Robert Montgomerie

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
• Estimating the mass of the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) and its egg
• Wooden replicas of great auk eggs created (c.1922) by Stephen James Goodall (1825–1896)
• Great Auk body and egg mass