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Robert Montgomerie

Professor of Evolutionary Biology (Behavioural ecology)

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Publications

  • Peahens prefer peacocks displaying more eyespots, but rarely
  • Exceptional variation in the appearance of Common Murre eggs reveals their potential as identity signals
  • Chemical composition of seminal and ovarian fluids of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and their effects on sperm motility traits
  • Dirty little secrets
  • The Great Auk ( Pinguinus impennis ) had two brood patches, not one: confirmation and implications
  • Data from: Extensive variation in sperm morphology in a frog with no sperm competition
  • The evolution of egg shape in birds: selection during the incubation period
  • Raw data
  • Statistical Supplement
  • Preston’s universal formula for avian egg shape
  • Three decades of sperm competition in birds
  • The cases for and against double-blind reviews
  • Sperm traits in Chinook salmon depend upon activation medium: implications for studies of sperm competition in fishes
  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality
  • Robin's egg blue: does egg color influence male parental care?
  • Maternal influences on population dynamics: evidence from an exploited freshwater fish
  • RAPID SYMPATRY EXPLAINS GREATER COLOR PATTERN DIVERGENCE IN HIGH LATITUDE BIRDS
  • Carotenoid-based status signaling by females in the tropical streak-backed oriole
  • CHARLES DARWIN'S FANCY
  • Female American goldfinches use carotenoid-based bill coloration to signal status
  • Female promiscuity promotes the evolution of faster sperm in cichlid fishes
  • Peacocks orient their courtship displays towards the sun
  • Reduced sperm performance in backcross hybrids between species pairs of whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)
  • Samuel Pepys's hand-coloured copy of John Ray's 'The Ornithology of Francis Willughby' (1678)
  • A mechanism for cryptic female choice in chinook salmon
  • Body condition influences sperm energetics in lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)
  • Evolutionary divergence in common marine ectoparasites Gnathia spp. (Isopoda : Gnathiidae) on the Great Barrier Reef: phylogeography, morphology, and behaviour
  • Female-mediated causes and consequences of status change in a social fish
  • Continent-wide variation in feather colour of a migratory songbird in relation to body condition and moulting locality
  • Reproductive-tactic-specific variation in sperm swimming speeds in a shell-brooding Cichlid
  • Social status, sperm and stress: Reproductive suppression in a cooperative fish
  • Ejaculate investment in a promiscuous rodent, Peromyscus maniculatus: effects of population density and social role
  • Intraspecific variation in ejaculate traits of the northern watersnake (Nerodia sipedon)
  • Sperm quality influences male fertilization success in walleye (Sander vitreus)
  • Motility, ATP levels and metabolic enzyme activity of sperm from bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)
  • Offspring sex ratios correlate with pair-male condition in a cooperatively breeding fairy-wren
  • Iridescent plumage in satin bowerbirds: structure, mechanisms and nanostructural predictors of individual variation in colour
  • Quantifying the gender load: can population crosses reveal interlocus sexual conflict?
  • Achromatic plumage reflectance predicts reproductive success in male black-capped chickadees
  • Male reproductive suppression in the cooperatively breeding fish Neolamprologus pulcher
  • Properties of egg coloration: Use for recognition vs camouflage
  • Do female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) copy each other's mate preferences?
  • Female size influences mate preferences of male guppies
  • Concordant evolution of plumage colour, feather microstructure and a melanocortin receptor gene between mainland and island populations of a fairy-wren
  • Genetic diversity and management of Nearctic rock ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus)
  • Mate preferences by male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in relation to the risk of sperm competition
  • Quasi-parasitism in birds
  • Does kin selection moderate sexual conflict in Drosophila ?
  • Cryptic female choice enhances fertilization success and embryo survival in chinook salmon
  • Ornithological insights from Taylor White's birds
  • How robins find worms
  • Sexual selection and the intromittent organ of birds
  • Biology, evolution and human nature
  • Baird's sandpiper Calidris bairdii.
  • Lapland Longspur: Calcarius lapponicus.
  • Ovarian fluid enhances sperm movement in Arctic charr
  • Carotenoid pigments in male House Finch plumage in relation to age, subspecies, and ornamental coloration
  • Reproductive effort molting latitude, and feather color in a migratory songbird
  • Sperm swimming speed and energetics vary with sperm competition risk in bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)
  • Sperm traits in relation to male quality in colonial spawning bluegill
  • Achromatic color variation in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapilla: black and white signals of sex and rank
