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S.A. (2022) Kin selection for
cooperation in natural bacterial populations . Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science, USA 119: e2119070119.
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G.A., Liu, M., Peña, J. & West, S.A. (2022) The evolution of
mechanisms to produce phenotypic plasticity in
microorganisms . Nature Communications 13:195.
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Scott, T.W., Grafen, A. & West, S.A. (2022)
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social encounters can eliminate Crozier’s paradox and
stabilise genetic kin recognition. Nature Communications
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West,
S.A.
(2022) Playing
God with evolution . Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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of the Genes animation , with Stated Clearly. Abe, J.A., Iritani, R., Tsuchida, K., Kamimura,
Y. & West, S.A.
(2021) A
solution to a sex ratio puzzle in Melittobia wasps .
Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science, USA 118:
e2024656118
Burton-Chellew,
M.N. & West,
S.A. (2021) Payoff-based learning
best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across
237 public-goods games . Nature Human Behaviour 5,
1330-1338.
Cooper,
G.A., Frost, H., Liu, M. & West, S.A. (2021) The evolution of division
of labour in structured and unstructured groups . eLife
10:e71968. [Insight ]
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Griffin, A.S., West, S.A. & Ghoul, M. (2021) Plasmids
do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria,
but may promote broad pathogen host-range . Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Iritani, R., West, S.A. &
Abe, J. (2021) Cooperative interactions
among females can lead to even more extraordinary sex
ratios . Evolution Letters 5, 370-384.
Leeks, A., West, S.A.
& Ghoul, M. (2021) The evolution of cheating
in viruses . Nature
Communications 12:6928 .
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(2021) The
evolution of mechanisms to divide labour in non-clonal
populations . Ecology & Evolution 11, 14475-14489 .
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S.A ,
Cooper, G.A., Ghoul, M.B. & Griffin, A.S. (2021) Ten
recent insights for our understanding of cooperation . Nature Ecology & Evolution
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G., Werner, G.D.A., West,
S.A. & Kiers, E.T. (2020) Compartmentalization
drives the evolution of symbiotic cooperation . Philosophical
Transactions of The Royal Society B 375: 20190602.
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(2020) The social
coevolution hypothesis for the origin of enzymatic cooperation .
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Maldonado,
A. & West,
S.A. (2020) The cost and
benefit of quorum sensing controlled bacteriocin
production in Lactobacillus
plantarum . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33, 101-111. Patel., West, S.A. &
Biernaskie, J.M.
(2020) Can
natural selection favour indiscriminate spite? Evolution Letters
4, 65-72. Bruce,
J.B., West, S.A.
& Griffin, A.S. (2019) Functional
amyloids promote retention of public goods in bacteria .
Proceedings of the Royal
Society London Series B 286:20190709
Kapsetaki,
S.E. & West.
S.A. (2019) The costs
and benefits of multicellular group formation in algae .
Evolution 73:1296-1308 .
Leeks, A.
& West, S.A.
(2019) Altruism in a
virus . Nature
Microbiology 4:910-911.
Leeks, A.,
dos Santos, & West,
S.A. (2019) Transmission,
relatedness, and the evolution of cooperative symbionts .
Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 32, 1036-1045.
Leeks, A.,
Sanjuan, R. & West,
S.A. (2019) The
evolution of collective infectious units in viruses . Virus Research
265:94-101.
Levin, S.R.,
Scott, T.W., Cooper, G.A. & West, S.A.
(2019) Darwin’s aliens .
International Journal
of Astrobiology 18, 1-9. Media .
Levin,
S.R., Caro, S.M., Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A.
(2019) Honest signaling
and the double counting of inclusive fitness . Evolution Letters
3, 428-433.
Patel,
M. Raymond, B., Bonsall, M. & West, S.A. (2019) Crystal toxins and the
volunteer’s dilemma in bacteria . Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 32, 310-319.
Scott, T.W.
& West, S.A.
(2019) Adaptation
and the parliament of genes . Nature Communications
10:5163. [Extended
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the paper ] Scott, T.W.,
Kiers, E.T., Cooper, G.A., dos Santos, M. & West, S.A. (2019)
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genomic diversity within arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi . Ecology & Evolution .
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M. (2019) Conflict within
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M.D., Werner, G.D.A., Caldas, V.E.A., Padje, A.V., Dupin,
S.E., Elbers, B., Bakker, M., Wyatt, G.A.K., Klein, M., Hink,
M.A., Postma, M., Vaitla, B., Noe, R., Shimizu, T.S., West, S.A. &
Kiers, E.T. (2019) Mycorrhizal
fungi respond to resource inequality by moving phosphorus
from rich to poor patches across networks . Current Biology {Extended remix }
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& West, S.A.
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labour and the evolution of extreme specialisation . Nature Ecology & Evolution ,
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Cooper, G.A., Levin, S.R., Wild, G. & West, S.A. (2018)
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demography in social evolution . Evolution Letters .
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Ghoul, M. & West,
S.A. (2018) Pleiotropy,
cooperation and the social evolution of genetic architecture .
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& West, S.A.
(2018) The
coevolution of cooperation and cognition in humans . Proceedings of the Royal
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S.A . (2018) Reproductive
strategies of diurnal Mutillid wasps (Hymenoptera:
Mutillidae) . Contributions
in Science , 526:181-188.
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Segredo-Otero, E.A., Sanjuan, R. & West, S.A. (2018)
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promote within-host viral diversity Virus Evolution
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Gonzalez, D., Kim, W., West, S.A. & Foster, K.R. (2018) Bacteria use collective
behaviour to generate diverse combat strategies . Current Biology 28,
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S.A. & Kiers, E.T. (2018) Symbiont switching and
alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism
breakdown . Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science, USA. Bruce, J.B.,
West, S.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2017) Bacteriocin production mediates
competition over resources and influences assembly of
natural Pseudomonas
fluorescens populations . Journal of Evolutionary
Biology 30,
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Bruce, J.B.,
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bacterium Pseudomonas
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Reuter, C., Moore, J.C. & West, S.A. (2017)
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reproductive strategies of non-pollinating fig wasps in fig
wasps . Ecological
Entomology .
