研究领域

Sex, diet, death, evolution, behaviour, genetics, attractiveness

I am interested in evolution, particularly in the context of sexual reproduction. My work has addressed the evolution of mate choice behaviour, the coevolution between mate choice and sexual advertisement, sex chromosome evolution, the biology of ageing and longevity, the risks of extinction, the genetic costs of inbreeding, the biological basis of individual diversity, and the measurement of natural selection. My collaborators and I are particularly interested in: The relationships between diet, reproductive effort and ageing, Intralocus genetic conflict associated with sex and mating, Sex-differences in ageing in the lab and the wild, The maintenance of within-population in variation in sexual ornaments, The effect of sexual selection on the degree of sex-linkage of ornamental traits, The evolution of the Y-chromosome, Within-population variation in female mate choice behaviour and mating preferences, The costs of mate choice, The roles of resource acquisition and allocation in male sexual signalling and the life-history tradeoffs involved, The genetic basis of inbreeding depression, The evolution of inbreeding avoidance, The genetic benefits of mate choice and polyandry, The relationship between sexual selection, sexual conflict and extinction risk, The analysis and interpretation of nonlinear selection, The use of new digital media and technologies to study human mate choice.

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Donohoe, M. L., von Hippel, W. & Brooks, R. Provisionally accepted. Beyond waist-hip ratio: Experimental multivariate evidence that average women's torsos are most attractive. Behavioral Ecology, provisionally accepted 11 November 2008. Zajitschek, F., Bonduriansky, R., Zajitschek, S.R. K., & Brooks, R. In press. Sexual dimorphism in life history: age, survival and reproduction in male and female field crickets, Teleogryllus commodus, under semi-natural conditions. American Naturalist, final acceptance 3 November 2008. Zajitschek, F., Hunt, J., Jennions, M.D., Hall, M.D, & Brooks, R. In press. Effects of juvenile and adult diet on ageing and reproductive effort of male and female Black Field Crickets Teleogryllus commodus. Functional Ecology, final acceptance 31 October 2008. Zajitschek, F., Brassil, C.E., Bonduriansky, R. & Brooks, R. In press. Sex-effects on lifespan and senescence in the wild when dates of birth and death are unknown.Ecology, final acceptance 12 September 2008. Maklakov, A. A., Simpson, S.J., Zajitschek, F., Hall, M., Dessman, J., Clissold, F. J., Raubenheimer, D., Bondurainsky, R.,& Brooks, R.. 2008. Sex-specific fitness effects of nutrient intake on reproduction and lifespan. Current Biology 18:1062-1068. Zajitschek, S. R. K., and Brooks, R.. 2008. Distinguishing the effects of familiarity, relatedness and colour pattern rarity on attractiveness and measuring their effects on sexual selection in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). The American Naturalist172: 843-854. DOI: 10.1086/593001. Evans, J.P., Brooks, R. & Griffith, S.C. 2008. No evidence that genetic relatedness of mates influences competitive fertilization success in guppies. Evolution 62: 2929-2935. Hall, M.D., Bussière, L.F.& Brooks, R. 2008. The effect of diet quality and wing morph on male and female reproductive investment in a nuptial feeding ground cricket. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3437. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003437 Hall, M. D., Bussière, L.F., Hunt, J., & Brooks, R.. 2008. Experimental evidence that sexual conflict influences the opportunity, form and intensity of sexual selection.Evolution. 62:2305-2315. Bussière, L. F., D. T. Gwynne, & Brooks, R. 2008. Contrasting sexual selection on males and females in a role-reversed swarming dance fly, Rhamphomyia longicaudaLoew (Diptera: Empididae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:1683-1691. Bonduriansky, R., Maklakov, A., Zajitschek, F. & Brooks, R. 2008. Sexual selection, sexual conflict and the evolution of ageing and lifespan. Functional Ecology. 22: 443-453. Kawasaki, N., Brassil, C., Brooks, R. & Bonduriansky, R. 2008. Environment, lifespan and ageing: extreme contrasts between wild and captive insects. The American Naturalist. Accepted 18/12/07. Lee, K.P., Simpson, S.J., Clissold, F.J., Brooks, R., Ballard, J.W.O., Taylor, P.W., Soran, N. & Raubenheimer, W. 2008. Lifespan and reproduction in Drosophila: new insights from nutritional geometry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 2498-2503. Head, M., Lindholm, A.K. & Brooks, R. 2008. Operational sex ratio and density do not affect directional selection on male sexual ornaments and behaviour. Evolution: 62: 135-144. Bussière LF, Hunt J, Stölting KN, Jennions M, Brooks R. 2008. Mate choice for genetic quality when environments vary: suggestions for empirical progress. Genetica. In press. DOI 10.1007/s10709-007-9220-z Hunt, J., Blows, M.W., Zajitschek, F., Jennions, M.D., & Brooks, R. 2007. Reconciling strong stabilizing selection with the maintenance of genetic variation in a natural population of black field crickets (Teleogryllus commodus). Genetics 177: 875-880. Monro, K., Poore, A.G.B., & Brooks, R. 2007. Multivariate selection shapes environment-dependent variation in the clonal morphology of a red seaweed. Evolutionary Ecology21: 765-782. Jennions, M.D., Drayton, J.M., Brooks, R. & Hunt, J. 2007. Do female black field cricketsTeleogryllus commodus benefit from polyandry? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1469-1477. Drayton, J.M., Hunt, J., Brooks, R. & Jennions, M.D. 2007. Sounds different: conflicting evidence for inbreeding depression in sexually selected traits in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 20: 1138-1147. Zajitschek, F., Hunt, J., Zajitschek, S.R.K, Jennions, M.D. & Brooks, R. 2007. No intra-locus sexual conflict over reproductive fitness or ageing in field crickets. PLoS One 2: e155. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000155