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Buzatto, B. A., Simmons, L. W. & Tomkins J. L. in press Genetic variation underlying the expression of a polyphenism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Garcia-Gonzalez, F. Simmons, L. W., Tomkins, J. L., Kotiaho J. S. and Evans, J. P. in press Comparing evolvabilities: common errors surrounding the calculation
and use of coefficients of additive genetic variation. Evolution.
Polak, M. and Tomkins, J. L. in press Developmental instability as phenodeviance in a secondary sexual trait increases with fitness-damaging thermal stress. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Tomkins,
J. L., Penrose, M. A., Greeff, J. and LeBas N. R. 2011, Retraction Science, 333, 1220.
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Tomkins, J. L., Hazel,
W. N., Penrose, M. A., Radwan, J. & Lebas, N. R. 2011 Habitat complexity drives experimental evolution of a
conditionally expressed secondary sexual trait. Current Biology 21, 1-5.
Tomkins, J. L. and Hazel, W. N. 2011 Explaining phenotypic diversity: The conditional strategy and threshold trait expression. In: Dung beetle Ecology and Evolution, Ed. Simmons, L. W. and Ridsdill-Smith, J. Wiley-Blackwell.
House, C. M., Simmons, L. W.,
Kotiaho, J. S., Tomkins, J. L., Hunt, J. 2011
Sex ratio bias in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus: Adaptive allocation or sex-specific offspring
mortality? Evolutionary Ecology 25:363-372.
Sinclair,
B. J., Bretman, A., Tregenza, T., Tomkins, J. L., Hosken, D. J. 2011
Metabolic rate
does not decrease with starvation in Gryllus
bimaculatus when changing fuel use is taken into
account. Physiological Entomology 36:84-89.
Levy E, Kennington W. J., Tomkins J. L. and LeBas N. R. 2010 Land clearing reduces gene flow in the granite outcrop-dwelling lizard, Ctenophorus ornatus. Molecular Ecology 19: 4192-4203.
Tomkins, J. L., Penrose, M. A., Greeff, J. and LeBas N. R. 2010, Additive genetic breeding values correlate with the load of partially deleterious mutations Science: 328, 892-894.
**We retracted
this paper in 2011 due to an error in the analysis – new analysis and paper to
come **
Tomkins, J. L., LeBas N. R., Witton, M. P., Martill, D. M. and Humphries, S. 2010, Positive allometry and the prehistory of sexual selection. The American Naturalist. 176: 141-148.
Tomkins, J. L. and Moczek, A.
P. 2009 Patterns
of threshold evolution in polyphenic insects under
different developmental models. Evolution
62: 459-468.
Kotiaho, J. S. LeBas, N. R., Puurtinen, M. and Tomkins, J. L. 2008 On the resolution of the lek paradox. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23, 1-3.
Kotiaho, J. S.
LeBas, N. R., Puurtinen, M. and Tomkins, J. L. 2008 On female choice, heterozygosity
and the lek paradox. Animal Behaviour
75: E1-E3
Tomkins, J. L. & Hazel W. N. 2007 The status of the conditional evolutionarily stable strategy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22, 522-528.
Simmons, L. W., Emlen, D. J. & Tomkins, J. L. 2007 Sperm competition games between sneaks and guards: a comparative analysis using dimorphic male beetles. Evolution 61, 2684–2692.
Tomkins, J. L., Kotiaho, J. S. & LeBas, N. R. 2006 Major differences in minor allometries. American Naturalist 167, 612-618.
Lukasik, P., Radwan. J., & Tomkins, J. L. 2006 Structural complexity of the environment affects the survival of alternative male reproductive tactics. Evolution 60, 399 – 403.
Gage, M. J. G., Surridge, A. K., Tomkins, J. L., Green, E., Wiskin L.,
Tomkins, J. L., Kotiaho, J. S. & LeBas, N. R. 2005 Matters of scale: positive allometry and the evolution of male dimorphisms. American Naturalist. 165, 389-402.
Rutstein, A. N., Gilbert, L. & Tomkins, J. L. 2005 Experience counts: lessons from studies of differential allocation. Behavioral Ecology 16, 957-960.
Tomkins, J. L., Kotiaho, J. S. & LeBas, N. R.
2005 Phenotypic plasticity in the developmental integration of
morphological trade-offs and secondary sexual trait compensation. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of
Tomkins, J. L. & Brown, G. S. 2004 Population density drives the local evolution of a threshold dimorphism. Nature 431, 1099-1103.
Tomkins, J. L., Radwan, J., Kotiaho, J. S. & Tregenza, T. 2004 Genic capture and resolving the lek paradox. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19, 323-328.
Tomkins, J. L., LeBas, N. R., Unrug, J. & Radwan, J. 2004. Testing the status-dependent ESS: population variation in fighter expression in the mite Sancassania berlesei. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17, 1377-1388.
