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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas N. Sherratt, known as Tom, is a professor of evolutionary ecology at Carleton University, Canada. He is known for his research on camouflage, aposematism and mimicry. Life Sherratt earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Edinburgh, and gained his Ph.D. at the University of Dundee. He states that the two main themes in his research laboratory are the evolution of surprising traits in behaviour and morphology, including co-operation with unrelated individuals and the existence of conspicuous warning signals; and the way that individual behaviour shapes the spatio-temporal dynamics of populations, as when travelling waves are set up when individuals move over a landscape feature.
Thomas N. Sherratt's Published Works
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Published Works
- Avoiding Attack: The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Warning Signals and Mimicry (2004) (1312)
- The biology of color (2017) (410)
- Evidence of intra-specific competition for food in a pelagic seabird (2001) (378)
- Sex-specific foraging behaviour in a monomorphic seabird (2002) (296)
- Development of cooperative relationships through increasing investment (1998) (275)
- Avoiding Attack (2018) (254)
- Ecology of butterflies in natural and selectively logged forests of northern Borneo: the importance of habitat heterogeneity (2003) (239)
- Fecal residues of veterinary parasiticides: nontarget effects in the pasture environment. (2005) (202)
- A comparative analysis of the evolution of imperfect mimicry (2012) (182)
- Dispersal characteristics of seven odonate species in an agricultural landscape (1999) (180)
- The Evolution of Warning Signals as Reliable Indicators of Prey Defense (2003) (149)
- The evolution of Müllerian mimicry (2008) (147)
- Hiding in plain sight. (2004) (140)
- The evolution of imperfect mimicry (2002) (123)
- Frequency-dependent food selection by arthropods: a review (1993) (117)
- The adaptive significance of autumn leaf colours (2002) (112)
- Horizontally acquired mutualisms, an unsolved problem in ecology? (2001) (110)
- A metapopulation approach to modelling the long-term impact of pesticides on invertebrates. (1993) (108)
- The evolution of müllerian mimicry in multispecies communities (2004) (108)
- Empirical tests of the role of disruptive coloration in reducing detectability (2007) (101)
- Spatial and temporal genetic variation in British field populations of the grain aphid Sitobion avenae (F.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) studied using rapd-pcr (1995) (97)
- The coevolution of warning signals (2002) (91)
- The evolution of female‐limited polymorphisms in damselflies: a signal detection model (2001) (84)
- Temporal variation in abundance and diversity of butterflies in Bornean rain forests: opposite impacts of logging recorded in different seasons (2005) (79)
- The evolution of generosity and choosiness in cooperative exchanges. (1998) (76)
- The decline of Common Kestrels Falco tinnunculus in a forested area of northern England: the role of predation by Northern Goshawks Accipiter gentilis (2003) (74)
- Natural selection on unpalatable species imposed by state-dependent foraging behaviour. (2004) (74)
- Generation of periodic waves by landscape features in cyclic predator–prey systems (2002) (73)
- Use of coupled oscillator models to understand synchrony and travelling waves in populations of the field vole Microtus agrestis in northern England (2000) (71)
- State‐dependent risk‐taking by predators in systems with defended prey (2003) (70)
- Why are defensive toxins so variable? An evolutionary perspective (2012) (70)
- Behaviorial evolution: does similarity breed cooperation? (2002) (70)
- Characteristics of dispersing Ischnura elegans and Coenagrion puella (Odonata): age, sex, size, morph and ectoparasitism (2002) (70)
- The evolution of sex-limited colour polymorphism (2008) (69)
- Aggregation, defence and warning signals: the evolutionary relationship (2006) (62)
- Is There a Size Limit for Cosmopolitan Distribution in Free-Living Microorganisms? A Biogeographical Analysis of Testate Amoebae from Polar Areas (2010) (62)
- Big questions in ecology and evolution (2009) (61)
- The importance of phenotypic defectors in stabilizing reciprocal altruism (2001) (60)
- An investigation of the differential performance of clones of the aphid Sitobion avenae on two host species (1995) (59)
