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Stevan J. Arnold

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#416

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#53

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Stevan J. Arnold's Degrees

PhD Zoology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Zoology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Stevan James Arnold is an American evolutionary biologist. He is Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology and was Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles at Oregon State University, Corvallis until his retirement. He has served as president of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the American Society of Naturalists.

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THE MEASUREMENT OF SELECTION ON CORRELATED CHARACTERS (1983) (4997)
Morphology, Performance and Fitness (1983) (1489)
ON THE MEASUREMENT OF NATURAL AND SEXUAL SELECTION: THEORY (1984) (1221)
ON THE MEASUREMENT OF NATURAL AND SEXUAL SELECTION: APPLICATIONS (1984) (727)
Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution (1992) (688)
Directional selection and the evolution of breeding date in birds. (1988) (599)
VISUALIZING MULTIVARIATE SELECTION (1989) (521)
The intensity of sexual selection in relation to male sexual behaviour, female choice, and sperm precedence (1980) (441)
Estimating Nonlinear Selection Gradients Using Quadratic Regression Coefficients: Double Or Nothing? (2008) (440)
Animal Mating Systems: A Synthesis Based on Selection Theory (1994) (436)
Hot Rocks and Not-So-Hot Rocks: Retreat-Site Selection by Garter Snakes and Its Thermal Consequences (1989) (434)
Snakes, the evolution of mystery in nature (1998) (412)
Resolving the Paradox of Stasis: Models with Stabilizing Selection Explain Evolutionary Divergence on All Timescales (2007) (408)
The adaptive landscape as a conceptual bridge between micro- and macroevolution (2004) (393)
Understanding The Evolution And Stability Of The G-Matrix (2008) (351)
HIERARCHICAL COMPARISON OF GENETIC VARIANCE‐COVARIANCE MATRICES. I. USING THE FLURY HIERARCHY (1999) (335)
The million-year wait for macroevolutionary bursts (2011) (284)
Multiple mating by females: a perspective from quantitative genetics (1987) (280)
Bateman's Principles and the Measurement of Sexual Selection in Plants and Animals (1994) (273)
BEHAVIORAL VARIATION IN NATURAL POPULATIONS. I. PHENOTYPIC, GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CORRELATIONS BETWEEN CHEMORECEPTIVE RESPONSES TO PREY IN THE GARTER SNAKE, THAMNOPHIS ELEGANS (1981) (257)
Differential Predation on Metamorphic Anurans by Garter Snakes (Thamnophis): Social Behavior as a Possible Defense (1978) (244)
STABILITY OF THE G‐MATRIX IN A POPULATION EXPERIENCING PLEIOTROPIC MUTATION, STABILIZING SELECTION, AND GENETIC DRIFT (2003) (244)
MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF PAIRING SUCCESS, EXTRA‐PAIR COPULATIONS AND MATE QUALITY ON THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SEXUAL SELECTION (1995) (230)
THE DARWIN‐FISHER THEORY OF SEXUAL SELECTION IN MONOGAMOUS BIRDS (1990) (205)
THE EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF LIFE HISTORY VARIATION IN THE GARTER SNAKE THAMNOPHIS ELEGANS (1999) (201)
The adaptive landscape as a conceptual bridge between micro- and macroevolution. (2001) (194)
The Bateman gradient and the cause of sexual selection in a sex–role–reversed pipefish (2000) (189)
Behavioural variation in natural populations. III: Antipredator displays in the garter snake Thamnophis radix (1984) (175)
THE MUTATION MATRIX AND THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLVABILITY (2007) (169)
HIERARCHICAL COMPARISON OF GENETIC VARIANCE‐COVARIANCE MATRICES. II COASTAL‐INLAND DIVERGENCE IN THE GARTER SNAKE, THAMNOPHIS ELEGANS (1999) (168)
Quantitative genetic models of sexual selection (2005) (166)
EVOLUTION AND STABILITY OF THE G‐MATRIX ON A LANDSCAPE WITH A MOVING OPTIMUM (2004) (162)
The Evolution of Courtship Behavior in New World Salamanders with Some Comments on Old World Salamandrids (1977) (159)
Quantitative genetic models of sexual selection. (1985) (157)
