Professor Alastair Wilson
Professor of Evolutionary Biology
A.Wilson@exeter.ac.uk
+44 (0)1326 255131
Tremough House M208
Tremough House, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK
Overview
I am an evolutionary biologist and research in my group seeks to understand how genetic and environmental processes interact with each other to shape phenotypic evolution. To do this we use ecological, quantitative genetic and genomic methods to test evolutionary theory in a wide range of empirical systems both in the lab and in the field.
This page is no longer maintained, so for up to date information on our research projects, publications from the group, or opportunities to come and work with us please see my current research group website.
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Publications
Journal articles
Regan CE, Pilkington JG, Berenos C, Pemberton JM, Smiseth PT, Wilson AJ (In Press). Accounting for female space sharing in St. Kilda Soay sheep (Ovis aries) results in little change in heritability estimates. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Lane S, Wilson A, Briffa M (In Press). Analysis of direct and indirect genetic effects in fighting sea anemones. Behavioral Ecology
Houslay TM, Wilson A (In Press). Avoiding the misuse of BLUP in behavioral ecology. Behavioral Ecology
Stothart MR, Greuel R, Gavriliuc S, Henry A, Wilson A, McLoughlin PD, Poissant J (In Press). Bacterial dispersal and drift drive microbiome diversity patterns within a population of feral hindgut fermenters. Molecular Ecology
Santostafano F, Wilson AJ, Niemala PT, Dingemanse NJ (In Press). Behavioural mediators of genetic life-history trade-offs: a test of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis in field crickets. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Langford J, Fawcett T, Price E, Bradley D, Wilson A, Croft D (In Press). Bio-logging reveals heritable patterns of natural behaviours in sheep. Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements and Applications in Veterinary and Animal Sciences, IEEE Catalog Number CFP23CX4-USB, 182-187.
McCain S, Kopelic S, Houslay T, Wilson A, Lu H, Earley R (In Press). Choice consequences: Salinity preferences and hatchling survival in the mangrove rivulus fish (Kryptolebias marmoratus). The Journal of Experimental Biology
Styga JM, Houslay T, Wilson A, Earley RL (In Press). Development of G: a test in an amphibious fish. Heredity
White S, Wilson A (In Press). Evolutionary genetics of personality in the Trinidadian guppy I: Maternal and additive genetic effects across ontogeny. Heredity
White S, Houslay T, Wilson A (In Press). Evolutionary genetics of personality in the Trinidadian guppy II: Sexual dimorphism and genotype-by-sex interactions. Heredity
Regan C, Tuke L, McLoughlin P, Colpitts J, Wilson A, Poissant J (In Press). Evolutionary quantitative genetics of juvenile body size in a population of feral horses reveals sexually antagonistic selection. Evolutionary Ecology
Prentice P, Thornton A, Kolm N, Wilson A (In Press). Genetic and context-specific effects on individual inhibitory control performance in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Houslay T, Earley RL, White SJ, Lammers W, Grimmer AJ, Travers LM, Johnson EL, Young AJ, Wilson AJ (In Press). Genetic integration of behavioural and endocrine components of the stress response. eLife Abstract.
Prentice P, Houslay T, Martin J, Wilson A (In Press). Genetic variance for behavioural ‘predictability’ of the stress response. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Marjamäki P, Dugdale H, Delahay R, McDonald R, Wilson A (In Press). Genetic, social and maternal contributions to Mycobacterium bovis infection status in European badgers (Meles meles). Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Houslay T, Earley R, Young A, Wilson A (In Press). Habituation and individual variation in the endocrine stress
response in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata). General and Comparative Endocrinology
Boulton K, Sinderman B, Pearce MR, Earley RL, Wilson AJ (In Press). He who dares only sometimes wins: physiological stress and contest behaviour in Xiphophorus helleri. Behaviour, 149, 977-1002.
Sorato E, Zidar L, Garnham L, Wilson A, Løvlie H (In Press). Heritabilities and co-variation among cognitive traits in red junglefowl. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences
Wilson A (In Press). How should we interpret estimates of individual repeatability?. Evolution Letters
Santostefano F, Wilson A, Niemala P, Dingemanse N (In Press). Indirect genetic effects: a key component of the genetic architecture of behaviour. Scientific Reports
Prentice P, mnatzaganian C, Houslay T, Thornton A, Wilson A (In Press). Individual differences in spatial learning are correlated across tasks but not with stress response behaviour in guppies. Animal Behaviour
Marjamäki P, Dugdale H, Dawson D, McDonald R, Delahay R, Burke T, Wilson A (In Press). Individual variation and the source-sink group dynamics of extra-group paternity in a social mammal. Behavioral Ecology
Santostefano F, Wilson A, Araya-Ajoy YG, Dingemanse NJ (In Press). Interacting with the enemy: indirect effects of personality on conspecific aggression in crickets. Behavioral Ecology Abstract.
Regan C, Pemberton J, Pilkington J, Smiseth P, Wilson A (In Press). Linking genetic merit to behavioral data: behavior and genetic effects on
lamb growth in Soay sheep?. Behavioral Ecology
Rapkin J, Archer CR, Grant CE, Jensen K, House CM, Wilson AJ, hunt J (In Press). Little evidence for intralocus sexual conflict over the optimal intake of nutrients for lifespan and reproduction in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus. Evolution
White SJ, Kells TJ, Wilson AJ (In Press). Metabolism, personality and pace of life in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Behaviour
Styga J, Houslay T, Wilson A, Earley R (In Press). Ontogeny of the morphology-performance axis in an amphibious fish (Kryptolebias marmoratus). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology
Boulton K, Walling CA, Grimmer AJ, Rosenthal GG, Wilson A (In Press). Phenotypic and genetic integration of personality and growth under competition in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni. Evolution
Videlier M, Careau V, Wilson A, Rundle HD (In Press). Quantifying selection on standard metabolic rate and body mass in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution
Gold S, Regan CE, McLoughlin PD, Gilleard JS, Wilson A, Poissant J (In Press). Quantitative genetics of gastrointestinal strongyle burden and associated body condition in feral horses. International Journal of Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Sharman P, Wilson A (In Press). Racehorses are getting faster. Biology Letters Abstract.
Wilson A, Boulton K, Grimmer AJ, Walling CA, Rosenthal GG (In Press). Sex-specific plasticity and genotype x sex interactions for age and size of maturity in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni.
Wilson A, Pascoal S, Hunt J, Mendrok M, Bailey NW (In Press). Sexual Selection and Population Divergence II. Divergence in Different Sexual Traits and Signal Modalities in Field Crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus). Evolution
Fisher D, Wilson A, Boutin S, Dantzer B, Lane J, Coltman D, Gorrell J, McAdam A (In Press). Social effects of territorial neighbours on the timing of spring breeding in North American red squirrels. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Kruuk LEB, Wilson AJ (In Press). The challenge of estimating indirect genetic effects on behaviour: a comment on Bailey et al. Behavioral Ecology
Morrissey MB, Parker DJ, Korsten P, Pemberton JM, Kruuk LEB, Wilson AJ (In Press). The prediction of adaptive evolution: empirical application of the secondary theorem of selection and comparison to the breeder's equation. Evolution, 66, 2399-2410.
Royle NJ, Carter M, Wilson A, Moore A (In Press). The role of indirect genetic effects in the evolution of
interacting reproductive behaviors in the burying beetle,
Nicrophorus vespilloides. Ecology and Evolution
Maskrey D, White S, Wilson A, Houslay T (In Press). Who dares doesn’t always win: risk-averse rockpool prawns are better at controlling a limited food resource. Animal Behaviour
La Loggia O, Wilson AJ, Taborsky B (2024). Early social complexity influences social behaviour but not social trajectories in a cooperatively breeding cichlid fish. R Soc Open Sci, 11(3). Abstract. Author URL.
Narayan VP, Wasana N, Wilson AJ, Chenoweth SF (2024). Misalignment of plastic and evolutionary responses of lifespan to novel carbohydrate diets. R Soc Open Sci, 11(1). Abstract. Author URL.
Sharman P, Wilson AJ (2023). Genetic improvement of speed across distance categories in thoroughbred racehorses in Great Britain. Heredity (Edinb), 131(1), 79-85. Abstract. Author URL.
Capilla-Lasheras P, Wilson AJ, Young AJ (2023). Mothers in a cooperatively breeding bird increase investment per offspring at the pre-natal stage when they will have more help with post-natal care. PLoS Biol, 21(11). Abstract. Author URL.
Price E, Langford J, Fawcett T, Wilson A, Croft D (2022). Classifying the posture and activity of ewes and lambs using accelerometers and machine learning on a commercial flock. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 251, 105630-105630. Abstract.
Patrick SC, Réale D, Potts JR, Wilson AJ, Doutrelant C, Teplitsky C, Charmantier A (2022). Differences in the temporal scale of reproductive investment across the slow‐fast continuum in a passerine. Ecology Letters, 25(5), 1139-1151. Abstract.
Sharman P, Young A, Wilson A (2022). Evidence of maternal and paternal age effects on speed in thoroughbred racehorses. Royal Society Open Science
Prentice PM, Houslay TM, Wilson AJ (2022). Exploiting animal personality to reduce chronic stress in captive fish populations. FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE, 9 Author URL.
Narayan VP, Wilson AJ, Chenoweth SF (2022). Genetic and social contributions to sex differences in lifespan in Drosophila serrata. J Evol Biol, 35(4), 657-663. Abstract. Author URL.
Qiu S, Yong L, Wilson A, Croft DP, Graham C, Charlesworth D (2022). Partial sex linkage and linkage disequilibrium on the guppy sex chromosome. Mol Ecol, 31(21), 5524-5537. Abstract. Author URL.
Galluccio E, Lymbery RA, Wilson A, Evans JP (2022). Personality, sperm traits and a test for their combined dependence on male condition in guppies. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 9(6). Author URL.
Yong L, Croft DP, Troscianko J, Ramnarine IW, Wilson AJ (2022). Sensory-based quantification of male colour patterns in Trinidadian guppies reveals no support for parallel phenotypic evolution in multivariate trait space. Mol Ecol, 31(5), 1337-1357. Abstract. Author URL.
Boonekamp J, Rodríguez-Muñoz R, Hopwood P, Zuidersma E, Mulder E, Wilson A, Verhulst S, Tregenza T (2022). Telomere length is highly heritable and independent of growth rate manipulated by temperature in field crickets. Mol Ecol, 31(23), 6128-6140. Abstract. Author URL.
Hunter DC, Ashraf B, Bérénos C, Ellis PA, Johnston SE, Wilson AJ, Pilkington JG, Pemberton JM, Slate J (2022). Using genomic prediction to detect microevolutionary change of a quantitative trait. Proc Biol Sci, 289(1974). Abstract. Author URL.
Capilla-Lasheras P, Harrison X, Wood EM, Wilson AJ, Young AJ (2021). Altruistic bet-hedging and the evolution of cooperation in a Kalahari bird. Science Advances, 7(39). Abstract.
Okada K, Katsuki M, Sharma MD, Kiyose K, Seko T, Okada Y, Wilson AJ, Hosken DJ (2021). Natural selection increases female fitness by reversing the exaggeration of a male sexually selected trait. Nature Communications, 12(1). Abstract.
Fokkema RW, Korsten P, Schmoll T, Wilson AJ (2021). Social competition as a driver of phenotype–environment correlations: implications for ecology and evolution. Biological Reviews, 96(6), 2561-2572. Abstract.
McCain SC, Kopelic S, Houslay TM, Wilson AJ, Lu H, Earley RL (2020). Choice consequences: Salinity preferences and hatchling survival in the mangrove rivulus fish (Kryptolebias marmoratus). J Exp Biol Abstract. Author URL.
Lane SM, Briffa M, Wilson AJ, Truebano M, Foster NL (2020). Evidence of fostering in an internally brooding sea anemone. Ethology, 126(12), 1141-1147. Abstract.
Bonneaud C, Tardy L, Hill GE, McGraw KJ, Wilson AJ, Giraudeau M (2020). Experimental evidence for stabilizing selection on virulence in a bacterial pathogen. Evolution Letters, 4(6), 491-501. Abstract.
Langley EJG, Adams G, Beardsworth CE, Dawson DA, Laker PR, van Horik JO, Whiteside MA, Wilson AJ, Madden JR (2020). Heritability and correlations among learning and inhibitory control traits. Behavioral Ecology, 31(3), 798-806. Abstract.
Boonekamp J, Rodríguez-Muñoz R, Hopwood P, Zuidersma E, Mulder E, Wilson A, Verhulst S, Tregenza T (2020). Telomere length is highly heritable and independent of growth rate manipulated by temperature in field crickets. Abstract.
