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  1. Realism and robustness require increased sample size when studying both sexes

    Article • PLoS Biology, April 2024, PLOS

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  2. Meta-analysis of variation suggests that embracing variability improves both replicability and generalizability in preclinical research

    Article • PLoS Biology, May 2021, PLOS

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa, Alistair Senior

  3. Age-dependent trajectories differ between within-pair and extra-pair paternity success

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  4. Visualizing unbiased and biased unweighted meta-analyses

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  5. Ecological and Evolutionary Applications for Environmental Sex Reversal of Fish

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  6. Consistent age-dependent declines in human semen quality: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Ageing Research Reviews, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  7. Meta-analysis of variation: ecological and evolutionary applications and beyond

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  8. Infectious diseases of Antarctic penguins: current status and future threats

    Article • Polar Biology, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  9. Base-resolution DNA methylation landscape of zebrafish brain and liver

    Article • Genomics Data, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  10. Mitigating the epidemic of type I error: ecology and evolution can learn from other disciplines

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, November 2014, Frontiers

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  11. Juvenile Hormone Enhances Aversive Learning Performance in 2-Day Old Worker Honey Bees while Reducing Their Attraction to Queen Mandibular Pheromone

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2014, PLOS

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  12. Quantifying the predictability of behaviour: statistical approaches for the study of between-individual variation in the within-individual variance

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  13. House sparrowPasser domesticussurvival is not associated with MHC-I diversity, but possibly with specific MHC-I alleles

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  14. Sperm traits of masculinized fish relative to wild-type males: a systematic review and meta-analyses

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  15. Female extra-pair mating: adaptation or genetic constraint?

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, August 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  16. COSTLY INFIDELITY: LOW LIFETIME FITNESS OF EXTRA-PAIR OFFSPRING IN A PASSERINE BIRD

    Article • Evolution, July 2014, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa, Dr Yu-Hsun Hsu

  17. The Evolutionary Consequences of Disrupted Male Mating Signals: An Agent-Based Modelling Exploration of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in the Guppy

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2014, PLOS

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  18. Geographical variation in male calls and the effect on female response in little penguins

    Article • acta ethologica, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  19. HETEROGENEITY IN INDIVIDUAL QUALITY AND REPRODUCTIVE TRADE-OFFS WITHIN SPECIES

    Article • Evolution, June 2014, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  20. A Tale of Two Phylogenies: Comparative Analyses of Ecological Interactions

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

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  21. General Quantitative Genetic Methods for Comparative Biology

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  22. A statistical approach to distinguish telomere elongation from error in longitudinal datasets

    Article • Biogerontology, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  23. Size and experience matter: diving behaviour of juvenile New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri)

    Article • Polar Biology, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  24. Mapping the zebrafish brain methylome using reduced representation bisulfite sequencing

    Article • Epigenetics, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  25. Feeding nestlings does not function as a signal of social prestige in cooperatively breeding chestnut-crowned babblers

    Article • Animal Behaviour, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  26. Providing chicks with extra food lowers male but not female provisioning in the House SparrowPasser domesticus

    Article • Ibis, July 2013, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  27. Breeding Biology and Variable Mating System of a Population of Introduced Dunnocks (Prunella modularis) in New Zealand

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2013, PLOS

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  28. What determines species richness of parasitic organisms? A meta-analysis across animal, plant and fungal hosts

    Article • Biological Reviews, June 2013, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  29. Feeding ability of a fluvial habitat-specialist and habitat-generalist fish in turbulent and still conditions

    Article • Ecology Of Freshwater Fish, May 2013, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  30. Life extension after heat shock exposure: Assessing meta-analytic evidence for hormesis

    Article • Ageing Research Reviews, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  31. The practicality of Trojan sex chromosomes as a biological control: an agent based model of two highly invasive Gambusia species

    Article • Biological Invasions, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  32. Social and genetic benefits of parental investment suggest sex differences in selection pressures

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  33. A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  34. Habitat-related patterns in phenotypic variation in a New Zealand freshwater generalist fish, and comparisons with a closely related specialist

    Article • Freshwater Biology, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  35. Nested by design: model fitting and interpretation in a mixed model era

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, October 2012, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  36. Defining behavioural syndromes and the role of ‘syndrome deviation’ in understanding their evolution

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

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  37. The mean strikes back: mean–variance relationships and heteroscedasticity

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

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  38. Assessing the Patterns of Evolution in Anuran Vocal Sexual Signals

