John Endler
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John Endler's Degrees
- PhD Zoology University of British Columbia
- Bachelors Zoology University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Arthur Endler is a Canadian ethologist and evolutionary biologist noted for his work on the adaptation of vertebrates to their unique perceptual environments, and the ways in which animal sensory capacities and colour patterns co-evolve.
John Endler's Published Works
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Published Works
- Geographic variation, speciation, and clines. (1977) (2843)
- Signals, Signal Conditions, and the Direction of Evolution (1992) (1707)
- Natural selection in the wild (1987) (1605)
- NATURAL SELECTION ON COLOR PATTERNS IN POECILIA RETICULATA (1980) (1299)
- On the measurement and classification of colour in studies of animal colour patterns (1990) (1138)
- The Color of Light in Forests and Its Implications (1993) (1109)
- Experimentally induced life-history evolution in a natural population (1990) (1099)
- A Predator’s View of Animal Color Patterns (1978) (1084)
- Speciation and Its Consequences (1989) (999)
- THE IMPACT OF PREDATION ON LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION IN TRINIDADIAN GUPPIES (POECILIA RETICULATA) (1982) (864)
- Sensory ecology, receiver biases and sexual selection. (1998) (797)
- Comparing entire colour patterns as birds see them (2005) (703)
- GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN FEMALE PREFERENCES FOR MALE TRAITS IN POECILIA RETICULATA (1995) (643)
- Natural and sexual selection on color patterns in poeciliid fishes (1983) (640)
- Some general comments on the evolution and design of animal communication systems. (1993) (593)
- Multiple-trait coevolution and environmental gradients in guppies. (1995) (570)
- Interacting Effects of Lek Placement, Display Behavior, Ambient Light, and Color Patterns in Three Neotropical Forest-Dwelling Birds (1996) (497)
- Variation in the appearance of guppy color patterns to guppies and their predators under different visual conditions (1991) (467)
- Gene Flow and Population Differentiation (1973) (453)
- Correlated Evolution of Female Mating Preferences and Male Color Patterns in the Guppy Poecilia reticulata (1990) (448)
- Predation, light intensity and courtship behaviour in Poecilia reticulata (Pisces: Poeciliidae) (1987) (434)
- The complex business of survival by aposematism. (2005) (386)
- Frequency-dependent predation, crypsis and aposematic coloration. (1988) (335)
- Problems in Distinguishing Historical from Ecological Factors in Biogeography (1982) (303)
- Progressive background in moths, and a quantitative measure of crypsis (1984) (289)
- Predator Mixes and the Conspicuousness of Aposematic Signals (2004) (285)
- DIRECT AND INDIRECT SEXUAL SELECTION AND QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF MALE TRAITS IN GUPPIES (POECILIA RETICULATA) (2001) (261)
- FEMALE GUPPIES AGREE TO DIFFER: PHENOTYPIC AND GENETIC VARIATION IN MATE‐CHOICE BEHAVIOR AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR SEXUAL SELECTION (2001) (253)
- An overview of the relationships between mimicry and crypsis (1981) (243)
- ANIMAL VISUAL SYSTEMS AND THE EVOLUTION OF COLOR PATTERNS: SENSORY PROCESSING ILLUMINATES SIGNAL EVOLUTION (2005) (243)
- The Ecological Detective (2013) (242)
- Geographic variation in behavior : perspectives on evolutionary mechanisms (1999) (220)
- pavo 2: New tools for the spectral and spatial analysis of colour in r (2019) (214)
- Gene Frequency Clines in the Presence of Selection Opposed by Gene Flow (1975) (206)
- Carotenoid scarcity, synthetic pteridine pigments and the evolution of sexual coloration in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (2001) (194)
- The Relative Success of Some Methods for Measuring and Describing the Shape of Complex Objects (1998) (192)
- Quantitative Matrix Comparisons in Ecological and Evolutionary Investigations (1982) (190)
- An Integrative Framework for the Appraisal of Coloration in Nature (2015) (189)
- Extreme Reversed Sexual Dichromatism in a Bird Without Sex Role Reversal (2005) (174)
- The Processes of Evolution: Toward a Newer Synthesis (1988) (163)
- Modification of the visual background increases the conspicuousness of golden-collared manakin displays (2004) (149)
- Visual pigment polymorphism in the guppy poecilia reticulata (1987) (141)
- Adaptive genetic variation in the wild (2000) (138)