Wang D, Forstmeier W, Martin K, Wilson A, Kempenaers B (2020). The role of genetic constraints and social environment in explaining female extra-pair mating. Evolution, 74(3), 544-558. Abstract. Author URL.
Styga JM, Houslay TM, Wilson AJ, Earley RL (2019). Correction: Development of G: a test in an amphibious fish (Heredity, (2019), 122, 5, (696-708), 10.1038/s41437-018-0152-4). Heredity, 122(5), 709-710. Abstract.
Evans JP, Wilson AJ, Pilastro A, Garcia-Gonzalez F (2019). Ejaculate-mediated paternal effects: evidence, mechanisms and evolutionary implications. REPRODUCTION, 157(4), R109-R126. Author URL.
Bonneaud C, Tardy L, Giraudeau M, Hill GE, McGraw KJ, Wilson AJ (2019). Evolution of both host resistance and tolerance to an emerging bacterial pathogen. EVOLUTION LETTERS, 3(5), 544-554. Author URL.
Hosken DJ, Wilson A (2019). The problem of measuring trait-preference correlations without disrupting them. Behavioral Ecology, 30(6), 1518-1521.
White S, Pascall D, Wilson A (2019). Towards a comparative approach to the structure of animal personality variation. Behavioral Ecology
Bonneaud C, Tardy L, Giraudeau M, Hill G, McGraw K, Wilson A (2018). Evolution of host resistance and damage-limiting mechanisms to an emerging bacterial pathogen. Abstract.
Rapkin J, Jensen K, House CM, Wilson AJ, Hunt J (2018). Genotype-by-sex-by-diet interactions for nutritional preference, dietary consumption, and lipid deposition in a field cricket. Heredity (Edinb), 121(4), 361-373. Abstract. Author URL.
Smithers SP, Rooney R, Wilson A, Stevens M (2018). Rock pool fish use a combination of colour change and substrate choice to improve camouflage. Animal Behaviour, 144, 53-65. Abstract.
Maraqa MS, Griffin R, Sharma MD, Wilson AJ, Hunt J, Hosken DJ, House CM (2017). Constrained evolution of the sex comb in Drosophila simulans. J Evol Biol, 30(2), 388-400. Abstract. Author URL.
Hayward AD, Pemberton JM, Berenos C, Wilson AJ, Pilkington JG, Kruuk LEB (2017). EVIDENCE FOR SELECTION-BY-ENVIRONMENT BUT NOT GENOTYPE-BY-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS FOR FITNESS-RELATED TRAITS IN a WILD
MAMMAL POPULATION. Genetics, 208 (1), 349-364.
Cabrera D, Andres D, McLoughlin PD, Debeffe L, Medill SA, Wilson AJ, Poissant J (2017). Island tameness and the repeatability of flight initiation distance in a large herbivore. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 95(10), 771-778. Author URL.
Smithers SP, Wilson A, Stevens M (2017). Rock pool gobies change their body pattern in response to background features. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121, 109-121.
Houslay T, Vierbuchen M, Grimmer AJ, Young AJ, Wilson A (2017). Testing the stability of behavioural coping style across stress contexts in the Trinidadian guppy. Functional Ecology
Benton CH, Delahay RJ, Robertson A, McDonald RA, Wilson AJ, Burke TA, Hodgson D (2016). Blood thicker than water: kinship, disease prevalence and group size drive divergent patterns of infection risk in a social mammal. Proc Biol Sci, 283(1835). Abstract. Author URL.
Sharma MD, Wilson AJ, Hosken DJ (2016). Fisher's sons' effect in sexual selection: absent, intermittent or just low experimental power?. J Evol Biol, 29(12), 2464-2470. Abstract. Author URL.
Pascoal S, Mendrok M, Mitchell C, Wilson AJ, Hunt J, Bailey NW (2016). Sexual selection and population divergence I: the influence of socially flexible cuticular hydrocarbon expression in male field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus). Evolution, 70(1), 82-97. Abstract. Author URL.
Mills JA, Teplitsky C, Arroyo B, Charmantier A, Becker PH, Birkhead TR, Bize P, Blumstein DT, Bonenfant C, Boutin S, et al (2016). Solutions for Archiving Data in Long-Term Studies: a Reply to Whitlock et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31(2), 85-87.
Briffa M, Sneddon LU, Wilson AJ (2015). Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour. Biol Lett, 11(3). Abstract. Author URL.
