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2013
Stewart, I. R. K. and D. F. Westneat. 2013. Patterns of hatching failure in the house sparrow, Passer domesticus. Journal of Avian Biology 44: 69-79.
Sousa, B. F. and D. F. Westneat. 2013. Patterns of social and extra-pair mating in a polygynous songbird, the dickcissel (Spiza americana). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67: 243-255.
Westneat, D. F., Schofield, M. & Wright, J. 2013. Parental behavior exhibits between-individual variance, plasticity and heterogeneous residual variance. Behavioral Ecology 24: 598-604.
Diep, S. K. and D. F. Westneat. 2013. Integration of function and ontogeny in the evolution of status signals. Behaviour 150: 1015-1044.
2012
Westneat, D. F. 2012. Evolution in response to social selection: The importance of interactive effects of traits on fitness. Evolution 66: 890-895.
Wetzel D.P, Westneat D. F., and I. R. K. Stewart. 2012. Individual heterozygosity predicts clutch and egg size in a wild house sparrow population with no inbreeding. Molecular Ecology 21: 406-420. (3)
Cassone, V.M. and D. F. Westneat. 2012. The bird of time: cognition and the avian biological clock. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience.
Ensminger, A. L. and D. F. Westneat. 2012. Personality and plasticity in habituation and neophobia in male and female house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Ethology 118:1-11.
Lüpold, S., Birkhead, T. R. and D. F. Westneat. 2012. Seasonal variation in ejaculate traits of male red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66: 1607-1617.
2011
Hartman, P.J, Wetzel, D.P., Crowley, P. H., and
D. F. Westneat. 2011. The impact of extra-pair mating behavior on
hybridization and genetic introgression. Theoretical
Ecology, 12: 219-229.
Schrey, A., Grispo, M., Awad, M., Cook, M.,
McCoy, E., Mushinsky, H., Albayrak, T., Bensch, S., Butler, L., Fokidis, H., Jensen, H., Imboma, T., Kessler-Rios, M., Marzal, A., Stewart,
I.R.K., Westerdahl, H., Westneat, D.F., Martin, L. B., Zehtindjiev, P. 2011.
Broad-scale latitudinal patterns of genetic diversity among native European
and introduced house sparrow (Passer
domesticus) populations. Molecular Ecology 20: 1133-1143.
Lüpold, S., Birkhead,
T. R., and Westneat D. F. 2011. Geographical variation in sperm morphology in
the red-winged blackbird (Agelaius
phoeniceus). Evolutionary
Ecology, 25: 373-390.
2010
Stewart, IRK and Westneat DF. 2010. Dietary
calcium negatively affects the size of a status signal in juvenile male house
sparrows (Passer domesticus). The Auk 127:549-557.
Westneat, D.F. and C. W. Fox (eds). 2010. Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology. Oxford University Press.
Stewart, S. L. M., Westneat, D. F., and Ritchison G. 2010.
Extra-pair paternity in eastern bluebirds: Effects of manipulated density and
natural patterns of breeding synchrony. Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology 64:463-473.
2009
Kinnard T. B. and Westneat D. F. 2009. Phenotypic and
genetic variance of house sparrows, Passer
domesticus, early in development. The Auk 126: 884-895.
Westneat, DF and Sih, A. 2009. Sexual conflict as a
partitioning of selection. Biology Letters 5: 675-677.
Wetzel, D. P. and Westneat, D. F. 2009. Heterozygosity
and extra-pair paternity: Biased tests result from the use of shared markers.
Molecular Ecology 9:
2010-2021.
Lüpold S,
Linz
GM,
Rivers JW, Westneat DF, Birkhead TR. 2009. Sperm competition selects beyond
relative testes size in birds. Evolution 63: 391-402.
Westneat DF, Stewart IRK, and Hatch MI. 2009. Complex
interactions among temporal variables affect the plasticity of clutch size in
a multi-brooded bird. Ecology 90:1162-1174.
Dzialak, M.R., K. M. Carter, M. J.
Lacki, D.F. Westneat, and K. Anderson. 2009. Activity of post-fledging
peregrine falcons in different rearing and habitat conditions. Southeastern
Naturalist 8: 93-106.
Lynn
, SG, Powell, KA, Westneat, DF, and
Shepherd, BS. 2009. Seasonal and sex-specific mRNA levels of key endocrine genes
in adult yellow perch (Perca flavescens)
from
Lake Erie
. Marine Biotechnology 11:
210-222.
2008
Morrison, E.B., Kinnard, T. B., Stewart,
I.
R. K, Poston, J. P., Hatch, M. I. and Westneat, D.
F. 2008. The links between plumage variation and nest site occupancy in male
house sparrows. The Condor 110:
345-353.
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