Knell,
R. K., Pomfret, J. C. & Tomkins, J. L. 2004
The limits of elaboration: curved allometries
reveal the constraints on mandible size in stag beetles. Proceedings of
the Royal Society of
Unrug,
J., Tomkins, J. L. & Radwan, J. 2004 Alternative phenotypes and
sexual selection: can dichotomous handicaps honestly signal quality? Proceedings
of the Royal Society of
Tomkins, J. L. & Kotiaho, J. S. 2004 Publication bias in meta-analysis: seeing the wood for the trees. Oikos 104, 194-196.
Tomkins,
J. L. & Simmons, L. W. 2003 Fluctuating asymmetry and sexual
selection: paradigm shifts, publication bias and observer expectation. In Developmental
Instability: Causes and Consequences (ed. M. Polak), pp. 231-261.
Kotiaho, J. S., Simmons, L. W., Hunt, J. & Tomkins, J. L. 2003 Males influence maternal effects that promote sexual selection. American Naturalist 161, 852-859.
Tomkins, J. L. & Simmons, L. W. 2002 Measuring relative investment: a case study of testes investment in species with alternative male reproductive tactics. Animal Behaviour 63, 1009-1016.
Kotiaho, J. S. & Tomkins, J. L. 2002 Meta-analysis can it ever fail ? Oikos 96, 551-553.
Radwan, J., Unrug, J. & Tomkins, J. L. 2002 Status dependence and morphological trade-offs in the expression of a sexually selected character in the mite, Sancassania berlesei. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15, 744-752.
Colegrave, N., Kotiaho, J. S. & Tomkins, J. L. 2002 Mate choice or polyandry: reconciling genetic compatibility and good genes sexual selection. Evolutionary Ecology Research 2002, 911-917.
Kotiaho, J. S. & Tomkins, J. L. 2001 The discrimination of alternative male morphologies. Behavioral Ecology 12, 553-557.
Kotiaho, J. S., Simmons, L. W. & Tomkins, J. L. 2001 Towards a resolution of the lek paradox. Nature 410, 684-686.
Tomkins, J. L., Simmons, L. W. & Alcock, J. 2001 Brood provisioning strategies in Dawsons burrowing bee, Amegilla dawsoni (Hymenoptera: Anthophorini). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50, 81-89.
Tomkins,
J. L. & Kotiaho, J. S. 2001 Fluctuating asymmetry. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.
Simmons, L. W., Tomkins, J. L. & Alcock, J. A. 2000 Can minor males of Dawson's burrowing bee, Amegilla dawsoni (Hymenoptera: Anthophorini) compensate for reduced access to virgin females through sperm competition ? Behavioral Ecology 11, 319-325.
Tomkins, J. L. & Simmons, L. W. 2000 Sperm competition games
played by dimorphic male beetles: fertilisation gains with equal mating
success. Proceedings of the Royal Society of
Tomkins, J. L. & Simmons, L. W. 1999 Heritability of size but not symmetry in a sexually selected trait chosen by female earwigs. Heredity 82, 151-157
Tomkins, J. L. 1999 The ontogeny of asymmetry in earwig forceps. Evolution 53, 157-163.
Simmons, L. W., Tomkins, J. L.,
Kotiaho, J. S. & Hunt, J. 1999 Fluctuating paradigm. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of
Tomkins, J. L. 1999 Environmental and genetic determinants of the male forceps length dimorphism in the European earwig Forficula auricularia. L. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 47, 1-8.
Simmons,
L. W., Tomkins, J. L. & Hunt, J. C. 1999 Sperm competition games
played by dimorphic male beetles. Proceedings of the Royal Society of
Kotiaho, J., S., Tomkins, J. L. & Simmons, L. W. 1999 Unfamiliar citations breed mistakes. Nature 400, 307.
Hunt, J., Kotiaho, J. S. & Tomkins, J. L. 1999 Dung pad residence time covaries with male morphology in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus. Ecological Entomology 24, 174-180.
Tomkins, J. L., Simmons, L. W., Knell, R. J. & Norris, K. A. 1999 Correlates of ball size and rolling speed in the dung beetle Kheper nigroaeneus (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae). Journal of Zoology 248, 483-487.
Tomkins, J. L. & Simmons, L. W. 1998 Female choice and manipulations of forceps size and symmetry in the European earwig Forficula auricularia L. Animal Behaviour 56, 347-356.
Tomkins, J. L. 1997
Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Earwig Forceps: The
Simmons, L. W. & Tomkins, J. L. 1996 Sexual selection and the allometry of earwig forceps. Evolutionary Ecology 10, 97-104.
Tomkins, J. L. & Simmons, L. W. 1996 Dimorphisms and fluctuating asymmetry in the forceps of male earwigs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 9, 753-770.
Tomkins, J. L. & Simmons, L. W. 1995 Patterns of fluctuating
asymmetry in earwig forceps: no evidence for reliable signalling. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of
Simmons, L. W., Tomkins, J. L. & Manning, J. T. 1995 Sampling bias and fluctuating asymmetry. Animal Behaviour 49, 1697-1699.