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| Thomas W PikeSummaryAffiliation: University of Glasgow Country: UK Publications
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Experimental evidence that corticosterone affects offspring sex ratios in quailThomas W Pike
Evolution and Behaviour Research Group, School of Biology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Proc Biol Sci 273:1093-8. 2006..Our results suggest that corticosterone may be part of the sex-biasing process in birds...- Offspring sex ratio is related to paternal train elaboration and yolk corticosterone in peafowlThomas W Pike
Evolution and Behaviour Research Group, School of Biology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Biol Lett 1:204-7. 2005.... - Carotenoids, oxidative stress and female mating preference for longer lived malesThomas W Pike
Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Proc Biol Sci 274:1591-6. 2007.... - Availability of non-carotenoid antioxidants affects the expression of a carotenoid-based sexual ornamentThomas W Pike
Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Biol Lett 3:353-6. 2007..Our data suggest that carotenoid-based ornaments may honestly signal an individual's availability of non-carotenoid antioxidants, allowing females to make adaptive mate-choice decisions... - Dietary carotenoid availability, sexual signalling and functional fertility in sticklebacksThomas W Pike
Division of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Graham Kerr Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Biol Lett 6:191-3. 2010.... 
Optimization of resource allocation can explain the temporal dynamics and honesty of sexual signalsJan Lindström
Division of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
Am Nat 174:515-25. 2009..The key determinants of the honesty and dynamics of sexual signaling are the condition dependency of male survival, the initial frequency distribution of nutritional condition in the male population, and the cost of signaling...- Behavioural phenotype affects social interactions in an animal networkThomas W Pike
Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Proc Biol Sci 275:2515-20. 2008..The results show that animal social network structure can be affected by the behavioural composition of group members and have important implications for understanding the spread of information and disease in social groups... 
Variation in the peacock's train shows a genetic componentMarion Petrie
School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Genetica 135:7-11. 2009..This study adds to the building body of evidence that high levels of additive genetic variance can exist in secondary sexual traits under directional selection, but further emphasizes the main problem of what maintains this variation...- Conformist learning in nine-spined sticklebacks' foraging decisionsThomas W Pike
School of Biology, St Andrews University, St Andrews, UK
Biol Lett 6:466-8. 2010..Control conditions with non-feeding demonstrators showed that this was not simply the result of a preference for shoaling with larger groups, implying that nine-spined sticklebacks copy in a conformist manner... - Potential mechanisms of avian sex manipulationThomas W Pike
Evolution and Behaviour Research Group, School of Biology, Henry Wellcome Building, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4HH, UK
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 78:553-74. 2003..The ideas outlined in this review provide good starting points for testing the hypotheses both experimentally (behaviourally and physiologically) and theoretically...