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Analgesic preference and injury behaviour in Blaptica dubia

Rebecca D. Farquhar and David N. Fisher

bioRxiv

Environment-driven emergence of higher-order collective behavior

Felipe S. Abril-Bermúdez, David N. Fisher, Jean-Baptiste Gramain and Francisco J. Pérez-Reche

arXiv

Pessimistic and optimistic cognitive biases in cockroaches

Adam M. Guilfoyle and David N. Fisher

bioRxiv

Motivational trade-offs in a cockroach: impact of conditions, injury, and development

Joe Jenkinson, Joanna Logan, Christopher Robertson, Keith Lockhart and David N. Fisher

bioRxiv

Multilevel-consistency of social behaviour in a cockroach

Callum J. McLean, Sanskar Amgain, Binod Bhattarai and David N. Fisher

bioRxiv

Examining the fitness benefits of social plasticity to prey availability in bottlenose dolphins

David N. Fisher and Barbara J. Cheney

bioRxiv

Stronger together? A framework for studying population resilience to climate change impacts via social shielding

Miyako H. Warrington, David N. Fisher, Jan Komdeur, Natalie Pilakouta and Michael Griesser

EcoEvoRxiv
2025

Cockroach social network position does not influence exploration tendency

Vasilis Louca, Smilla Savorelli, Nea Vuorio and David N. Fisher

J. Ethology DOI pre-print

Same data, different analysts: variation in effect size due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolution

Elliot Gould et al. (David Fisher features as a collaborative author)

BMC Biology DOI pre-print
2024

Measuring the effect of RFID and Marker Recognition tags on cockroach behaviour using AI aided tracking

Callum J. McLean and David N. Fisher

J. Insect Sci. DOI pre-print

Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviours: a meta-analysis

Francesca Santostefano, Maria Moiron, Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar and David N. Fisher

Evol. Lett. DOI pre-print

Exploring changes in social spider DNA methylation profiles in all cytosine contexts following infection

David N. Fisher, Jesper Bechsgaard, Trine Bilde

Heredity DOI pre-print

Indirect genetic effects should make group size more evolvable than expected

David N. Fisher

J. Evol. Biol. DOI pre-print

A simpler way to organize society: response to a risky stimulus is related to the spatial distribution of the individuals within a spider colonial web

Leonardo P. A. Resende, David N. Fisher, Isabelle O. L. Luz and Hilton F. Japyassú

J. Insect Behav. DOI
2023

Dolphin social phenotypes vary in response to food availability but not the North Atlantic Oscillation index

David N. Fisher and Barbara J. Cheney

Proc. B. DOI pre-print

The eyes have it: The response of herring gulls to human eye-gaze

Lewis M. Lamond and David N. Fisher

Bird Study DOI

When do we start caring about insect welfare?

Tina Klobučar and David N. Fisher

Neotrop. Entomol. DOI
2022

Direct and indirect phenotypic effects on sociability indicate potential to evolve

David N. Fisher

J. Evol. Biol. DOI pre-print

Social associations in lactating dairy cows housed in a robotic milking system

Joyce L. Marumo, David N. Fisher, David Lusseau, Maitland Mackie, John R. Speakman and Catherine Hambly

Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. DOI
2021

Social selection and the evolution of maladaptation

Joel W. McGlothlin and David N. Fisher

J. Hered. DOI pre-print

Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions

David N. Fisher, R. Julia Kilgour, Erin R. Siracusa, Jennifer R. Foote, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Pierre-Olivier Montiglio, Julia B. Saltz, Tina W. Wey, and Eric W. Wice

Biol. Revs. DOI

Social selection is density dependent but makes little contribution to total selection in New Zealand giraffe weevils

David N. Fisher, Rebecca J. Le Grice and Christina J. Painting

Proc. B. DOI pre-print

Multilayer network analysis: new opportunities and challenges for studying animal social systems

