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    Evolution of female multiple mating : A quantitative model of the “sexually selected sperm” hypothesis

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    This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Modeling effects of nonbreeders on population growth estimates

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    Acknowledgements We thank the Beissinger lab and reviewers for helpful comments on manuscript drafts. This research was funded by a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme (project NON- BREEDERS). The contents of this paper reflect the views of the researchers, not the views of the European Commission. Data Accessibility R-code available from the Dryad Digital Repository: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t56cn (Lee, Reid & Beissinger, 2016).Peer reviewedPostprin

    When does female multiple mating evolve to adjust inbreeding? : Effects of inbreeding depression, direct costs, mating constraints, and polyandry as a threshold trait

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    Ackowledgements: This work was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant to JMR. All simulations were performed using the Maxwell computing cluster at the University of AberdeenPeer reviewedPublisher PD

    The Consequences of Polyandry for Sibship Structures, Distributions of Relationships and Relatedness, and Potential for Inbreeding in a Wild Population

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    We thank the Tsawout and Tseycum First Nations for access to Mandarte Island, Pirmin Nietlisbach, Lukas Keller, Greta Bocedi, Brad Duthie, and Matthew Wolak for helpful discussions, and the European Research Council, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Swiss National Science Foundation for funding. Field data collected following UBC Animal Care Committee (A07-0309) and Environment Canada (Master banding permit 10596) guidelines.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Evolution of precopulatory and post-copulatory strategies of inbreeding avoidance and associated polyandry

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    Acknowledgments This work was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant to JMR. Computer simulations were performed using the Maxwell Computing Cluster at the University of Aberdeen. We thank Matthew E. Wolak and two anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Recent immigrants alter the quantitative genetic architecture of paternity in song sparrows

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    Funding Information Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada FP7 Ideas: European Research Council. Grant Number: 309453Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Conceptualizing the evolutionary quantitative genetics of phenological life-history events : Breeding time as a plastic threshold trait

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Y. Araya-Ajoy, P. Arcese, C. Pélabon, A. Phillimore, and J. Pick for helpful comments on a manuscript draft, and the Norwegian Research Council (grant 223257) and NTNU for funding.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Properties of phenotypic plasticity in discrete threshold traits

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    Acknowledgements We thank Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Russ Lande and Jon Wright for helpful comments and discussions. J.M.R. and P.A. were supported by the Norwegian Research Council through the Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics (grant 223257), NTNU and University of Aberdeen.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Evolution of Inbreeding Avoidance and Inbreeding Preference through Mate Choice among Interacting Relatives

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    This work was funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to JMR. We thank Greta Bocedi, Hannah Kokko, Lukas Keller, Sylvain Losdat, and Matthew Wolak for their helpful comments. Computer simulations were performed using the Maxwell Computing Cluster at the University of Aberdeen.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Accounting for genetic differences among unknown parents in microevolutionary studies : how to include genetic groups in quantitative genetic animal models

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    This work was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant to JMR. We thank Loeske Kruuk, Karin Meyer, Michael Morrissey, Simon Evans, Jarrod Hadfield and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments and insights.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
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