- Parasite load predicts mate choice in guppies (1987) (132)
- Environmental variation and the maintenance of polymorphism: the effect of ambient light spectrum on mating behaviour and sexual selection in guppies (2003) (122)
- Colour perception and the use of video playback experiments in animal behaviour (1998) (109)
- Some comments on visual perception and the use of video playback in animal behavior studies (2000) (109)
- A framework for analysing colour pattern geometry: adjacent colours (2012) (108)
- An Analysis of Physical, Physiological, and Optical Aspects of Avian Coloration with Emphasis on Wood-Warblers (1987) (107)
- CONVERGENT AND DIVERGENT EFFECTS OF NATURAL SELECTION ON COLOR PATTERNS IN TWO FISH FAUNAS (1982) (98)
- Red-green-blue electrogenerated chemiluminescence utilizing a digital camera as detector. (2014) (94)
- Disruptive and cryptic coloration (2006) (88)
- The current and future state of animal coloration research (2017) (85)
- Considerations on the use of video playbacks as visual stimuli: the Lisbon workshop consensus (2000) (84)
- How the ladybird got its spots : effects of resource limitation on the honesty of aposematic signals (2012) (77)
- Predicting the direction of ornament evolution in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (2009) (76)
- Great Bowerbirds Create Theaters with Forced Perspective When Seen by Their Audience (2010) (76)
- Quantitative Colour Pattern Analysis (QCPA): A Comprehensive Framework for the Analysis of Colour Patterns in Nature (2019) (74)
- Variation in Response to Artificial Selection for Light Sensitivity in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (2001) (72)
- Geographic Variation, Speciation and Clines. Monographs in Population Biology, Volume 10 (1978) (69)
- 25 Years of sensory drive: the evidence and its watery bias (2018) (67)
- Sexual dimorphism and intra-populational colour pattern variation in the aposematic frog Dendrobates tinctorius (2013) (64)
- Illusions Promote Mating Success in Great Bowerbirds (2012) (64)
- Review: The New Handbook of Multisensory Processing: Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution (2013) (63)
- The adaptive significance of ontogenetic colour change in a tropical python (2007) (61)
- Deimatism: a neglected component of antipredator defence (2017) (59)
- Sexual selection and predation risk in guppies (1988) (58)
- Niche construction, sources of selection and trait coevolution (2017) (56)
- Variable Environmental Effects on a Multicomponent Sexually Selected Trait (2015) (55)
- The bright incubate at night: sexual dichromatism and adaptive incubation division in an open-nesting shorebird (2015) (53)
- Ornament colour selection, visual contrast and the shape of colour preference functions in great bowerbirds, Chlamydera nuchalis (2006) (52)
- Colour change on different body regions provides thermal and signalling advantages in bearded dragon lizards (2016) (52)
- Color Change for Thermoregulation versus Camouflage in Free-Ranging Lizards (2016) (52)
- Paradox lost: variable colour-pattern geometry is associated with differences in movement in aposematic frogs (2014) (48)
- Bright ideas about parasites. (1989) (47)
- Gene flow and life history patterns. (1979) (43)
- FEMALE GUPPIES AGREE TO DIFFER: PHENOTYPIC AND GENETIC VARIATION IN MATE-CHOICE BEHAVIOR AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR SEXUAL SELECTION (2001) (42)
- Sensory biases and the evolution of sensory systems. (1995) (40)
- Learned Vocal Variation Is Associated with Abrupt Cryptic Genetic Change in a Parrot Species Complex (2012) (36)
- Visual effects in great bowerbird sexual displays and their implications for signal design (2014) (35)
- Long-term Studies of Tropical Stream Fish Communities:The Use of Field Notes and Museum Collections to Reconstruct Communities of the Past (1994) (34)
- An Ishihara-style test of animal colour vision (2018) (34)
- Boundary Strength Analysis: Combining colour pattern geometry and coloured patch visual properties for use in predicting behaviour and fitness (2018) (33)
- Tool-assisted rhythmic drumming in palm cockatoos shares key elements of human instrumental music (2017) (32)
- White Sharks Exploit the Sun during Predatory Approaches (2015) (32)
- Testing Causal Hypotheses in the Study of Geographical Variation (1983) (29)
- The Spatial Pattern of Natural Selection When Selection Depends on Experience (2009) (28)
- Toxicity and taste: unequal chemical defences in a mimicry ring (2018) (28)
- Geographical variation in allometry in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) (2011) (27)
- Functional characterization of spectral tuning mechanisms in the great bowerbird short-wavelength sensitive visual pigment (SWS1), and the origins of UV/violet vision in passerines and parrots (2013) (26)
- Alternative Hypotheses in Biogeography: Introduction and Synopsis of the Symposium (1982) (25)
- Artificial selection for food colour preferences (2015) (24)
- Understanding Natural Selection on Traits That Are Influenced by Environmental Conditions (2000) (23)
- Neutral and selective drivers of colour evolution in a widespread Australian passerine (2017) (23)
- Male great bowerbirds create forced perspective illusions with consistently different individual quality (2012) (23)
- Peacock spiders (2014) (21)
- Convergent evolution of sexual deception via chromatic and achromatic contrast rather than colour mimicry (2017) (21)
- Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection (2020) (21)
- Constraints on the effects of sexual selection (1987) (20)
- Male courtship decisions are influenced by light environment and female receptivity (2016) (20)
- Conservation with Sense (2008) (19)
- Does conspicuousness scale linearly with colour distance? A test using reef fish (2020) (19)
- How Can Ten Fingers Shape a Pot? Evidence for Equivalent Function in Culturally Distinct Motor Skills (2013) (19)
- Early social experience shapes female mate choice in guppies (2017) (18)
- Geographic divergence and colour change in response to visual backgrounds and illumination intensity in bearded dragons (2017) (17)
- Experimental evidence suggests that specular reflectance and glossy appearance help amplify warning signals (2017) (17)
- Bowerbirds, art and aesthetics (2012) (16)
- A comparative study of rhodopsin function in the great bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis): Spectral tuning and light‐activated kinetics (2016) (15)
- Light environment change induces differential expression of guppy opsins in a multi‐generational evolution experiment (2018) (15)
- Success of the receptor noise model in predicting colour discrimination in guppies depends upon the colours tested (2019) (15)
- THE PLACE OF HYBRIDIZATION IN EVOLUTION (1998) (15)
- Sexual selection predicts brain structure in dragon lizards (2017) (14)
- The relative importance of local and global visual contrast in mate choice (2019) (13)
- A Dynamic Optical Signal in a Nocturnal Moth (2019) (13)
- Individuals Among the Pots: How Do Traditional Ceramic Shapes Vary Between Potters? (2018) (13)
- Temperature-induced colour change varies seasonally in bearded dragon lizards (2018) (13)
- Plumage coloration follows Gloger's rule in a ring species (2019) (12)
- pavo 2.0: new tools for the spectral and spatial analysis of colour in R (2018) (12)
- Constraints on the effects of sexual selection. Group report. (1987) (11)
- Intraspecific geographic variation in rod and cone visual pigment sensitivity of a parrot, Platycercus elegans (2017) (11)
- Improved color constancy in honey bees enabled by parallel visual projections from dorsal ocelli (2017) (11)
- A perspective on sensory drive (2018) (11)
- Behavioral, energetic, and color trait integration in male guppies: testing the melanocortin hypothesis (2019) (11)
- Complex Worlds from Simpler Nervous Systems Frederick R. Prete (2005) (11)
- Morphological signals of sex and status in Spotted Bowerbirds (2004) (11)
- Kinesthetic Orientation in the California Newt (Taricha Torosa) (1970) (10)
- Illusions vary because of the types of decorations at bowers, not male skill at arranging them, in great bowerbirds (2015) (10)
- Sex as moderator of early life experience: interaction between rearing environment and sexual experience in male guppies (2012) (9)
- Writing scientific papers, with special reference to Evolutionary Ecology (2015) (9)
- The Place of Hybridization in Evolution@@@Natural Hybridization and Evolution. (1998) (9)
- Integrative commentary on ecology and evolution of poeciliid fishes (2011) (8)
- Colour pattern component phenotypic divergence can be predicted by the light environment (2018) (8)
- Disease influences male advertisement and mating outcomes in a critically endangered amphibian (2021) (6)
- Natural Selection in the Wild. (MPB-21), Volume 21 (2020) (6)
- Grounds for agreement (1989) (6)