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  39. Passerine Birds Breeding under Chronic Noise Experience Reduced Fitness

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2012, PLOS

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  40. Meta-analytic insights into evolutionary ecology: an introduction and synthesis

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  41. The fitness consequences of environmental sex reversal in fish: a quantitative review

    Article • Biological Reviews, April 2012, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  42. Comparative and meta-analytic insights into life extension via dietary restriction

    Article • Aging Cell, February 2012, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  43. Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, February 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  44. Microsatellite resources for Passeridae species: a predicted microsatellite map of the house sparrow Passer domesticus

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, February 2012, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  45. Quantitative analysis of compensatory and catch‐up growth in diverse taxa

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2012, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  46. The influence of male age on within-pair and extra-pair paternity in passerines

    Article • Ibis, January 2012, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  47. Parasitism and behavioural syndromes in the fish Gobiomorphus cotidianus

    Article • Behaviour, January 2012, Brill

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  48. A comparative analysis of chemically induced sex reversal in teleosts: challenging conventional suppositions

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, November 2011, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  49. Food supplements increase adult tarsus length, but not growth rate, in an island population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus)

    Article • BMC Research Notes, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  50. Neglected biological patterns in the residuals

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  51. Disentangling the roles of natural selection and genetic drift in shaping variation at MHC immunity genes

    Article • Molecular Ecology, October 2011, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  52. Small Subordinate Male Advantage in the Zebrafish

    Article • Ethology, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  53. The Risk and Intensity of Sperm Ejection in Female Birds

    Article • The American Naturalist, September 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  54. Dominance and plumage traits: meta-analysis and metaregression analysis

    Article • Animal Behaviour, July 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  55. Behavioural ecology is not an endangered discipline

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, July 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  56. No evidence for adverse effects on fitness of fitting passive integrated transponders (PITs) in wild house sparrows Passer domesticus

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, May 2011, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  57. Great challenges with few subjects: Statistical strategies for neuroscientists

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  58. Inbreeding Depression Accumulation across Life-History Stages of the Endangered Takahe

    Article • Conservation Biology, November 2010, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  59. Limited inbreeding depression in a bottlenecked population is age but not environment dependent

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, November 2010, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  60. The influence of sex and body size on nestling survival and recruitment in the house sparrow

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Duncan O. S. Gillespie, Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  61. Model averaging, missing data and multiple imputation: a case study for behavioural ecology

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  62. Repeatability for Gaussian and non-Gaussian data: a practical guide for biologists

    Article • Biological Reviews, June 2010, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  63. The consequences of parasitic infections for host behavioural correlations and repeatability

    Article • Behaviour, January 2010, Brill

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  64. Environmental Sensitivity in Relation to Size and Sex in Birds: Meta‐Regression Analysis

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

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  65. Elevated reproductive effort increases blood parasitaemia and decreases immune function in birds: a meta-regression approach

    Article • Functional Ecology, April 2009, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  66. Missing inaction: the dangers of ignoring missing data

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

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  67. The mask of seniority? A neglected age indicator in house sparrows Passer domesticus

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, January 2008, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  68. Effect size, confidence interval and statistical significance: a practical guide for biologists

    Article • Biological Reviews, November 2007, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  69. Does the badge of status influence parental care and investment in house sparrows? An experimental test

    Article • Oecologia, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Duncan O. S. Gillespie, Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  70. The effects of changes in consequences on hens’ performance in delayed-matching-to-sample tasks

    Article • Behavioural Processes, November 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  71. The case against retrospective statistical power analyses with an introduction to power analysis

    Article • acta ethologica, October 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  72. Is avian sex determination unique?: clues from a warbler and from chickens

    Article • Trends in Genetics, October 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  73. Measuring vertebrate telomeres: applications and limitations

    Article • Molecular Ecology, September 2004, Wiley

    Professor Neil J Gemmell, Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  74. The effect of acoustic and visual priming stimuli on the reproductive behaviour of female zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata

    Article • acta ethologica, August 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  75. O sibling, where art thou? a review of avian sibling recognition with respect to the mammalian literature

    Article • Biological Reviews, February 2004, Wiley

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  76. Relatedness does not affect the mating effort of Eisenia fetida Sav. (Oligochaeta) despite evidence for outbreeding depression

    Article • Biology and Fertility of Soils, June 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

  77. Heart rate changes reveal that little blue penguin chicks ( Eudyptula minor ) can use vocal signatures to discriminate familiar from unfamiliar chicks

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, July 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichi Nakagawa