Gardner,
A.,
Alpedrinha,
J.
& West, S.A. (In press) Haplodiploidy
and
the
evolution
of eusociality: split sex ratios . American
Naturalist .
Leggett,
H.C., El Mouden, C., Wild, G. & West,
S.A. (In press) Promiscuity and the
evolution of cooperative breeding . Proceedings of the
Royal Society London
Series B.
Leggett,
H.C., Cornwallis, C. & West, S.A.
(In press) Mechanisms of pathogenesis, infective dose and virulence in
human
pathogens. PLoS Pathogens .
Scott-Phillips,
T.C., Blythe, R.A., Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (In press) How do
communication systems emerge? Proceedings
of the Royal Society London Series B.
Verbruggen,
E., El Mouden, C., Jansa, J., Akkermans, G., Bücking, H.,
West, S.A. & Kiers, E.T. (In press)
Spatial structure and inter-specific cooperation: theory and an
empirical test
using the mycorrhizal mutualism. American
Naturalist
Abbot
et al. (137 authors) (2011) Inclusive
fitness theory and eusociality . Nature
471, E1-E4. YouTube
Cartoon . {Media}
Biernaskie,
J., West, S.A. & Gardner, A. (2011) Are greenbeards
intragenomic outlaws? Evolution
65, 2729-2742.
Gardner,
A., West, S.A. & Wild, G. (2011) The
genetical
theory
of
kin
selection . Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 24, 1020-1043.
Herre,
E.A., Shuker, D.M. & West, S.A. (2011) Social evolution: evolving sex
ratios . Current Biology 21, R992-R994.
Innocent,
T.M., West, S.A., Sanderson, J.L.,
Hyrkkanen, N. & Reece, S.E. (2011) Lethal combat over limited
resources: testing the importance of competitors and kin . Behavioral
Ecology 22, 923-931.
Kiers,
E.T. , Duhamel, M., Beesetty, Y., Mensah, J.A., Franken, O.,
Verbruggen,
E.,
Fellbaum, C.R., Kowalchuk, G.A., Hart, M.M., Bago, A., Palmer, T.M.,
West, S.A., Vandenkoornhuyse, P.,
Jansa, J. & H. Bücking
(2011). Reciprocal rewards stabilize
cooperation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis . Science
333, 880-882. Perspective .
Media
Pannebakker,
B.A., Watt, R., Knott, S.A., West, S.A.
& Shuker, D.M. (2011) The
quantitative genetic basis of sex
ratio
variation in Nasonia vitripennis : a
QTL study . Journal of Evolutionary
Biology 24, 12-22.
Scott-Phillips,
T.C., Dickins, T.E. & West, S.A.
(2011) Evolutionary theory
and the ultimate/proximate distinction
in the
human behavioural sciences . Perspectives
on Psychological Science 61, 38-47. {Media}
West, S.A. (2011) A better view of eras of life . Science 331, 1519.
West, S.A. (2011) Lies we tell ourselves . Nature
478, 314-315.
West,
S.A., El Mouden, C. & Gardner, A. (2011) 16 common misconceptions about
the evolution of cooperation in humans . Evolution
and Human Behavior 32, 231-262. Supplementary
Information . {Media}
Wild,
G., Pizzari, T. & West, S.A. (2011) Sexual
conflict
in
viscous populations:
the effect of the timing of dispersal . Theoretical
Population Biology 80, 298-316.
Abe,
J., Innocent, T.M., Reece, S.E. & West,
S.A. (2010) Virginity and the
clutch size behavior of a parasitoid
wasp
where mothers mate their sons . Behavioral
Ecology 2 1, 730-738 .
Burton-Chellew,
M.N.,
Ross-Gillespie, A. & West, S.A. (2010) Cooperation in humans:
competition between groups and proximate
emotions . Evolution and Human
Behavior 31, 104-108.
Cornwallis,
C.K., West, S.A., Davies, K.E. &
Grifin, A.S. (2010) Promiscuity
and the evolutionary transition to complex
societies . Nature 466, 969-972. Supplementary Information .
News & Views . Faculty of
1000 . {Media} Corrections &
Updates
El
Mouden, C., West, S.A. & Gardner, A. (2010) The enforcement of
cooperation
by policing . Evolution 64 , 2139-2152 .
