Evolutionary ecology forum

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The Evolutionary ecology forum is a journal club for discussing recent papers about behavioural ecology and life history evolution.

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The optimal sampling strategy for unfamiliar prey

Time and place: Nov. 29, 2012 1:15 PM–2:00 PM, Seminar room 3315

Journal club: Evolutionary ecology forum on Sherratt T. 2011 Evolution 65 2014-2025.

Human origins and the transition from promiscuity to pair-bonding

Time and place: Oct. 31, 2012 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Akvariet

Journal club: Evolutionary ecology forum on Gavrilets (2012), PNAS, 109, 9923-9928.

Bet Hedging in Yeast by Heterogeneous, Age-Correlated Expression of a Stress Protectant

Time and place: Sep. 24, 2012 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Seminar room 3315

Journal club (EE Forum) on Levy et al. (2012) PLOS Biology, May.

The Evolution of Sex Is Favoured During Adaptation to New Environments

Time and place: Sep. 17, 2012 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Seminar room 3315

Journal club (EE Forum) on Becks & Agrawal (2012) PLoS Biol 10(5): e1001317.

Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality

Time and place: Sep. 12, 2012 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Seminar room 3315

Journal club: Evolutionary ecology forum

A Mechanism of Extreme Growth and Reliable Signaling in Sexually Selected Ornaments and Weapons

Time and place: Aug. 29, 2012 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Seminar room 3315

Journal club: Evolutionary ecology forum

Maternal exposure to predation risk decreases offspring antipredator behaviour and survival in threespined stickleback

Time and place: July 31, 2012 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Seminar room 3315

Journal club: Evolutionary ecology forum

The many costs of sex

Time and place: Feb. 28, 2012 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Seminar room 3315

Journal club: Evolutionary ecology forum

Individual deviation from behavioural correlations: a simple approach to study the evolution of behavioural syndromes

Time and place: Feb. 21, 2012 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Seminar room 3315

Journal club: Evolutionary ecology forum

Intraspecific variation in behaviour: effects of evolutionary history, ontogenetic experience and sex

Time and place: Nov. 7, 2011 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Rom 3315

Journal club (EE Forum) on Herczeg & Välimäki 2011 J. Evol. Biol. 24 2434–2444

Issues in information theory-based statistical inference—a commentary from a frequentist’s perspective

Time and place: Mar. 8, 2011 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Room 3315.

Journal club (EE Forum) on Mundry R. (2011) Behav Ecol Sociobiol (2011) 65:57–68

Genes as leaders and followers in evolution

Time and place: Mar. 1, 2011 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Room 3315

Journal club (EE Forum) on Schwander & Leimar (2011) TREE, 26, 143-151

Environmental Change Enhances Cognitive Abilities in Fish

Time and place: Feb. 22, 2011 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, Room 3315

Journal club (EE Forum) on Kotrschal & Taborsky (2010) PLOS Biology 8: e1000351

Females Use Multiple Mating and Genetically Loaded Sperm Competition to Target Compatible Genes

Time and place: Feb. 15, 2011 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, The "colloquium 2 suite" across room 3303.

Journal club (EE Forum) on Pryke et al. (2010) Science, 329, 964-967

Mating tactics determine patterns of condition dependence in a dimorphic horned beetle

Time and place: Feb. 1, 2011 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, The "colloquium 2 suite" across room 3303

Journal club (EE Forum) on Knell RJ, Simmons LW 2010 Proc. R. Soc. B 277: 2347-2353

Learned conspecific mate preference in a species pair of sticklebacks

Time and place: Dec. 7, 2010 11:15 AM–12:00 PM, The "colloquium 2 suite" across room 3303.

Journal club (EE Forum) on Kozak & Boughman (2009) Behav. Ecol. 20 1282-1288

New behavioural trait adopted or rejected by observing heterospecific tutor fitness

Time and place: Nov. 30, 2010 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, The "colloquium 2 suite" across room 3303.

Journal club (EE Forum) on Seppänen et al. (2010) Proc. R. Soc. B. (online edition).

Should I stay or should I go? The Ectodysplasin locus is associated with behavioural differences in threespine stickleback.

Time and place: Nov. 23, 2010 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, The "colloquium 2 suite" across room 3303.

Journal club (EE Forum) on Barrett et al. (2009) Biol. Lett. 5, 788-791.

Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory

Time and place: May 18, 2010 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, The "measurement suite" across room 3303.

Journal club (BE Forum) on Chevin et al (2010) PLOS Biology 8 (online)

Personality in captivity reflects personality in the wild

Time and place: Apr. 13, 2010 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, The "measurement suite" across room 3303.

Journal club (BE Forum) on Herborn et al (2010) Anim. Behav. 79 835-843

Low-quality females prefer low-quality males when choosing a mate

Time and place: Mar. 23, 2010 12:15 PM–12:15 PM, The "measurement suite" across room 3303.

Journal club (BE Forum) on Holveck and Riebel (2010) Proc. R. Soc. Lond (online edition)

Evolutionary emergence of responsive and unresponsive personalities

Time and place: Feb. 23, 2010 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, The "measurement suite" across room 3303

Journal club (BE Forum) on M Wolf, GS van Doorn, FJ Weissing (2008) PNAS 105 15825-15830

Exploration of a novel space is associated with individual differences in learning speed in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus

Time and place: Feb. 16, 2010 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, The "measurement suite" across room 3303.

Journal club (BE Forum) on Guilette et al. (2009) Behav. Proc. 82 265-270

Brain size, head size and behaviour of a passerine bird

Time and place: Feb. 9, 2010 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, The "measurement suite" across room 3303.

Journal club (BE Forum) on Møller A. P. 2010 J. Evol. Biol. 23 625-635

Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity

Time and place: Feb. 2, 2010 12:15 PM–1:00 PM, The "measurement suite" across room 3303

Journal club (BE Forum) on Dingemanse et al. 2010 TREE 25, 81-89

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