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Papers

Buckling, A, Brockhurst, M, MacClean, R. C. and Colegrave, N. (2009): The beagle in a bottle: experimental evolution in microbes.
Hall, A & Colegrave, N (2008) Evolutionary decay of unused traits depends on environmental productivity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21. 610 - 617
Colegrave, N and Collins, S (2008) Experimental evolution and Evolvability. Heredity. 100. 464 – 470
Little, T. J. Colegrave, N. Sadd, B. M. and Schmid-Hempel P. Studying immunity at the whole organism level. Bioessays 30, 404-405.
Brydges, N. Braithwaite, V. A., Colegrave, N. & Heathecoat, R. (2008). Habitat stability and predation pressure affect behavioural traits in populations of three-spined sticklebacks. Journal of Animal Ecology. 77. 229 - 235
Brockhurst MA, Colegrave N, Hodgson DJ and Buckling A (2007) Niche occupation limits adaptive radiation in experimental microcosms. PLoS ONE  2,  e193 –e195
Hall, A & Colegrave, N.  (2007). How does resource supply affect diversification? Proc. Roy.  Soc.  Lond. B. 274, 73 – 78.
Colegrave. N and Buckling, A. (2006) Fisher, Demetrius and Wright: A reply to Edwards. Bioessays 28, 440.
Nee, S and N. Colegrave. (2006) The Paradox of the clumps. Nature 441, 417 – 418.
Nee, S., N. Colegrave, S, A, West & A. Grafen (2006) Response to comment on "The illusion of invariant quantities in life histories" Science, 312.
Lessells, C. M., A, T, D. Bennet, T. R. Birkhead, N. Colegrave et al (2006). Debating Sexual Selection and Mating Strategies. Science 312, 689 – 690.
Simcox, H., Colegrave, N., Heenan, A. Howard, C. and Braithwaite, V. A. (2005) Context dependent mating preference for unfamiliar females. Animal Behaviour 70: 1429-1437
Nee, S., N. Colegrave, West, S. and Grafen, A. (2005). The illusion of invariant quantities in life histories. Science, 309, 1236 – 1239
Colegrave, N. and Buckling, A (2005). Microbial experiments on adaptive landscapes. Bioessays 27, 1167 - 1173
Colegrave, N. and Ruxton, G. D. (2004). What Hypothesis tests are not. Behavioural ecology. 16, 325
Plaistow, S. J., R. Johnson, N. Colegrave and M. Spencer. (2004) The evolution of alternative tactics. Behavioural ecology 15, 534 – 542.
Colegrave, N. and Ruxton, G. D. (2003).  Confidence intervals are a more useful compliment to non significant results than power analysis. Behavioural Ecology 14, 446-447.
Buckling, A., M. A. Wills & N. Colegrave. (2003). Adaptation limits diversification in experimental bacterial populations. Science. 302, 2107 - 2109
Little, T. J., B. O’Connor, N. Colegrave, & A. Read, (2003). Maternal transfer of strain-specific immunity in an invertebrate. Current Biology 13, 489-492.
Hayden, D., R. Timms, L. Matthews and N. Colegrave. (2003) Top-down or bottom-up regulation of intra-host blood-stage malaria: do malaria parasites most resemble the dynamics of prey or predator? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 270, 289-298
Colegrave, N. Kotiaho, J and Tomkins, J. (2002) Reconciling models of female choice for good genes and genetic compatibility. Evolutionary Ecology Research 4, 911-917
Colegrave, N. (2002) Sex releases the speed limit on evolution. Nature 420, 664-666
Colegrave, N., O. Kaltz, and G. Bell. (2002). The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas VII. The dynamics of adaptation after a single episode of sex. Evolution 56, 14-21
Timms, R. Colegrave, N. Chan, B. H. K and Read, A. F.  (2001) The effect of parasite dose on disease severity in the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. Parasitology 123, 1-11
Lessells, C. M. and Colegrave, N. (2001). Molecular signals or the Loi de balancement. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16, 284-285.
Spencer, M. Colegrave, N., and Schwartz, S. S. (2001) Hatching fraction and the timing of resting stage production in seasonal environments: effects of density dependence and uncertain season length. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 14. 357-367.
Ruxton, G. D., Broom, M and Colegrave, N. (2001). Are unusually coloured eggs a signal to potential conspecific brood parasites. American Naturalist. 157. 451-458
Colegrave, N. (2001) Differential allocation and good genes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 16. 22-23.
Colegrave, N., Hollocher, H., Hinton, K. and Ritchie, M. G. (1999) The courtship song of African Drosophila Melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 13. 143-151.
Colegrave, N. (1997) Can a patchy population structure affect the evolution of competition strategies? Evolution 51, 483-492.
Colegrave, N., Birkhead, T. R. and Lessells, C. M. (1995), Sperm precedence in zebra finches does not require special mechanisms of sperm competition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 259, 223-228. 
Colegrave, N. (1995), The cost of exploitation competition in Callosobruchus beetles. Functional Ecology 9, 191-196.
Colegrave, N. (1994), Game theory models of competition in closed systems: asymmetries in fighting and competitive abilities. Oikos 71, 499-505.
Colegrave, N. (1993), Does larval competition affect fecundity independently of its effect on adult weight? Ecological Entomology 18, 275-278.


Books

Ruxton, G. D. and N. Colegrave (2006) An Introduction to experimental design for the life sciences 2nd ed. OUP, Oxford
Ruxton, G. D. and N. Colegrave (2003) An Introduction to experimental design for the life sciences. OUP, Oxford (also translated into Chinese)



Other

Contributing author Zoo Research Guidelines: Statistics for typical zoo datasets
(Ed Amy Plowman), Biaza, London.

Chapter 2. Randomisation tests. (Colegrave, N., J. Engles and N. Marples)
Chapter 4. Analysing activity budgets using G-tests. (Marples, N., G. D. Ruxton, and N. Colegrave)
Chapter 5. General issues

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