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  1. Sexually selected sexual selection: Can evolutionary retribution explain female ornamental colour?

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, May 2019, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  2. A rapid rate of sex-chromosome turnover and non-random transitions in true frogs

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  3. The role of introduced species in the decline of a highly endemic fish fauna in Central Mexico

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, July 2018, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  4. Songbird community structure changes with noise in an urban reserve

    Article • Journal of Urban Ecology, January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  5. Do male fish prefer them big and colourful? Non-random male courtship effort in a viviparous fish with negligible paternal investment

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  6. Morphological convergence in a Mexican garter snake associated with the ingestion of a novel prey

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, August 2017, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia, Dr Javier Manjarrez, Dr Javier Manjarrez

  7. Asymmetric paternal effect on offspring size linked to parent-of-origin expression of an insulin-like growth factor

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, May 2017, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  8. Anthropogenic Nest Materials May Increase Breeding Costs for Urban Birds

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, February 2017, Frontiers

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  9. Pre- and post-experimental manipulation assessments confirm the increase in number of birds due to the addition of nest boxes

    Article • PeerJ, March 2016, PeerJ

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  10. Females of a polymorphic seabird dislike foreign-looking males

    Article • Animal Behaviour, March 2016, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  11. Evidence that the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) uses scent to avoid omnivore mammals

    Article • Revista chilena de historia natural, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  12. Birds living near airports advance their dawn chorus and reduce overlap with aircraft noise

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, November 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  13. There is no such a thing as a free cigarette; lining nests with discarded butts brings short-term benefits, but causes toxic damage

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, November 2014, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  14. Spatial and temporal variation in superfoetation and related life history traits of two viviparous fishes: Poeciliopsis gracilis and P. infans

    Article • The Science of Nature, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  15. Geographic variation in the advertisement calls ofHyla eximiaand its possible explanations

    Article • PeerJ, June 2014, PeerJ

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  16. Limited options for native goodeid fish simultaneously confronted to climate change and biological invasions

    Article • Biological Invasions, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  17. Congenital predispositions and early social experience determine the courtship patterns of males of the Amarillo fish

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  18. Mode of Reproduction, Mate Choice, and Species Richness in Goodeid Fish

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  19. Female vibration discourages male courtship behaviour in the Amarillo fish (Girardinichthys multiradiatus)

    Article • Behavioural Processes, November 2013, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia, Dr Javier Manjarrez

  20. An experimental study of duet integration in the happy wren, Pheugopedius felix

    Article • Animal Behaviour, October 2013, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  21. Variation in the Diet of the Mexican Black-bellied Gartersnake Thamnophis melanogaster : Importance of Prey Availability and Snake Body Size

    Article • Journal of Herpetology, September 2013, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

    Constantino Macías Garcia, Dr Javier Manjarrez

  22. Contributors

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  23. Incorporation of cigarette butts into nests reduces nest ectoparasite load in urban birds: new ingredients for an old recipe?

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  24. Male quality and conspecific scent preferences in the house finch, Carpodacus mexicanus

    Article • Animal Behaviour, December 2012, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  25. Dealing with urban noise: vermilion flycatchers sing longer songs in noisier territories

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  26. The learning advantage: bird species that learn their song show a tighter adjustment of song to noisy environments than those that do not learn

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, August 2012, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  27. Foraging costs drive female resistance to a sensory trap

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  28. Experimental evidence for real-time song frequency shift in response to urban noise in a passerine bird

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  29. What do we need to know about speciation?

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2012, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia, Dr Elina Immonen, Dr Venera I. Tyukmaeva, Menno Schilthuizen

  30. An Interactive Playback Experiment Shows Song Bout Size Discrimination in the Suboscine Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)

    Article • Ethology, October 2011, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  31. Female responsiveness underlies the evolution of geographic variation in male courtship between allopatric populations of the fish Girardinichthys multiradiatus

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  32. Experimental evidence for real-time song frequency shift in response to urban noise in a passerine bird

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  33. The effects of familiarity and group size on mating preferences in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, July 2010, Wiley

    Dr Susanne RK Zajitschek, Constantino Macías Garcia

  34. Cosmetic enhancement of signal coloration: experimental evidence in the house finch

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, May 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  35. Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection in the Goodeinae, a Clade of Viviparous Fish with Effective Female Mate Choice

    Article • January 2010, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  36. Ontogenetic Effects of Captive Breeding

    Article • January 2010, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  37. Endogenous Functions and Expression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes in Teleost Fish: A Review

    Article • Reviews in Fisheries Science, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  38. Females of a viviparous fish (Skiffia multipunctata) reject males with black colouration

    Article • Journal of Ethology, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  39. Guppy males distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar females of a distantly related species

    Article • Animal Behaviour, August 2009, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  40. Strategies of song adaptation to urban noise in the house finch: syllable pitch plasticity or differential syllable use?