Mills JA, Teplitsky C, Arroyo B, Charmantier A, Becker PH, Birkhead TR, Bize P, Blumstein DT, Bonenfant C, Boutin S, et al (2015). Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies. Trends Ecol Evol, 30(10), 581-589. Abstract. Author URL.
Duffield C, Wilson AJ, Thornton A (2015). Desperate Prawns: Drivers of Behavioural Innovation Vary across Social Contexts in Rock Pool Crustaceans. PLoS One, 10(10). Abstract. Author URL.
Boulton K, Couto E, Grimmer AJ, Earley RL, Canario AVM, Wilson AJ, Walling CA (2015). How integrated are behavioral and endocrine stress response traits? a repeated measures approach to testing the stress-coping style model. Ecology and Evolution
Boulton K, Couto E, Grimmer AJ, Earley RL, Canario AVM, Wilson AJ, Walling CA (2015). How integrated are behavioral and endocrine stress response traits? a repeated measures approach to testing the stress-coping style model. Ecology and Evolution, 5(3), 618-633. Abstract.
Thornton A, Wilson AJ (2015). In search of the Darwinian Holy Trinity in cognitive evolution: a comment on Croston et al. Behavioral Ecology, 26(6), 1460-1461.
Taylor ML, Skeats A, Wilson AJ, Price TAR, Wedell N (2015). Opposite environmental and genetic influences on body size in North American Drosophila pseudoobscura Evolutionary ecology and behaviour. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15(1). Abstract.
Wilson AJ (2014). Competition as a source of constraint on life history evolution in natural populations. Heredity (Edinb), 112(1), 70-78. Abstract. Author URL.
Sakaluk SK, Wilson AJ, Bowers EK, Johnson LS, Masters BS, Johnson BGP, Vogel LA, Forsman AM, Thompson CF (2014). Genetic and environmental variation in condition, cutaneous immunity, and haematocrit in house wrens. BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 14 Author URL.
Boulton K, Grimmer AJ, Rosenthal GG, Walling CA, Wilson AJ (2014). How stable are personalities? a multivariate view of behavioural variation over long and short timescales in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1-13.
Boulton K, Grimmer AJ, Rosenthal GG, Walling CA, Wilson AJ (2014). How stable are personalities? a multivariate view of behavioural variation over long and short timescales in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68(5), 791-803. Abstract.
Hayward AD, Nussey DH, Wilson AJ, Berenos C, Pilkington JG, Watt KA, Pemberton JM, Graham AL (2014). Natural Selection on Individual Variation in Tolerance of Gastrointestinal Nematode Infection. PLoS Biology, 12(7), 1-13. Abstract.
Hayward AD, Nussey DH, Wilson AJ, Berenos C, Pilkington JG, Watt KA, Pemberton JM, Graham AL (2014). Natural selection on individual variation in tolerance of gastrointestinal nematode infection. PLoS Biol, 12(7). Abstract. Author URL.
Edward DA, Poissant J, Wilson AJ, Chapman T (2014). Sexual conflict and interacting phenotypes: a quantitative genetic analysis of fecundity and copula duration in drosophila melanogaster. Evolution
Edward DA, Poissant J, Wilson AJ, Chapman T (2014). Sexual conflict and interacting phenotypes: a quantitative genetic analysis of fecundity and copula duration in drosophila melanogaster. Evolution, 68(6), 1651-1660. Abstract.
Royle NJ, Russell AF, Wilson AJ (2014). The evolution of flexible parenting. Science, 345(6198), 776-781. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Grimmer A, Rosenthal GG (2013). Causes and consequences of contest outcome: Aggressiveness, dominance and growth in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 67(7), 1151-1161. Abstract.
Wilson AJ, Grimmer A, Rosenthal GG (2013). Causes and consequences of contest outcome: aggressiveness, dominance and growth in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1-11.
Schuett W, Dall SRX, Wilson AJ, Royle NJ (2013). Environmental transmission of a personality trait: Foster parent exploration behaviour predicts offspring exploration behaviour in zebra finches. Biology Letters, 9(4). Abstract.
Hayward AD, Wilson AJ, Pilkington JG, Clutton-Brock TH, Pemberton JM, Kruuk LEB (2013). Reproductive senescence in female Soay sheep: Variation across traits and contributions of individual ageing and selective disappearance. Functional Ecology, 27(1), 184-195. Abstract.