Cornwallis,
C.K.,
Botero, C.A., Rubenstein, D.R., Downing, P.A., West, S.A. ,
& Grifin, A.S. (2017) Cooperation facilitates
the colonization of harsh environments . Nature Ecology & Evolution
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S.L.,
Sanjuán, R. & West,
S.A. (2017) Sociovirology:
conflict, cooperation, and communication among viruses .
Cell Host & Microbe
22, 437-441. Fisher,
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M., Anderson, S.B. & West, S.A. (2017)
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Roberts, A.E.L., Kragh, K.N., Gordon, V.D., Hutchison, J.,
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Diggle, S.P. (2017) The Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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in biofilms . mBio
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S.A. (2017) How
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be favoured in spatially structured populations . Philosophical
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& West, S.A.
(2017) Kin selection in
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& View . Media . Fisher,
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(2016) Multicellular
group formation in response to predators in the alga Chlorella vulgaris .
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Evolutionary Biology 29, 551-559
Ghoul, M., West, S.A. ,
McCorkell, F.A., Lee, Z-B., Bruce, J.B. & Griffin, A.S.
(2016) Pyoverdin cheats
fail to invade bacterial populations in stationary phase .
Journal of
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S.E., Fisher, R.M. & West. S.A.
(2016) Predation and
the formation of multicellular groups in algae . Evolutionary Ecology
Research 17,
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West, S.A. ,
Wyatt, G.A.K., Gardner, A., Bucking, H. & Werner, G.D.A.
(2016) Misconceptions on
the application of biological market theory to the
mycorrhizal symbiosis . Nature Plants 2:16063.
Nax , H.H.,
Burton-Chellew, M.N., West, S.A.
& Young, H.P. (2016) Learning
in a black box . Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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G.A. (2016) Division of labour in
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(2016) Restricting
mutualistic partners to enforce trade reliance . Nature Communications
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J.M. & West, S.A. (2015) Cooperation,
clumping and the evolution of multicellularity . Proceedings of the
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J.M., Reuter, C., Moore, J.C. & West, S.A. (2015)
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meet them? Ecological
Entomology 40, 741-747. Media . Ghoul,
M., West, S.A., Johansen, H.K., Molin, S., Harrison, O.,
Maiden, M.C.J., Jelsbak, L., Bruce, J.B. & Griffin, A.S.
(2015) Bacteriocin-mediated
competition in cystic fibrosis lung infections . Proceedings of the Royal
Society London Series B. 282: 20150972
Kiers,
E.T. & West, S.A. (2015) Evolving new organisms via
symbiosis . Science
348, 392-394.
Kümmerli,
R., Santorelli, L.A., Granato, E.T., Dumas, Z., Dobay, A.,
Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A.
(2015) Co-evolutionary
dynamics between public good producers and cheats in the
bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa .
Journal of Evolutionary Biology .
Kurzban,
R.,
Burton-Chellew, M.N. & West. S.A.
(2015) The evolution of
altruism in humans . Annual Review of Psychology 65, 575-599 Popat,
R., Pollitt, E.J.G., Harrison, F., Naghra, H., Hong, K-W.,
Chan, K-G., Griffin, A.S., Williams, P., Brown, S.P., West,
S.A. & Diggle, S.P. (2015) Conflict of interest and
signal interference lead to the breakdown of honest
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West, S.A. (2015) How to win at evolution . Nature 528, 192.
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Fisher, R.M., Gardner, A. & Kiers, E.T. (2015) Major evolutionary transitions
in individuality . Proceedings of the
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J., Kamimura, Y. & West, S.A. (2014) Inexplicably female-biased sex
ratios in Melittobia wasp s. Evolution 68, 2709-2717.
Alpedrinha, J., Gardner, A. & West, S.A.
(2014) Haplodiploidy
and the evolution of eusociality: worker revolution . American
Naturalist 183, 303-317. F1000
Cunningham,
J.P., Hereward, J., Heard, T.A., De Barro, P.J. & West,
S.A. (2014) Bees at war:
interspecific battles and nest usurpation in stingless bees .
American Naturalist 184,
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Gardner, A. & West, S.A. Inclusive fitness: 50
years on . Philosophical Transactions of The Royal
Society B 369,
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the whole special issue .
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M., Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2014) Towards an evolutionary
definition of cheating . Evolution 6 8, 318-331 . G houl, M., West, S.A., Diggle, S.P. &
Griffin, A.S. (2014) An experimental
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Buckling, A. (2014) An
experimental study of strong reciprocity in bacteria . Biology Letters 10, 2.
Jiricny, N., Molin, S., Foster, K., Diggle,
S.P., Scanlan, P.D., Ghoul, M., Johansen, H.K., Santorelli,
L.A., Popat, R., West, S.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2014) Loss of social behaviours
in populations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infecting
lungs
of patients with cystic fibrosis . PLoS
One
9, e83124 .
Pollitt, E.J.G, West, S.A., Crusz, S.A.,
Burton-Chellew, M.N., Diggle, S.P. (2014) Cooperation, quorum sensing
and the evolution of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus .
Infection and Immunity
82, 1045-1051. Supp info .
Scott-Phillips, T.C., Laland, K.N., Shuker,
D.M., Dickins, T.E. & West, S.A. (2014) The niche construction
perspective: a critical appraisal . Evolution 68, 1231-1243. Wyatt,
G.A.K., Kiers, E.T., Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2014) A biological market analysis of
the plant-mycorrhizal symbiosis . Evolution
6 8:2603-2618 .
