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| Barry SinervoSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Frequency and density-dependent selection on life-history strategies--a field experimentTapio Mappes
Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
PLoS ONE 3:e1687. 2008..Nevertheless, it remains to be determined whether the origin of genetic variance in life-history traits is causally related to density variation (e.g. population cycles)...
The role of pleiotropy vs signaller-receiver gene epistasis in life history trade-offs: dissecting the genomic architecture of organismal design in social systemsB Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Heredity (Edinb) 101:197-211. 2008..Moreover, analyses of correlational selection and frequency-dependent selection are necessary to study epistatic social system trade-offs, which can be achieved with group-structured versions of Price's (1970) equation...
Density cycles and an offspring quantity and quality game driven by natural selectionB Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Nature 406:985-8. 2000..We confirmed this prediction by seeding field plots with rare and common giant hatchlings. Thus, intrinsic causes of frequency- and density-dependent selection promotes an evolutionary game with two-generation oscillations...- Maturational costs of reproduction due to clutch size and ontogenetic conflict as revealed in the invisible fractionBarry Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Proc Biol Sci 275:629-38. 2008..Such episodes of selection prior to phenotypic expression of the trait will have important consequences for the evolution of reproductive investment... - Models of density-dependent genic selection and a new rock-paper-scissors social systemBarry Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Am Nat 170:663-80. 2007..We suggest genic selection coupled to density regulation is widespread and thus fundamental to theories of social system evolution as well as theories of population regulation in diverse animal taxa... - Genetic and maternal determinants of effective dispersal: the effect of sire genotype and size at birth in side-blotched lizardsBarry Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Marine Sciences Building A316, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Am Nat 168:88-99. 2006..We discuss the adaptive implications of progeny dispersal in the context of male (rock-paper-scissors) and female strategies (r- and K-density cycle) that are associated with color morphs... - Self-recognition, color signals, and cycles of greenbeard mutualism and altruismBarry Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Earth and Marine Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:7372-7. 2006..Such cycles provide a mechanism encouraging the origin and stability of true altruism... - Morphs, dispersal behavior, genetic similarity, and the evolution of cooperationBarry Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Marine Sciences Building, A316, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Science 300:1949-51. 2003.... - Correlational selection and the evolution of genomic architectureB Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Heredity (Edinb) 89:329-38. 2002..We discuss the broader evolutionary consequences of the buildup of co-adapted trait complexes within species, such as the implications for speciation processes... - Runaway social games, genetic cycles driven by alternative male and female strategies, and the origin of morphsB Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Genetica 112:417-34. 2001..Finally, runaway ESS games are discussed in the context of self-reinforcing genetic correlations that build and promote the formation of morphotypic variation... - Testosterone, endurance, and Darwinian fitness: natural and sexual selection on the physiological bases of alternative male behaviors in side-blotched lizardsB Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Horm Behav 38:222-33. 2000..We discuss natural and sexual selection on physiological and behavioral traits that leads to the evolution of steroid regulation in the context of alternative male strategies... - Social causes of correlational selection and the resolution of a heritable throat color polymorphism in a lizardB Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Evolution 55:2040-52. 2001..We discuss general conditions for the evolution of self-reinforcing genetic correlations that arise from social selection associated with frequency-dependent sexual and natural selection... - The evolution of alternative reproductive strategies: fitness differential, heritability, and genetic correlation between the sexesB Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
J Hered 92:198-205. 2001.... - Erosion of lizard diversity by climate change and altered thermal nichesBarry Sinervo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Science 328:894-9. 2010.... - Gonadotropin hormone modulation of testosterone, immune function, performance, and behavioral trade-offs among male morphs of the lizard Uta stansburianaSuzanne C Mills
Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Am Nat 171:339-57. 2008..Gonadotropins clearly represent an important mechanism maintaining variation in physiological, morphological, and behavioral traits, as well as potentially maintaining the immunosuppression costs of male sexual signals... - Direct fitness correlates and thermal consequences of facultative aggregation in a desert lizardAlison R Davis Rabosky
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e40866. 2012..The temperature dependence of aggregation in this and other taxa suggests that environmental variation may be a powerful but underappreciated force in the rapid transition between social and solitary behavior... - Convergent evolution of kin-based sociality in a lizardAlison R Davis
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Proc Biol Sci 278:1507-14. 2011..We suggest that kin-based sociality in this and other lizards may be a by-product of viviparity, which can promote delayed juvenile dispersal by allowing prolonged interaction between a neonate and its mother... - Maternal adjustment of egg size organizes alternative escape behaviors, promoting adaptive phenotypic integrationLesley T Lancaster