Evolution of mating preference and sexual dimorphism. (1985) (155)
Effects of a Full Stomach on Locomotory Performance of Juvenile Garter Snakes (Thamnophis elegans) (1983) (145)
Correspondence between sexual isolation and allozyme differentiation: a test in the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus. (1990) (134)
THE EVOLUTION OF ASYMMETRY IN SEXUAL ISOLATION: A MODEL AND A TEST CASE (1996) (133)
Evolutionary Biology for the 21st Century (2013) (131)
Genetic Tools for Studying Adaptation and the Evolution of Behavior (2002) (127)
BEHAVIORAL VARIATION IN NATURAL POPULATIONS. II. THE INHERITANCE OF A FEEDING RESPONSE IN CROSSES BETWEEN GEOGRAPHIC RACES OF THE GARTER SNAKE, THAMNOPHIS ELEGANS (1981) (126)
Validation of Bateman's principles: a genetic study of sexual selection and mating patterns in the rough–skinned newt (2002) (120)
Behavioural variation in natural populations. V. Morphological correlates of locomotion in the garter snake (Thamnophis radix) (1988) (115)
Is there a Unifying Concept of Sexual Selection that Applies to Both Plants and Animals? (1994) (109)
Drift Promotes Speciation by Sexual Selection (2009) (104)
Species Densities of Predators and Their Prey (1972) (100)
Garter Snake Diets in a Fluctuating Environment: A Seven-Year Study (1982) (99)
An empirical test of evolutionary theories for reproductive senescence and reproductive effort in the garter snake Thamnophis elegans (2007) (97)
Population genetic analysis identifies source–sink dynamics for two sympatric garter snake species (Thamnophis elegans and Thamnophis sirtalis) (2005) (97)
Molecular systematics and evolution of Regina and the thamnophiine snakes. (2001) (95)
Epistasis and Natural Selection Shape the Mutational Architecture of Complex Traits (2014) (90)
A STATISTICAL STUDY OF MATE CHOICE: SEXUAL SELECTION IN A PLETHODONTID SALAMANDER (DESMOGNATHUS OCHROPHAEUS) (1985) (83)
Polymorphism and Geographic Variation in the Feeding Behavior of the Garter Snake Thamnophis elegans (1977) (81)
Molecular Parentage Analysis in Experimental Newt Populations: The Response of Mating System Measures to Variation in the Operational Sex Ratio (2004) (81)
A Model for Optimal Reaction Norms: The Case of the Pregnant Garter Snake and Her Temperature‐Sensitive Embryos (2002) (80)
Sexual Behavior, Sexual Interference and Sexual Defense in the Salamanders Ambystoma maculatum, Ambystoma tigrinum and Plethodon jordani (2010) (78)
The effects of substrate and vertebral number on locomotion in the garter snake Thamnophis elegans (1997) (77)
MIPoD: A Hypothesis‐Testing Framework for Microevolutionary Inference from Patterns of Divergence (2008) (77)
The evolution of mating preferences and sexually selected traits (1987) (75)
A new vertebrate courtship pheromone, PMF, affects female receptivity in a terrestrial salamander (2007) (71)
Some effects of early experience on feeding responses in the common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis (1978) (69)
Performance Surfaces and Adaptive Landscapes1 (2003) (69)
The Evolution of a Special Class of Modifiable Behaviors in Relation to Environmental Pattern (1978) (68)
Stabilizing selection on behavior and morphology masks positive selection on the signal in a salamander pheromone signaling complex. (2004) (67)
Ecological correlates of population genetic structure: a comparative approach using a vertebrate metacommunity (2006) (66)
A Quantitative Approach to Antipredator Performance: Salamander Defense against Snake Attack (1982) (64)
Adaptive divergence within and between ecotypes of the terrestrial garter snake, Thamnophis elegans, assessed with FST‐QST comparisons (2007) (63)
STABILITY OF THE G-MATRIX IN A POPULATION EXPERIENCING PLEIOTROPIC MUTATION, STABILIZING SELECTION, AND GENETIC DRIFT (2003) (62)
Multiple paternity in a natural population of a salamander with long‐term sperm storage (2005) (62)
BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATIONS OF SEXUAL ISOLATION AMONG ALLOPATRIC POPULATIONS OF THE MOUNTAIN DUSKY SALAMANDER, DESMOGNATHUS OCHROPHAEUS (1989) (61)
EVOLUTIONARY REPLACEMENT OF COMPONENTS IN A SALAMANDER PHEROMONE SIGNALING COMPLEX: MORE EVIDENCE FOR PHENOTYPIC-MOLECULAR DECOUPLING (2007) (59)