Alpedrinha, J., West, S.A. & Gardner, A.
(2013) Haplodiploidy and
the evolution of eusociality: worker reproduction . American Naturalist 182, 421-438.
Biernaskie,
J.M.,
Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2013) Multi-coloured
greenbeards, bacteriocin diversity, and the
rock-paper-scissors game . Jour nal
of
Evolutionary
Biology 26, 2081-2094. Supp Info .Burton-Chellew,
M.N.
& West, S.A. (2013) Pro-social preferences do
not explain human cooperation in public-goods games . Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA
110, 216-221. Supp Info . F1000 Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Commentary / Our response . Media . Burton-Chellew,
M.N.,
May, R.M. & West, S.A. (2013) Combined inequality in
wealth and risk leads to disaster in the climate change game .
Climatic Change 120, 815-830.
Fisher, R.M., Cornwallis, C.K.,
& West, S.A (2013) . Group formation, relatedness
and the evolution of multicellularity . Current
Biology
23, 1120-1125 . Supp Info . Raw Data .
Oxford
Science
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Ross, L., Gardner, A., Hardy, N. & West,
S.A. (2013) Ecology, not the
genetics of sex determination, determines who helps in
eusocial populations . Current Biology
23, 2383-2387 . Supp Info .
Shroeder, J., Dugdale, H.L. & 37 others.
(2013) Fewer invited
talks by women in evolutionary biology seminars . Journal of Evolutionary Biology .
West, S.A. & Burton-Chellew, M.N. (2013) Human Behavioural
Ecology . Behavioral Ecology 24,
1043-1045.
West, S.A. &
Gardner, A. (2013) Adaptation
and inclusive fitness . Current Biology
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G.A.K., West, S.A.
& Gardner, A. (2013) Can natural selection favour
altruism between species? Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 26, 1854- 1865. Supp figures . Mathematica File .
Burton-Chellew, M.N. & West, S.A. (2012) Pseudo-competition
among groups increases cooperation in a public goods game .
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of cooperation in a one-shot high-stakes televised
prisoner’s dilemma . PLoS
One 7 (4): e33344.
Darch , S.E., West, S.A., Winzer, K.
& Diggle, S.P. (2012) Density-dependent
fitness benefits in quorum-sensing bacterial populations .
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 109, 8259-826. Supp Info Faculty of 1000
{Media} . Gardner, A., Alpedrinha, J. & West, S.A. (2012) Haplodiploidy and the evolution
of eusociality: split sex ratios . American Natural ist
179, 240-256. Correction .
Leggett,
H.C.,
Cornwallis, C. & West, S.A. (2012) Mechanisms of pathogenesis,
infective dose and virulence in human pathogens . PLoS Pathogens 8(2):
e1002512 .
Leggett,
H.C.,
El Mouden, C., Wild, G. & West, S.A. (2012) Promiscuity and the
evolution of cooperative breeding . Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B
279, 1405-1411. Supp Info . Popat,
R., Crusz, S.A., Messina, M., Williams, P. West, S.A. &
Diggle, S.P. (2012) Quorum-sensing
and cheating in bacterial biofilms . Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B 279, 4765-4771. Nature Community Choice
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B., West, S.A., Griffin, A.S. & Bonsall, M.B. (2012) The dynamics of cooperative
bacterial virulence in the field . Science
337, 85-88. Supp
Info . F1000
Rumbaugh,
K.P.,
Trivedi, U., Watters, C., Burton-Chellew, M.N., Diggle, S.P.
& West, S.A. (2012) Kin
selection,
quorum
sensing and virulence in pathogenic bacteria . Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series B 279,
3584-3588. Scott-Phillips,
T.C.,
Blythe, R.A., Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2012) How do communication
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E.,
El Mouden, C., Jansa, J., Akkermans, G., Bücking,
H., West, S.A. & Kiers, E.T. (2012) Spatial structure and
inter-specific cooperation: theory and an empirical test
using the mycorrhizal mutualism . American
Naturalist 179, E133-E146. American Naturalist
Student Paper Award, 2013 . West,
S.A, Winzer, K., Gardner, A. & Diggle, S.P.
(2012) Quorum sensing and the
confusion about diffusion . Trends in
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Biernaskie,
J.,
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E.A., Shuker, D.M. & West, S.A. (2011) Social evolution: evolving
sex ratios . Current Biology 21,
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T.M.,
West, S.A., Sanderson, J.L., Hyrkkanen, N. & Reece, S.E.
(2011) Lethal combat over
limited resources: testing the importance of competitors and
kin . Behavioral Ecology 22, 923-931. Media Kiers, E.T. , Duhamel, M.,
Beesetty, Y., Mensah, J.A., Franken, O., Verbruggen, E.,
Fellbaum, C.R., Kowalchuk, G.A., Hart, M.M., Bago, A., Palmer,
T.M., West, S.A., Vandenkoornhuyse, P., Jansa, J. & H. Bücking (2011). Reciprocal
rewards stabilize cooperation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis .
Science 333, 880-882. Perspective .
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B.A.,
Watt, R., Knott, S.A., West, S.A. & Shuker, D.M. (2011) The quantitative genetic
basis of sex ratio variation in Nasonia
vitripennis : a QTL study . Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 24, 12-22.
Scott-Phillips,
T.C.,
Dickins, T.E. & West, S.A. (2011) Evolutionary theory
and the ultimate/proximate distinction in the human
behavioural sciences . Perspectives on
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S.A., El Mouden, C. & Gardner, A. (2011) 16 common
misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in
humans . Evolution and Human Behavior
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Wild, G.,
Pizzari, T. & West, S.A. (2011) Sexual conflict in viscous
populations: the effect of the timing of dispersal . Theoretical Population Biology 80, 298-316.
