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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rebecca M. Kilner FRES is a British evolutionary biologist, and a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Cambridge. Education and career Kilner studied a BA in Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1992, and received a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at the University of Cambridge in 1996. She worked as a Junior Research Fellow at Magdelene College, Cambridge, and in 1998 was a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow; she was appointed Lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 2005 and a Reader in 2009.
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- Begging the question: are offspring solicitation behaviours signals of need? (1997) (478)
- The evolution of egg colour and patterning in birds (2006) (343)
- Signals of need in parent–offspring communication and their exploitation by the common cuckoo (1999) (309)
- Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race through host rejection of brood parasitic young (2003) (305)
- Primary and secondary sex ratio manipulation by zebra finches (1998) (234)
- When do canary parents respond to nestling signals of need? (1995) (206)
- Reduced Egg Investment Can Conceal Helper Effects in Cooperatively Breeding Birds (2007) (205)
- A growth cost of begging in captive canary chicks (2001) (202)
- Cuckoos versus hosts in insects and birds: adaptations, counter‐adaptations and outcomes (2011) (183)
- Nestling cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, exploit hosts with begging calls that mimic a brood (1998) (167)
- Brood Parasitic Cowbird Nestlings Use Host Young to Procure Resources (2004) (164)
- Mouth colour is a reliable signal of need in begging canary nestlings (1997) (148)
- Negotiations within the family over the supply of parental care (2007) (140)
- Parent-Offspring Conflict and Coadaptation (2010) (132)
- Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos (2011) (125)
- Personal immunity versus social immunity (2010) (124)
- Sexual division of antibacterial resource defence in breeding burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides. (2010) (123)
- The evolution of egg rejection by cuckoo hosts in Australia and Europe (2005) (112)
- Pattern recognition algorithm reveals how birds evolve individual egg pattern signatures (2014) (110)
- Socially Acquired Host-Specific Mimicry and the Evolution of Host Races in Horsfield'S Bronze-Cuckoo Chalcites Basalis (2008) (108)
- Nestling mouth colour: ecological correlates of a begging signal (1998) (103)
- Are dark cuckoo eggs cryptic in host nests? (2009) (103)
- Brood Parasitism and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds (2013) (92)
- Age-specific reproductive investment in female burying beetles: independent effects of state and risk of death (2011) (92)
- Flexible cuckoo chick-rejection rules in the superb fairy-wren (2009) (90)
- The evolution of virulence in brood parasites (2005) (90)
- Fitness costs associated with mounting a social immune response. (2010) (86)
- Conspicuous, ultraviolet-rich mouth colours in begging chicks (2003) (83)
- Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict offspring desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (2009) (82)
- The Evolution of Complex Begging Displays (2002) (80)
- Sex differences in canary (Serinus canaria) provisioning rules (2002) (75)
- Prenatal environmental effects match offspring begging to parental provisioning (2009) (73)
- How selfish is a cowbird nestling? (2003) (72)
- Chapter 6 Information Warfare and Parent–Offspring Conflict (2008) (72)
- Female Burying Beetles Benefit from Male Desertion: Sexual Conflict and Counter-Adaptation over Parental Investment (2012) (68)
- How selfish is a cuckoo chick? (1999) (64)
- Nestling responses to adult food and alarm calls: 1. Species-specific responses in two cowbird hosts (2005) (62)
- Maternal investment tactics in superb fairy-wrens (2008) (59)
- Strategies for managing rival bacterial communities: Lessons from burying beetles (2017) (53)
- Function and Evolution of Color in Young Birds (2006) (53)
- Coevolution, communication, and host chick mimicry in parasitic finches: who mimics whom? (2007) (51)
- Parental care masks a density-dependent shift from cooperation to competition among burying beetle larvae (2015) (51)
- Spectral mouth colour of nestlings changes with carotenoid availability (2008) (49)
- Breeding site and host selection by Horsfield's bronze-cuckoos, Chalcites basalis (2007) (49)
- Differences in the nestling begging calls of hosts and host-races of the common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus (2003) (48)
- Sense and sensitivity: responsiveness to offspring signals varies with the parents' potential to breed again (2011) (48)
- A direct physiological trade-off between personal and social immunity. (2013) (48)
- Imperfectly Camouflaged Avian Eggs: Artefact or Adaptation? (2011) (46)
- FAMILY CONFLICTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF NESTLING MOUTH COLOUR (1999) (44)
- The spatial organization and mating system of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoos, Chalcites basalis (2007) (43)
- A gene associated with social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (2016) (43)
- Using Experimental Evolution to Study Adaptations for Life within the Family (2015) (38)
- Egg Speckling Patterns Do Not Advertise Offspring Quality or Influence Male Provisioning in Great Tits (2012) (38)
- Indole: An evolutionarily conserved influencer of behavior across kingdoms (2017) (37)
- Cooperative interactions within the family enhance the capacity for evolutionary change in body size (2017) (33)
