Pérez-Emán, J. L., Mumme, R. L., Jablonski, P. G. The Slate-throated Redstart (Myioborus miniatus) is a common warbler of montane forests from northern Mexico to Argentina. We examined phylogenetic structure and plumage pattern in relation to subspecific taxonomy across the broad geographic range of this species. Phylogenetic analysis of two complete mitochondrial protein-coding genes

Lee, S. I., Hwang, Y., Lee, J., & Choe, J. C. In sexually size-dimorphic species, brood sex composition may exert differential effects on sex-specific mortality. We investigated the sex-specific mortality and body condition in relation to brood sex composition in nestlings of the black-billed magpie Pica pica. Neither significantly sex-biased production at hatching nor

Lee, S. I., Choi, J., Jablonski, P. G., & Choe, J. C. Natural selection will favor parents who adjust their effort in relation to the fitness costs and benefits from the current brood. In this study, we investigated how magpie parents adjust provisioning effort based on the number of nestlings in the brood, by

Lee, J. W., Simeoni, M., Burke, T., & Hatchwell, B. J. The adaptive significance of flocking behaviour has been intensively studied, especially among birds, but the demography and genetic structure of winter flocks is poorly understood, despite their importance for many biological processes. For three successive winters, we studied the demography and genetic structure

Lee, J. W., Lee, Y. K., & Hatchwell, B. J. Dispersal is a key factor affecting the dynamics and genetic structure of populations. Patterns of natal dispersal vary widely depending on the selection pressures that each species encounters, but the underlying factors determining this variation are poorly understood. We studied the pattern of natal

Lee, J. W., Kim, H. Y., & Hatchwell, B. J. The amount of food delivered by parents to their chicks is affected by various life history traits as well as environmental and social factors, and this investment ultimately determines the current and future fitness of parents and their offspring. We studied parental provisioning behaviour

Han, C. S., & Jablonski, P. G. Despite recent advances in our understanding of sexual conflict and antagonistic coevolution between sexes, the role of interspecific interactions, such as predation, in these evolutionary processes remains unclear. In this paper, we present a new male mating strategy whereby a male water strider Gerris gracilicornis intimidates a

Dawson, D.A., Horsburgh, G.J., KÜPPER, C., Stewart, I.R., Ball, A.D., Durrant, K.L., Hansson, B., Bacon, I.D.A., Bird, S., Klein, A. and Krupa, A.P. We have developed a new approach to create microsatellite primer sets that have high utility across a wide range of species. The success of this method was demonstrated using birds. We

Han, C. S., Jablonski, P. G., Kim, B., & Park, F. C. A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand the typically complex interactions between diverse counter-balancing factors of Darwinian selection for size assortative mating and sexual size dimorphism. It appears that rarely a simple mechanism could provide a major explanation of these

Lee, J. W., Kim, M. S., Burke, T., & Hatchwell, B. J. Understanding the factors that affect the occurrence of extrapair paternity (EPP) is one of the central issues in sexual selection. We investigated genetic parentage and the ecological factors affecting patterns of EPP in the Vinous-throated Parrotbill, Paradoxornis webbianus, a flock-living species with