Abe,
J., Innocent, T.M., Reece, S.E. & West, S.A. (2010) Virginity and the clutch size
behavior of a parasitoid wasp where mothers mate their sons .
Behavioral Ecology 2 1, 730-738 .
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competition between groups and proximate emotions . Evolution and Human Behavior
31, 104-108.
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C.K.,
West, S.A., Davies, K.E. & Grifin, A.S. (2010) Promiscuity and the
evolutionary transition to complex societies . Nature 466, 969-972. Supplementary
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& Updates El
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Competition between relatives
and the evolution of dispersal in a parasitoid wasp . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23, 1374-1385 .
Jiricny,
N.,
Diggle, S.P., West, S.A., Evans, B.A., Ballantyne, G.,
Ross-Gillespie, A. & Griffin, A.S. (2010) Fitness correlates with the
extent of cheating in a bacterium. Journal
of Evolutionary Biology , 738-747 . Kümmerli,
R.,
Burton-Chellew, M.N., Ross-Gillespie, A. & West, S.A.
(2010) Resistance to
extreme strategies, rather than prosocial preferences, can
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Kümmerli,
R., van den Berg, P., Griffin, A.S., West, S.A. &
Gardner, A. (2010) Repression
of competition favours cooperation: experimental evidence
from bacteria . Journal of Evolutionary
Biology 23, 699-706.
Lewis,
H.M., Tosh, C.R., O’Keefe, S., Shuker, D.M., West, S.A. &
Mayhew, P.M. (2010) Constraints
on adaptation: explaining deviation from optimal sex ratio
using artificial neural networks . Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 23, 1708-1719.
Ross, L., Lagenhof, M.B.W., Pen, I.,
Beukeboom, I., West, S.A. & Shuker, D.M. (2010) Sex allocation in a species with
Paternal Genome Elimination: clarifying the role of crowding
and female age in the mealybug Planococcus citri . Evolutionary Ecology Research 12, 89-104.
West, S.A. &
Gardner, A. (2010) Altruism,
spite and greenbeards . Science 327,
1341-1344.
Wild, G.,
Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2010) Multilevel and kin selection
in a connected world . Nature 463,
E9-E10. This was a reply to the comment by Wade et al .
Abe, J., Kamimura, Y, Shimada, M & West, S.A. (2009) Extremely female biased primary sex
ratio and precisely constant male production in a parasitoid
wasp Melittobia . Animal
Behaviour 78, 515-523.
Brown, S.P., West, S.A., Diggle, S.P. & Griffin, A.S.
(2009). Social evolution in
microorganisms and a Trojan horse approach to medical
intervention strategies . Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society
364, 3157-3168. Journal
Cover . Buy
the special issue . F1000 .
Clutton-Brock, T., West, S.A., Ratnieks, F. & Foley, R. The evolution of society .
Philosophical Transactions of
The Royal Society 364, 3127-3133. Journal Cover . Buy
the special issue .
Cornwallis, C., West, S.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2009) Routes to indirect fitness
in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: kin discrimination and
limited dispersal . Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 22, 2445-2457.
Kümmerli, R., Gardner, A., West, S.A. & Griffin, A.S.
(2009) Limited
dispersal, budding dispersal, and cooperation: an experimental
study . Evolution
63, 939-949. 2009). Indian J Microbiol Commentary
Kümmerli, R., Griffin, A.S., West, S.A., Buckling, A. &
Harrison, F. (2009) Viscous
medium
promotes cooperation in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas
aeruginosa . Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B 276, 3531-3538. {Media}
Kümmerli, R., Jiricny, N., Clarke, S., West, S.A. &
Griffin, A.S. (2009) Phenotypic
plasticity
of a cooperative behaviour in bacteria . Journal of Evolutionary Biology
22, 589-598.
Moore, J.C., Obbard, D.J., Reuter, C., West, S.A. & Cook,
J.M. (2009) Male morphology and
dishonest signalling in a fig wasp . Animal Behaviour 78,
147-153.
Ross-Gillespie, A., Gardner, A., Buckling, A., West, S.A.
& Griffin, A.S. (2009) Density dependence and
cooperation: theory and a test with bacteria . Evolution 63, 2315-2325.
Rumbaugh, K.P., Diggle, S.P., Watters, C.M., Ross-Gillespie,
A., Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2009). Quorum sensing and the social
evolution of bacterial virulence . Current Biology 19,
341-345. {Media}
West,
S.A. & Kiers, E.T. (2009) Evolution: what is an
organism? Current Biology 19, R1080-R1082.
Wild, G. & West, S.A. (2009) Genomic imprinting and sex
allocation . American
Naturalist 173, E1-E14.
Wild, G., Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2009) Adaptation and the evolution of
parasite virulence in a connected world . Nature 459, 983-986. {Faculty of 1000}
{Media} {Comment & reply }
Burton-Chellew, M.N., Koevoets, T., Grillenberger, B.K, Sykes,
E.M., Underwood, S.L., Bijlsma, K., Gadau, J., van de Zande, L.,
Beukeboom, L.W., West, S.A. & Shuker, D.M. (2008) Facultative sex ratio
adjustment in natural populations of wasps: cues of local mate
competition and the precision of adaptation . American Naturalist 172,
393-404.
Cunningham, J.P. & West, S.A. (2008) Host plant variability
influences the advantages to learning: a theoretical model for
oviposition behaviour in Lepidoptera . Journal of Theoretical Biology
251, 404-410
Killick, S.C., Obbard, D.J., West, S.A. & Little, T.J.
(2008) Parasitism and
breeding system variation in North American Daphnia
pulex . Ecological Research 235-240.
Meunier, J., West, S.A. & Chapuisat, M. (2008) Split sex ratios in the social
Hymenoptera: a meta-analysis . Behavioral Ecology
19, 382-390.
Moore, J.C., Reuter, C., West, S.A. & Cook, J.M. (2008) Male fighting strategies in two
species of fig wasp . Animal
Behaviour 76, 315-322.
Pannebakker, B.A., Halligan, D.L., Reynolds, K.T., Ballantyne,
G.A., Shuker, D.M., Barton, N. & West, S.A. (2008) Effects of spontaneous
mutation accumulation on sex ratio traits in a parasitoid .
Evolution 62,
1921-1935.
Racey, D. & West, S.A. (2008) Evolution and the curriculum .
Student BMJ 16,
148-149.
Sykes, E.M., Innocent, T.M., Pen, I., Shuker, D.M. & West,
S.A. (2008) Erratum -
Asymmetric larval competition in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia
vitripennis: a role in sex allocation. Behavioral Ecology
& Sociobiology, 62, 853-854.
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S. & Gardner, A. (2008) Social semantics: how
useful has group selection been? Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 21, 374-385. This was a reply to DS Wilson's comment on our 2007 Social Semantics review .
{Media} {Faculty of 1000}
Buckling, A., Harrison, F., Vos, M., Brockhurst, M.A.,
Gardner, A., West, S.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2007) Siderophore-mediated
cooperation and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa . FEMS
Microbiology Ecology 62, 135-141.
Burton-Chellew, M.N., Beukeboom, L.W., West, S.A. &
Shuker, D.M. (2007) Laboratory
evolution
of polyandry in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis .
Animal Behaviour 74, 1147-1154.
Burton-Chellew, M.N., Sykes, E.M., Patterson, S., Shuker, D.M.
&West, S.A. (2007) The cost of mating
and the relationship between body size and fitness in males of
the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis . Evolutionary
Ecology Research 9, 921-934.
Diggle, S.P., Griffin, A.S., Campbell, G.S. & West. S.A.
(2007) Cooperation and
conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations . Nature
450, 411-414. {Media} {Making the paper} {Editorial} {Faculty of 1000} {Letter to Nature }
Diggle, S.P., Gardner, A., West. S.A. & Griffin, A.S.
(2007) Evolutionary theory of
bacterial quorum sensing: when is a signal not a signal? Philosophical
Transactions of The Royal Society .
Gardner, A. & West. S.A. (2007) Social evolution: decline and
fall of genetic kin recognition . Current Biology 17,
R810-R812. {Media}
Gardner, A., West. S.A. & Barton, N.H. (2007) The relation between
multilocus population genetics and social evolution theory .
American Naturalist 169, 207-226.
Gardner, A., West. S.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2007) Is bacterial persistence
a social trait? PLOS One , 2(8), e752. {leave
a comment} {Media}
Gardner, A., Hardy, I.C.W., Taylor, P.D. & West. S.A.
(2007) Spiteful soldier
production in polyembryonic parasitoid wasps . American
Naturalist 169, 519-533.
Guinnee, M.A., Gardner, A., Howard, A.E., West, S.A. &
Little, T.J. (2007) The
causes and consequences of variation in offspring size: a case
study using Daphnia . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20,
577-587.
Reece, S.E., Innocent, T.M. & West, S.A. (2007) Lethal combat in the parasitoid
Melitobia acasta: are size and competitive environment
important? Animal Behaviour 74, 1163-1169.
Innocent, T.M., Savage, J., West, S.A. & Reece, S.E.
(2007) Lethal combat and sex
ratio evolution in a parasitoid wasp . Behavioral
Ecology , 18, 709-715.
Lehmann, L., Keller, L., West, S.A. & Roze, D. (2007) Group selection and kin
selection. Two concepts but one process . Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science, USA , 104, 6736-6739.
This was a comment on the Traulsen & Nowak 2006
paper .
Ross-Gillespie, A., Gardner, A., West, S.A. & Griffin,
A.S. (2007) Frequency
dependence and cooperation: theory and a test with bacteria .
American Naturalist , 170, 331-342.
Shuker, D.M., Philimore, A.J., Burton-Chellew, M., Hodge, S.E.
& West, S.A. (2007) The
quantitative genetic basis of polyandry in the parasitoid wasp
Nasonia vitripennis . Heredity 98, 69-73.
Shuker, D.M., Reece, S.E., Lee, A. Graham, A., Duncan, A.B.
& West, S.A. (2007). Information use in
space and time: sex allocation behaviour in the parasitoid
wasp Nasonia vitripennis . Animal Behaviour ,
73, 971-977.
Sykes, E.M., Innocent, T.M., Pen, I., Shuker, D.M. & West,
S.A. (2007) Asymmetric larval
competition in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis: a role
in sex allocation . Behavioral Ecology &
Sociobiology , 61, 1751-1758. {Erratum )
West, S.A. (2007) Your top
tables - Kebab Mahal . Waitrose Food Illustrated 93, 100.
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S. & Gardner, A. (2007) Evolutionary explanations for
cooperation . Current Biology , 17, R661-R672. Cover image . Higher resolution version of
cover image .
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S. & Gardner, A. (2007) Social semantics: altruism,
cooperation, mutualism, strong reciprocity and group selection .
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20, 415-432. {Faculty of 1000}
West, S.A., Diggle, S.P., Buckling, A., Gardner, A. &
Griffin, A.S. (2007) The
social lives of microbes . Annual Review of Ecology,
Evolution and Systematics , 38, 53-77.
Wild, G. & West, S.A. (2007) A sex allocation theory for
vertebrates: combining local resource competition and
condition-dependent allocation . American Naturalist
170, E112-E128.
Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2006) Demography, altruism, and
the benefits of budding. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology 19, 1707-1716. Media.
Gardner, A. & West. S.A. (2006) Spite . Current
Biology 16, R662-R664.