Koch M, Wilson AJ, Kerschbaumer M, Wiedl T, Sturmbauer C (2012). Additive genetic variance of quantitative traits in natural and pond-bred populations of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid Tropheus moorii. Hydrobiologia, 682(1), 131-141. Abstract.
Morrissey MB, Walling CA, Wilson AJ, Pemberton JM, Clutton-Brock TH, Kruuk LEB (2012). Genetic Analysis of Life-History Constraint and Evolution in a Wild Ungulate Population. AMERICAN NATURALIST, 179(4), E97-E114. Author URL.
Morrissey MB, Walling CA, Wilson AJ, Pemberton JM, Clutton-Brock TH, Kruuk LEB (2012). Genetic analysis of life-history constraint and evolution in a wild ungulate population. Am Nat, 179(4), E97-114. Abstract. Author URL.
Boulton K, Sinderman B, Pearce MR, Earley RL, Wilson AJ (2012). He who dares only wins sometimes: Physiological stress and contest behaviour in Xiphophorus helleri. Behaviour, 149(9), 977-1002. Abstract.
Hammerschmidt K, Deines P, Wilson AJ, Rolff J (2012). Quantitative genetics of immunity and life history under different photoperiods. HEREDITY, 108(5), 569-576. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Reale D, Clements MN, Morrissey MM, Postma E, Walling CA, Kruuk LEB, Nussey DH (2011). An ecologist's guide to the animal model (vol 79, pg 13, 2010). JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY, 80(5), 1109-1109. Author URL.
Hadfield JD, Wilson AJ, Kruuk LEB (2011). Cryptic evolution: does environmental deterioration have a genetic basis?. Genetics, 187(4), 1099-1113. Abstract. Author URL.
Vale PF, Wilson AJ, Best A, Boots M, Little TJ (2011). Epidemiological, Evolutionary, and Coevolutionary Implications of Context-Dependent Parasitism. AMERICAN NATURALIST, 177(4), 510-521. Author URL.
Graham AL, Shuker DM, Pollitt LC, Auld SKJR, Wilson AJ, Little TJ (2011). Fitness consequences of immune responses: Strengthening the empirical framework for ecoimmunology. Functional Ecology, 25(1), 5-17. Abstract.
Wilson AJ, Morrissey MB, Adams MJ, Walling CA, Guinness FE, Pemberton JM, Clutton-Brock TH, Kruuk LEB (2011). Indirect genetics effects and evolutionary constraint: an analysis of social dominance in red deer, Cervus elaphus. J Evol Biol, 24(4), 772-783. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, de Boer M, Arnott G, Grimmer A (2011). Integrating personality research and animal contest theory: aggressiveness in the green swordtail Xiphophorus helleri. PLoS One
Martin JGA, Nussey DH, Wilson AJ, Reale D (2011). Measuring individual differences in reaction norms in field and experimental studies: a power analysis of random regression models. METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2(4), 362-374. Author URL.
Hayward AD, Wilson AJ, Pilkington JG, Clutton-Brock TH, Pemberton JM, Kruuk LEB (2011). Natural selection on a measure of parasite resistance varies across ages and environmental conditions in a wild mammal. J Evol Biol, 24(8), 1664-1676. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Réale D, Clements MN, Morrissey MM, Postma E, Walling CA, Kruuk LEB, Nussey DH (2010). An ecologist's guide to the animal model. J Anim Ecol, 79(1), 13-26. Abstract. Author URL.
Hegyi G, Herényi M, Wilson AJ, Garamszegi LZ, Rosivall B, Eens M, Török J (2010). Breeding experience and the heritability of female mate choice in collared flycatchers. PLoS ONE, 5(11). Abstract.
Husby A, Nussey DH, Visser ME, Wilson AJ, Sheldon BC, Kruuk LEB (2010). Contrasting patterns of phenotypic plasticity in reproductive traits in two great tit (Parus major) populations. Evolution, 64(8), 2221-2237. Abstract.
Gratten J, Wilson AJ, McRae AF, Beraldi D, Visscher PM, Pemberton JM, Slate J (2010). No evidence for warming climate theory of coat colour change in Soay sheep: a comment on Maloney et al. Biology Letters, 6(5), 678-679.
