lesley@biology.ucsc.edu
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Lesley T. Lancaster

Selected Publications:

Lancaster, L.T., Hazard, L.C., Clobert, J., & Sinervo, B.R. (2008) Corticosterone manipulation reveals differences in hierarchical organization of multi-dimensional reproductive trade-offs in r-strategist and K-strategist females. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. In press.

Lancaster, L.T., McAdam, A.G., Wingfield, J.C., & Sinervo, B. (2007) Adaptive social and maternal induction of antipredator dorsal patterns in a lizard with alternative social strategies. Ecology Letters 10: 798-808. (Cover article) [PDF]

Mills, S.C., Hazard, L., Lancaster, L., Mappes, T., Miles, D., Oksanen, T.A., & Sinervo, B. (2008) Gonadotropin hormone modulation of testosterone, immune function, performance and behavioral tradeoffs among male morphs of the lizard, Uta stansburiana. American Naturalist. In press.

Lancaster, L.T., Hipsley, C.A., & Sinervo, B.R. Correlational sexual selection and "good genes": female choice for optimal combinations of multiple male display traits improves offspring survival. In review, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B.

Corl, A.C., Davis, A.R, Kuchta, S., Lancaster, L.T., Sinervo, B. When Rock And Scissors Beat Paper: The Role of Alternative Mating Strategies in Speciation. In review, Nature.

Sinervo, B., Chaine, A., Clobert, J., Calsbeek, R., McAdam, A., Hazard, H., Lancaster, L., Alonzo, S., Corrigan, G., & M. Hochberg. (2006) Self-recognition, color signals and cycles of greenbeard mutualism and transient altruism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 102: 7372-7377.

Nunes, S., Muecke, E.M., Lancaster, L.T., Miller, N.A., Mueller, M.A., Muelhaus, J., & Castro, L. (2004) Functions and consequences of play behaviour in juvenile
Belding's ground squirrels. Animal Behaviour 68: 27-37

Nunes, S., Muecke, E.M., Sanchez, Z., Hoffmeier, R.R., & Lancaster, L.T. (2004) Play behavior and motor development in juvenile Belding's ground squirrels
(Spermophilus beldingi). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 56: 97-105.