Papers

Van Dooren, T.J.M., Hoyle, R.B., & Plaistow, S.J., 2016 The quantitative genetics of maternal effects, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology – INVITED PUBLICATION, in press

Plaistow, S.J., Shirley, C., Collin, H. Cornell, Harney, E.D. 2015 Offspring provisioning explains clone specific maternal age effects on life history and lifespan in the water flea, Daphnia pulex.
The American Naturalist, 186 (3), 376-389. PDFPDF

Harney, E.D., Plaistow, S.J. and Paterson, S. 2015 Transcriptional changes during Daphnia pulex development indicate that the maturation decision resembles a rate more than a threshold.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 28(4), 944-58. PDF

Cameron, T.C. and Plaistow, S.J. and Mugabo, M. and Piertney, S. B. and Benton, T. G. 2014 Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Experiments in a Model System. In: Moya-Larano, J. and Rowntree, J. and Woodward, G., Eds Advances in Ecological Research, Vol. 50:
Eco-evoutionary dynamics. Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, pp. 171-206. PDF

Plaistow, S.J. and Collin, H. 2014 Phenotypic integration plasticity in Daphnia magna: an integral facet of GxE interactions.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 27, 1913-1920. PDF

Harney E.H., Van Dooren, T.J.M., Paterson, S & Plaistow, S.J. 2013 How to measure maturation: a comparison of probabilistic methods used to test for genotypic variation and plasticity in the decision to mature.
Evolution, 67(2), pp. 525-538. PDF

Plaistow, S.J. & Benton, T.G. 2009 The influence of context-dependent maternal effects on population dynamics: an experimental test,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 364 (1520). pp. 1049-1058. (INVITED PUBLICATION). PDF

Benton, T.G. St Clair, J.J.H., Plaistow, S.J. 2008 Maternal effects mediated by maternal age: from life-histories to population dynamics,
Journal of Animal Ecology, 77, pp. 1037-1046. PDF

Plaistow, S.J., St Clair, J.J.H., Grant, J., & Benton, T.G. 2007 How to put all your eggs in one basket: Empirical patterns of offspring provisioning throughout a mothers lifetime.
The American Naturalist, vol. 170(2), pp 520-529. PDF

Benton, T.G., Plaistow, S.J., and Coulson, T.C. 2006 Complex population dynamics and complex causation: devils, details and demography.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Section B- Biological Sciences, 273, 1173-1181. PDF

Hooper, R.E., Plaistow, S.J., Tsubaki, Y. 2006 Signal function of wing colour in a polymorphic damselfly, Mnais costalis Selys (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae).
Odonatologica. 35(1), 15-22. PDF

Plaistow, S.J. Lapsley, C.T., and Benton, T.G. 2006 Context-dependent intergenerational effects: The interaction between past and present environments and its effect on population dynamics.
The American Naturalist, 167(2). 206-215. PDF

Plaistow, S.J., 2005 The effects of a seasonal time constraint on development time, body size, condition, and morph determination in the horned beetle
Allomyrina dichotoma L (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Ecological Entomology, 30 (6), 692-699. PDF

Benton, T. G., Plaistow, S. J., Beckerman, A. P., Lapsley, C. T. & Littlejohns, S. 2005 Changes in maternal investment in eggs can affect population dynamics.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Section B- Biological Sciences 272, 1351-1356. PDF

Plaistow, S.J., Johnstone, R.A., Colegrave, N., Spencer, M. 2004 Evolution of alternative mating tactics: conditional versus mixed strategies.
Behavioural Ecology. Vol 15, No. 4 pp, 534-542. PDF

Plaistow, S.J., Lapsley, C.T., Beckerman, A.P., Benton, T.G. 2004 Age and size at maturity: sex, environmental variability and developmental thresholds,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series B 271, 919-925. PDF

Plaistow, S.J., Outreman, Y., Moret, Y., Rigaud, T. 2003 Variation in the risk of being wounded: an overlooked factor in studies of invertebrate immune function?
Ecology Letters, 6, 489-494. PDF

Plaistow, S.J., Bollache, L. Cézilly, F. 2003 Energetically costly pre-copulatory mate-guarding in the amphipod
Gammarus pulex: causes and consequences. Animal Behaviour, 65, 683-691. PDF

Outreman Y., Bollache, L, Plaistow, S.J., & Cézilly, F. 2002 Patterns of intermediate host use and levels of association between two conflicting manipulative parasites,
International Journal of Parasitology 32, 15-20. PDF

Plaistow, S.J., Troussard, J.P., Cézilly, F. 2001 The effect of the acanthocephalan parasite Pomphorhynchus laevis on the lipid and glycogen content of its intermediate host
Gammarus pulex, International Journal of Parasitology 31, 346-351. PDF

Siva-Jothy, M.T., Tsubaki, Y., Hooper, R.E., & Plaistow, S.J. 2001 Investment in immune function under chronic and acute immune challenge in an insect.
Physiological Entomology, 26, 1-5. PDF

Plaistow, S.J. & Tsubaki, Y. 1999 A selective trade-off for territoriality and non-territoriality in the polymorphic damselfly
Mnais costalis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series B 267, 969-975. PDF

Siva-Jothy, M.T. & Plaistow, S.J. 1999 A fitness cost of eugregarine parasitism in a damselfly.
Ecological Entomology, 25, 1-6. PDF

Plaistow, S.J. & Siva-Jothy, M.T. 1999 The ontogenetic switch between odonate life history stages: effects on fitness when time and food are limited.
Animal Behaviour. 58, 659-667. PDF

Plaistow, S.J. 1997 Variation in non-territorial behaviour in male
Calopteryx splendens xanthostoma, Odonatologica, 26, 171-181. PDF

Plaistow S.J. & Siva-Jothy, M.T. 1996 Energetic constraints and alternative mating tactics in the damselfly,
Calopteryx splendens xanthostoma, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series B, 263, 1233-1238. PDF