Innocent, T.M. & West, S.A. (2006) Social evolution:
cooperation by conflict . Current Biology . 16,
R365-R367.
Killick, S.C., Carlsson, A.M., West, S.A. & Little, T.J.
(2006) Testing the pluralist
approach to sex: the influence of environment on synergistic
interactions between mutation load and parasitism in Daphnia
magna . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19,
1603-1611.
Nee, S., Colegrave, N., West, S.A. & Grafen, A. (2006) Response to comment on “The
illusion of invariant quantities in life-histories” . Science
312, 198c. This was a reply to Savage
et
al.'s comment on our invariant
illusion
2005 paper .
Shuker, D.M., Pen, I. & West, S.A (2006) Sex ratios under
asymmetrical local mate competition in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia
vitripennis . Behavioral Ecology 17, 345-352.
Shuker, D.M., Sykes, E.M., Browning, L.E., Beukeboom, L.W.
& West, S.A. (2006) Male
influence on sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia
vitripennis . Behavioral Ecology &
Sociobiology 59, 829-835.
West, S.A., Gardner, A., & Griffin, A.S. (2006) Altruism . Current
Biology 16, R482-R483.
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S., Gardner, A. & Diggle, S.P.
(2006) Social evolution
theory for microbes . Nature Reviews Microbiology 4,
597-607. About
the cover . Cover
image .
West, S.A., Gardner, A., Shuker, D.M., Reynolds, T.,
Burton-Chellow, M., Sykes, E.M., Guinee, M.A. & Griffin,
A.S. (2006) Cooperation and
the scale of competition in humans . Current Biology 16,
1103-1106.
{Current
Biology Commentary} F1000 {Media}
Cook, J.M. & West, S.A. (2005) Figs and fig wasps . Current
Biology 15, R978-R980.
Gardner, A., Alsop, D.J., Charnov, E.L. & West, S.A.
(2005) A dimensionless
invariant for relative size at sex change in animals:
explanation and implications . American Naturalist,
165, 551-566.
Griffin, A.S., Sheldon, B.C. & West, S.A. (2005) Cooperative breeders adjust
offspring sex ratios to produce helpful helpers . American
Naturalist 166, 628-632.
Guinnee, M.A., Bernal, J.S., Bezemer, T.M., Fidgen, J.G.,
Hardy, I.C.W., Mayhew P.J., Mills, N.J. & West, S.A. (2005)
Testing predictions of small
brood models using parasitoid wasps . Evolutionary
Ecology Research 7, 779-794.
Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Godfray, H.C.J., West, S.A., Hansson, C.
& Cook, J.M. (2005) The evolution of host
use and unusual reproductive strategies in Achrysocharoides
parasitoid wasps . Journal of Evolutionary Biology
18, 1029-1041.
Nee, S., Colegrave, N., West, S.A. & Grafen, A.
(2005) The illusion of
invariant quantities in life-histories . Science 309,
1236-1239 {Science
perspective} {Media} F1000
Reece, S.E, Duncan, A.B., West, S.A. & Read, A.F. (2005) Host cell preference and variable
transmission strategies in malaria parasites . Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B 272, 511-517.
Rivero, A. & West, S.A. (2005) The costs of host feeding in
parasitoids . Animal Behaviour 69, 1293-1301.
Shuker, D.M., Pen, I., Duncan, A.B., Reece, S.E. & West,
S.A. (2005) Sex ratios under
asymmetrical local mate competition: theory and a test with
parasitoid wasps . American Naturalist 166,
301-316.
Sykes, E.M. & West, S.A. (2005) Evolution: Revenge of the
clones! Current Biology 15, 547-548.
West, S.A., Shuker, D.M. & Sheldon, B.C. (2005) Sex ratio adjustment when
relatives interact: a test of constraints on adaptation . Evolution
59, 1211-1228. {PDF}
West, S.A. (2005) Of bubbles,
landscapes, and vines . Science , 308, 53-54.
Allsop, D.J. & West, S.A. (2004) Changing sex at
the same relative body size (reply). Nature , 428.
Allsop, D.J. & West, S.A. (2004) Sex ratio evolution in sex
changing animals . Evolution , 58, 1019-1027. {Supplementary
Information }
Allsop, D.J. & West, S.A. (2004) Sex allocation in the
sex changing marine goby Coryphopterus personatus on atoll
fringing reefs . Evolutionary Ecology Research , 6,
843-855.
Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2004) Spite among siblings. Science ,
305, 1413-1414.
Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2004) Cooperation and
punishment, especially in humans. American Naturalist ,
164, 753-764.
Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2004) Spite and the scale of
competition. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17,
1195-1203. {Media}
Gardner, A., West, S.A. & Buckling, A. (2004) Bacteriocins, spite and
virulence. Proceedings of the Royal Society London
Series B , 271, 1529-1535. {Science
perspective} {Media}
Griffin, A.S., West, S.A. & Buckling, A. (2004) Cooperation and competition in
pathogenic bacteria. Nature , 430, 1024-1027.
{Nature News & Views}
{Science perspective}
F1000 {Media}
Guinnee, M.A. West, S.A. & Little, T.J. (2004) Testing small integer clutch
size models with Daphnia . American Naturalist ,
163, 880-887.
Reece, S.E., Shuker, D.M., Pen, I. Duncan, A.B., Choudhary,
A., Batchelor, C.M. & West, S.A. (2004) Kin discrimination and sex ratios
in a parasitoid wasp . Journal of Evolutionary Biology ,
17, 208-216.
