PUBLICATIONS

Van Dooren, T.J.M., Hoyle, R.B., and Plaistow, S.J. (
in press) Maternal effects, in Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Quantitative genetics section, ed.Jason Wolf, Elsevier Ltd, Oxford.

Plaistow, S.J., Shirley, C. Collin, H., Cornell, S.J. and 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. PDF

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

Cameron, Tom C. and Plaistow, Stewart and Mugabo, Marianne and Piertney, Stuart B. and Benton, Tim G. (2014) Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Experiments in a Model System. Advances in Ecological Research, Vol. 50: Eco-evoutionary dynamics. Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, pp. 171-206. ISBN 978-0-12-801374-8 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, Phil. Trans. R. Soc, 364, No. 1520, pp. 1049-1058. 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., Tsuchida, K., Tsubaki, Y. and Setsuda, K. (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, (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