Publications
2020
Gabriel A. Jamie Steven M. Van Belleghem Benedict G. Hogan Silky Hamama Collins Moya Jolyon Troscianko Mary Caswell Stoddard Rebecca M. Kilner Claire N. Spottiswoode. Multimodal mimicry of hosts in a radiation of parasitic finches. Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14057
Iliana Medina, Rebecca M Kilner, Naomi E Langmore. From micro- to macro-evolution: brood parasitism as a driver of phenotypic diversity in birds Current Zoology https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa033
Syuan‐Jyun Sun Andrew M. Catherall Sonia Pascoal Benjamin J. M. Jarrett Sara E. Miller Michael J. Sheehan Rebecca M. Kilner. Rapid local adaptation linked with phenotypic plasticity. Evolution letters.. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.176
Darren Rebar, Nathan W. Bailey, Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, and Rebecca M. Kilner. An evolutionary switch from sibling rivalry to sibling cooperation, caused by a sustained loss of parental care. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911677117
2019
Christine W. Miller , Paul N. Joseph , Rebecca M. Kilner and Zachary Emberts. . A weapons–testes trade-off in males is amplified in female traits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0906
Syuan‐Jyun Sun Nicholas P.C. Horrocks Rebecca M. Kilner. Conflict within species determines the value of a mutualism between species. Evolution letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.109
2018
Ornela De Gasperin, Ana Duarte, Sinead English, Alfredo Attisano Rebecca M. Kilner. The early‐life environment and individual plasticity in life‐history traits. Ecology and Evolution. doi: /10.1002/ece3.4749
Matthew Schrader Benjamin J. M. Jarrett Rebecca M. Kilner. Parental care and sibling competition independently increase phenotypic variation among burying beetle siblings. Evolution. doi: /10.1111/evo.13607
Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, Emma Evans, Hannah B. Haynes, Miranda R. Leaf, Darren Rebar, Ana Duarte, Matthew Schrader & Rebecca M. Kilner. A sustained change in the supply of parental care causes adaptive evolution of offspring morphology. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06513-6
Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, Darren Rebar, Hannah B. Haynes, Miranda R. Leaf, Chay Halliwell, Rachel Kemp, Rebecca M. Kilner. Adaptive evolution of synchronous egg-hatching in compensation for the loss of parental care. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1452
Sonia Pascoal Benjamin J. M. Jarrett Emma Evans Rebecca M. Kilner. Superior stimulation of female fecundity by subordinate males provides a mechanism for telegony. Evolution letters. doi: /10.1002/evl3.45
2017
Ben J M Jarrett Rebecca M Kilner. “Why” and “How” behavior evolves: a comment on Bailey et al. Behavioral Ecology. doi: /10.1093/beheco/arx166
Ana Duarte, Sheena C. Cotter, Ornela De Gasperin, Thomas M. Houslay, Giuseppe Boncoraglio, Martin Welch & Rebecca M. Kilner. No evidence of a cleaning mutualism between burying beetles and their phoretic mites. Scientific reports. doi: doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14201-6
Matthew Schrader, Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, Darren Rebar, Rebecca M. Kilner. Adaptation to a novel family environment involves both apparent and cryptic phenotypic changes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1295
Ana Duarte, Martin Welch, Chris Swannack, Josef Wagner, Rebecca M Kilner. Strategies for managing rival bacterial communities: lessons from burying beetles. Journal of Animal Ecology July 2017 doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12725
Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, Matthew Schrader, Darren Rebar, Thomas M. Houslay & Rebecca M. Kilner. Cooperative interactions within the family enhance the capacity for evolutionary change in body size. Nature, ecology and evolution, May 2017. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0178
Sonia Pascoal, Rebecca M Kilner. Development and application of 14 microsatellite markers in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides reveals population genetic differentiation at local spatial scales. PeerJ, 2017. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3278
Rose Thorogood, Rebecca M Kilner, Justin L Rasmussen. Grey Gerygone hosts are not egg rejecters, but Shining Bronze-Cuckoos lay cryptic eggs. doi: 10.1642/AUK-16-128.1