- Scale invariant spatio-temporal patterns of field vole density (2001) (57)
- The key mimetic features of hoverflies through avian eyes (2007) (56)
- Disruptive camouflage impairs object recognition (2013) (56)
- Behaviourally mediated crypsis in two nocturnal moths with contrasting appearance (2009) (55)
- THE OPTIMAL SAMPLING STRATEGY FOR UNFAMILIAR PREY (2011) (54)
- The ecology of multiple colour defences (2016) (53)
- Spatial mosaic formation through frequency-dependent selection in Müllerian mimicry complexes. (2006) (51)
- Geographic and microgeographic genetic differentiation in two aphid species over southern England using the multilocus (GATA)4 probe (1995) (49)
- A life‐history approach to predicting the recovery of aquatic invertebrate populations after exposure to xenobiotic chemicals (1999) (49)
- The Effects of the Size and Shape of Landscape Features on the Formation of Traveling Waves in Cyclic Populations (2003) (49)
- The evolution of aggregation in profitable and unprofitable prey (2005) (47)
- The evolution of respect for property (2015) (47)
- Spatial synchrony in field vole Microtus agrestis abundance in a coniferous forest in northern England: The role of vole-eating raptors (2000) (45)
- Defensive posture and eyespots deter avian predators from attacking caterpillar models (2013) (43)
- Sexual differences in coloration of Coenagrionid damselflies (Odonata): a case of intraspecific aposematism? (2001) (43)
- Empirical evidence of senescence in adult damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera). (2010) (42)
- Statistical inference and spatial patterns in correlates of IQ (2011) (40)
- Body size affects the evolution of eyespots in caterpillars (2015) (40)
- WARNING SIGNALS EVOLVE TO DISENGAGE BATESIAN MIMICS (2009) (40)
- Optimal sampling and signal detection: unifying models of attention and speed–accuracy trade-offs (2013) (39)
- Coalition formation: a game-theoretic analysis (2007) (38)
- Negative frequency-dependent selection or alternative reproductive tactics: maintenance of female polymorphism in natural populations (2013) (38)
- The selective advantages of cannibalism in a Neotropical mosquito (1996) (37)
- Evasive mimicry: when (if ever) could mimicry based on difficulty of capture evolve? (2004) (37)
- Do current hypotheses explain continental and seasonal variation in female morph frequencies of the damselfly, Nehalennia irene? (2007) (37)
- Genetic variation within a parthenogenetic lineage (1998) (36)
- Ecological Considerations in Pesticide Risk Assessment for Aquatic Ecosystems (1997) (36)
- Some population consequences of variation in preference among individual predators (1995) (36)
- Contrasting diet quality of northern gannets Morus bassanus at two colonies (2003) (35)
- Why fruit rots: theoretical support for Janzen's theory of microbe–macrobe competition (2014) (35)
- A screening level index for assessing the impacts of veterinary medicines on dung flies. (2007) (34)
- Brood neglect and contingent foraging behavior in a pelagic seabird (2004) (34)
- Diversity in Müllerian mimicry: The optimal predator sampling strategy explains both local and regional polymorphism in prey (2015) (32)
- Frequency-dependent variation in mimetic fidelity in an intraspecific mimicry system (2011) (32)
- The effects of group size, shape and composition on ease of detection of cryptic prey (2005) (32)
- The evolution of superstition through optimal use of incomplete information (2011) (32)
- Eyespots interact with body colour to protect caterpillar-like prey from avian predators (2012) (32)
- Explaining Dioscorides' “Double Difference”: Why Are Some Mushrooms Poisonous, and Do They Signal Their Unprofitability? (2005) (31)
- The evolution of crypsis in replicating populations of web‐based prey (2007) (31)
- Why is the world green? The interactions of top–down and bottom–up processes in terrestrial vegetation ecology (2016) (31)
- Costs of Learning and the Evolution of Mimetic Signals (2015) (31)
- The Relationship between Morphological and Behavioral Mimicry in Hover Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) (2013) (31)
- The evolution of multicomponent mimicry. (2007) (30)
- Prey selection by dragonflies in relation to prey size and wasp-like colours and patterns (2005) (29)
- The stability of cooperation involving variable investment. (2002) (29)
- A direct comparison of the effectiveness of two anti‐predator strategies under field conditions (2013) (29)
- Behavioural evolution (Communication arising): Does similarity breed cooperation? (2002) (29)
- for food in a pelagic seabird (2001) (29)
- Body size affects the evolution of hidden colour signals in moths (2017) (28)
- Application of molecular techniques to non-lethal tissue samples of endangered butterfly populations (Parnassius apollo L.) in Norway for conservation management (2000) (27)
- Why fruits rot, seeds mold and meat spoils: A reappraisal (2006) (27)
- Hierarchical overshadowing of stimuli and its role in mimicry evolution (2015) (27)
- Neighbor intervention: a game-theoretic model. (2009) (27)
- An empirical test of signal detection theory as it applies to Batesian mimicry (2006) (26)
- The evolution of locomotory behavior in profitable and unprofitable simulated prey (2003) (26)
- Models to assist the evaluation of the impact of avermectins on dung insect populations (1998) (26)
- The adaptive significance of age-dependent changes in the tendency of individuals to explore (2018) (25)
- Flash behavior increases prey survival (2018) (24)
- Partitioning of diving effort in foraging trips of northern gannets (2004) (24)
- Host selection by winged summer females of the aphid Sitobion avenae (1997) (24)
- Ovipositional preferences and larval cannibalism in the Neotropical mosquito Trichoprosopon digitatum (Diptera: Culicidae) (1994) (23)
- A comparative analysis of senescence in adult damselflies and dragonflies (Odonata) (2011) (23)
- Consistent Associations between Body Size and Hidden Contrasting Color Signals across a Range of Insect Taxa (2019) (22)
- An analysis of secondary spread by putative clones of Sitobion avenae within a Hampshire wheat field using the multilocus (GATA)4 probe (1994) (21)
- The evolution of senescence through decelerating selection for system reliability (2009) (20)
- Managing field margins for hoverflies. (1994) (20)
- Bourgeois versus anti-Bourgeois: a model of infinite regress (2014) (20)
- Animal Contests: Models of group or multi-party contests (2013) (20)
- Species with a chemical defence, but not chemical offence, live longer (2013) (20)
- Reproductive interference between Nehalennia damselfly species (2007) (20)
- The perfection of mimicry: an information approach (2017) (20)
- A laboratory investigation of mosquito larval predation by Toxorhynchites moctezuma on Aedes aegypti (1989) (19)
- Predation by Larvae of Pantala flavescens (Odonata) on Tadpoles of Phyllomedusa trinitatis and Physalaemus pustulosus: The Influence of Absolute and Relative Density of Prey on Predator Choice (1989) (19)
- Multiple lines of anti‐predator defence in the spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) (2016) (19)
- Effects of extreme variation in female morph frequencies on the mating behaviour of male damselflies (2009) (19)
- Do unprofitable prey evolve traits that profitable prey find difficult to exploit? (2005) (19)
- Does defensive posture increase mimetic fidelity of caterpillars with eyespots to their putative snake models (2014) (18)
- Evolutionary stable investment in products that confer both an individual benefit and a public good. (2009) (18)
- Mimicry among Unequally Defended Prey Should Be Mutualistic When Predators Sample Optimally (2017) (18)
- A dynamical model of sexual harassment in damselflies and its implications for female-limited polymorphism (2008) (18)
- How realistic are outdoor microcosms? A comparison of the biota of microcosms and natural ponds (2002) (18)
- Selection for multicomponent mimicry: equal feature salience and variation in preferred traits (2016) (17)
- Conspicuous Coloration in Males of the Damselfly Nehalennia irene (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae): Do Males Signal Their Unprofitability to Other Males? (2015) (17)
- Do hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) sound like the Hymenoptera they morphologically resemble? (2009) (17)
- Victory displays: a game-theoretic analysis (2006) (16)
- Mathematical Models of Group or Multi-Party Contests (2009) (16)
- The evolution of quantitatively responsive cooperative trade. (1999) (16)
- The dimensions of space and time in the assessment of ecotoxicological risks (1996) (15)
- How size and conspicuousness affect the efficacy of flash coloration (2019) (15)
- The position of eyespots and thickened segments influence their protective value to caterpillars (2014) (14)
- Mimicry in hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae): a field test of the competitive mimicry hypothesis (2007) (14)
- Use of gannets to monitor prey availability in the northeast Atlantic Ocean: colony size, diet and foraging behaviour (2006) (14)