Morrissey MB, Wilson AJ (2010). Pedantics: an r package for pedigree-based genetic simulation and pedigree manipulation, characterization and viewing. Molecular Ecology Resources, 10(4), 711-719. Abstract.
Poissant J, Wilson AJ, Coltman DW (2010). Sex-specific genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism: a systematic review of cross-sex genetic correlations. Evolution, 64(1), 97-107. Abstract.
Morrissey MB, Kruuk LEB, Wilson AJ (2010). The danger of applying the breeder's equation in observational studies of natural populations. J Evol Biol, 23(11), 2277-2288. Abstract. Author URL.
Hadfield JD, Wilson AJ, Garant D, Sheldon BC, Kruuk LEB (2010). The misuse of BLUP in ecology and evolution. Am Nat, 175(1), 116-125. Abstract. Author URL.
Brommer JE, Rattiste K, Wilson AJ (2010). The rate of ageing in a long-lived bird is not heritable. Heredity, 104, 363-370.
Wilson AJ, Nussey DH (2010). What is individual quality? an evolutionary perspective. Trends Ecol Evol, 25(4), 207-214. Abstract. Author URL.
Hayward AD, Wilson AJ, Pilkington JG, Pemberton JM, Kruuk LEB (2009). Ageing in a variable habitat: environmental stress affects senescence in parasite resistance in St Kilda Soay sheep. Proc Biol Sci, 276(1672), 3477-3485. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Gelin U, Perron M-C, Réale D (2009). Indirect genetic effects and the evolution of aggression in a vertebrate system. Proc Biol Sci, 276(1656), 533-541. Abstract. Author URL.
Sawalha RM, Bell L, Brotherstone S, White I, Wilson AJ, Villanueva B (2009). Scrapie-resistant sheep show certain coat colour characteristics. Genet Res (Camb), 91(1), 39-46. Abstract. Author URL.
Robinson MR, Wilson AJ, Pilkington JG, Clutton-Brock TH, Pemberton JM, Kruuk LEB (2009). The impact of environmental heterogeneity on genetic architecture in a wild population of Soay sheep. Genetics, 181(4), 1639-1648. Abstract. Author URL.
Reed TE, Warzybok P, Wilson AJ, Bradley RW, Wanless S, Sydeman WJ (2009). Timing is everything: flexible phenology and shifting selection in a colonial seabird. J Anim Ecol, 78(2), 376-387. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Pemberton JM, Pilkington JG, Clutton-Brock TH, Kruuk LEB (2009). Trading offspring size for number in a variable environment: selection on reproductive investment in female Soay sheep. J Anim Ecol, 78(2), 354-364. Abstract. Author URL.
Ward PI, Wilson AJ, Reim C (2008). A cost of cryptic female choice in the yellow dung fly. Genetica, 134(1), 63-67. Abstract.
Gratten J, Wilson AJ, McRae AF, Beraldi D, Visscher PM, Pemberton JM, Slate J (2008). A localized negative genetic correlation constrains microevolution of coat color in wild sheep. Science, 319(5861), 318-320. Abstract.
Pettay JE, Charmantier A, Wilson AJ, Lummaa V (2008). Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women. Evolution, 62(9), 2297-2304. Abstract.
Pujol B, Wilson AJ, Ross RIC, Pannell JR (2008). Are Q<inf>ST</inf>-F<inf>ST</inf> comparisons for natural populations meaningful?. Molecular Ecology, 17(22), 4782-4785. Abstract.
Wilson AJ, Rambaut A (2008). Breeding racehorses: What price good genes?. Biology Letters, 4(2), 173-175. Abstract.
Wilson AJ, Charmantier A, Hadfield JD (2008). Evolutionary genetics of ageing in the wild: Empirical patterns and future perspectives. Functional Ecology, 22(3), 431-442. Abstract.
Brommer JE, Rattiste K, Wilson AJ (2008). Exploring plasticity in the wild: Laying date-temperature reaction norms in the common gull Larus canus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275(1635), 687-693. Abstract.
Breitling LPH, Wilson AJ, Raiko A, Lagog M, Siba P, Shaw MA, Quinnell RJ (2008). Heritability of human hookworm infection in Papua New Guinea. Parasitology, 135(12), 1407-1415. Abstract.
Kruuk LEB, Slate J, Wilson AJ (2008). New answers for old questions: the evolutionary quantitative genetics of wild animal populations. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 39, 525-548. Abstract.
