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  1. Target-enriched enzymatic methyl sequencing: Flexible, scalable and inexpensive hybridization capture for quantifying DNA methylation

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2023, PLOS

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  2. Discrete but variable structure of animal societies leads to the false perception of a social continuum

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, May 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  3. The fitness consequences of kin-biased dispersal in a cooperatively breeding bird

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  4. Bateman's principle is reversed in a cooperatively breeding bird

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  5. A comparison of single nucleotide polymorphism and microsatellite markers for analysis of parentage and kinship in a cooperatively breeding bird

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, September 2014, Wiley

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  6. Climate-mediated cooperation promotes niche expansion in burying beetles

    Article • eLife, May 2014, eLife

    Dustin R. Rubenstein, Syuan-Jyun Sun, Sheng-Feng Shen

  7. Group Size and Social Conflict in Complex Societies

    Article • The American Naturalist, February 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  8. Pitch- and spectral-based dynamic time warping methods for comparing field recordings of harmonic avian vocalizations

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, August 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  9. Physiological costs and carry-over effects of avian interspecific brood parasitism influence reproductive tradeoffs

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  10. Social context and the lack of sexual dimorphism in song in an avian cooperative breeder

    Article • Animal Behaviour, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  11. Decline and Local Extinction of Caribbean Eusocial Shrimp

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2013, PLOS

    Dustin R. Rubenstein, Mr Solomon Tin Chi Chak

  12. Social Behavior

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  13. The Flexible Phenotype: A Body-Centred Integration of Ecology, Physiology, and Behaviour . By Theunis Piersma and Jan A. van Gils. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $117.00 (hardcover); $52.95 (paper). ix + 238 p.; ill.; name and subject i...

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, September 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Dustin R. Rubenstein, Dr Jan A. van Gils

  14. The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment

    Article • Functional Ecology, July 2012, Wiley

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  15. Family feuds: social competition and sexual conflict in complex societies

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  16. Sexual and social competition: broadening perspectives by defining female roles

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  17. Phylogenetic relationships of the mockingbirds and thrashers (Aves: Mimidae)

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, May 2012, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  18. Fluctuating Environments, Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Flexible Mate Choice in Birds

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2012, PLOS

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  19. Environmental Uncertainty and the Global Biogeography of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

    Article • Current Biology, March 2011, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  20. Environmental Uncertainty and the Global Biogeography of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

    Article • Current Biology, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  21. Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology . Edited by David Westneat and Charles W. Fox. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $150.00 (hardcover); $49.95 (paper). xvii + 641 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐533193‐6 (hc); 978‐0‐19‐533192‐9 (pb). 2010.

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2010, University of Chicago Press

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  22. Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species

    Article • Nature, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  23. Reproductive Conflict and the Costs of Social Status in Cooperatively Breeding Vertebrates

    Article • The American Naturalist, May 2009, University of Chicago Press

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  24. Dynamic feedback between phenotype and physiology in sexually selected traits

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, December 2008, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  25. Environmental and hormonal correlates of immune activity in a cooperatively breeding tropical bird

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, October 2008, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  26. Are hotshots always hot? A longitudinal study of hormones, behavior, and reproductive success in male marine iguanas

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, July 2008, Elsevier

    Maren Vitousek, Dustin R. Rubenstein

  27. Microsatellite development suggests evidence of polyploidy in the social sponge‐dwelling snapping shrimp Zuzalpheus brooksi

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, June 2008, Wiley

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  28. A complete species-level molecular phylogeny for the “Eurasian” starlings (Sturnidae: Sturnus, Acridotheres, and allies): Recent diversification in a highly social and dispersive avian group

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, April 2008, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  29. The evolution of cooperative breeding; is there cheating?

    Article • Behavioural Processes, October 2007, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  30. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae): Congruent mtDNA and nuclear trees for a cosmopolitan avian radiation

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, September 2007, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  31. Temporal Environmental Variability Drives the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

    Article • Current Biology, August 2007, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  32. The evolution of foraging behavior in the Galápagos marine iguana: natural and sexual selection on body size drives ecological, morphological, and behavioral specialization

    Article • July 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Maren Vitousek, Dustin R. Rubenstein

  33. Temporal but Not Spatial Environmental Variation Drives Adaptive Offspring Sex Allocation in a Plural Cooperative Breeder

    Article • The American Naturalist, July 2007, University of Chicago Press

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  34. Pleistocene Park: Does re-wilding North America represent sound conservation for the 21st century?

    Article • Biological Conservation, October 2006, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  35. Steroid hormones and aggression in female Galápagos marine iguanas

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, September 2005, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  36. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the plural cooperatively breeding superb starling, Lamprotornis superbus

    Article • Molecular Ecology Notes, July 2005, Wiley

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  37. THE ROLE OF SPECIES ABUNDANCE IN DETERMINING BREEDING ORIGINS OF MIGRATORY BIRDS WITH STABLE ISOTOPES

    Article • Ecological Applications, December 2004, Wiley

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  38. Polymorphic microsatellite loci in a plural breeder, the grey‐capped social weaver (Pseudonigrita arnaudi), isolated with an improved enrichment protocol using fragment size‐selection

    Article • Molecular Ecology Notes, November 2004, Wiley

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  39. From birds to butterflies: animal movement patterns and stable isotopes

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2004, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  40. SEASONAL CHANGES IN FOOD QUALITY: A PROXIMATE CUE FOR REPRODUCTIVE TIMING IN MARINE IGUANAS

    Article • Ecology, November 2003, Wiley

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  41. Shell dynamics and microhabitat selection by striped legged hermit crabs, Clibanarius vittatus (Bosc)

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, November 1995, Elsevier

    Dustin R. Rubenstein