- An empirical test of 2-dimensional signal detection theory applied to Batesian mimicry (2015) (14)
- Multicomponent deceptive signals reduce the speed at which predators learn that prey are profitable (2016) (14)
- Differential predation drives the geographical divergence in multiple traits in aposematic frogs (2017) (13)
- Social Eavesdropping: A Game-Theoretic Analysis (2007) (13)
- Multi-annual variation in female morph frequencies of the polymorphic damselfly, Nehalennia irene, at continental and regional scales (2009) (13)
- Similar predator aversion for natural prey with diverse toxicity levels (2019) (13)
- Do Males Form Social Associations Based on Sexual Attractiveness in a Fission-Fusion Fish Society? (2016) (13)
- Mixed Signals? Morphological and Molecular Evidence Suggest a Color Polymorphism in Some Neotropical Polythore Damselflies (2015) (13)
- No Evidence for Kin Discrimination in Cannibalistic Tree-Hole Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) (1999) (12)
- Residency Duration and Shelter Quality Influence Vibratory Signalling Displays in A Territorial Caterpillar (2014) (12)
- The evolution of binocular vision (2015) (12)
- The influence of simulated immigration and chemical persistence on recovery of macroinvertebrates from cypermethrin and 3,4-dichloroaniline exposure in aquatic microcosms. (2009) (11)
- When Paths to Cooperation Converge (2012) (11)
- Response of adult dragonflies to artificial prey of different size and colour (2017) (11)
- Frequency-Dependent Selection on Female Morphs Driven by Premating Interactions with Males (2015) (11)
- Evolutionary biology: Island of the clones (2005) (11)
- Live fast, die old: no evidence of reproductive senescence or costs of mating in a damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera). (2015) (11)
- Actuarial senescence in laboratory and field populations of Lepidoptera (2017) (10)
- Climate-induced phenological shifts in a Batesian mimicry complex (2018) (10)
- Male rarity and putative sex-role reversal in Fijian damselflies (Odonata) (2007) (10)
- Signal categorization by foraging animals depends on ecological diversity (2019) (10)
- The role of body shape and edge characteristics on the concealment afforded by potentially disruptive marking (2015) (10)
- State-Dependent Decision-Making by Predators and Its Consequences for Mimicry (2020) (9)
- Biogeography and systematics of endemic island damselflies: The Nesobasis and Melanesobasis (Odonata: Zygoptera) of Fiji (2017) (9)
- Widespread Wolbachia infection in an insular radiation of damselflies (Odonata, Coenagrionidae) (2019) (9)
- Information, variance and cooperation: minimal models (2011) (9)
- Mite infestation of Xanthocnemis zealandica in a Christchurch pond (2003) (8)
- How residency duration affects the outcome of a territorial contest: Complementary game-theoretic models. (2016) (8)
- The Iterated Hawk–Dove Game Revisited: The Effect of Ownership Uncertainty on Bourgeois as a Pure Convention (2014) (8)
- Cooperative reading: Some suggestions for integration of the cooperation literature (2007) (8)
- Evolutionary biology: Mimicry on the edge (2007) (8)
- Divide and conquer: when and how should competitors share? (2012) (8)
- Sex-specific foraging behaviour in a monomorphic (2002) (7)
- An eyespot that “blinks”: an open and shut case of eye mimicry in Eumorpha caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) (2013) (7)
- Prey with hidden colour defences benefit from their similarity to aposematic signals (2020) (7)
- Does similarity breed cooperation? Authors' reply (2002) (7)
- Animal network phenomena: Insights from triadic games (2009) (7)
- The evolution of senescence in multi-component systems (2010) (6)
- A synthesis of deimatic behaviour (2022) (5)
- Eyespots (2016) (5)
- The economics of evolution: Henry Ford and the Model T (2010) (5)
- Predicting the long-term impact of pesticides on predatory invertebrates. (1991) (5)
- The (Under)Use of Eye-Tracking in Evolutionary Ecology. (2020) (4)
- Dragonfly and Damselfly (Insecta, Odonata) Distributions in Ontario, Canada: Investigating the Influence of Climate Change (2010) (4)
- No Evidence for Resistance to Fenbendazole in Trichostrongylus tenuis, a Nematode Parasite of the Red Grouse (2010) (4)
- Signalling Victory to Ensure Dominance: A Continuous Model (2013) (4)
- The evolution of multi-component mimicry (2006) (4)
- reply ‘Raise the stakes’ evolves into a defector (1999) (3)
- State-dependent optimization: a comment on Skelhorn et al. (2016) (3)
