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| David F WestneatSummaryAffiliation: University of Kentucky Country: USA Publications
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No evidence of current sexual selection on sexually dimorphic traits in a bird with high variance in mating successDavid F Westneat
Department of Biology and Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
Am Nat 167:e171-89. 2006..The possible explanations for why add complexity to our understanding of how sexual selection operates...- Evolution in response to social selection: the importance of interactive effects of traits on fitnessDavid F Westneat
Department of Biology and Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0225, USA
Evolution 66:890-5. 2012.... 
Correlates of cell-mediated immunity in nestling house sparrowsDavid F Westneat
Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, 101 Morgan Building, Lexington, KY 40506 0225, USA
Oecologia 141:17-23. 2004..The approach used and the results obtained offer some new ideas for incorporating immune responses into life history theory...
Sexual conflict as a partitioning of selectionDavid F Westneat
Department of Biology and Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Kentucky, 101 Morgan Building, Lexington, KY 40506 0225, USA
Biol Lett 5:675-7. 2009..Use of selection theory resolves some terminological confusion, provides operational measures of conflict and generates a conceptual tool for parsing the causes and consequences of conflict in complex systems of male-female interactions...- Complex interactions among temporal variables affect the plasticity of clutch size in a multi-brooded birdDavid F Westneat
Department of Biology, Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, 101 Morgan Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0225, USA
Ecology 90:1162-74. 2009..We assess the possible mechanisms producing this reaction norm and discuss their implications for understanding complex plasticity... - Individual variation in parental care reaction norms: integration of personality and plasticityDavid F Westneat
Department of Biology and Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Am Nat 178:652-67. 2011..Explicit use of the behavioral reaction norm integrated personality and plasticity, revealed that these are not opposing concepts, and stimulated new hypotheses about sexual conflict over care and provisioning as a life-history trait... - Heterozygosity predicts clutch and egg size but not plasticity in a house sparrow population with no evidence of inbreedingDaniel P Wetzel
Department of Biology and Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Kentucky, 101 Morgan Building, Lexington, KY 40506 0225, USA
Mol Ecol 21:406-20. 2012..The existence of heterozygosity-fitness correlations in a population with considerable phenotypic plasticity and little inbreeding implies that the effects of heterozygosity may be more significant than previously thought... - Heterozygosity and extra-pair paternity: biased tests result from the use of shared markersDaniel P Wetzel
Department of Biology and Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0225, USA
Mol Ecol 18:2010-21. 2009..We suggest that further studies of heterozygosity and extra-pair paternity are important and likely to be informative, but our recommendations should be incorporated by researchers to improve the reliability of their conclusions... - Tests of spatial and temporal factors influencing extra-pair paternity in red-winged blackbirdsDavid F Westneat
Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Department of Biology, 101 Morgan Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0225, USA
Mol Ecol 14:2155-67. 2005..The high variability in who gained and lost paternity, and the limited impact of spatial and temporal factors influencing it, have some interesting implications for theories seeking to explain mating patterns...