- Female receptivity affects subsequent mating effort and mate choice in male guppies (2018) (6)
- Habitat Selection, Ambient Light and Colour Patterns in Some Lek-Displaying Birds (2001) (6)
- The price of defence: toxins, visual signals and oxidative state in an aposematic butterfly (2021) (5)
- Ecology and natural selection (1990) (5)
- Male spotted bowerbirds propagate fruit for use in their sexual display (2012) (5)
- COLORFUL THOUGHTS ABOUT COLORFUL DISPLAYS (2007) (5)
- Traditional craftspeople are not copycats: Potter idiosyncrasies in vessel morphogenesis (2020) (5)
- Change in male coloration associated with artificial selection on foraging colour preference (2018) (5)
- A synthesis of deimatic behaviour (2022) (5)
- Genetics of fishes: evolutionary genetics of fishes. (1984) (4)
- Colour discrimination thresholds vary throughout colour space in a reef fish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus) (2022) (4)
- Cultural transmission and perception of vessel shapes among Hebron potters (2021) (4)
- How viewing objects with the dorsal or ventral retina affects colour-related behaviour in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (2019) (4)
- Using colour pattern edge contrast statistics to predict detection speed and success in triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus) (2022) (4)
- Sexual dimorphism and intra-populational colour pattern variation in the aposematic frog Dendrobates tinctorius (2013) (3)
- Does dietary β-carotene influence ontogenetic colour change in the southern corroboree frog? (2021) (3)
- How do great bowerbirds construct perspective illusions? (2017) (3)
- Organisms and Environment (1989) (3)
- Ecosystem Models Based on Artificial Intelligence (2022) (3)
- The role of boundary length and adjacent patch contrast in guppy mate choice (2020) (3)
- Courtship diverges with foraging behaviour in artificially selected populations (2018) (3)
- Geographic Variation, Speciation and Clines. (MPB-10), Volume 10 (2020) (3)
- Eat yourself sexy: how selective macronutrient intake influences the expression of a visual signal in common mynas. (2021) (2)
- Assessing the influence of culture on craft skills: A quantitative study with expert Nepalese potters (2020) (2)
- Effects of female preference intensity on the permissiveness of sexual trait polymorphisms (2018) (2)
- Colour‐based foraging diverges after multiple generations under different light environments (2019) (2)
- EDITORIAL ON PUBLISHING PAPERS IN EVOLUTION (1992) (2)
- Biotremology and Sensory Ecology (2019) (2)
- Response to Comment on “Illusions Promote Mating Success in Great Bowerbirds” (2012) (2)
- Acknowledgements for Refereeing (2004) (1)
- Signal detectability and boldness are not the same: the function of defensive colouration in nudibranchs is distance-dependent (2022) (1)
- Combining Evolution and Learning in Computational Ecosystems (2020) (1)
- PUBERTY RITES OF BIOGEOGRAPHY (1982) (1)
- Book Review:An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics Gaylon S. Campbell, John M. Norman (1999) (1)
- Addendum: Visual effects in great bowerbird sexual displays and their implications for signal design (2014) (1)
- Negative frequency-dependent selection on polymorphic color morphs in adders (2022) (1)
- Male sexual behaviour and ethanol consumption from an evolutionary perspective: A comment on “Sexual Deprivation Increases Ethanol Intake in Drosophila” (2014) (1)
- Multiple phenotypic traits predict male mating success in a critically endangered frog (2022) (1)
- Highly defended nudibranchs do not ‘escape’ to visually diverse background habitats (2023) (1)
- Book Review:The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Migration. R. R. Baker (1979) (1)
- Rapid beard darkening predicts contest outcome, not copulation success, in bearded dragon lizards (2020) (1)
- Functional characterization of spectral tuning mechanisms in the great bowerbird short-wavelength sensitive visual pigment (SWS1), and the origins of UV/violet vision in passerines and parrots (2013) (1)
- A Good Review of Our Understanding of Speciation (2005) (0)
- Douglas J. Futuyma Evolutionary Biology (1987) (0)
- Preface (2020) (0)
- Review : sensory ecology, behaviour, and evolution (2013) (0)
- Title : Colour pattern edge contrast statistics can predict detection speed and success at 1 ecologically relevant viewing distances in triggerfish ( Rhinecanthus aculeatus ) 2 3 Running title : Pattern edges predict stimulus detectability 4 5 (2022) (0)