Matthew J Hasenjager, Matthew J Silk and David N. Fisher

Curr. Zoo. DOI

Episodic correlations in behavioural lateralisation differ between a poison frog and its mimic

Hannah M. Anderson, David N. Fisher, Brendan L. McEwen, Justin Yeager, Jonathan N. Pruitt and James B. Barnett

Anim. Behav. DOI

Using multilayer network analysis to explore the temporal dynamics of collective behaviour

David N. Fisher and Noa Pinter-Wollman

Curr. Zoo. DOI
2020

The performance of permutations and exponential random graph models when analysing animal networks

Julian C. Evans, David N. Fisher and Matthew J. Silk

Behav. Ecol. DOI

Orb-weaving spiders show a correlated syndrome of morphology and web structure in the wild

David N. Fisher, Jonathan N. Pruitt and Justin Yeager

Biol. J. Linn. Soc. DOI pre-print

Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance

Hannah M. Anderson, Alexander G. Little, David N. Fisher, Brendan L. McEwen, Brett M. Culbert, Sigal Balshine and Jonathan N. Pruitt

J. Exp. Biol. DOI pre-print

Territory acquisition mediates the influence of predators and climate on juvenile red squirrel survival

Jack G. Hendrix, David N. Fisher, April Robin Martinig, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, Jeffrey E. Lane and Andrew G. McAdam

J. Anim. Ecol. DOI pre-print

Assessing the repeatability, robustness to disturbance, and parent-offspring colony resemblance of collective behaviour

David N. Fisher, James L. L. Lichtenstein, Raul Costa-Pereira, Justin Yeager and Jonathan N. Pruitt

J. Evol. Biol. DOI pre-print
2019

Predictors of colony extinction vary by habitat type in social spiders

Brendan L. McEwen, James L. L. Lichtenstein, David N. Fisher, Colin M. Wright, Greg T. Chism, Noa Pinter-Wollman and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. DOI pre-print

Collective aggressiveness limits colony persistence in high- but not low-elevation sites in Amazonian social spiders

James L. L. Lichtenstein, David N. Fisher, Brendan L. McEwen, Daniel T. Nondorf, Esteban Calvache, Clara Schmitz, Jana Elässer and Jonathan N. Pruitt

J. Evol. Biol. DOI pre-print

Population differences in aggression are shaped by cyclone-induced selection

Alexander G. Little, David N. Fisher, Thomas W. Schoener and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Nat. Ecol. Evol. DOI pre-print

Dynamic networks of mating and fighting in a wild cricket population

David N. Fisher, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Anim. Behav. DOI pre-print

Call-to-action: A global consortium for tropical cyclone ecology

Jonathan N. Pruitt, Alexander G. Little, Sharanya J. Majumdar, Thomas W. Schoener and David N. Fisher

TREE DOI

Insights from the study of complex systems for the ecology and evolution of animal populations

David N. Fisher and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Curr. Zoo. DOI

Indirect effects on fitness between individuals that have never met via an extended phenotype

David N. Fisher, Jessica A. Haines, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, Jeffrey E. Lane, David W. Coltman and Andrew G. McAdam

Ecol. Lett. DOI pre-print

Indirect genetic effects clarify how traits can evolve even when fitness does not

David N. Fisher and Andrew G. McAdam

Evol. Lett. DOI pre-print

Opposite responses to selection and where to find them

David N. Fisher and Jonathan N. Pruitt

J. Evol. Biol. DOI

Social effects of territorial neighbours on the timing of spring breeding in North American red squirrels

David N. Fisher, Alastair J. Wilson, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, Jeffrey E. Lane, David W. Coltman, Jamie C. Gorrell and Andrew G. McAdam

J. Evol. Biol. DOI pre-print

Slower senescence in a wild insect population in years with a more female-biased sex ratio

Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, David N. Fisher, Paul Hopwood and Tom Tregenza

Proc. B. DOI

Old males attract more females but get less matings in a wild field cricket

Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Paul Hopwood, David N. Fisher, Ian Skicko, Rachel Tucker, Katherine Woodcock, Jon Slate, Craig Walling and Tom Tregenza

