Public goods

• Review: Evolution of cooperation in one-shot social dilemmas without assortment. J. Theor. Biol., in press (2012) [pdf] [with Istvan Scheuring]
• Economic game theory for mutualism and cooperation. Ecology Letters, 14: 1300-1312 (2011) [pdf] [with Istvan Scheuring, Moshe Hoffman, Megan Frederickson, Naomi Pierce, Doug Yu]
• Coexistence of cooperation and defection in public goods games. Evolution 65: 1140-1148 (2011) [pdf] [with Istvan Scheuring]
• A strategy to increase cooperation in the volunteer’s dilemma: reducing vigilance improves alarm calls. Evolution 65: 885-892 (2011) [pdf]
• Cooperation as a volunteer's dilemma and the strategy of conflict in public goods games. J. Evol. Biol. 22: 2192-2200 (2009) [pdf]
• The volunteer's dilemma and the optimal size of a social group. J. Theor. Biol. 261: 475-480 (2009) [pdf]

Duels

• Survival of the weakest in N-person duels and the maintenance of variation under constant selection. Evolution, in press (2012) [pdf]

Mechanism design for partner choice

• Let the right one in: a microeconomic approach to partner choice in mutualisms. American Naturalist 177: 75-85 (2011) [pdf] [with Francisco Ubeda, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry Green, Naomi Pierce, Doug Yu]
• Contract theory for the evolution of cooperation: the right incentives attract the right partners. J. Theor. Biol.269: 201-207 (2011) [pdf]

Evolution of monogamy

• Evolution of monogamous marriage by maximization of inclusive fitness. J. Evol. Biol. 23: 149-155 (2010) [pdf] [with Laura Fortunato]

Kin selection in structured populations

• Natural selection of altruism in inelastic homogeneous viscous populations. J. Theor. Biol. 252: 694-710 (2008) [pdf] [with Alan Grafen]

PREVIOUS WORK

The 2-fold cost of meiosis and recombination

• Complementation, genetic conflict and the evolution of sex and recombination. J. Heredity 101 Suppl 1: S21-33 (2010) [pdf]
• Loss of complementation and the logic of two-step meiosis. J. Evol. Biol. 17: 1098-1105 (2004) [pdf]
• Recombination and loss of complementation: a more than twofold cost for parthenogenesis. J. Evol. Biol. 17: 1084-1097 (2004) [pdf]
• A selfish origin for recombination. J. Theor. Biol. 223: 335-346 (2003) [pdf]

Robustness and antirobustness

• Survival of the steepest: hypersensitivity to mutations as an adaptation to soft selection. J. Evol. Biol. 22: 740-750 (2009) [pdf]
• Genetic robustness at the codon level as a measure of selection. Gene 443: 64–69 (2009) [pdf]
• Genetic robustness and selection at the protein level for synonymous codons. J. Evol. Biol. 19: 353-365 (2006) [pdf] [supporting material]
• Selection on codon usage for error minimization at the protein level. J. Mol. Evol. 59: 400-415 (2004) [pdf]
• Codon usage bias and mutation constraints reduce the level of error minimization of the genetic code. J. Mol. Evol. 59: 258-266 (2004) [pdf]

Other evolutionary genetics

• Codon usage profiles: a novel tool for whole-genome analysis. Gene. 407: 30-41 (2008) [pdf] [with Hani Goodarzi, Noorossadat Torabi, Hamed Najafabadi]
• The evolution of the genetic code took place in an anaerobic environment. J. Theor. Biol. 245: 169-174 (2007) [pdf] [with Massimo DiGiulio]
• Accumulation of deleterious mutations in the genome of hybridogenetic organisms. J. Theor. Biol. 234: 151-152 (2005) [pdf

Experiments and data

• Loss of autumn colors under domestication: a byproduct of selection for fruit flavor? Plant Signal. Behav. 4: 856-858 (2009) [pdf]
• Evidence from the domestication of apple for the maintenance of autumn colours by coevolution. Proc. Royal Soc. B 276: 2575-2580 (2009) [pdf] [comment]
• Autumn leaves seen through herbivore eyes. Proc. Royal Soc. B 276: 121-127 (2009) [pdf] [with Thomas Doring and Jim Hardie]
• Phylogenetic analysis reveals a scattered distribution of autumn colours. Annals of Botany 103: 703-713 (2009) [pdf] [supporting material]
• Coevolution and the adaptive value of autumn tree colours: colour preference and growth rates of a southern beech aphid. J. Evol. Biol. 21: 49-56 (2008) [pdf] [with Claudio Ramirez and Blas Lavandero]
• A test of the coevolution theory of autumn colours: colour preference of Rhopalosiphum padi on Prunus padus. Oikos 110: 339-343 (2005) [pdf] [with Simon Leather]

Reviews and comments

• Ultraviolet reflectance, autumn leaves and the un-naming of colours. Trends Ecol. Evol. 24: 237-238 (2009) [pdf] [with 10 others]
• Unravelling the evolution of autumn colours: an interdisciplinary approach. Trends Ecol. Evol. 24: 166-173 (2009) [pdf] [with 10 others]
• Classification of hypotheses on the evolution of autumn colours. Oikos 118: 328-333 (2009) [pdf]
• Origin and evolution of autumn colours. New Phytologist 175: 9-13 (2008) [pdf] [with Helen Ougham and Sid Thomas]
• Colour preference as evidence for the theories on the evolution of autumn colours. J. Theor. Biol. 245: 595-596 (2007) [pdf]
• Putting red alerts in an ecological and evolutionary context. BioEssays 28: 959 (2006) [pdf] [with Sam Brown]
• The coevolution theory of autumn colours. Proc. Royal Soc. B 271: 1219-1223 (2004) [pdf] [with Sam Brown]

Theory

• Decoupling vigour and quality in the autumn colours game: weak individuals can signal, cheating can pay. J. Theor. Biol. 256:479-484 (2009) [pdf]
• Autumn colours and the nutrient retranslocation hypothesis: a theoretical assessment. J. Theor. Biol.244: 714-721 (2007) [pdf]
• The origin of autumn colours by coevolution. J. Theor. Biol. 205: 625-630 (2000) [pdf]