- The Genesis of Diversity.Bryan Shorrocks (1980) (0)
- Quantifying ornamental carotenoids in male guppies, Poecilia reticulata (2012) (0)
- COMPLEX COLOR PATTERNS IN MALE POECILIA-RETICULATA - THE TESTING OF ALTERNATIVE EVOLUTIONARY MODELS (1980) (0)
- Book Review:The New Evolutionary Timetable. Fossils, Genes, and the Origin of Species. Steven M. Stanley (1983) (0)
- Editors' Acknowledgments (2008) (0)
- AI Tool for Exploring How Economic Activities Impact Local Ecosystems (2023) (0)
- Author's Index (2018) (0)
- The Study of Adaptation Goes Back to Nature@@@Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild (2001) (0)
- Exploring local effects of economic activities using agent-based ecosystem models (2023) (0)
- Ecology of Australian Freshwater Fishes . Edited by Paul Humphries and Keith Walker. Collingwood (Australia): CSIRO Publishing. $130.00. xiv + 423 p.; ill.; indexes to species and subjects. ISBN: 978-0-643-09743-8. 2013. (2014) (0)
- Writing scientific papers, with special reference to Evolutionary Ecology (2015) (0)
- Alternative spirituality between navel-gazing and social commitment (2019) (0)
- Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food (2023) (0)
- Perceptual Analysis, Visualization and Organization of Spectral Colour Data [R package pavo version 2.4.0] (2020) (0)
- FIRST-YEAR INDIGO BUNTINGS AND THEORIES OF DELAYED PLUMAGE MATURATION (2003) (0)
- Book Review: Speciation and its consequences (1991) (0)
- Visual Background Choice and Light Environment Affect Male Guppy Visual Contrast (2022) (0)
- Acknowledgements for refereeing (2004) (0)
- Niche construction affects the strength and consistency of natural selection (2018) (0)
- Acknowledgements for refereeing (2004) (0)
- Natural and Sexual Selection@@@Natural Selection in the Wild (1989) (0)
- Book reviewComplex Worlds from Simpler Nervous Systems, Frederick R. Prete (Ed.), MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2005), Pp. xx+436. Price $40.00 paper (2005) (0)
- Acknowledgements for refereeing (2004) (0)
- REVIEWERS OF MANUSCRIPTS, 1978 (1978) (0)
- Evolutionary Biology, 2nd edn, Douglas J. Futuyma. Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts (1986), xii, +600. Price $32.00 (1987) (0)
- APPENDIX TWO. Comparisons Between Selection Differentials and Regression Coefficients Using Simulated Data of Selection with Known Properties (2020) (0)
- Reviewers for Volume 110 (2008) (0)
- Species Concepts and Speciation@@@Speciation and its Consequences. (1990) (0)
- Controls on Methane formation in Baltic Sea sediments (2011) (0)
- Experimentally induced divergence of carotenoid usage in male guppy ornaments (2014) (0)
- OF THE SOUTHERN FORMS OF $ ELASPHORUS ( TROCHILIDAE ) (2003) (0)
- Direct Demonstrations of Natural Selection@@@Natural Selection in the Wild. (1986) (0)
- Book reviews (1997) (0)
- Experimental evidence suggests that specular reflectance and glossy appearance help amplify warning signals (2017) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Niche construction, sources of selection and trait coevolution" (2017) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Does conspicuousness scale linearly with colour distance? A test using reef fish" (2020) (0)
- Convergent evolution of sexual deception via chromatic and achromatic contrast rather than colour mimicry (2016) (0)
- Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (0)
- Joint effects of female preference intensity and frequency‐dependent predation on the polymorphism maintenance in aposematic sexual traits (2022) (0)
- The Interaction of Pension System and Unemployment Insurance - Evidence from two Reforms (2017) (0)
- Colour patterns are less variable in highly unpalatable nudibranchs (2023) (0)
- Thirteenth Applied Vision Association Christmas Meeting University of Bristol, Bristol, UK: 19 December 2008 (2009) (0)
- Evolution and learning in artificial ecosystems (2018) (0)
- Puberty Rites of Biogeography@@@Vicariance Biogeography: A Critique (1982) (0)
- Evolution Step by Step (1997) (0)
- Constructed Synchronized Multimodal Signalling in Great Bowerbirds (2022) (0)
- Pension Wealth and the Retirement Decision of Mothers (2016) (0)
- Incidence of embryo mortality in inseminated ewes (1990) (0)
- Son of Selfish Gene (1983) (0)
- John A. Endler (2012) (0)
- Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (0)
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