- Egg size investment in superb fairy-wrens: helper effects are modulated by climate (2016) (31)
- Nestling responses to adult food and alarm calls: 2. Cowbirds and red-winged blackbirds reared by eastern phoebe hosts (2005) (31)
- "Jack-of-all-trades" egg mimicry in the brood parasitic Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo? (2014) (29)
- Why do Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo Chalcites basalis eggs mimic those of their hosts? (2009) (29)
- Does testosterone mediate the trade-off between nestling begging and growth in the canary (Serinus canaria)? (2007) (29)
- Parental effects alter the adaptive value of an adult behavioural trait (2015) (27)
- A window on the past: male ornamental plumage reveals the quality of their early-life environment (2013) (26)
- A sustained change in the supply of parental care causes adaptive evolution of offspring morphology (2018) (25)
- Friend or foe: inter‐specific interactions and conflicts of interest within the family (2015) (24)
- Behaviorally Induced Camouflage: A New Mechanism of Avian Egg Protection (2015) (24)
- BROOD PARASITISM (2020) (23)
- Interspecific interactions explain variation in the duration of paternal care in the burying beetle (2015) (23)
- Parental-Offspring Conflict (2012) (23)
- An evolutionary switch from sibling rivalry to sibling cooperation, caused by a sustained loss of parental care (2020) (22)
- Parent–offspring conflict in avian families (2007) (18)
- New labels for old whines (2011) (18)
- Social immunity of the family: parental contributions to a public good modulated by brood size (2015) (17)
- Superior stimulation of female fecundity by subordinate males provides a mechanism for telegony (2017) (17)
- The past, present and future of ‘cuckoos versus reed warblers’ (2013) (16)
- Adaptation to a novel family environment involves both apparent and cryptic phenotypic changes (2017) (15)
- Giving hihi a helping hand: assessment of alternative rearing diets in food supplemented populations of an endangered bird (2013) (14)
- Adaptive evolution of synchronous egg-hatching in compensation for the loss of parental care (2018) (13)
- Aposematism in the burying beetle? Dual function of anal fluid in parental care and chemical defense (2017) (13)
- Grey Gerygone hosts are not egg rejecters, but Shining Bronze-Cuckoos lay cryptic eggs (2017) (13)
- Fitness costs associated with building and maintaining the burying beetle’s carrion nest (2016) (13)
- Rapid local adaptation linked with phenotypic plasticity (2020) (13)
- Interspecific interactions change the outcome of sexual conflict over prehatching parental investment in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (2015) (12)
- Foraging for carotenoids: do colorful male hihi target carotenoid-rich foods in the wild? (2014) (12)
- A limit on the extent to which increased egg size can compensate for a poor postnatal environment revealed experimentally in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides (2015) (12)
- Host life history strategies and the evolution of chick-killing by brood parasitic offspring (2008) (12)
- Parental effects and flight behaviour in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides (2015) (12)
- Development and application of 14 microsatellite markers in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides reveals population genetic differentiation at local spatial scales (2017) (10)
- Sexually selected dichromatism in the hihi Notiomystis cincta: multiple colours for multiple receivers (2014) (10)
- Begging Call Mimicry by Brood Parasite Nestlings: Adaptation, Manipulation and Development (2017) (10)
- Interspecific Interactions and the Scope for Parent-Offspring Conflict: High Mite Density Temporarily Changes the Trade-Off between Offspring Size and Number in the Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides (2016) (10)
- Multimodal mimicry of hosts in a radiation of parasitic finches * (2020) (10)
- Response to Grim: Further costs of virulence for brood parasitic young (2006) (9)
- A weapons–testes trade-off in males is amplified in female traits (2019) (9)
- Parental care and sibling competition independently increase phenotypic variation among burying beetle siblings (2018) (8)
- Conflict within species determines the value of a mutualism between species (2019) (8)
- Microsatellite loci for population and behavioural studies of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo ( Chalcites basalis : Aves) (2005) (6)
- Polymorphic microsatellite loci for studies of bronze-cuckoo species (Genus Chalcites : Aves) (2007) (5)
- Temperature stress induces mites to help their carrion beetle hosts by eliminating rival blowflies (2020) (5)
- Evolutionary change in the construction of the nursery environment when parents are prevented from caring for their young directly (2021) (5)
- No evidence of a cleaning mutualism between burying beetles and their phoretic mites (2017) (5)
- Early‐life effects on body size in each sex interact to determine reproductive success in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (2020) (5)
- Larval environmental conditions influence plasticity in resource use by adults in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides (2021) (4)
- The early‐life environment and individual plasticity in life‐history traits (2018) (4)
- Parental care shapes evolution of aposematism and provides lifelong protection against predators (2019) (4)
- From micro- to macroevolution: brood parasitism as a driver of phenotypic diversity in birds (2020) (4)
- Privatization of a breeding resource by the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides is associated with shifts in bacterial communities (2016) (4)