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Evolution 64:1607-21. 2010..Furthermore, our results provide insight into the role of body shape in organizing (and constraining) evolution of integrated reproductive and antipredator strategies... - Alternative mating strategies and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in the side-blotched lizard, Uta stansburiana: a population-level comparative analysisAmmon Corl
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, EMS A316, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Evolution 64:79-96. 2010..Our results suggest that changes in mating strategies are associated with phenotypic diversification and multiple evolutionary forces can shape SSD... - Selective loss of polymorphic mating types is associated with rapid phenotypic evolution during morphic speciationAmmon Corl
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, EMS A316, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:4254-9. 2010..Polymorphism loss was associated with accelerated evolution of male size, female size, and sexual dimorphism, which suggests that polymorphism loss can promote rapid divergence among populations and aid species formation... - Within-clutch variation in offspring sex determined by differences in sire body size: cryptic mate choice in the wildRyan Calsbeek
Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90034, USA
J Evol Biol 17:464-70. 2004..Our results demonstrate highly refined gender-specific female choice for sperm and indicate that sire body size may signal the quality of sons or daughters that a sire will produce... - Uncoupling direct and indirect components of female choice in the wildRyan Calsbeek
Institute of the Environment, 1609 Hershey Hall, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1606, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:14897-902. 2002..Females used sperm from large sires to produce sons and sperm from small sires to produce daughters. Differential allocation of resources and progeny sex was adaptive and demonstrates a high degree of female control in the mating system... - Social competition, corticosterone and survival in female lizard morphsT Comendant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
J Evol Biol 16:948-55. 2003..These correlations, in conjunction with previous work in this system, indicate that corticosterone is likely to be an important physiological mechanism regulating female fitness in nature... - Heritable body size mediates apparent life-history trade-offs in a simultaneous hermaphroditeB L W Miller
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
J Evol Biol 20:1554-62. 2007..The mancova reveals physiological trade-offs among the components of fitness that were previously masked by high variation in body size... - Condition, genotype-by-environment interaction, and correlational selection in lizard life-history morphsE Svensson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Evolution 55:2053-69. 2001..We discuss the use of naturally occurring and conspicuous genetic polymorphisms in field studies of selection and life-history allocation... - Field physiology: physiological insights from animals in natureDaniel P Costa
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Annu Rev Physiol 66:209-38. 2004..We view this theme as the cornerstone of physiological analysis and supply a number of paradigms on homeostasis that have been tested in the context of field physiology... - Why does the yellow-eyed Ensatina have yellow eyes? Batesian mimicry of Pacific newts (genus Taricha) by the salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthopticaShawn R Kuchta
University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Marine Sciences, Room A316, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Evolution 62:984-90. 2008..These results support the mimicry hypothesis, and we suggest that E. e. xanthoptica is likely a Batesian mimic, rather a Müllerian or quasi-Batesian mimic, of Pacific newts... - Sexual selection and alternative mating behaviours generate demographic stochasticity in small populationsRyan Calsbeek
Department of Biology, Earth and Marine Sciences Building, A316, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Proc Biol Sci 269:157-64. 2002..This coexistence is facilitated by small population size. Our results have general implications for the evolution of alternative strategies and the maintenance of genetic diversity in small populations... - Experimental excursions on adaptive landscapes: density-dependent selection on egg sizeE Svensson
Department of Biology, Organismal and Population Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Evolution 54:1396-403. 2000..g., egg size) as well the environmental agents of selection (e.g., population density)... - Correlational selection on lay date and life-history traits: experimental manipulations of territory and nest site qualityRyan Calsbeek
Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
Evolution 61:1071-83. 2007..Results indicate the influence of environmental variation on correlational selection on life-history traits... - Spatial scale and temporal component of selection in side-blotched lizardsErik I Svensson
Department of Ecology, Section for Animal Ecology, Lund University, SE 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Am Nat 163:726-34. 2004.... - Socially mediated speciationMichael E Hochberg
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5554, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution, Universite Montpellier II, 34095 Montpellier, France
Evolution 57:154-8. 2003..Our theory provides a framework for how individual-level interactions mold lineage diversification, with parapatric speciation as a possible end product... - Corticosterone, locomotor performance, and metabolism in side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana)Donald B Miles
Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA
Horm Behav 51:548-54. 2007..Furthermore, stressed lizards are characterized by lower resting metabolic rates, which may serve as strategy to conserve energy stores and enhance survival...