Stochastic population dynamics in populations of western terrestrial garter snakes with divergent life histories. (2011) (58)
Behavioural variation in natural populations. VI. Prey responses by two species of garter snakes in three regions of sympatry (1992) (57)
Topping off: A mechanism of first-male sperm precedence in a vertebrate (2002) (56)
Lineage-specific differences in evolutionary mode in a salamander courtship pheromone. (2005) (55)
Phenotypic Evolution: The Ongoing Synthesis (2014) (53)
The effects of stochastic and episodic movement of the optimum on the evolution of the G‐matrix and the response of the trait mean to selection (2012) (51)
Behavioral variation in natural populations. II. The inheritance of a feeding response in crosses between geographic races of the gerter snake (1981) (51)
A Test for Temperature Effects on the Ontogeny of Shape in the Garter Snake Thamnophis sirtalis (1989) (47)
EVOLUTION AND STABILITY OF THE G-MATRIX ON A LANDSCAPE WITH A MOVING OPTIMUM (2004) (45)
Limits on Stabilizing, Disruptive, and Correlational Selection Set by the Opportunity for Selection (1986) (45)
Dimensionality of mate choice, sexual isolation, and speciation (2010) (44)
A Candidate Vertebrate Pheromone, SPF, Increases Female Receptivity in a Salamander (2008) (44)
Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders (1993) (44)
A recombinant courtship pheromone affects sexual receptivity in a plethodontid salamander. (2008) (43)
Sperm competition in a plethodontid salamander: preliminary results (1985) (43)
Plethodontid modulating factor, a hypervariable salamander courtship pheromone in the three‐finger protein superfamily (2007) (42)
Behavior, Energy and Fitness (1988) (36)
The Measurement of Selection on Size and Growth (1988) (35)
Anaerobic metabolism and behavior during predatory encounters between snakes (Thamnophis elegans) and salamanders (Plethodon jordani) (1982) (33)
Rapid Evolution of Plethodontid Modulating Factor, a Hypervariable Salamander Courtship Pheromone, is Driven by Positive Selection (2010) (32)
Correlational selection in the age of genomics (2021) (32)
Multiple mating: Natural selection is not evolution (1988) (30)
Too much natural history, or too little? (2003) (30)
A TEST OF THE CONJECTURE THAT G‐MATRICES ARE MORE STABLE THAN B‐MATRICES (2010) (30)
Fauna of Australia. Vol. 2a, Amphibia and Reptilia (1995) (28)
Avian Predation and the Evolution of Life Histories in the Garter Snake Thamnophis elegans (2013) (27)
Evolutionary Biology for the 21 st Century (2012) (27)
Multiple mating by females: the design and interpretation of selectoon experiments (1992) (26)
Concurrent speciation in the eastern woodland salamanders (Genus Plethodon): DNA sequences of the complete albumin nuclear and partial mitochondrial 12s genes. (2012) (26)
Evidence for Selection on Thermoregulation: Effects of Temperature on Embryo Mortality in the Garter Snake Thamnophis elegans (2005) (25)
Evolutionary shifts in courtship pheromone composition revealed by EST analysis of plethodontid salamander mental glands. (2009) (25)
Daily Variation in the Body Temperatures of Free-Ranging Garter Snakes (2007) (24)
Expression of vomeronasal receptors and related signaling molecules in the nasal cavity of a caudate amphibian (Plethodon shermani). (2012) (24)
Behavioural variation in natural populations. VII. Maternal body temperature does not affect juvenile thermoregulation in a garter snake (1995) (23)
Behavioural variation in natural populations. IV. mendelian models and heritability of a feeding response in the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans (1983) (22)
Cytochrome b Phylogeny Does Not Match Subspecific Classification in the Western Terrestrial Garter Snake, Thamnophis elegans (2001) (21)
Pheromone isoform composition differentially affects female behaviour in the red-legged salamander, Plethodon shermani (2015) (20)
THE ULTIMATE CAUSES OF PHENOTYPIC INTEGRATION : LOST IN TRANSLATION (20)
Tests for Sexual Isolation in Plethodontid Salamanders (genus Desmognathus) (1988) (20)