Gardner, A. &
West, S.A. (2010) Greenbeards . Evolution 64, 25-38.
Innocent, T.M.,
Abe, J., West, S.A. & Reece, S.E.
(2010) Competition between
relatives
and the evolution of dispersal
in a parasitoid wasp . Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 23, 1374-1385 .
Jiricny,
N., Diggle, S.P., West, S.A., Evans,
B.A., Ballantyne, G., Ross-Gillespie, A. & Griffin, A.S. (2010) Fitness
correlates with the extent of cheating in a bacterium.
Journal
of
Evolutionary
Biology 23 , 738-747 .
Kümmerli,
R., Burton-Chellew, M.N., Ross-Gillespie, A. & West, S.A. (2010) Resistance to extreme
strategies, rather than
prosocial preferences, can explain human cooperation in public goods
games . Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science, USA
107,
10125-10130 . TREE Commentary . {Media}
Kümmerli,
R., van den Berg, P., Griffin, A.S., West,
S.A. & Gardner, A. (2010) Repression
of
competition
favours
cooperation:
experimental
evidence
from
bacteria . Journal
of
Evolutionary
Biology 23, 699-706.
Lewis,
H.M., Tosh, C.R., O’Keefe, S., Shuker, D.M., West, S.A. & Mayhew,
P.M. (2010) Constraints on adaptation:
explaining deviation from optimal sex ratio using artificial neural
networks . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23,
1708-1719.
Ross,
L., Lagenhof, M.B.W., Pen, I., Beukeboom, I., West, S.A.
& Shuker, D.M. (2010) Sex
allocation in a species
with Paternal Genome Elimination: clarifying the role of crowding and
female
age in the mealybug Planococcus citri . Evolutionary
Ecology Research 12, 89-104.
West, S.A. & Gardner, A. (2010) Altruism, spite
and greenbeards . Science 327, 1341-1344.
Wild,
G., Gardner, A. & West, S.A.
(2010) Multilevel and kin selection in
a connected world . Nature 463, E9-E10. This was a
reply to the comment by Wade et al .
Abe, J., Kamimura, Y, Shimada, M & West, S.A. (2009) Extremely female biased primary sex ratio
and precisely constant male production in a parasitoid wasp Melittobia .
Animal Behaviour 78,
515-523.
Brown, S.P., West, S.A., Diggle, S.P. & Griffin, A.S. (2009).
Social evolution in microorganisms
and a Trojan horse approach
to medical intervention strategies . Philosophical
Transactions of The Royal Society 364, 3157-3168. Journal Cover . Buy
the
special
issue .
Clutton-Brock, T., West, S.A., Ratnieks, F. & Foley, R. The evolution of society . Philosophical Transactions of The
Royal Society 364, 3127-3133. Journal Cover . Buy
the
special
issue .
Cornwallis, C., West, S.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2009) Routes
to indirect fitness in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: kin
discrimination and limited dispersal . Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 22, 2445-2457.
Kümmerli, R., Gardner, A., West, S.A. & Griffin, A.S.
(2009) Limited dispersal,
budding dispersal, and cooperation: an experimental study . Evolution 63, 939-949. 2009). Indian
J
Microbiol
Commentary .
Kümmerli, R., Griffin, A.S., West, S.A., Buckling, A. &
Harrison, F. (2009) Viscous
medium promotes cooperation in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas
aeruginosa . Proceedings of the
Royal Society London Series B 276, 3531-3538. {Media}
Kümmerli, R., Jiricny, N., Clarke, S., West, S.A. &
Griffin, A.S. (2009) Phenotypic
plasticity of a cooperative behaviour in bacteria . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22,
589-598.
Moore, J.C., Obbard, D.J., Reuter, C., West, S.A. & Cook,
J.M. (2009) Male morphology and
dishonest signalling in a fig wasp . Animal Behaviour 78, 147-153.
Ross-Gillespie, A., Gardner, A., Buckling, A., West, S.A. &
Griffin, A.S. (2009) Density
dependence and cooperation: theory and a test with bacteria . Evolution 63, 2315-2325.