- The Fijian Nesobasis: a further examination of species diversity and abundance (Zygoptera : Coenagrionidae) (2008) (3)
- Coping with Danger and Deception: Lessons from Signal Detection Theory (2020) (3)
- Aposematism (2018) (3)
- Evolutionary transitions from camouflage to aposematism: Hidden signals play a pivotal role (2023) (3)
- The anti-predation benefit of flash displays is related to the distance at which the prey initiates its escape (2021) (3)
- Post-reproductive senescence in moths as a consequence of kin selection: Blest's theory revisited (2011) (3)
- When should receivers follow multiple signal components? A closer look at the “flag” model (2018) (2)
- The evolution and maintenance of Müllerian mimicry (2018) (2)
- The Zygoptera of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, the two larger islands in the Fiji archipelago (2006) (2)
- The relationship between Batesian and Müllerian mimicry (2004) (2)
- Animal Camouflage: Camouflage behaviour and body orientation on backgrounds containing directional patterns (2011) (2)
- Anti-predator behavior (2018) (2)
- On the Evolution of Partial Respect for Ownership (2016) (2)
- The form and function of warning displays (2004) (1)
- Transparency and silvering (2004) (1)
- A case for mutualistic deceptive mimicry (2021) (1)
- Signalling to predators (2004) (1)
- Chemical defense and tonic immobility in early life stages of the Harlequin cabbage bug, Murgantia histrionica (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) (2021) (1)
- The Evolution of Ownership Acceptance (2017) (1)
- Disruptive Coloration (2021) (1)
- Behavioural Ecology: Spiders Play the Imitation Game (2017) (1)
- Batesian mimicry and masquerade (2018) (0)
- Editors Page (2017) (0)
- Editors Page (2017) (0)
- Editors Page (2016) (0)
- The hunter becomes the hunted (2005) (0)
- The initial evolution of warning displays (2004) (0)
- How will the Biosphere End (2009) (0)
- Spatial and temporal population dynamics of field voles and tawny owls in a fragmented forest (1997) (0)
- Background matching (2018) (0)
- Deflection and startling of predators (2004) (0)
- Animal behaviour Disruptive camouflage impairs object recognition (2013) (0)
- The Adaptive Significance of Flash Behavior: A Bayesian Model (2022) (0)
- Editors Page (2015) (0)
- Multisensory inputs control the regulation of time investment for mating by sexual experience in male Drosophila melanogaster (2022) (0)
- Editors Page (2018) (0)
- Index of Volume 82 (2007) (0)
- The ecology of multiple colour defences (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2018) (0)
- The Iterated Hawk–Dove Game Revisited: The Effect of Ownership Uncertainty on Bourgeois as a Pure Convention (2014) (0)
- Editors Page (2016) (0)
- The evolution of imperfect mimicr y (2002) (0)
- Editors Page (2017) (0)
- Other forms of adaptive resemblance (2004) (0)
- Countershading (2018) (0)
- Editors Page (2016) (0)
- Synthesis (2018) (0)
- Thanatosis (2018) (0)
- Editors Page (2016) (0)
- Correction for Hassall et al., Climate-induced phenological shifts in a Batesian mimicry complex (2019) (0)
- Editors Page (2017) (0)
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- The evolutionary background to (mis)understanding an uncertain world (2019) (0)
- Cooperation and Sociality (2010) (0)
- Secondary defences (2018) (0)
- Disruptive Camouflage (2018) (0)
- Deflecting the point of attack (2018) (0)
- Editors Page (2018) (0)
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- Editors Page (2017) (0)
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- Negative frequency-dependent selection or alternative reproductive tactics: maintenance of female polymorphism in natural populations (2013) (0)
- Book review (2002) (0)
- Advertising elusiveness (2018) (0)
- Editors Page (2016) (0)
- DNA fingerprinting of cereal aphids using (GATA)4 (2013) (0)
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- Effects of predator associative learning and innate aversion on mimicry complexes (2023) (0)
- Transparency (2018) (0)
- Editors Page (2016) (0)
- Where, and how, to sit (2016) (0)
- Author response: Signal categorization by foraging animals depends on ecological diversity (2019) (0)
- Divide and conquer: when and how should competitors share? (2012) (0)
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- Editors Page (2017) (0)
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- Startling predators (2018) (0)
- Countershading and counterillumination (2004) (0)
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