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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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Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200,
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PUBLICATIONS ON INSECTS

All J Lab Publications

Drayton JM, Jennions MD. 2011. Inbreeding and measures of immune function in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus. Behavioural Ecology 22:486-492 [PDF]

Drayton JM, Milner R, Hall M, Jennions MD. 2011. The effect of inbreeding on courtship calling in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:47-58  [PDF]

Reaney L, Drayton JM, Jennions MD. 2011. The role of body size and fighting experience in predicting contest behaviour in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  65: 217-225 [PDF]

Drayton JM, Milner RNC, Hunt J, Jennions MD. 2010. Inbreeding and advertisement calling in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus: laboratory and field experiments. Evolution 64: 3069-3083 [PDF]

Kelly CD, Jennions MD. 2009. Sexually dimorphic immune response in the harem polygynous Wellington tree weta Hemideina crassidens. Physiological Entomology  34:174-179  [PDF]

Zajitschek F, Hunt J, Jennions MD, Hall M, Brooks RC. 2009. Effects of juvenile and adult diet on ageing and reproductive effort of male and female Black Field Crickets Teleogryllus commodus. Functional Ecology 23:602-611  [PDF]

Kelly CD, Bussiere LF, Gwynne DT. 2008. Sexual selection for male mobility in a giant insect with female-biased sexual dimorphism. American Naturalist  172: 417-423 [PDF]

Kelly CD. 2008.  Sperm investment in relation to weapon size in a sexually dimorphic insect. Behavioural Ecology 19:1018-1024  [PDF]

Kelly CD. 2008. Why do male tree weta aggressively evict females from galleries after mating? Ethology 114: 203-208  [PDF]

Kelly CD. 2008. The inter-relationships between resource holding potentials, resource value and reproductive success in territorial males: how much variation can we explain? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62:855-871   [PDF]

Kelly CD. 2008. Identifying a causal agent of sexual selection on weaponry in an insect. Behavioural Ecology 19:184-192   [PDF]

Hunt J, Blows MW, Zajitschek F, Jennions MD, Brooks R. 2007. Reconciling strong stabilizing selection with the maintenance of genetic variation in a natural population of black field crickets (Teleogryllus commodus). Genetics  177:875-880 [PDF]

Jennions MD, Drayton J, Brooks RC, Hunt J. 2007. Do female  black field crickets Teleogryllus commodus benefit from polyandry? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1469-1477 [PDF]

Drayton J, Hunt J, Brooks R, Jennions MD. 2007. Sounds different: inbreeding depression in sexually selected traits in the field cricket Teleogryllus bimaculatus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1138-1147  [PDF]

Zajitschek F, Hunt J, Zajitschek SR, Jennions MD, Brooks R. 2007. No Intra-Locus Sexual Conflict over Reproductive Fitness or Ageing in Field Crickets. PLoS ONE 2(1): e155 [PDF]

Hunt , Jennions MD, Spyrou N, Brooks R. 2006. Artificial selection on male longevity influences age-dependent reproductive effort in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus. American Naturalist 168: E72-E86 [PDF]

Bussière LF, Hunt J, Jennions MD, Brooks R.  2006. Sexual conflict and cryptic female choice in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus. Evolution 60:792-800 [PDF]

Bentsen, CL, Hunt J , Jennions MD, Brooks R. 2006. Complex multivariate sexual selection on male acoustic signalling in a wild population of Teleogryllus commodus. American Naturalist  167: E102-E116 [PDF]

Hunt J , Brooks R, Jennions MD. 2005. Female mate choice as a condition-dependent life history trait. American Naturalist 166: 79-92 [PDF]

Brooks R, Hunt J, Blows MW, Smith MJ, Bussière LF, Jennions MD. 2005. Experimental evidence for multivariate stabilizing sexual selection. Evolution 59: 871-880  [PDF]

 Shackleton M, Jennions MD, Hunt J. 2005. Fighting success and attractiveness as predictors of male mating success in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus: the effectiveness of no-choice tests.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 58:1-8  [PDF]

 Torres-Vila LM, Jennions MD. 2005. Male mating history and female fecundity in the Lepidoptera: do male virgins make better partners? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 57: 318-326  [PDF]

Head ML, Hunt, J, Jennions MD, Brooks RC. 2005. The indirect benefits of mating with attractive males outweigh the direct costs. Public Library of Science, Biology 3: 289-294  [PDF]

Savage KE, Hunt J, Jennions MD, Brooks RC. 2005. Male attractiveness covaries with fighting ability but not prior fight outcome in house crickets. Behavioural Ecology 16:196-200  [PDF]

Hunt J, Brooks R, Jennions MD, Smith MJ, Bentsen CL, Bussière LF.   2004. High- quality male field crickets invest heavily in sexual display but die young. Nature 432: 1024-1027  [PDF]

Jennions MD, Hunt J, Graham R, Brooks RC. 2004. No evidence for inbreeding avoidance through post-copulatory mechanisms in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus. Evolution 58:2472-2477   [PDF]

Wong BBM, Salzmann C, Schiestl FP. 2004. Pollinator attractiveness increases with distance from flowering orchids. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B (Supplement), Biology Letters 271: s212-s214 [PDF]

Torres-Vila LM, Rodríguez-Molina MC, Jennions MD. 2004. Polyandry and fecundity in the Lepidoptera: can methodological and conceptual approaches bias outcomes? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55: 315-324   [PDF]

Wong BBM, Schiestl FP. 2002. How an orchid harms its pollinator. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B  269: 1529-39 [PDF]

Jennions MD. 1998. Tibial coloration, fluctuating asymmetry and female choice behaviour in the damselfly Platycypha caligata. Animal Behaviour 55: 1517-1528   [PDF]

 

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