    Article • Behaviour, January 2009, Brill

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  41. Weight difference threshold during shell selection relates to growth rate in the semi-terrestrial hermit crab Coenobita compressus

    Article • Behaviour, January 2009, Brill

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  42. Correction for Arellano-Aguilar and Macias Garcia, Exposure to pesticides impairs the expression of fish ornaments reducing the availability of attractive males

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  43. Effects of methyl parathion exposure on development and reproduction in the viviparous fish Girardinichthys multiradiatus

    Article • Environmental Toxicology, June 2008, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  44. Heterospecific harassment of native endangered fishes by invasive guppies in Mexico

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  45. Exposure to pesticides impairs the expression of fish ornaments reducing the availability of attractive males

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  46. Intra-specific brood parasitism revealed by DNA micro-satellite analyses in a sub-oscine bird, the vermilion flycatcher

    Article • Revista chilena de historia natural, March 2008, SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica (CONICYT)

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  47. Sex and differentiation: population genetic divergence and sexual dimorphism in Mexican goodeid fish

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, May 2007, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  48. Responses of a sub-oscine bird during playback: Effects of different song variants and breeding period

    Article • Behavioural Processes, March 2007, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  49. Comparison of genetic diversity at microsatellite loci in near-extinct and non-endangered species of Mexican goodeine fishes and prediction of cross-amplification within the family

    Article • Journal of Fish Biology, March 2007, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  50. Beyond the point of no return? A comparison of genetic diversity in captive and wild populations of two nearly extinct species of Goodeid fish reveals that one is inbred in the wild

    Article • Heredity, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  51. Captive breeding promotes aggression in an endangered Mexican fish

    Article • Biological Conservation, November 2006, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  52. Phenotypic differentiation and pre-mating isolation between allopatric populations of Girardinichthys multiradiatus

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2006, Royal Society Publishing

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  53. A cost worth paying: energetically expensive interactions with males protect females from intrasexual aggression

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  54. Long‐term costs of using heavy shells in terrestrial hermit crabs (Coenobita compressus) and the limits of shell preference: an experimental study

    Article • Journal of Zoology, August 2005, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  55. Patterns of speciation in endemic Mexican Goodeid fish: sexual conflict or early radiation?

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, July 2005, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  56. Evolution of Species: Explosive speciation in a cricket

    Article • Heredity, April 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  57. Evidence that sensory traps can evolve into honest signals

    Article • March 2005, Nature

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  58. The influence of rearing experience on the behaviour of an endangered Mexican fish, Skiffia multipunctata

    Article • Biological Conservation, March 2005, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  59. Variation in the song of a sub-oscine, the vermilion flycatcher

    Article • Behaviour, January 2005, Brill

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  60. Mate choice and visibility in the expression of a sexually dimorphic trait in a goodeid fish (Xenotoca variatus)

    Article • Canadian Journal of Zoology, December 2004, Canadian Science Publishing

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  61. Flight Display Song of the Vermilion Flycatcher

    Article • The Wilson Bulletin, December 2004, Wilson Ornithological Society

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  62. Sperm Competition in a Viviparous Fish

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, July 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  63. Molecular phylogeny of the livebearing Goodeidae (Cyprinodontiformes)

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, March 2004, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  64. Predation risk is associated with the geographic variation of a sexually selected trait in a viviparous fish (Xenotoca variata)

    Article • Journal of Zoology, March 2004, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia, Dr Javier Manjarrez

  65. The Amarillo (Girardinichthys multiradiatus) a fish model to study geographic variation in mate recognition systems

    Article • Journal of Fish Biology, December 2003, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  66. Threatened Fishes of the World: Zoogoneticus tequila Webb & Miller 1998 (Goodeidae)

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, September 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  67. Amarillo Fish (Girardinichthys multiradiatus) Use Visual Landmarks to Orient in Space

    Article • Ethology, April 2003, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  68. Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  69. Ultraviolet-based female preferences in a viviparous fish

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, June 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  70. Context-dependent sexual mimicry in the viviparous fishGirardinichthys multiradiatus

    Article • Ethology Ecology & Evolution, October 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  71. Sex differences in behaviour as an indirect consequence of mating system

    Article • Journal of Fish Biology, October 2000, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  72. Methyl parathion impact on water, sediments and benthic macroinvertebrates from the ignacio Ramirez dam, Mexico

    Article • Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, July 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  73. Does male-biased predation lead to male scarcity in viviparous fish?

    Article • Journal of Fish Biology, December 1998, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  74. Article • Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Stress and Recovery, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  75. Bioaccumulation of Methyl Parathion and Its Toxicology in Several Species of the Freshwater Community in Ignacio Ramirez Dam in Mexico

    Article • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, October 1997, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  76. Congenital responsiveness of garter snakes to a dangerous prey abolished by learning

    Article • Animal Behaviour, April 1995, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  77. Components of Visual Prey Recognition by the Mexican Aquatic Garter Snake Thamnophis melanogaster

    Article • Ethology, January 1995, Wiley

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  78. Social Behavior and Operational Sex Ratios in the Viviparous Fish Girardinichthys multiradiatus

    Article • Copeia, December 1994, JSTOR

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  79. Correlational evidence of a sexually-selected handicap

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  80. Kleptoparasitic Behavior of the Magnificent Frigatebird: Sex Bias and Success

    Article • Ornithological Applications, August 1992, JSTOR

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  81. Feeding Ecology of Nerodia rhombifera in a Veracruz Swamp

    Article • Journal of Herpetology, December 1991, JSTOR

    Constantino Macías Garcia, Dr Javier Manjarrez

  82. Population Differences in Fish-Capturing Ability of the Mexican Aquatic Garter Snake (Thamnophis melanogaster)

    Article • Journal of Herpetology, December 1990, JSTOR

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  83. Limitations of a Generalist: a Field Comparison of Foraging Snakes

    Article • Behaviour, January 1989, Brill

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  84. The Use of Frozen Fish to Test Chemoreceptive Preferences of Garter Snakes

    Article • Copeia, August 1988, JSTOR

    Constantino Macías Garcia

  85. Seasonal and Ontogenetic Variation in the Diet of the Mexican Garter Snake, Thamnophis eques, in Lake Tecocomulco, Hidalgo

    Article • Journal of Herpetology, June 1988, JSTOR

    Constantino Macías Garcia