Sheldon, B.C & West, S.A. (2004) Maternal Dominance,
maternal condition, and offspring sex ratio in ungulate
mammals . American Naturalist, 163, 40-54. {Supplementary
Info} {Media}
Shuker, D.M. & West, S.A. (2004) Information constraints and
the precision of adaptation . Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science, USA , 101, 10363-10367. {Current Biology Commentary}
{Faculty
of 100 Commentary}
Shuker, D.M., Reece, S.E., Whitehorn, P.R. & West, S.A.
(2004) Sib-mating does not
lead to facultative sex ratio adjustment in the parasitoid
wasp, Nasonia vitripennis . Evolutionary
Ecology Research, 6, 473-480.
Shuker, D.M., Reece, S.E., Taylor, J. & West, S.A. (2004)
Wasp sex ratios when
females on a patch can be related . Animal Behaviour ,
68, 331-336.
Allsop, D.J. & West, S.A. (2003) Constant relative age and
size at sex change in sequentially hermaphroditic fish . Journal
of Evolutionary Biology , 16, 921-929. {Planet Earth
Article}
Allsop, D.J. & West, S.A. (2003) Changing sex at the same
relative size body size . Nature , 425, 783-784. {Supplementary Info} {Media}
Cunningham, J.P., Moore, C.J., Zalucki, M.P. & West, S.A.
(2003) Learning, odour
preference and flower foraging in moths . Journal of
Experimental Biology, 207, 87-94.
Denison, R.F., Kiers, E.T. & West, S.A. (2003) Darwinian agriculture: when
can humans find solutions beyond the reach of natural
selection? Quarterly Review of Biology, 78,
145-168. {Darwinian
Agriculture Homepage}
Gardner, A., Reece, S.E. & West, S.A. (2003) Even more extreme fertility
insurance and the sex ratios of protozoan blood parasites.
Journal of Theoretical Biology , 223, 515-521.
Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2003) Kin discrimination and the
benefit of helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates .
Science , 302, 634-636. {Media}
Kiers, E.T., Rousseau, R.A., West, S.A. & Denison, R.F.
(2003) Host sanctions and the
legume-rhizobia mutualism . Nature , 425, 78-81. F1000 {Media}
Reece, S.E., Duncan, A.B., West, S.A. & Read, A.F. (2003)
Sex ratios in the rodent
malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi . Parasitology ,
127, 419-425. {Supplementary
Info}
Rivero, A., Balloux, F. & West, S.A. (2003) Testing for epistasis
between deleterious mutations in a parasitoid wasp . Evolution ,
57, 1698-1703.
West, S.A., Reece, S.E. & Read, A.F. (2003) Toxoplasma gondii, sex and
premature rejection . Trends in Parasitology , 19,
155-157. {This was a reply to
Ferguson 2002}
West, S.A. & Buckling, A. (2003) Cooperation, virulence and
siderophore production in bacterial parasites. Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B 270, 37-44.
Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2002) Kin selection: fact and
fiction. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 17,
15-21.
Kiers, E.T., West, S.A. & Denison, R.F. (2002) Mediating mutualisms: Farm
management practises and evolutionary changes in symbiont
cooperation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 39, 745-754.
Nee, S., West, S.A. & Read, A.F. (2002) Inbreeding and parasite sex
ratios. Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series
B . 269, 755-760.
Reece, S.E., Broderick, A.C., Godley, B.J. & West, S.A.
(2002) The effects of
incubation environment, sex and pedigree on the hatchling
phenotype in a natural population of loggerhead turtles. Evolutionary
Ecology Research , 4, 737-748.
Rivero, A. & West, S.A. (2002) The physiological cost of being
small in a parasitic wasp. Evolutionary Ecology
Research , 4, 407-420.
Rokas, A., Atkinson, R.J., Nieves-Aldrey, J-L., West, S.A.
& Stone, G.N. (2002) The
incidence and diversity of Wolbachia in gallwasps
(Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on oak. Molecular Ecology ,
11, 1815-1829.
West, S.A. & Cunningham, J.P. (2002) A general model for host
plant selection in phytophagous insects. Journal of
Theoretical Biology , 214, 499-513.
West, S.A. & Sheldon, B.C. (2002) Constraints in the
evolution of sex ratio adjustment . Science , 295,
1685-1688. {TREE commentary}
{Supplementary
Information }
West, S.A., Pen, I. Griffin, A.S. (2002) Cooperation and competition
between relatives . Science , 296, 72-75. {Supplementary Information }
West, S.A., Reece, S.E. & Sheldon, B.C. (2002) Sex Ratios. Heredity ,
88, 117-124.
West, S.A., Kiers, E.T., Pen, I. & Denison, R.F. (2002) Sanctions and mutualism
stability: when should less beneficial mutualists be
tolerated? Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 15,
830-837.
West, S.A., Kiers, E.T., Simms, E.L. & Denison, R.F.
(2002) Sanctions and
mutualism stability: why do rhizobia fix Nitrogen? Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B , 269, 685-694.
West, S.A., Smith, T.G., Nee, S. & Read, A.F. (2002) Fertility insurance and
the sex ratios of malaria and related hemospororin blood
parasites. Journal of Parasitology , 88, 258-263.
Cunningham, J.P., West, S.A. & Zalucki, M.P. (2001) Host Selection in Phytophagous
Insects: a new explanation for learning in adults. Oikos, 95,
537-543.
Rokas, A., Atkinson, R.J., Brown, G.S., West, S.A. &
Stone, G.N. (2001) Does
Wolbachia have any effect on the phylogeographic history of
the oak gallwasp Biorhiza pallida ? Heredity, 87,
294-304.
Weiblen, G.D., Yu, D.W. & West, S.A. (2001) Pollination and parasitism in
functionally dioecious figs. Proceedings of the Royal
Society London Series B . 268, 651-659.
West, S.A., Flanagan, K.E. & Godfray, H.C.J. (2001) Variable host quality,
life-history invariants and the reproductive strategy of a
parasitoid wasp that produces single sex broods. Behavioral
Ecology , 5, 577-583.