  • Assortative mating by carotenoid-based plumage colour: a quality indicator in American goldfinches, Carduelis tristis
  • Bower location and orientation in Satin Bowerbirds: optimising the conspicuousness of male display?
  • Breeding biology and social structure of White-winged Fairy-wrens (Malurus leucopterus): comparison between island and mainland subspecies having different plumage phenotypes
  • Do sneaker male bluegill sunfish produce physiologically superior sperm?
  • Evolutionary biology: Why do birds engage in extra-pair copulation?
  • Male condition and sperm traits vary with age in two freshwater fish species with different life histories.
  • Multiple sexual ornaments in satin bowerbirds: ultraviolet plumage and bowers signal different aspects of male quality
  • Structural plumage colour and parasites in satin bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchus violaceus: implications for sexual selection
  • Vigilance and the group-size effect: Observing behavior in humans.
  • Why do birds engage in extra-pair copulation?
  • Dietary carotenoids predict plumage coloration in wild house finches
  • Do sneaker male bluegill sunfish produce physiologically superior sperm?
  • Snow Bunting and McKay's Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis and Plectrophenax hyperboreus)
  • THE IMPACT OF BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
  • Dirty ptarmigan: behavioral modification of conspicuous male plumage
  • Efficient copulation and the evolutionary loss of the avian intromittent organ
  • Facial attractiveness signals different aspects of "quality" in women and men
  • Repertoire, structure, and individual distinctiveness of Thick-billed Murre calls
  • Paternity and paternal care in the polygynandrous Smith's longspur
  • Sperm size of African cichlids in relation to sperm competition
  • Glacial vicariance and historical biogeography of rock ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) in the Bering region
  • Movements and habitat use of the Torresian Crow in a subtropical suburban environment
  • Sperm characteristics associated with different male reproductive tactics in bluegills (Lepomis macrochirus)
  • Sweet FA: The trouble with fluctuating asymmetry
  • A test of the glacial refugium hypothesis using patterns of mitochondrial and nuclear dna sequence variation in rock ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus)
  • Extrapair paternity in a far northern population of Yellow Warblers Dendroica petechia
  • Frequency and timing of extrapair fertilisation in the polyandrous red phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
  • Parent-offspring recognition in thick-billed murres (Aves : Alcidae)
  • The evolution of sperm size in birds
  • IMPACT OF BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
  • LOCAL RESOURCE COMPETITION AND SEX-RATIO VARIATION IN BIRDS
  • MATING SYSTEM OF THE COOPERATIVELY BREEDING NOISY MINER MANORINA-MELANOCEPHALA, AS REVEALED BY DNA PROFILING
  • INFLUENCE OF DIETARY CAROTENOIDS ON PLASMA AND PLUMAGE COLOR IN THE HOUSE FINCH - INTRASEXUAL AND INTERSEXUAL VARIATION
  • PLUMAGE COLOR SIGNALS NUTRITIONAL CONDITION IN THE HOUSE FINCH
  • SEXUAL SELECTION AND CUCKOLDRY IN A MONOGAMOUS SONGBIRD - IMPLICATIONS FOR SEXUAL SELECTION THEORY
  • SEXUAL SELECTION AND SURVIVAL IN NORTH-AMERICAN WATERFOWL
  • THE COST OF EXTRA-PAIR FERTILIZATIONS TO FEMALE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS
  • AMERICAN ROBIN NESTLINGS COMPETE BY JOCKEYING FOR POSITION
  • CONTEXT AND CONSEQUENCES OF COMB DISPLAYS BY MALE ROCK PTARMIGAN
  • COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF VARIATION IN THE SIZE OF RUFF LEKS
  • PATTERNS OF SPERM STORAGE IN RELATION TO SPERM COMPETITION IN PASSERINE BIRDS
  • RED COLOR BANDS DO NOT IMPROVE THE MATING SUCCESS OF MALE ROCK PTARMIGAN
  • Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus mutus
  • LEAST AUKLET ORNAMENTS - DO THEY FUNCTION AS QUALITY INDICATORS
  • MALE INCUBATION IN BARN SWALLOWS - THE INFLUENCE OF NEST TEMPERATURE AND SEXUAL SELECTION
  • MORTALITY COSTS OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN BIRDS
  • SCARCITY OF HEMATOZOA IN BIRDS BREEDING ON THE ARCTIC TUNDRA OF NORTH-AMERICA
  • SPERM SIZE AND SPERM COMPETITION IN BIRDS
  • DNA fingerprinting reveals relation between tail ornaments and cuckoldry in barn swallows, Hirundo rustica
  • EGG-LAYING TIMES OF AMERICAN ROBINS
  • GOOD-NEWS AND BAD-NEWS ABOUT DNA FINGERPRINTING
  • 2022 AOS Peter R. Stettenheim Service Award to Melinda Pruett-Jones
  • 2022 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Erin Morrison
  • DoubleBlindReviews
  • Two-egg Fulmars
  • Casey Albert Wood and The fundus oculi of birds (1917)
  • Limited evidence that asymmetries of multiple Whiskered Auklet ( Aethia pygmaea ) feather ornaments could serve a display function
  • MEARNS, Barbara and MEARNS, Richard. Biographies for birdwatchers: the lives of those commemorated in Western Palearctic bird names
  • The Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) had two brood patches, not one: confirmation and implications
  • Data from: The evolution of egg shape in birds: Evolutionary constraints and adaptations
  • Recent decline in sperm motility among donor candidates at a sperm bank in Denmark

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