Annual Report 2009 - Department of Zoology - University of ...

Papers from Part II student projects
Most of the Part II students in the Department carry
out original research projects as part of their course.
Remarkably, these quite often lead to peer-reviewed
papers. There have been at least 27 such publications
over the past decade, with eight papers appearing in
2009 alone. We think this is an important indicator of the
quality of our students and the work they do.
Publications since 2000 based wholly or partly on Part 2
projects (with student names in bold):
Balmford, A, J Beresford, J Green, R Naidoo, M
Walpole & A Manica 2009. A global perspective
on trends in nature-based tourism. PLoS Biol.
7: e1000144
Graham-Taylor LG, AE Stubbs & M de L Brooke 2009.
Changes in phenology of hoverflies in a central
England garden. Insect Conserv. Diver.2:
29-35.
Harcourt, JL, TZ Ang, G Sweetman, RA Johnstone & A
Manica 2009. Leadership, personality and social
feedback. Commun. Integr. Biol. 2: 335-336
Harcourt, JL, TZ Ang, G Sweetman, RA Johnstone
& A Manica 2009. Social feedback and the
emergence of leaders and followers. Curr. Biol.
19: 248-252
Stevens, M, IS Winney, A Cantor & J Graham 2009.
Outline and surface disruption in animal
camouflage. Proc. R. Soc. B 276: 781-786.
Turner, EC, HMV Granroth, HR Johnson, CBH
Lucas, AM Thompson, H Froy, RN German
and R Holdgate 2009. Habitat preference and
dispersal of the Duke of Burgundy butterfly
(Hamearis lucina) on an abandoned chalk
quarry in Bedfordshire, UK. J. Insect Conserv.
13: 475-486.
Walker, DS, RP Vazquez-Manrique, NJD Gower, E
Gregory, WR Schafer & HA Baylis 2009.
Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate signalling regulates
the avoidance response to nose touch in
Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Genet. 5(9):
e1000636.
Weavers, H, S Prieto-Sanchez, F Grawe, A Garcia-
Lopez, R Artero, M Wilsch-Brauninger, M
Ruiz-Gomez, H Skaer & B Denholm 2009. The
insect nephrocyte in a podocyte-like cell with a
filtration slit diaphragm. Nature 457: 322-327.
Darlington, JPEC, RB Benson, CE Cook & G Walker.
2008. Resolving relationships in some
African fungus-growing termites (Termitidae,
Macrotermitinae) using molecular phylogeny,
morphology, and field parameters. Insectes Soc.
55: 256-265.
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Stevens, M, SA Castor-Perry & JRF Price. 2008. The
protective value of conspicuous signals is not
impaired by shape, size, or position asymmetry.
Behav. Ecol. 20: 96-102.
Stevens, M, DH Yule & GD Ruxton. 2008. Dazzle
coloration and prey movement. Proc. R. Soc. B
275: 2639-2643.
Aldridge, DC, TM Fayle & N Jackson. 2007.
Freshwater mussel abundance predicts
biodiversity in UK lowland rivers. Aquat.
Conserv. 17: 554-564.
Evans, SR, M Finnie & A Manica. 2007. Shoaling
preferences in decapod crustacea. Anim.
Behav. 74: 1691-1696.
Martins, TLF, M de L Brooke, G Hilton, S Farnsworth, J
Gould & D Pain. 2006. Costing eradications of
alien mammals from islands. Anim. Conserv. 9:
439-444.
Katugampola, N, ECR Pinfield, RJ Reeve, M
Ridgway & BJ McCabe. 2005. Imprinting:
modification by novel stimuli. Brit. Neurosci.
Assoc. Abstr. 18: P104.
Keane, A, M de L Brooke & PJK McGowan. 2005.
Correlates of extinction risk and hunting
pressure in gamebirds (Galliformes). Biol.
Conserv. 126: 216-233.
Brooke, M de L, V Copas, R Gylee & O Kruger. 2004.
Long-lived fellows. Trends Ecol. Evol. 19: 8.
Gage, G, M de L Brooke, MRE Symonds & D Wege.
2004. Ecological correlates of the threat of
extinction in Neotropical bird species. Anim.
Conserv. 7: 161-168.
Hallett, TB, T Coulson, JG Pilkington, TH Clutton-
Brock, JM Pemberton & BT Grenfell. 2004.
Why large-scale climate indices seem to
predict ecological processes better than
weather. Nature 430: 71-75.
Burg, TM, R Almond, J Lomax, M de L Brooke & W
Amos. 2003. Unravelling dispersal patterns
in an expanding population of a highly mobile
seabird, the northern fulmar. Proc. R. Soc. B
270: 979-984.
Almond, EJ. 2002. Revision of Plastophorides Beyer
(Diptera: Phoridae), with two new species from
Sulawesi and Palawan. Fragm. Faunist. 45:
147-153.
Balmford, A, L Clegg, T Coulson & J Taylor. 2002.
Why conservationists should heed Pokémon.
Science 295: 2367.
Hall, JR, RW Woods, M de L Brooke & GM Hilton.
2002. Factors affecting the distribution of
landbirds on the Falklands Islands. Bird
Conserv. Int. 12: 151-167.
Walker, DS, S Ly, KC Lockwood & HA Baylis. 2002.
A direct interaction between IP 3 receptors and
Myosin II regulates IP 3 signaling in C. elegans.
Curr. Biol. 12: 951-956.