Anim. Behav. DOI

Testing the effect of early life reproductive effort on age-related decline in a wild insect

Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, Liu Xingping, Ian Skicko, David N. Fisher, Paul Hopwood and Tom Tregenza

Evolution DOI

Comparing individual and population measures of senescence across ten years in a wild insect population

Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, Liu Xingping, Ian Skicko, Sophie Haugland Pedersen, David N. Fisher, Paul Hopwood and Tom Tregenza

Evolution DOI

Foundress number, but not queen size or boldness, predicts colony life-history in wild paper wasps

Colin M. Wright, David N. Fisher, James L. L. Lichtenstein, Elizabeth A. Tibbetts and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Biol. J. Linn. Soc. DOI

Egg discrimination is mediated by individual differences in queen olfactory responsiveness and boldness

Colin M. Wright, Brendan L. McEwen, David N. Fisher, James L. L. Lichtenstein, Angelle Antoun, Elizabeth A. Tibbetts and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Behav. Ecol. DOI
2018

A brief introduction to mixed effects modelling and multi-model inference in ecology

Xavier A. Harrison, Lynda Donaldson, Maria Eugenia Correa-Cano, Julian Evans, David N. Fisher, Cecily E.D. Goodwin, Beth S. Robinson, David J. Hodgson, and Richard Inger

PeerJ DOI

Lifespan and age, but not residual reproductive value or condition, are related to behaviour in wild field crickets

David N. Fisher, Morgan David, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Ethology DOI

Complex dynamics and the development of behavioural individuality

David N. Fisher, Joseph B. Burant and Matthew Brachmann

Anim. Behav. DOI pre-print
2017

Social traits, social networks, and evolutionary biology

David N. Fisher and Andrew G. McAdam

J. Evol. Biol. DOI

A description of the gross pathology of drowning and other causes of mortality in seabirds

Victor R. Simpson and David N. Fisher

BMC Vet. Res. DOI

Determinants of Contests in Ugandan Female Ground-Nesting Bees (Tetralonia sp. n.)

David N. Fisher, Julian Melgar, Amy MacLeod and Clive V. Nuttman

Afr. Entomol. DOI

Understanding animal social structure: exponential random graph models in animal behaviour research

Matthew J. Silk and David N. Fisher

Anim. Behav. DOI

Multilevel and sex-specific selection on competitive traits in North American red squirrels

David N. Fisher, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, Murray M. Humphries, Jeffrey E. Lane and Andrew G. McAdam

Evolution DOI pre-print

Analysing animal social network dynamics: The potential of stochastic actor-oriented models

David N. Fisher, Amiyaal Ilany, Matthew J. Silk and Tom Tregenza

J. Anim. Ecol. DOI

The perceived assortativity of social networks: Methodological problems and solutions

David N. Fisher, Matthew J. Silk and Daniel W. Franks

Lecture Notes in Social Networks DOI pre-print
2016

Wild cricket social networks show stability across generations

David N. Fisher, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

BMC Evol. Biol. DOI

Comparing pre- and post-copulatory mate competition using social network analysis in wild crickets

David N. Fisher, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Behav. Ecol. DOI
2015

Behaviour in captivity predicts some aspects of natural behaviour, but not others, in a wild cricket population

David N. Fisher, Adèle James, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Proc. B. DOI

Chemical cues mediate species recognition in field crickets

Frances Tyler, David N. Fisher, Patrizia d’Ettorre, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Front. Ecol. Evol. DOI

Dynamics of among-individual behavioral variation over adult lifespan in a wild insect

David N. Fisher, Morgan David, Tom Tregenza and Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz

Behav. Ecol. DOI
2013

True polyandry and pseudopolyandry: why does a monandrous fly remate?

David N. Fisher, Rowan J. Doff and Tom A. R. Price

BMC Evol. Biol. DOI

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