Rumbaugh, K.P., Diggle, S.P., Watters, C.M., Ross-Gillespie, A.,
Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2009). Quorum sensing and the social
evolution of bacterial virulence . Current
Biology 19, 341-345. {Media}
West, S.A. & Kiers, E.T. (2009) Evolution:
what is an organism? Current Biology 19,
R1080-R1082.
Wild, G. & West, S.A. (2009) Genomic
imprinting
and
sex
allocation . American
Naturalist 173, E1-E14.
Wild, G., Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2009) Adaptation and the evolution of parasite
virulence in a connected world . Nature
459, 983-986. {Faculty
of
1000} {Media} {Comment & reply }
Burton-Chellew, M.N., Koevoets, T., Grillenberger, B.K, Sykes,
E.M., Underwood, S.L., Bijlsma, K., Gadau, J., van de Zande, L.,
Beukeboom, L.W., West, S.A. & Shuker, D.M. (2008) Facultative sex ratio adjustment
in natural populations of wasps: cues of local mate competition and the
precision of adaptation . American
Naturalist
172, 393-404.
Cunningham, J.P. & West, S.A. (2008) Host plant
variability influences the advantages to learning: a theoretical model
for oviposition behaviour in Lepidoptera . Journal of Theoretical
Biology 251, 404-410
Killick, S.C., Obbard, D.J., West, S.A. & Little, T.J. (2008)
Parasitism and breeding system
variation in North American Daphnia
pulex . Ecological Research 235-240.
Meunier, J., West, S.A. & Chapuisat, M. (2008) Split sex
ratios in the social Hymenoptera: a meta-analysis . Behavioral
Ecology 19, 382-390.
Moore, J.C., Reuter, C., West, S.A. & Cook, J.M. (2008) Male fighting strategies in two
species of fig wasp . Animal
Behaviour 76, 315-322.
Pannebakker, B.A., Halligan, D.L., Reynolds, K.T., Ballantyne,
G.A., Shuker, D.M., Barton, N. & West, S.A. (2008) Effects of
spontaneous mutation accumulation on sex ratio traits in a parasitoid .
Evolution 62, 1921-1935.
Racey, D. & West, S.A. (2008) Evolution
and
the
curriculum . Student BMJ
16, 148-149.
Sykes, E.M., Innocent, T.M., Pen, I., Shuker, D.M. & West,
S.A. (2008) Erratum - Asymmetric
larval competition in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis: a role
in sex allocation. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 62,
853-854.
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S. & Gardner, A. (2008) Social semantics: how useful has
group selection been? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21,
374-385. This was a reply to DS Wilson's
comment on our 2007 Social
Semantics review . {Media} {Faculty of 1000}
Buckling, A., Harrison, F., Vos, M., Brockhurst, M.A., Gardner,
A., West, S.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2007) Siderophore-mediated cooperation and
virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa . FEMS Microbiology Ecology
62, 135-141.
Burton-Chellew, M.N., Beukeboom, L.W., West, S.A. & Shuker,
D.M. (2007) Laboratory
evolution of polyandry in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis .
Animal Behaviour 74, 1147-1154.
Burton-Chellew, M.N., Sykes, E.M., Patterson, S., Shuker, D.M.
&West, S.A. (2007) The
cost
of
mating
and
the
relationship
between
body
size
and
fitness
in
males
of
the
parasitoid
wasp
Nasonia vitripennis . Evolutionary
Ecology
Research 9, 921-934.
Diggle, S.P., Griffin, A.S., Campbell, G.S. & West. S.A.
(2007) Cooperation and conflict
in quorum-sensing bacterial populations . Nature 450,
411-414. {Media} {Making the paper} {Editorial} {Faculty of 1000} {Letter to Nature }
Diggle, S.P., Gardner, A., West. S.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2007) Evolutionary theory of bacterial quorum
sensing: when is a signal not a signal? Philosophical
Transactions of The Royal Society .
Gardner, A. & West. S.A. (2007) Social evolution: decline and fall of
genetic kin recognition . Current Biology 17,
R810-R812. {Media}
Gardner, A., West. S.A. & Barton, N.H. (2007) The relation between
multilocus population
genetics and social evolution theory . American Naturalist 169,
207-226.
