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Environmental Uncertainty and the Global Biogeography of Cooperative Breeding in Birds by Jetz, Walter, Rubenstein, Dustin R.

“…Understanding why organisms as different as amoebas, ants, and birds cooperate remains an important question in evolutionary biology. Although ecology can…”
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Target-enriched enzymatic methyl sequencing: Flexible, scalable and inexpensive hybridization capture for quantifying DNA methylation by Rubenstein, Dustin R, Solomon, Joseph

“…The increasing interest in studying DNA methylation to understand how traits or diseases develop requires new and flexible approaches for quantifying DNA…”
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The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment by Creel, Scott, Dantzer, Ben, Goymann, Wolfgang, Rubenstein, Dustin R.

“…1. Many aspects of the social environment affect hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function and increase circulating glucocorticoid concentrations. In…”
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Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change by Botero, Carlos A., Weissing, Franz J., Wright, Jonathan, Rubenstein, Dustin R.

“…In an era of rapid climate change, there is a pressing need to understand how organisms will cope with faster and less predictable variation in environmental…”
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Spatiotemporal environmental variation, risk aversion, and the evolution of cooperative breeding as a bet-hedging strategy by Rubenstein, Dustin R

“…In cooperatively breeding systems in which some individuals delay reproduction to help raise others' offspring, environmental variation in space and time…”
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Key ornamental innovations facilitate diversification in an avian radiation by Maia, Rafael, Rubenstein, Dustin R., Shawkey, Matthew D.

“…Patterns of biodiversity are often explained by ecological processes, where traits that promote novel ways of interacting with the environment (key…”
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Fluctuating environments, sexual selection and the evolution of flexible mate choice in birds by Botero, Carlos A, Rubenstein, Dustin R

“…Environmentally-induced fluctuation in the form and strength of natural selection can drive the evolution of morphology, physiology, and behavior. Here we test…”
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From Pleistocene to trophic rewilding: A wolf in sheep’s clothing by Rubenstein, Dustin R., Rubenstein, Daniel I.

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Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species by Rubenstein, Dustin R, Lovette, Irby J

“…Male animals are typically more elaborately ornamented than females. Classic sexual selection theory notes that because sperm are cheaper to produce than eggs,…”
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Ecological uncertainty favours the diversification of host use in avian brood parasites by Antonson, Nicholas D., Rubenstein, Dustin R., Hauber, Mark E., Botero, Carlos A.

“…Adaptive responses to ecological uncertainty may affect the dynamics of interspecific interactions and shape the course of evolution within symbioses. Obligate…”
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An evolutionary framework for studying mechanisms of social behavior by Hofmann, Hans A., Beery, Annaliese K., Blumstein, Daniel T., Couzin, Iain D., Earley, Ryan L., Hayes, Loren D., Hurd, Peter L., Lacey, Eileen A., Phelps, Steven M., Solomon, Nancy G., Taborsky, Michael, Young, Larry J., Rubenstein, Dustin R.

“…•Understanding social evolution requires integration of mechanisms and function.•A general framework for the integration of proximate and ultimate analyses is…”
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Social rank modulates how environmental quality influences cooperation and conflict within animal societies by Liu, Mark, Chen, Bo-Fei, Rubenstein, Dustin R., Shen, Sheng-Feng

“…Although dominance hierarchies occur in most societies, our understanding of how these power structures influence individual investment in cooperative and…”
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Stress hormones and sociality: integrating social and environmental stressors by Rubenstein, Dustin R

“…In cooperatively breeding species, reproductive decisions and breeding roles may be influenced by environmental (food resources) or social factors…”
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Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds by Seddon, Nathalie, Botero, Carlos A., Tobias, Joseph A., Dunn, Peter O., MacGregor, Hannah E. A., Rubenstein, Dustin R., Uy, J. Albert C., Weir, Jason T., Whittingham, Linda A., Safran, Rebecca J.

“…Sexual selection is proposed to be an important driver of diversification in animal systems, yet previous tests of this hypothesis have produced mixed results…”
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Female extrapair mate choice in a cooperative breeder: trading sex for help and increasing offspring heterozygosity by Rubenstein, Dustin R

“…using microsatellite markers. Although extrapair paternity was lower than many other avian cooperative breeders (14% of offspring and 25% of nests), females…”
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Temporal Environmental Variability Drives the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds by Rubenstein, Dustin R., Lovette, Irby J.

“…Many vertebrates breed in cooperative groups in which more than two members provide care for young [1, 2]. Studies of cooperative breeding behavior within…”
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Coevolution of Genome Architecture and Social Behavior by Rubenstein, Dustin R., Ågren, J. Arvid, Carbone, Lucia, Elde, Nels C., Hoekstra, Hopi E., Kapheim, Karen M., Keller, Laurent, Moreau, Corrie S., Toth, Amy L., Yeaman, Sam, Hofmann, Hans A.

“…Although social behavior can have a strong genetic component, it can also result in selection on genome structure and function, thereby influencing the…”
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Higher temperature variability in deforested mountain regions impacts the competitive advantage of nocturnal species by Chan, Shih-Fan, Rubenstein, Dustin R, Chen, I-Ching, Fan, Yu-Meng, Tsai, Hsiang-Yu, Zheng, Yuan-Wen, Shen, Sheng-Feng

“…Deforestation is a major contributor to biodiversity loss, yet the impact of forest loss on daily microclimate variability and its implications for species…”
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The global biogeography of avian haemosporidian parasites is characterized by local diversification and intercontinental dispersal by Ellis, Vincenzo A, Sari, Eloisa H R, Rubenstein, Dustin R, Dickerson, Rebecca C, Bensch, Staffan, Ricklefs, Robert E

“…The biogeographic histories of parasites and pathogens are infrequently compared with those of free-living species, including their hosts. Documenting the…”
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Multiple benefits of alloparental care in a fluctuating environment by Guindre-Parker, Sarah, Rubenstein, Dustin R.

“…Although cooperatively breeding vertebrates occur disproportionately in unpredictable environments, the underlying mechanism shaping this biogeographic pattern…”
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