Publications of Wolfgang Forstmeier

Seguin, A.; Forstmeier, W.: No band color effects on male courtship rate or body mass in the zebra finch: Four experiments and a meta-analysis. PLoS One 7 (6), e37785 (2012)

Van Dongen, S.; Forstmeier, W.: Lack of genetic variation in developmental instability in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) wing and tarsus. Evolutionary Ecology Research 14 (3), pp. 285 - 298 (2012)

Bolund, E.; Schielzeth, H.; Forstmeier, W.: Correlates of male fitness in captive zebra finches - a comparison of methods to disentangle genetic and environmental effects. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11, 327 (2011)

Forstmeier, W.: Women have relatively larger brains than men: A comment on the misuse of general linear models in the study of sexual dimorphism. Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology 294 (11), pp. 1856 - 1863 (2011)

Forstmeier, W.: Evolutionäre Erklärungen sexueller Untreue. Jahrbuch - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2011)

Forstmeier, W.; Martin, K.; Bolund, E.; Schielzeth, H.; Kempenaers, B.: Female extrapair mating behavior can evolve via indirect selection on males. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108 (26), pp. 10608 - 10613 (2011)

Forstmeier, W.; Schielzeth, H.: Cryptic multiple hypotheses testing in linear models: Overestimated effect sizes and the winner's curse. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65 (1), pp. 47 - 55 (2011)

Reers, H.; Jacot, A.; Forstmeier, W.: Do zebra finch parents fail to recognise their own offspring? PLoS One 6 (4), e18466 (2011)

Schielzeth, H.; Bolund, E.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Quantitative genetics and fitness consequences of neophilia in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology 22 (1), pp. 126 - 134 (2011)

Backström, N.; Forstmeier, W.; Schielzeth, H.; Mellenius, H.; Nam, K.; Bolund, E.; Webster, M. T.; Ost, T.; Schneider, M.; Kempenaers, B. et al.; Ellegren, H.: The recombination landscape of the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata genome. Genome Research 20 (4), pp. 485 - 495 (2010)

Bolund, E.; Martin, K.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Inbreeding depression of sexually selected traits and attractiveness in the zebra finch. Animal Behaviour 79 (4), pp. 947 - 955 (2010)

Bolund, E.; Schielzeth, H.; Forstmeier, W.: No heightened condition dependence of zebra finch ornaments - A quantitative genetic approach. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23 (3), pp. 586 - 597 (2010)

Forstmeier, W.; Ellegren, H.: Trisomy and triploidy are sources of embryo mortality in the zebra finch. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1694), pp. 2655 - 2660 (2010)

Forstmeier, W.; Mueller, J. C.; Kempenaers, B.: A polymorphism in the oestrogen receptor gene explains covariance between digit ratio and mating behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1698), pp. 3353 - 3361 (2010)

Jacot, A.; Reers, H.; Forstmeier, W.: Individual recognition and potential recognition errors in parent-offspring communication. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64 (10), pp. 1515 - 1525 (2010)

Rochester, J. R.; Forstmeier, W.; Millam, J. R.: Post-hatch oral estrogen in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): Is infertility due to disrupted testes morphology or reduced copulatory behavior? Physiology & Behavior 101 (1), pp. 13 - 21 (2010)

Schielzeth, H.; Bolund, E.; Forstmeier, W.: Heritability of and early environment effects on variation in mating preferences. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 64 (4), pp. 998 - 1006 (2010)

Bolund, E.; Schielzeth, H.; Forstmeier, W.: Compensatory investment in zebra finches: Females lay larger eggs when paired to sexually unattractive males. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1657), pp. 707 - 715 (2009)

Forstmeier, W.; Burger, C.; Temnow, K.; Deregnaucourt, S.: The genetic basis of zebra finch vocalizations. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 63 (8), pp. 2114 - 2130 (2009)

Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: A quantitative genetic approach to understanding aggressive behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (3-4), pp. 282 - 283 (2009)