Gardner, A., West. S.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2007) Is bacterial persistence a social
trait? PLOS One , 2(8), e752. {leave
a
comment} {Media}
Gardner, A., Hardy, I.C.W., Taylor, P.D. & West. S.A. (2007) Spiteful soldier production in
polyembryonic parasitoid wasps . American Naturalist 169,
519-533.
Guinnee, M.A., Gardner, A., Howard, A.E., West, S.A. &
Little, T.J. (2007) The causes and
consequences of variation in offspring size: a case study using Daphnia .
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20, 577-587.
Reece, S.E., Innocent, T.M. & West, S.A. (2007) Lethal combat in the parasitoid
Melitobia acasta: are size and competitive environment important? Animal
Behaviour 74, 1163-1169.
Innocent, T.M., Savage, J., West, S.A. & Reece, S.E. (2007) Lethal combat and sex ratio evolution
in a parasitoid wasp . Behavioral Ecology , 18, 709-715.
Lehmann, L., Keller, L., West, S.A. & Roze, D. (2007) Group selection and kin selection. Two
concepts but one process . Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science, USA , 104, 6736-6739. This was a comment on the Traulsen & Nowak 2006 paper .
Ross-Gillespie, A., Gardner, A., West, S.A. & Griffin, A.S.
(2007) Frequency dependence
and cooperation: theory and a test with bacteria . American
Naturalist , 170, 331-342.
Shuker, D.M., Philimore, A.J., Burton-Chellew, M., Hodge,
S.E. & West, S.A. (2007) The
quantitative genetic basis of polyandry in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia
vitripennis . Heredity 98, 69-73.
Shuker, D.M., Reece, S.E., Lee, A. Graham, A., Duncan, A.B. &
West, S.A. (2007). Information
use
in
space
and
time:
sex
allocation
behaviour
in
the
parasitoid
wasp
Nasonia
vitripennis . Animal Behaviour , 73, 971-977.
Sykes, E.M., Innocent, T.M., Pen, I., Shuker, D.M. & West,
S.A. (2007) Asymmetric larval
competition in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis: a role in sex
allocation . Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology , 61,
1751-1758. {Erratum )
West, S.A. (2007) Your top
tables - Kebab Mahal . Waitrose Food Illustrated 93, 100.
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S. & Gardner, A. (2007) Evolutionary explanations for
cooperation . Current Biology , 17, R661-R672. Cover image . Higher resolution version of cover
image .
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S. & Gardner, A. (2007) Social semantics: altruism, cooperation,
mutualism, strong reciprocity and group selection . Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 20, 415-432. {Faculty of 1000}
West, S.A., Diggle, S.P., Buckling, A., Gardner, A. &
Griffin, A.S. (2007) The social
lives of microbes . Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and
Systematics , 38, 53-77.
Wild, G. & West, S.A. (2007) A
sex allocation theory for vertebrates: combining local resource
competition and condition-dependent allocation . American
Naturalist 170, E112-E128.
Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2006) Demography, altruism, and the benefits
of budding. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19, 1707-1716.
Gardner, A. & West. S.A. (2006) Spite . Current Biology
16, R662-R664.
Innocent, T.M. & West, S.A. (2006) Social evolution: cooperation by
conflict . Current Biology . 16, R365-R367.
Killick, S.C., Carlsson, A.M., West, S.A. &
Little, T.J. (2006) Testing the
pluralist approach to sex: the influence of environment on synergistic
interactions between mutation load and parasitism in Daphnia magna .
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19, 1603-1611.
Nee, S., Colegrave, N., West, S.A. & Grafen,
A. (2006) Response to comment on “The
illusion of invariant quantities in life-histories” . Science
312, 198c. This was a reply to Savage
et al.'s comment on our invariant
illusion 2005 paper .
Shuker, D.M., Pen, I. & West, S.A (2006) Sex ratios under asymmetrical
local mate competition in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis .
Behavioral Ecology 17, 345-352.
Shuker, D.M., Sykes, E.M., Browning, L.E.,
Beukeboom, L.W. & West, S.A. (2006) Male influence on sex allocation
in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis . Behavioral
Ecology & Sociobiology 59, 829-835.
