Peter Dunn

Publications

• Extra-pair paternity in polygynous tree swallows
• Greater prairie chickens have a compact MHC-B with a single class IA locus
• Mhc variation is related to a sexually selected ornament, Survival, and parasite resistance in common yellowthroats
• Spatial distribution of nests constrains the strength of sexual selection in a warbler
• Females choose multiple mates in the lekking Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)
• Multimodal sexual selection in a warbler: Plumage and song are related to different fitness components
• Social and extra-pair mating in relation to major histocompatibility complex variation in common yellowthroats
• Spatiotemporal patterns in nest box occupancy by tree Swallows across North America | Tendance spatiotemporelle de l'occupation de nichoirs par l'hirondelle bicolore en Amérique du Nord
• A test of the mismatch hypothesis: How is timing of reproduction related to food abundance in an aerial insectivore?
• Extensive MHC class II B gene duplication in a passerine, the common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)
• Genetic restoration of a threatened population of greater prairie-chickens
• Effects of specimen age on plumage color
• Drift and selection influence geographic variation at immune loci of prairie-chickens
• Fitness benefits of polyandry for experienced females
• Integrating Information from Geolocators, Weather Radar, and Citizen Science to Uncover a Key Stopover Area of an Aerial Insectivore
• Effects of recent population bottlenecks on reconstructing the demographic history of prairie-chickens
• Assessing costs of carrying geolocators using feather corticosterone in two species of aerial insectivore
• Different ornaments signal male health and MHC variation in two populations of a warbler
• Natural and sexual selection act on different axes of variation in avian plumage color
• Changes in breeding phenology and population size of birds
• Contrasting patterns of selection on the size and coloration of a female plumage ornament in common yellowthroats
• Extra-pair mating and sexual selection on male traits across populations
• Latitudinal variation in clutch size–lay date regressions in Tachycineta swallows: effects of food supply or demography?
• Trans-Gulf of Mexico loop migration of tree swallows revealed by solar geolocation
• Genetic analysis of a translocation of greater prairie-chickens into Wisconsin
• Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America
• Search costs influence the spatial distribution, but not the level, of extra-pair mating in tree swallows
• Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds
• Effects of climate change on timing of breeding and reproductive success in birds
• Male stress response is related to ornamentation but not resistance to oxidative stress in a warbler
• Geographic variation and environmental correlates of apparent survival rates in adult tree swallows Tachycineta bicolor
• Evaluation of a Chicken 600K SNP genotyping array in non-model species of grouse
• Immunocompetent birds choose larger breeding colonies
• Evaluating the genome-wide impacts of species translocations: the greater prairie-chicken as a case study
• Molecular parallelism in signaling function across different sexually selected ornaments in a warbler
• High MHC diversity confers no advantage for phenotypic quality and reproductive performance in a wild bird
• Rapid loss of MHC class II variation in a bottlenecked population is explained by drift and loss of copy number variation
• Relationship between brood sex ratio and male ornaments depends on male age in a warbler
• Carotenoid and melanin-based ornaments signal similar aspects of male quality in two populations of the common yellowthroat
• Multiple paternity and offspring quality in tree swallows
• Mhc class II diversity and balancing selection in greater prairie-chickens
• Sexual selection, multiple male ornaments, and age- and condition-dependent signaling in the common yellowthroat
• Quantifying avian sexual dichromatism: A comparison of methods
• Geographic variation in the function of ornaments in the common yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
• Attractive males provide less parental care in two populations of the common yellowthroat
• Brood sex ratios are related to male size but not to attractiveness in Common Yellowthroats (Geothlypis trichas)
• Egg mass influences nestling quality in tree swallows, but there is no differential allocation in relation to laying order or sex
• Sexual selection explains Rensch's rule of allometry for sexual size dimorphism
• Extraterritorial forays are related to a male ornamental trait in the common yellowthroat
• Do male ornaments signal immunity in the common yellowthroat?
• Low genetic variation in the Heath Hen prior to extinction and implications for the conservation of prairie-chicken populations
• Repeatability of extra-pair mating in tree swallows
• Radio-tracking of female Tree Swallows prior to egg-laying
• Breeding Dates and Reproductive Performance
• Temporal changes in allele frequencies and low effective population size in greater prairie-chickens
• Effects of paternity and mate availability on mate switching in House Wrens
• Predicting the effects of climate change on avian life-history traits
• Can extra-pair copulations be used to predict extra-pair paternity in birds?
• Climate change has affected the breeding date of tree swallows throughout North America
• Extrapair mate choice and honest signaling in cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wrens
• Forced copulation results in few extrapair fertilizations in Ross's and lesser snow geese
• Costs and benefits of extra-group mating in superb fairy-wrens
• Evolution of male parental care in a bird with almost complete cuckoldry
• Do males exchange feathers for copulations in Tree Swallows?
• Fairy-wren helpers often care for young to which they are unrelated
• Repeatability of extra-pair mating in tree swallows
• Effects of food abundance, weather and female condition on reproductive success in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)
• Phenology of selected lifeforms: Birds
• Effects of paternity and mate availability on mate switching in house wrens
• Maternal condition and nestling sex ratio in house wrens
• Short-term fluctuations in cellular immunity of tree swallows feeding nestlings
• Extrapair paternity is influenced by breeding synchrony and density in the common yellowthroat
• Female responses to intraspecific brood parasitism in the tree swallow
• Male parental care and paternity in birds
• Mating systems, sperm competition and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in birds
• Plumage color as a composite trait: developmental and functional integration of sexual ornamentation
• Polychlorinated biphenyl contamination and minisatellite DNA mutation rates of tree swallows
• Survival of extrapair and within-pair young in tree swallows
• Coalitions of relatives and reproductive skew in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs
• Geographic and ecological variation in clutch size of tree swallows
• Geographic and ecological variation in clutch size of tree swallows
• Laying order, hatching asynchrony and nestling body mass in Tree Swallows, Tachycineta bicolor
• Offspring sex ratios in tree swallows: females in better condition produce more sons
• Relatedness, polyandry and extra-group paternity in the cooperatively-breeding white-brewed scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis)
• Sperm competition and the evolution of testes size in birds
• Loss of genetic variation in Greater Prairie Chickens following a population bottleneck in Wisconsin, U.S.A.
• Maternal influences on brood sex ratios: An experimental study in tree swallows
• Effects of extra-pair and within-pair reproductive success on the opportunity for selection in birds
• Increased opportunities for cuckoldry may be why dominant male fairy-wrens tolerate helpers
• Testing the female mate-guarding hypothesis: A reply
• Dual functions of a melanin-based ornament in the common yellowthroat
• Parental allocation of food to nestling tree swallows: The influence of nestling behaviour, sex and paternity
• Colour polymorphism in birds: Causes and functions
• Males achieve greater reproductive success through multiple broods than through extrapair mating in house wrens
• Male parental effort and paternity in a variable mating system
• Male mask size is correlated with mating success in the common yellowthroat
• Immune response of nestling warblers varies with extra-pair paternity and temperature
• Allocation of male parental care in relation to paternity within and among broods of the common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)
• Contrasting patterns of mitochondrial and microsatellite population structure in fragmented populations of greater prairie-chickens
• Variable effects of climate change on six species of North American birds