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Sticklebacks – Speciation, Sexual selection

Behm JE, Ives AR & Boughman JW. (in press) Ecological disturbance and the collapse of a species pair through hybridization. American Naturalist.

Rundle HD & Boughman JW. (2010) Behavioral ecology and speciation. In Westneat DF & Fox CW. Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology. Oxford Univ Press.

Kozak GM & Boughman JW. (2009) Learned conspecific mate preference in a species pair of sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology 20: published online Oct 7, 2009.
abstract & pdf

Head ML, Price EK & Boughman JW. (2009) Body size differences do not arise from divergent mate preferences in a species pair of threespine stickleback. Biology Letters 5: 517 520.
abstract & pdf

Kozak GM, Reisland M & Boughman JW. (2009) Sex differences in mate recognition for species with mutual mate choice. Evolution 63: 353 365. abstract & pdf
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Canada's Globe and Mail Science Section

Odling Smee LC, Boughman JW & Braithwaite VA. (2008) Sympatric species of threespine stickleback differ in their performance in a spatial learning task. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 62: 1935 1945. abstract & pdf

Kozak GM & Boughman JW. (2008) Experience influences shoal member preference in a species pair of threespine sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology. 19: 667 676. abstract & pdf

Lewandowski EJ & Boughman JW. (2008) Genetic and environmental influences on color expression in sticklebacks. Biological Journal of Linnean Society. 94: 663 673.abstract & pdf

Boughman JW. (2007) Sticklebacks and humans walk hand in fin to lighter skin. Cell. 131: 11-13.  (Preview for article in Cell: Miller et al. (2007) Cis-regulatory changes in Kit ligand expression and parallel evolution of pigmentation in sticklebacks and humans. 131: 1179-1189.) pdf

Boughman JW. (2007) Condition dependent expression of red color differs between stickleback species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20: 1577-1590.  abstract & pdf

Rafferty N & Boughman JW. (2006) Olfactory mate recognition in a sympatric species pair of threespine sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology,17: 965-970. abstract & pdf

Boughman JW (2006) Divergence and speciation in sticklebacks. In Ostlund‑Nilsson S, Mayer I, & Huntingford F. (eds) The Biology of the Threespine Stickleback. pp 83-126, CRC Press

Taylor EB, Boughman JW, Groenenboom M, Sniatynksi M, Schluter D & Gow J (2006) Speciation in reverse: morphological and genetic evidence of a collapse of a sticleback species pair (Gasterosteus). Molecular Ecology 15: 343-355. pdf & abstract & Commentary in Current Biology & New York Times article & Coverage in EMBO Reports

Boughman JW, Rundle HD & Schluter D (2005) Parallel evolution of sexual isolation in sticklebacks. Evolution 59: 361-373. pdf & abstract.  Selected by Faculty of 1000. 

Peichel CL & Boughman JW (2003) Sticklebacks: Quick Guide. Current Biology 13: R942-R943. pdf

Boughman JW (2002) How sensory drive can promote speciation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 17: 571-577. pdf & abstract

Boughman JW (2001) Divergent sexual selection enhances reproductive isolation in sticklebacks. Nature 411: 944-948. pdf & abstract & New & Views

Schluter D, Boughman JW & Rundle HD (2001) Parallel speciation with allopatry. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 283-284. (letter)

Rundle HD, Nagel LM, Boughman JW & Schluter D (2000) Natural selection and parallel speciation in sympatric sticklebacks. Science 287: 306-308. pdf & abstract & News of the Week & commentary in Current Biology

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Bats – Communication & Cooperation

Boughman JW. (2006) Selection on social traits in greater spear‑nosed bats. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 60: 766-777. abstract & pdf

Bohn KM, Boughman JW, Wilkinson G.S. & Moss CF (2004) Infant isolation call frequency matches hearing sensitivity in greater spear-nosed bats. J. Comparative Physiology A. 190: 185-192. pdf & abstract

Boughman JW & Moss CF (2003) Social sounds: vocal learning and development of mammal and bird calls. In Megela-Simmons, A., Popper, A.N., & Fay, R. (eds) Acoustic Communication. Springer-Verlag. (Handbook of Auditory Research) pp. 138-224. abstract

Wilkinson GS & Boughman JW (1999) Social influences on foraging in bats. In Box, H.O. &  Gibson, K.R. (eds)  Mammalian Social Learning: Comparative and Ecological Perspectives.   Cambridge University Press. pp. 188-204. abstract

Boughman JW (1998) Vocal learning by greater spear-nosed bats. Proceedings Royal Society B   265: 227-233. pdf & abstract

Boughman JW & Wilkinson GS (1998) Greater spear-nosed bats discriminate group mates by vocalizations. Animal Behaviour 55: 1717-1732. pdf & abstract

Wilkinson GS & Boughman JW (1998) Social calls coordinate foraging in greater spear-nosed bats. Animal Behaviour 55: 337-350. pdf & abstract

Boughman JW (1997) Greater spear-nosed bats give group distinctive calls. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 40: 61-70. pdf & abstract

 

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