West, S.A., Gardner, A., & Griffin, A.S. (2006) Altruism . Current Biology
16, R482-R483.
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S., Gardner, A. &
Diggle, S.P. (2006) Social
evolution theory for microbes . Nature Reviews Microbiology 4,
597-607.
About
the
cover . Cover image .
West, S.A., Gardner, A., Shuker, D.M., Reynolds, T.,
Burton-Chellow, M., Sykes, E.M., Guinee, M.A. & Griffin, A.S.
(2006) Cooperation and the
scale of competition in humans . Current Biology 16,
1103-1106. {Current
Biology Commentary} {Media}
Cook, J.M. & West, S.A. (2005) Figs
and
fig
wasps . Current Biology
15, R978-R980.
Gardner, A., Alsop, D.J., Charnov, E.L.
& West, S.A. (2005) A
dimensionless invariant for relative size at sex change in animals:
explanation and implications . American Naturalist, 165,
551-566.
Griffin, A.S., Sheldon, B.C. & West, S.A. (2005) Cooperative breeders adjust offspring
sex ratios to produce helpful helpers . American Naturalist
166, 628-632.
Guinnee, M.A., Bernal, J.S., Bezemer, T.M., Fidgen, J.G., Hardy,
I.C.W., Mayhew P.J., Mills, N.J. & West, S.A. (2005) Testing predictions of small brood
models using parasitoid wasps . Evolutionary Ecology Research
7, 779-794.
Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Godfray, H.C.J., West, S.A., Hansson, C.
& Cook, J.M. (2005) The
evolution of host use and
unusual reproductive strategies in Achrysocharoides parasitoid
wasps . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18, 1029-1041.
Nee, S., Colegrave, N., West, S.A. &
Grafen, A. (2005) The illusion of
invariant quantities in life-histories . Science 309,
1236-1239 {Science perspective}
{Media}
Reece, S.E, Duncan, A.B., West, S.A. &
Read, A.F. (2005) Host cell preference
and variable transmission strategies in malaria parasites . Proceedings
of
the
Royal
Society
London
Series
B
272, 511-517.
Rivero, A. & West, S.A. (2005) The costs of host feeding in parasitoids .
Animal Behaviour 69, 1293-1301.
Shuker, D.M., Pen, I., Duncan, A.B., Reece, S.E. & West, S.A.
(2005) Sex ratios under asymmetrical
local mate competition: theory and a test with parasitoid wasps . American
Naturalist
166, 301-316.
Sykes, E.M. & West, S.A. (2005) Evolution: Revenge of the clones! Current
Biology
15, 547-548.
West, S.A., Shuker, D.M. & Sheldon, B.C. (2005) Sex ratio adjustment when relatives
interact: a test of constraints on adaptation . Evolution 59,
1211-1228. {PDF}
West, S.A. (2005) Of bubbles,
landscapes, and vines . Science , 308, 53-54.
Allsop, D.J. & West, S.A. (2004) Changing sex at the same
relative body size (reply). Nature , 428.
Allsop, D.J. & West, S.A. (2004) Sex ratio evolution in sex changing
animals . Evolution , 58, 1019-1027. {Supplementary Information }
Allsop, D.J. & West, S.A. (2004) Sex allocation in the sex changing
marine goby Coryphopterus personatus on atoll fringing reefs . Evolutionary
Ecology
Research , 6, 843-855.
Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2004) Spite among siblings. Science ,
305,
1413-1414.
Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2004) Cooperation and punishment,
especially in humans. American Naturalist , 164, 753-764.
Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2004) Spite and the scale of competition.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17, 1195-1203. {Media}
Gardner, A., West, S.A. & Buckling, A. (2004) Bacteriocins, spite and
virulence. Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series B ,
271,
1529-1535.
{Science
perspective} {Media}
Griffin, A.S., West, S.A. & Buckling, A. (2004) Cooperation and competition in
pathogenic bacteria. Nature , 430, 1024-1027. {Nature News & Views} {Science perspective} {Media}
Guinnee, M.A. West, S.A. & Little, T.J. (2004) Testing small integer clutch size
models with Daphnia . American Naturalist , 163, 880-887.
Reece, S.E., Shuker, D.M., Pen, I. Duncan, A.B., Choudhary, A.,
Batchelor, C.M. & West, S.A. (2004) Kin
discrimination
and
sex
ratios
in
a
parasitoid
wasp . Journal of
Evolutionary Biology , 17, 208-216.
Sheldon, B.C & West, S.A. (2004) Maternal Dominance, maternal condition,
and offspring sex ratio
in ungulate mammals . American Naturalist, 163, 40-54. {Supplementary Info}
{Media}
Shuker, D.M. & West, S.A. (2004) Information constraints and the
precision of adaptation . Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science, USA , 101, 10363-10367. {Current
Biology
Commentary} {Faculty
of
100
Commentary}
Shuker, D.M., Reece, S.E., Whitehorn, P.R. & West, S.A.
(2004) Sib-mating does not lead
to facultative sex ratio adjustment in the parasitoid wasp, Nasonia
vitripennis . Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6, 473-480.
Shuker, D.M., Reece,
S.E., Taylor, J. & West, S.A. (2004) Wasp sex ratios when females on
a
patch can be related . Animal Behaviour , 68, 331-336.
Allsop, D.J. & West, S.A. (2003) Constant relative age and size at sex
change in sequentially hermaphroditic
fish . Journal of Evolutionary Biology , 16, 921-929. {Planet Earth Article}
Allsop, D.J. & West, S.A. (2003) Changing sex at the same relative size
body size . Nature , 425, 783-784. {Supplementary Info} {Media}
Cunningham, J.P., Moore, C.J., Zalucki, M.P. & West, S.A.
(2003) Learning, odour preference
and flower foraging in moths . Journal of Experimental Biology, 207,
87-94.
Denison, R.F., Kiers, E.T. & West, S.A. (2003) Darwinian agriculture: when can
humans find solutions beyond the reach of natural selection? Quarterly
Review
of
Biology, 78, 145-168. {Darwinian
Agriculture
Homepage}
Gardner, A., Reece, S.E. & West, S.A. (2003) Even more extreme fertility
insurance and the sex ratios of protozoan blood parasites. Journal
of
Theoretical
Biology , 223, 515-521.
Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2003) Kin discrimination and the benefit of
helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates . Science ,
302, 634-636. {Media}
Kiers, E.T., Rousseau, R.A., West, S.A. & Denison, R.F.
(2003) Host sanctions and the
legume-rhizobia mutualism . Nature , 425, 78-81. {Media}
Reece, S.E., Duncan, A.B., West, S.A. & Read, A.F. (2003) Sex ratios in the rodent malaria
parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi . Parasitology , 127,
419-425. {Supplementary Info}
Rivero, A., Balloux, F. & West, S.A. (2003) Testing for epistasis between
deleterious mutations in a parasitoid wasp . Evolution , 57,
1698-1703.
West, S.A., Reece, S.E. & Read, A.F. (2003) Toxoplasma gondii, sex and
premature rejection . Trends in Parasitology , 19, 155-157. {This was a reply to Ferguson
2002}
West, S.A. & Buckling, A. (2003) Cooperation, virulence and siderophore
production in bacterial parasites. Proceedings of the Royal
Society London Series B
270, 37-44.
Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2002) Kin selection: fact and fiction. Trends
in
Ecology
and
Evolution,
17, 15-21.
Kiers, E.T., West, S.A. & Denison, R.F. (2002) Mediating mutualisms: Farm management
practises and evolutionary changes in symbiont cooperation. Journal
of
Applied
Ecology,
39,
745-754.
Nee, S., West, S.A. & Read, A.F. (2002) Inbreeding and parasite sex
ratios. Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series B .
269, 755-760.
Reece, S.E., Broderick, A.C., Godley, B.J. & West, S.A.
(2002) The effects of incubation
environment, sex and pedigree on the hatchling phenotype in a natural
population of loggerhead turtles. Evolutionary Ecology Research ,
4,
737-748.
Rivero, A. & West, S.A. (2002) The physiological cost of being small in
a parasitic wasp. Evolutionary Ecology Research , 4, 407-420.