2016
Jeffery K Tomberlin, Tawni L Crippen, Guoyao Wu, Ashleigh S Griffin, Thomas K Wood, Rebecca M Kilner. Indole: An evolutionarily conserved influencer of behavior across kingdoms. doi:
Ornela De Gasperin, Ana Duarte, Jolyon Troscianko & Rebecca M. Kilner. Fitness costs associated with building and maintaining the burying beetle’s carrion nest. doi: 10.1038/srep35293
Ana Duarte, Martin Welch, Josef Wagner, Rebecca M Kilner. Privatization of a breeding resource by the burying beetle /Nicrophorus vespilloides/ is associated with shifts in bacterial communities. doi: 10.1101/065326
Ornela De Gasperin, Rebecca M Kilner. Interspecific Interactions and the Scope for Parent-Offspring Conflict: High Mite Density Temporarily Changes the Trade-Off between Offspring Size and Number in the Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150969
R.M. Kilner. 2016. An empiricists’ guide to sexual conflict over parental investment: a comment on Paquet and Smiseth. Behavioral Ecology. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arw011
William J. Palmer, Ana Duarte, Matthew Schrader, Jonathan P. Day, Rebecca Kilner, Francis M. Jiggins. 2016. A gene associated with social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Proceedings of the Royal Society. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2733
Ana Duarte , Sheena C. Cotter, Catherine E. Reavey, Richard J. S. Ward, Ornela De Gasperin, Rebecca M. Kilner. 2016. Social immunity of the family: parental contributions to a public good modulated by brood size. Evolutionary Ecology. doi:10.1007/s10682-015-9806-3
2015
Schrader, M., Crosby, R. M., Hesketh, A. R., Jarrett, B. J. M. and Kilner, R. M. 2015. A limit on the extent to which increased egg size can compensate for a poor postnatal environment revealed experimentally in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1876
De Gasperin, O. & Kilner, R. M. 2015. Interspecific interactions change the outcome of sexual conflict over pre-hatching parental investment in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1002/ece3.1795
Kilner, R. M., Boncoraglio, G., Henshaw, J. M., Jarrett, B.J.M., de Gasperin, O. & Kokko, H. 2015. Parental effects alter the adaptive value of an adult behavioural trait. eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.07340
De Gasperin, O. & Kilner, R. M. 2015. Friend or foe: interspecific interactions and conflicts of interest within the family. Ecological Entomology doi: 10.1111/een.12259
De Gasperin, O., Duarte, A. L. & Kilner, R. M. 2015. Interspecific interactions explain variation in the duration of paternal care in the burying beetle. Animal Behaviour 109:199-207. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.08.014
Attisano, A. & Kilner, R. M. 2015. Parental effects and flight behaviour in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Animal Behaviour 108: 91-100. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.07.020
Schrader, M., Jarrett, B. J. M., & Kilner , R. M. 2015 Using experimental evolution to study adaptations for life within the family. American Naturalist 185: 610-619, doi:10.1086/680500
Schrader, M., B. J. M. Jarrett, and R. M. Kilner. 2015. Parental care masks a density-dependent shift from cooperation to competition in burying beetle broods. Evolution 69: 1077-1084, doi:10.1111/evo.12615
W. J. P. Palmer, A. Duarte, M. Schrader, J. P. Day, R. M. Kilner, F. Jiggins: a gene for social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides? biorxiv.org, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/020644
2010-2013
Cotter, S. C., Littlefair, J. E., Grantham, P. J. and Kilner, R. M. (2013) A direct physiological trade-off between personal and social immunity. J Anim Ecol 82:846-853
Cotter, S. C., Ward, R. S. J., and Kilner R. M. (2011) Age-specific reproductive investment in female burying beetles: independent effects of state and risk of death. Funct Ecol 25:652-660
Cotter, S. C., Topham, E., Price, A. J. P. and Kilner (2010) Fitness costs associated with mounting a social immune response. Ecol Lett 13:1114-1123.
Cotter, S. C. and Kilner R. M. (2010) Personal immunity versus social immunity. Behav Ecol 21:663-668.
Cotter, S.C. and Kilner, R. M. (2010) Sexual division of antibacterial resource defence in breeding burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides J Anim Ecol 79:35-43
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