- Title : A direct physiological trade-off between personal and social 2 immunity (2013) (3)
- Behavioural ecology: Learn to beat an identity cheat (2010) (3)
- Cryptic host specialisation within Poecilochirus carabi mites explains population differences in the extent of co-adaptation with their burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides hosts (2019) (3)
- Limits to host colonization and speciation in a radiation of parasitic finches (2021) (3)
- A gene for social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides? (2015) (2)
- Parental care maintains genetic variation by relaxing selection (2023) (2)
- Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict brood 4 desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (2014) (2)
- Multilevel selection leads to divergent coadaptation of care-giving parents during pre-hatching parental care (2022) (1)
- High rates of infidelity in the Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa suggest that testis size may be a better correlate of extra‐pair paternity than sexual dimorphism (2010) (1)
- Parent–Offspring and Sibling Conflict (2002) (1)
- Competition within species determines the value of a mutualism between species (2018) (1)
- An empiricists’ guide to sexual conflict over parental investment: a comment on Paquet and Smiseth (2016) (1)
- The evolution of a beneficial association between an animal and a microbial community (2018) (1)
- “Why” and “How” behavior evolves: a comment on Bailey et al. (2018) (1)
- Mutualistic interactions with phoretic mites Poecilochirus carabi expand the realised thermal niche of the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (2019) (1)
- Niche construction through a Goldilocks principle maximizes fitness for a nest-sharing brood parasite (2022) (1)
- Socially transferred materials: why and how to study them. (2022) (1)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Selection on mothers and offspring: whose phenotype is it and does it matter? (2005) (0)
- A sustained change in the supply of parental care causes adaptive evolution of offspring morphology (2018) (0)
- CONTENTS Page PREFACE vii THEORETICAL APPROACHES 1 . Models of Begging as a Signal of Need Rufus (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Genotypic sex determination enabled adaptive radiations of extinct marine reptiles. (2009) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Photodynamic antimicrobial activity of avian eggshell pigments. (2010) (0)
- Ultra-local adaptation due to genetic accommodation (2019) (0)
- No evidence of a cleaning mutualism between burying beetles and their phoretic mites (2017) (0)
- The evolutionary demise of a social interaction: social partners differ in the rate at which interacting phenotypes are lost (2022) (0)
- 5. Function and Evolution of Color in Young Birds (2006) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Conflicts and alliances in insect families. (2005) (0)
- Using experimental evolution to study adaptations for life within the 1 family 2 3 (2015) (0)
- F1000Prime recommendation of Female sex pheromone in immature insect males—a case of pre-emergence chemical mimicry? (2005) (0)
- Experimental evolution of a more restrained clutch size when filial cannibalism is prevented in burying beetles Nicrophorus vespilloides (2022) (0)
- Data set for "Weeding, seeding, replanting or preserving? How burying beetles manage the bacterial community on their carcass breeding resource" (2017) (0)
- Editors' Acknowledgments (2003) (0)
- Social immunity of the family: parental contributions to a public good modulated by brood size (2015) (0)
- varies with the parents ' potential to breed again Sense and sensitivity : responsiveness to offspring signals (2011) (0)
- Previous breeding success and carrion substrate together influence subsequent carrion choice by adult Nicrophorus vespilloides (2023) (0)
- Research data supporting "Are phoretic mites in a cleaning mutualism with the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides?" (2017) (0)
- Data from: The early-life environment and individual plasticity in life history (2019) (0)
- Title : Ultra-local adaptation due to genetic accommodation 2 3 (2019) (0)
- An evolutionary switch from sibling rivalry to sibling cooperation, caused by a sustained loss of parental care. (2020) (0)
- Godman‐Salvin Prize (2022) (0)
- The role of recent evolutionary history in resilience to environmental change: social evolution effects versus founder effects (2022) (0)
- Supplementary material from "A weapons-testes trade-off in males is amplified in female traits" (2019) (0)
- Comparative dataset Africa (2013) (0)
- The evolutionary demise of a social interaction: experimentally induced loss of traits involved in the supply and demand of care (2023) (0)
- Title : 1 Cooperative interactions within the family enhance 2 the capacity for evolutionary change of body size 3 4 (2017) (0)
- Author response: Temperature stress induces mites to help their carrion beetle hosts by eliminating rival blowflies (2020) (0)
- Social immunity of the family : parental contributions to a public good modulated by 1 brood size 2 3 (2015) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Why do red and dark-coloured cars lure aquatic insects? The attraction of water insects to car paintwork explained by reflection-polarization signals. (2006) (0)
- Commentary on Invited Review (2011) (0)
- The lingering effects of parental care and its role in evolutionary change (2016) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Countergradient variation in the sexual coloration of guppies (Poecilia reticulata): drosopterin synthesis balances carotenoid availability. (2005) (0)
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