Rokas, A., Atkinson, R.J., Nieves-Aldrey, J-L., West, S.A. &
Stone, G.N. (2002) The
incidence and diversity of Wolbachia in gallwasps (Hymenoptera:
Cynipidae) on oak. Molecular Ecology , 11, 1815-1829.
West, S.A. & Cunningham, J.P. (2002) A general model for host plant
selection in phytophagous insects. Journal of
Theoretical Biology , 214, 499-513.
West, S.A. & Sheldon, B.C. (2002) Constraints in the evolution of sex
ratio adjustment . Science , 295, 1685-1688. {TREE commentary} {Supplementary Information }
West, S.A., Pen, I. Griffin, A.S. (2002) Cooperation and competition between
relatives . Science , 296, 72-75. {Supplementary Information }
West, S.A., Reece, S.E. & Sheldon, B.C. (2002) Sex Ratios. Heredity ,
88, 117-124.
West, S.A., Kiers, E.T., Pen, I. & Denison, R.F. (2002) Sanctions and mutualism stability:
when should less beneficial mutualists be tolerated? Journal of
Evolutionary Biology, 15, 830-837.
West, S.A., Kiers, E.T., Simms, E.L. & Denison, R.F. (2002) Sanctions and mutualism
stability: why do rhizobia fix Nitrogen? Proceedings of the
Royal Society London Series B , 269, 685-694.
West, S.A., Smith, T.G., Nee, S. & Read, A.F. (2002) Fertility insurance and the sex
ratios of malaria and related hemospororin blood parasites. Journal
of
Parasitology , 88, 258-263.
Cunningham, J.P., West, S.A. & Zalucki, M.P. (2001) Host Selection in Phytophagous Insects: a
new explanation for learning in adults. Oikos, 95, 537-543.
Rokas, A., Atkinson, R.J., Brown, G.S., West, S.A. &
Stone, G.N. (2001) Does Wolbachia have
any effect on the phylogeographic history of
the oak gallwasp Biorhiza pallida ? Heredity, 87,
294-304.
Weiblen, G.D., Yu, D.W. & West, S.A. (2001) Pollination and parasitism in
functionally dioecious figs. Proceedings of the Royal Society
London Series B . 268, 651-659.
West, S.A., Flanagan, K.E. & Godfray, H.C.J. (2001) Variable host quality,
life-history invariants and the reproductive strategy of a parasitoid
wasp that produces single sex broods. Behavioral Ecology ,
5, 577-583.
West, S.A., Reece, S.E. & Read, A.F. (2001) The evolution of gametocyte sex ratios
in malaria and related apicomplexan (protozoan) parasites. Trends
in
Parasitology , 17, 525-531.
West, S.A., Gemmill, A.W., Graham, A., Viney, M.E. & Read,
A.F. (2001) Immune stress and
facultative sex in a parasitic nematode. Journal of
Evolutionary Biology , 14, 333-337.
West, S.A., Murray, M.G, Machado, C., Griffin, A.S. & Herre,
E.A. (2001) Testing Hamilton’s rule
with competition between relatives . Nature , 409, 510-513. {TREE commentary} {Media}
Pickering, J., Read, A.F., Guerrero, S. & West, S.A. (2000) Sex ratio and virulence in two species of
lizard malaria parasites. Evolutionary Ecology Research , 2,
171-184.
West, S.A. & Peters, A. (2000) Paying for sex is not easy. Nature ,
407,
962.
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was
a
comment
on
the
Doncaster
et
al
2000 paper (their reply was rejected).
West, S.A. & Rivero, A. (2000) Using sex ratios to estimate what limits
reproduction in parasitoids. Ecological Letters , 3, 294-299.
West, S.A., Herre, E.A. & Sheldon, B.C. (2000) The benefits of allocating sex . Science ,
290,
288-290.
West, S.A., Smith, T.G. & Read, A.F. (2000) Sex allocation and population
structure in Apicomplexan (protozoa) parasites. Proceedings of
the Royal Society London Series B , 267, 257-264.
Cunningham, J.P., Zalucki, M. P. & West, S.A. (1999) Learning in Helicoverpa
armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): a new look at the behaviour and
control of a polyphagous pest. Bulletin of Entomological
Research , 89, 201-207.
Hurst, G.D.D., Jiggins, F.M., von der Schulenburg, J.H.G.,
Bertrand, D., West, S.A., Goriacheva, I.I., Zakharov, I.A., Werren,
J.H., Stouthamer, R. & Majerus, M.E.N. (1999) Male-killing Wolbachia in two species of
insect. Proceedings of the
Royal Society London Series B , 266, 735-740.
Martins, R.P., Antonini, Y., de Silveira, F.A., & West, S.A.
(1999) Seasonal variation in the sex
allocation of a neotropical bee. Behavioral Ecology , 10,
401-408.
West, S.A., Flanagan, K.E. & Godfray, H.C.J. (1999) Sex allocation and clutch size in
parasitoid wasps that produce single sex broods. Animal
Behaviour , 57, 265-275.
West, S.A., Lively, C.M. & Read, A.F. (1999) A pluralist approach to sex and
recombination . Journal of Evolutionary Biology , 12,
1003-1012. {PDF of paper & all
commentaries}
West, S.A., Lively, C.M. & Read, A.F. (1999) Sex may need more than one. Journal
of
Evolutionary
Biology , 12, 1053-1055.
Cunningham, J.P., West, S.A. & Wright, D.J. (1998) Learning in the nectar foraging
behaviour of Helicoverpa armigera. Ecological Entomology ,
23, 363-369.
Flanagan, K.E., West, S.A. & Godfray, H.C.J. (1998) Local mate competition, variable
fecundity, and information use in a parasitoid. Animal Behaviour ,
56,
191-198.
Gemmill, A. W. & West, S.A. (1998) Influence of rat strain
on patterns of larval production by the parasitic nematode
Strongyloides ratti. Journal of Parasitology , 84, 1289-1291.
West, S.A. & Herre, E.A. (1998) Stabilizing selection and variance
in fig wasp sex ratios. Evolution , 52,
475-485.
West, S.A. & Herre, E.A. (1998) Partial local mate competition and the
sex ratio: a study on non-pollinating fig wasps. Journal of
Evolutionary Biology , 11, 531-548. {TREE commentary}
West, S.A., Peters, A.D. & Barton, N.H. (1998) Testing for epistasis between
deleterious mutations. Genetics . 149, 435-444.
West, S.A., Cook, J.M., Werren, J.H. & Godfray, H.C.J. (1998)
Wolbachia in two insect
host-parasitoid communities. Molecular Ecology , 7,
1457-1465.
West, S.A., Compton, S.G., Vincent, S.L., Herre, E.A. &
Cook, J.M. (1998) Virginity in
haplodiploid populations: a comparison of estimation methods. Ecological
Entomology, 23, 207-210.
Cook, J.M., Compton, S.G., Herre, E.A. & West, S.A. (1997) Alternative mating tactics and extreme male
dimorphism in fig wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society
London Series B , 264, 747-754.
Herre, E.A. & West, S.A. (1997) Conflict of interest in a mutualism:
documenting the elusive fig wasp/seed trade-off. Proceedings of
the Royal Society London Series B , 264, 1501-1507.
West, S.A. & Godfray, H.C.J. (1997) Sex ratio strategies after perturbation
of the stable age distribution. Journal of Theoretical Biology ,
186,
213-221.
West, S.A., Herre, E.A., Compton, S.G., Godfray, H.C.J.
& Cook, J.M. (1997) A
comparative study of virginity in fig wasps. Animal Behaviour ,
54,
437-450.
West, S.A., Flanagan, K.E. & Godfray, H.C.J. (1996) The relationship between parasitoid
size and fitness in the field, a study of Achrysocharoides zwoelferi
(Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Journal of Animal Ecology , 65,
631-639.
West, S.A., Herre, E.A., Windsor, D.W. & Green, P.R.S.
(1996) The ecology and evolution of the New World non-pollinating fig
wasp communities. Journal of Biogeography , 23, 447-458.
West, S.A. & Herre, E.A. (1994) The ecology of the New World
fig-parasitising wasps Idarnes and implications for the evolution of
the fig-pollinator mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society
London Series B , 258, 67-72.