West, S.A., Reece, S.E. & Read, A.F. (2001) The evolution of gametocyte
sex ratios in malaria and related apicomplexan (protozoan)
parasites. Trends in Parasitology , 17, 525-531.
West, S.A., Gemmill, A.W., Graham, A., Viney, M.E. &
Read, A.F. (2001) Immune stress
and facultative sex in a parasitic nematode. Journal
of Evolutionary Biology , 14, 333-337.
West, S.A., Murray, M.G, Machado, C., Griffin, A.S. &
Herre, E.A. (2001) Testing
Hamilton’s rule with competition between relatives . Nature ,
409, 510-513. {TREE
commentary} {Media}
Pickering, J., Read, A.F., Guerrero, S. & West, S.A.
(2000) Sex ratio and virulence in
two species of lizard malaria parasites. Evolutionary
Ecology Research , 2, 171-184.
West, S.A. & Peters, A. (2000) Paying for sex is not easy. Nature ,
407, 962. This was a comment on the Doncaster et al 2000 paper
(their reply was rejected).
West, S.A. & Rivero, A. (2000) Using sex ratios to estimate what
limits reproduction in parasitoids. Ecological Letters ,
3, 294-299.
West, S.A., Herre, E.A. & Sheldon, B.C. (2000) The benefits of allocating
sex . Science , 290, 288-290.
West, S.A., Smith, T.G. & Read, A.F. (2000) Sex allocation and population
structure in Apicomplexan (protozoa) parasites. Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B , 267, 257-264.
Cunningham, J.P., Zalucki, M. P. & West, S.A. (1999) Learning in Helicoverpa
armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): a new look at the behaviour
and control of a polyphagous pest. Bulletin of
Entomological Research , 89, 201-207.
Hurst, G.D.D., Jiggins, F.M., von der Schulenburg, J.H.G.,
Bertrand, D., West, S.A., Goriacheva, I.I., Zakharov, I.A.,
Werren, J.H., Stouthamer, R. & Majerus, M.E.N. (1999) Male-killing Wolbachia in two
species of insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society
London Series B , 266, 735-740.
Martins, R.P., Antonini, Y., de Silveira, F.A., & West,
S.A. (1999) Seasonal variation
in the sex allocation of a neotropical bee. Behavioral
Ecology , 10, 401-408.
West, S.A., Flanagan, K.E. & Godfray, H.C.J. (1999) Sex allocation and clutch size in
parasitoid wasps that produce single sex broods. Animal
Behaviour , 57, 265-275.
West, S.A., Lively, C.M. & Read, A.F. (1999) A pluralist approach to sex and
recombination . Journal of Evolutionary Biology ,
12, 1003-1012. {PDF of paper
& all commentaries}
West, S.A., Lively, C.M. & Read, A.F. (1999) Sex may need more than one.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology , 12, 1053-1055.
Cunningham, J.P., West, S.A. & Wright, D.J. (1998) Learning in the nectar
foraging behaviour of Helicoverpa armigera. Ecological
Entomology , 23, 363-369.
Flanagan, K.E., West, S.A. & Godfray, H.C.J. (1998) Local mate competition,
variable fecundity, and information use in a parasitoid. Animal
Behaviour , 56, 191-198.
Gemmill, A. W. & West, S.A. (1998) Influence of rat
strain on patterns of larval production by the parasitic
nematode Strongyloides ratti. Journal of Parasitology ,
84, 1289-1291.
West, S.A. & Herre, E.A. (1998) Stabilizing selection
and variance in fig wasp sex ratios. Evolution ,
52, 475-485.
West, S.A. & Herre, E.A. (1998) Partial local mate
competition and the sex ratio: a study on non-pollinating fig
wasps. Journal of Evolutionary Biology , 11,
531-548. {TREE
commentary}
West, S.A., Peters, A.D. & Barton, N.H. (1998) Testing for epistasis
between deleterious mutations. Genetics . 149,
435-444.
West, S.A., Cook, J.M., Werren, J.H. & Godfray, H.C.J.
(1998) Wolbachia in two insect
host-parasitoid communities. Molecular Ecology , 7,
1457-1465.
West, S.A., Compton, S.G., Vincent, S.L., Herre, E.A. &
Cook, J.M. (1998) Virginity
in haplodiploid populations: a comparison of estimation
methods. Ecological Entomology, 23, 207-210.
Cook, J.M., Compton, S.G., Herre, E.A. & West, S.A.
(1997) Alternative mating tactics
and extreme male dimorphism in fig wasps. Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B , 264, 747-754.
Herre, E.A. & West, S.A. (1997) Conflict of interest in a
mutualism: documenting the elusive fig wasp/seed trade-off. Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B , 264, 1501-1507.
West, S.A. & Godfray, H.C.J. (1997) Sex ratio strategies after
perturbation of the stable age distribution. Journal
of Theoretical Biology , 186, 213-221.
West, S.A., Herre, E.A., Compton, S.G., Godfray, H.C.J.
& Cook, J.M. (1997) A
comparative study of virginity in fig wasps. Animal
Behaviour , 54, 437-450.
West, S.A., Flanagan, K.E. & Godfray, H.C.J. (1996) The relationship between
parasitoid size and fitness in the field, a study of
Achrysocharoides zwoelferi (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Journal
of Animal Ecology , 65, 631-639.
West, S.A., Herre, E.A., Windsor, D.W. & Green, P.R.S.
(1996) The ecology and
evolution of the New World non-pollinating fig wasp
communities . Journal of Biogeography , 23, 447-458.
West, S.A. & Herre, E.A. (1994) The ecology of the New World
fig-parasitising wasps Idarnes and implications for the
evolution of the fig-pollinator mutualism. Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B , 258, 67-72.
