Gilbert, James - University of Hull - Department of Biology / Biomedical Sciences

个人简介

2015 - present Lecturer in Zoology University of Hull, UK 2012 - 2015 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow; University of Sussex, UK (visiting University of Sydney 2012-2014) 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney (2011-2012) 2010-2011: Associate Lecturer, University of Derby, UK(part time) 2007-2009: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Maryland, USA Education 2003 - 2007 PhD (Zoology), University of Cambridge, UK The evolution of parental care in insects. Advisers: T. Clutton-Brock, A. Manica 1999 - 2002 BA (Zoology), University of Cambridge, UK

研究领域

I am interested in the evolution of parental care and social behaviour – especially how these crucial animal interactions shape, and are shaped by, animals’ nutritional environments. In the most spectacularly social or parental species (or groups of species), these behaviours are obligatory, which gives little insight into their evolution. Instead my work focuses on evolutionary origins – first using comparative analyses across groups of species that differ in whether they are social or parental; second, using field and lab experiments on species that are behaviourally plastic, i.e. where individuals can choose whether or not to be social or parental. Finally, I am interested in how these factors play out in the wild – and the unforeseen pressures exerted upon parental and social interactions by anthropogenic change.

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Grinsted L, Bilde T, Gilbert JDJ. 2015. Questioning the evidence for group selection in social spiders. Nature 524(7566), E1-E3. (doi:10.1038/nature14595) Gilbert JDJ, Manica A. 2015. Evolution of parental care in insects: a test of current hypotheses. Evolution 69(5):1255-1270. (doi:10.1111/evo.12656). Gilbert JDJ. 2014. Thrips domiciles protect against desiccation in an arid environment. Behavioral Ecology 25(6):1338-1346. Vahed K, Gilbert JDJ, Weissman D, Barrientos-Lozano L. 2014. Functional equivalence of grasping cerci and nuptial food gifts in promoting ejaculate transfer in katydids. Evolution 68(7): 2052–2065. (doi:10.1111/evo.12421). Gilbert JDJ, Fagan WF. 2011. Contrasting mechanisms of proteomic nitrogen thrift in Prochlorococcus. Mol. Ecol., 20(1):92-104. Gilbert JDJ, Manica A. 2010. Parental care trade-offs and life history relationships in insects. Am. Nat., 176(2):212-226. Gilbert JDJ, Thomas LK, Manica A. 2010. Quantifying the benefits and costs of parental care in assassin bugs. Ecol. Entomol. 35(5):639-651.