Patterns of sperm use in two populations of Red-sided Garter Snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis ) with long-term female sperm storage (2013) (19)
Female mate choice and runaway sexual selection (1982) (19)
Genetic variation in two populations of the rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa) assessed using novel tetranucleotide microsatellite loci (2001) (18)
Gene Duplication, Co-option, Structural Evolution, and Phenotypic Tango in the Courtship Pheromones of Plethodontid Salamanders (2017) (15)
The Developmental Effect of Sex Ratio on a Sexually Dimorphic Scale Count in the Garter Snake Thamnophis elegans (2000) (15)
THE ULTIMATE CAUSES OF PHENOTYPIC INTEGRATION: LOST IN TRANSLATION1 (2005) (15)
Can the Fisher‐Lande Process Account for Birds of Paradise and Other Sexual Radiations? (2016) (14)
Quantitative genetic models of sexual selection: a review. (1987) (12)
The Evolution of Courtship Behavior in Plethodontid Salamanders, Contrasting Patterns of Stasis and Diversification (2017) (11)
Pythonodipsas and Spalerosophis, Colubrid Snake Genera Convergent to the Vipers (1982) (10)
The Comparative Ethology of Courtship in Salamandrid Salamanders. 1. Salamandra and Chioglossa (2010) (8)
Systematics at the Turn of a Century (2000) (7)
ANURANS BY GARTER SNAKES (THAMNOPHIS): SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AS A POSSIBLE DEFENSE1 (1978) (6)
Mass-rearing of plethodontid salamander eggs (1999) (6)
Bite performance surfaces of three ecologically divergent Iguanidae lizards: relationships with lower jaw bones (2019) (5)
How Do Complex Organisms Evolve ? (2003) (5)
Novel tetranucleotide microsatellite markers from the Del Norte salamander ( Plethodon elongatus ) with application to its sister species the Siskiyou Mountain salamander ( P. stormi ) (2004) (4)
Characterization of two putative cytokine receptors, gp130 and ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor, from terrestrial salamanders. (2011) (3)
Summary of Current Status of Exotic Species in Oregon (2001) (2)
Courtship in the Torrent Salamander, Rhyacotriton, has an Ancient and Stable History (2017) (2)
ANNIVERSARY ESSAY Too much natural history, or too little? (2003) (2)
The Effects of Epistasis and Pleiotropy on Genome-Wide Scans for Adaptive Outlier Loci. (2019) (2)
Detecting patterns of correlational selection with sampling error: A simulation study (2021) (2)
Measuring selection: the statistics of natural selection on animal populations. (1986) (1)
Summary of Current Status of Oregon ’ s Biodiversity (2001) (1)
The G-matrix Simulator Family: Software for Research and Teaching (2018) (1)
Abstracts from the 2011 Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology and Washington Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Held at the Wesley Inn, Gig Harbor, Washington, March 23–25, 2011 (2011) (0)
The Bateman gradient and the cause of sexual selection in a sex-role-reversed pipe(cid:142) sh (2003) (0)
Chapter 19 - The microevolution of feeding behavior (1981) (0)
Sociobiology Evolving@@@Evolution of Social Behavior: Hypotheses and Empirical Tests (1981) (0)
2 COURTSHIP IN URODELE FAMILIES WITH INTERNAL FERTILIZATION Courtship (2015) (0)
Reviewers of Molecular Ecology Papers (2006) (0)
Measuring Selection: The Statistics of Natural Selection on Animal Populations . Bryan F. J. Manly. Chapman and Hall (Methuen), New York, 1985. xvi, 484 pp., illus. $55. Population and Community Biology. (1986) (0)
Data from: Can the Fisher-Lande process account for birds-of-paradise and other sexual radiations? (2019) (0)
Reviewers of Manuscripts, 1984 (1985) (0)
Evolutionary Biology for the 21st Century The Harvard made this article Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2012) (0)
John A. Endler Natural Selection in the Wild (1987) (0)
and the Thamnophiine Snakes (2001) (0)
Natural Selection in the Wild, John A. Endler. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1986), xiii, +336. Price $40.00 hardback, $13.95 paperback (1987) (0)
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Sewall Wright Award. (2012) (0)
Confusing Models with Tests in Studies of Sexual Selection: Reply to Jones (2003) (0)

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