Reproductive success depends on the quality of helpers in the endangered, cooperative El Oro parakeet (Pyrrhura orcesi)

Food availability shapes patterns of helping effort in a cooperative mongoose

(2012) Hazel J. Nichols et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Heterozygosity-fitness correlations in zebra finches: microsatellite markers can be better than their reputation

(2012) WOLFGANG FORSTMEIER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Heterozygosity is unrelated to adult fitness measures in a large, noninbred population of great tits (Parus major)

(2011) J. R. CHAPMAN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Helpers at the nest compensate for reduced maternal investment in egg size in carrion crows

(2011) D. CANESTRARI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Heterozygosity predicts clutch and egg size but not plasticity in a house sparrow population with no evidence of inbreeding

(2011) DANIEL P. WETZEL et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Strategic promiscuity helps avoid inbreeding at multiple levels in a cooperative breeder where both sexes are philopatric

(2011) LYANNE BROUWER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Developmental Stability Covaries with Genome-Wide and Single-Locus Heterozygosity in House Sparrows

(2011) Carl Vangestel et al.   PLoS One

No direct fitness benefits of helping in a cooperative breeder despite higher survival of helpers

(2010) J. Meade et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Inbreeding Depression Accumulation across Life-History Stages of the Endangered Takahe

(2010) CATHERINE E. GRUEBER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The imprecision of heterozygosity-fitness correlations hinders the detection of inbreeding and inbreeding depression in a threatened species

(2010) CATHERINE E. GRUEBER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

On the use of large marker panels to estimate inbreeding and relatedness: empirical and simulation studies of a pedigreed zebra finch population typed at 771 SNPs

(2010) ANNA W. SANTURE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Rhh: an R extension for estimating multilocus heterozygosity and heterozygosity-heterozygosity correlation

(2010) JUSSI S. ALHO et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

coancestry: a program for simulating, estimating and analysing relatedness and inbreeding coefficients

(2010) JINLIANG WANG   Molecular Ecology Resources

Isolation of tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the burrowing parrot (Cyanoliseus patagonus)

(2009) Nadine Klauke et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Cooperative breeding, mate guarding, and nest sharing in two parrot species of New Caledonia

(2009) Jörn Theuerkauf et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Disease-mediated inbreeding depression in a large, open population of cooperative crows

(2009) A. K. Townsend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Heterozygosity-based assortative mating in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus): implications for the evolution of mate choice

(2009) V. Garcia-Navas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Heterozygosity and lungworm burden in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina)

(2008) J M Rijks et al.   HEREDITY

Flocking behaviour of foraging birds in a neotropical rain forest and the antipredator defence hypothesis

(2008) JEAN-MARC THIOLLAY et al.   IBIS

How helpers help: disentangling ecological confounds from the benefits of cooperative breeding

(2008) JONATHAN WRIGHT et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Can we measure the benefits of help in cooperatively breeding birds: the case of superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus?

(2008) Andrew Cockburn et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Maternal investment tactics in superb fairy-wrens

(2007) A.F Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES