brooks RC, 2010, 'Performance is no proxy for genetic quality: Trade-offs between locomotion, attractiveness, and life history in crickets', Ecology, 91, pp. 1530 - 1537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/09-0963.1

Maklakov AA; Cayetano L; Brooks RC; Bonduriansky R, 2010, 'The roles of life-history selection and sexual selection in the adaptive evolution of mating behavior in a beetle', Evolution, 64, pp. 1273 - 1282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00904.x

Zajitschek SRK; Brooks RC, 2010, 'Inbreeding depression in male traits and preference for outbred males in Poecilia reticulata', Behavioral Ecology, 21, pp. 884 - 891, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq077

Hall MD; BussiÈre LF; Demont M; Ward PI; Brooks RC, 2010, 'Competitive PCR reveals the complexity of postcopulatory sexual selection in Teleogryllus commodus', Molecular Ecology, 19, pp. 610 - 619, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04496.x

Hall MD; McLaren L; Brooks RC; Lailvaux SP, 2010, 'Interactions among performance capacities predict male combat outcomes in the field cricket', Functional Ecology, 24, pp. 159 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01611.x

Cairns K; Wolff J; Brooks RC; Ballard JWO, 2010, 'Evidence of recent population expansion in the field cricket Teleogryllus commodus.', Australian Journal of Zoology, 58, pp. 33 - 38

Brooks RC; Maklakov AA, 2010, 'Sex difference in obesity associated with total fertility rate', PLoS One, 5, pp. e10587, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010587

Zajitschek SR; Zajitschek F; Brooks RC, 2009, 'Demographic costs of inbreeding revealed by sex-specific genetic rescue effects', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9, pp. 289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-289

Kasumovic MM; Brooks RC; Andrade MCB, 2009, 'Body condition but not dietary restriction prolongs lifespan in a semelparous capital breeder', Biology Letters, 5, pp. 636 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0335

Gerhardt HC; Brooks R, 2009, 'Experimental analysis of multivariate female choice in gray treefrogs (Hyla versicolor): Evidence for directional and stabilizing selection', Evolution, 63, pp. 2504 - 2512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00746.x

Maklakov AA; Bonduriansky R; Brooks RC, 2009, 'Sex differences, sexual selection, and ageing: An experimental evolution approach', Evolution, 63, pp. 2491 - 2503, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00750.x

Donohoe ML; Von Hippel W; Brooks RC, 2009, 'Beyond waist-hip ratio: Experimental multivariate evidence that average women's torsos are most attractive', Behavioral Ecology, 20, pp. 716 - 721, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arp051

Maklakov AA; Hall MD; Simpson SJ; Dessmann J; Clissold FJ; Zajitschek F; Lailvaux SP; Raubenheimer D; Bonduriansky R; Brooks RC, 2009, 'Sex differences in nutrient-dependent reproductive ageing', Aging Cell, 8, pp. 324 - 330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2009.00479.x

Zajitschek F; Hunt J; Jennions MD; Hall MD; Brooks RC, 2009, 'Effects of juvenile and adult diet on ageing and reproductive effort of male and female black field crickets, Teleogryllus commodus', Functional Ecology, 23, pp. 602 - 611, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01520.x

Zajitschek SRK; Lindholm AK; Evans JP; Brooks RC, 2009, 'Experimental evidence that high levels of inbreeding depress sperm competitiveness', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22, pp. 1338 - 1345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01738.x

Zajitschek F; Brassil CE; Bonduriansky R; Brooks RC, 2009, 'Sex effects on life span and senescence in the wild when dates of birth and death are unknown', Ecology, 90, pp. 1698 - 1707, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/08-0048.1

Zajitschek F; Bonduriansky R; Zajitschek SRK; Brooks RC, 2009, 'Sexual dimorphism in life history: Age, survival, and reproduction in male and female field crickets teleogryllus commodus under seminatural conditions', American Naturalist, 173, pp. 792 - 802, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/598486

Hall MD; BussiÈre LF; Brooks R, 2009, 'Diet-dependent female evolution influences male lifespan in a nuptial feeding insect', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22, pp. 873 - 881, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01687.x

Kasumovic M, 2009, 'Evolution: Exposing the buried costs of reproduction', Current Biology, 19, pp. R1117 - R1119

Zajitschek SRK; Brooks RC, 2008, 'Distinguishing the effects of familiarity, relatedness, and color pattern rarity on attractiveness and measuring their effects on sexual selection in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)', American Naturalist, 172, pp. 843 - 854, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/593001

Bussière LF; Gwynne DT; Brooks R, 2008, 'Contrasting sexual selection on males and females in a role-reversed swarming dance fly, Rhamphomyia longicauda Loew (Diptera: Empididae)', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21, pp. 1683 - 1691, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01580.x

Evans JP; Brooks RC; Zajitschek SRK; Griffith SC, 2008, 'Does genetic relatedness of mates influence competitive fertilization success in guppies?', Evolution, 62, pp. 2929 - 2935, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00496.x

Hall MD; Bussière LF; Brooks R, 2008, 'The effect of diet quality and wing morph on male and female reproductive investment in a nuptial feeding ground cricket', Plos One, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003437

Kawasaki N; Brassil CE; Brooks RC; Bonduriansky R, 2008, 'Environmental effects on the expression of life span and aging: An extreme contrast between wild and captive cohorts of Telostylinus angusticollis (Diptera: Neriidae)', American Naturalist, 172, pp. 346 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/589519

Hall MD; Bussière LF; Hunt J; Brooks R, 2008, 'Experimental evidence that sexual conflict influences the opportunity, form and intensity of sexual selection', Evolution, 62, pp. 2305 - 2315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00436.x

Bussière LF; Hunt J; Stölting KN; Jennions MD; Brooks R, 2008, 'Mate choice for genetic quality when environments vary: Suggestions for empirical progress', Genetica, 134, pp. 69 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10709-007-9220-z

Maklakov AA; Simpson SJ; Zajitschek F; Hall MD; Dessmann J; Clissold F; Raubenheimer D; Bonduriansky R; Brooks RC, 2008, 'Sex-Specific Fitness Effects of Nutrient Intake on Reproduction and Lifespan', Current Biology, 18, pp. 1062 - 1066, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.059

Bonduriansky R; Maklakov A; Zajitschek F; Brooks R, 2008, 'Sexual selection, sexual conflict and the evolution of ageing and life span', Functional Ecology, 22, pp. 443 - 453, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01417.x

Kwang PL; Simpson SJ; Clissold FJ; Brooks R; Ballard JWO; Taylor PW; Soran N; Raubenheimer D, 2008, 'Lifespan and reproduction in Drosophila: New insights from nutritional geometry', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, pp. 2498 - 2503, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710787105

Head ML; Lindholm AK; Brooks R, 2008, 'Operational sex ratio and density do not affect directional selection on male sexual ornaments and behavior', Evolution, 62, pp. 135 - 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00277.x

Monro K; Poore AGB; Brooks R, 2007, 'Multivariate selection shapes environment-dependent variation in the clonal morphology of a red seaweed', Evolutionary Ecology, 21, pp. 765 - 782, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-006-9150-8

Hunt J; Blows MW; Zajitschek F; Jennions MD; Brooks R, 2007, 'Reconciling strong stabilizing selection with the maintenance of genetic variation in a natural population of black field crickets (Teleogryllus commodus)', Genetics, 177, pp. 875 - 880, http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.107.077057

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