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Current Group
Michael Jennions
Jennie Mallela (Post-doc)
Martin Edvardsson (Visit Fellow)
Crystal Vincent (Visit Fellow)
Richard Milner (PhD Student)
Isobel Booksmythe (PhD student)
Sophie Callander (PhD Student)
Andrew Kahn (PhD Student)
Dominique Roche (PhD Student)
Jonathan Henshaw (Hons student)
James Davies (Research Officer)

Recent Members
Megan Higgie (Post-doc)
Clint Kelly (Post-doc)
Fleur de Crespigny (Visit. Fellow)
Jean Drayton(PhD student)
Brian Mautz (PhD Student)
Bob Wong (PhD Student)
J.E. (Kobus) Boeke (Msc)
Michelle Shackleton (Msc)

Jules Livingston (Hons Student)
Fredrick Hayes (Hons Student)
Jessica Bolton (HonsStudent)
Leah Bala (Hons Student)
Katie Humphrey (Hons Student)

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Evolution, Ecology & Genetics Research School of Biology
Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200,
Australia
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Brian Mautz
                                                          
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1. Female mate choice in mosquitofish (Paper 4 )
2.  Fiddler crab project in Darwin under the supervision of A/Prof Pat Backwell (Completed: see Paper 5).
3. Male mate choice in mosquitofish (Paper 6)
4. Meta-analysis of genetic benefits of polyandry (Paper 7).
5. Polyandry and sexual harrassment in mosquitofish (written up and now in revision)
6. Mate choice in humans (submitted Jan 31, 2012).
7.  Meta-analysis on sperm and ornaments (submitted mid-December 2011)

I submitted by PhD shortly before Xmas 2011. It is now with the reviewers. In the meantime, I have been working on Papers 5 and6. I am also collaborating with Isobel Booksmythe on a meta-analysis.

Great news: I will be starting a post-doc working on antlerflies in Canada hosted by Howard Rundle in the Biology Department at the University of Ottowa. Exciting times ahead.

Publications

7. Slatyer R, Mautz B, Backwell PRY, Jennions MD. In Press. Estimating genetic benefits of polyandry from experimental studies: a meta-analysis. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 87:1-33 [PDF]

6. Mautz B, Jennions MD. 2011. The effect of competitor presence and relative competitive ability on male mate choice. Behavioural Ecology 22: 769-775 [PDF]

5. Mautz B, Detto T, Wong BBM, Kokko H, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2011. Male fiddler crabs defend multiple burrows to attract additional females. Behavioural Ecology 22: 261-267 [PDF]

4. Kahn A, Mautz B, Jennions MD. 2010. Females prefer to associate with males with longer intromittent organs in mosquitofish. Biology Letters 6: 55-58 [PDF]

3. Mautz BS,  Sakaluk SK. 2008. Heritable variation in the timing of spermatophore removal, a mechanism of post-copulatory female choice in crickets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1366-1370 [PDF]

2. Hamm D, Mautz BS, Wolfner MS, Aquadro CF, Swanson WJ. 2007. Evidence for positive selection in the evolution of the candidate primate   sperm receptor gene PKDREJ and the maintenance of human allelic diversity. American Journal of Human Genetics 81:44-52. [PDF]

1. Mautz BS, Sakaluk  SK. 2008. The effect of age and previous mating experience on pre- and post-copulatory mate choice in female house crickets (Acheta domesticus L). Journal of Insect Behavior  21:203-212 [PDF]

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