Adams CE, Wilson AJ, Ferguson MM (2008). Parallel divergence of sympatric genetic and body size forms of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus, from two Scottish lakes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 95(4), 748-757. Abstract.
Poissant J, Wilson AJ, Festa-Bianchet M, Hogg JT, Coltman DW (2008). Quantitative genetics and sex-specific selection on sexually dimorphic traits in bighorn sheep. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275(1635), 623-628. Abstract.
Nussey DH, Wilson AJ, Morris A, Pemberton J, Clutton-Brock T, Kruuk LEB (2008). Testing for genetic trade-offs between early- and late-life reproduction in a wild red deer population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275(1635), 745-750. Abstract.
Wilson AJ (2008). Why h<sup>2</sup> does not always equal V<inf>A</inf>/V<inf>P</inf>?. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21(3), 647-650. Abstract.
Morrissey MB, Wilson AJ, Pemberton JM, Ferguson MM (2007). A framework for power and sensitivity analyses for quantitative genetic studies of natural populations, and case studies in Soay sheep (Ovis aries). J Evol Biol, 20(6), 2309-2321. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Nussey DH, Pemberton JM, Pilkington JG, Morris A, Pelletier F, Clutton-Brock TH, Kruuk LEB (2007). Evidence for a genetic basis of aging in two wild vertebrate populations. Curr Biol, 17(24), 2136-2142. Abstract. Author URL.
Brommer JE, Wilson AJ, Gustafsson L (2007). Exploring the genetics of aging in a wild passerine bird. American Naturalist, 170(4), 643-650. Abstract.
Hadfield JD, Wilson AJ (2007). Multilevel selection 3: modeling the effects of interacting individuals as a function of group size. Genetics, 177(1), 667-668. Abstract. Author URL.
Adams CE, Fraser D, Wilson AJ, Alexander G, Ferguson MM, Skulason S (2007). Patterns of phenotypic and genetic variability show hidden diversity in Scottish Arctic charr. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 16(1), 78-86. Abstract.
Wilson AJ, Pemberton JM, Pilkington JG, Clutton-Brock TH, Coltman DW, Kruuk LEB (2007). Quantitative genetics of growth and cryptic evolution of body size in an island population. Evolutionary Ecology, 21(3), 337-356. Abstract.
Nussey DH, Wilson AJ, Brommer JE (2007). The evolutionary ecology of individual phenotypic plasticity in wild populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20(3), 831-844. Abstract.
Adams CE, Hamilton DJ, Mccarthy I, Wilson AJ, Grant A, Alexander G, Waldron S, Snorasson SS, Ferguson MM, Skúlason S, et al (2006). Does breeding site fidelity drive phenotypic and genetic sub-structuring of a population of arctic charr?. Evolutionary Ecology, 20(1), 11-26. Abstract.
Wilson AJ, Pemberton JM, Pilkington JG, Coltman DW, Mifsud DV, Clutton-Brock TH, Kruuk LE (2006). Environmental coupling of selection and heritability limits evolution. PLoS biology, 4(7). Abstract.
Wilson AJ, Pemberton JM, Pilkington JG, Coltman DW, Mifsud DV, Clutton-Brock TH, Kruuk LEB (2006). Environmental coupling of selection and heritability limits evolution. PLoS Biol, 4(7). Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Reale D (2006). Ontogeny of additive and maternal genetic effects: lessons from domestic mammals. Am Nat, 167(1), E23-E38. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Coltman DW, Pemberton JM, Overall ADJ, Byrne KA, Kruuk LEB (2005). Maternal genetic effects set the potential for evolution in a free-living vertebrate population. J Evol Biol, 18(2), 405-414. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Kruuk LEB, Coltman DW (2005). Ontogenetic patterns in heritable variation for body size: using random regression models in a wild ungulate population. Am Nat, 166(6), E177-E192. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Pilkington JG, Pemberton JM, Coltman DW, Overall ADJ, Byrne KA, Kruuk LEB (2005). Selection on mothers and offspring: whose phenotype is it and does it matter?. Evolution, 59(2), 451-463. Abstract. Author URL.
Morrissey MB, Wilson AJ (2005). The potential costs of accounting for genotypic errors in molecular parentage analyses. Molecular Ecology, 14, 4111-4121.
Wilson AJ, Hutchings JA, Ferguson MM (2004). Dispersal in a stream dwelling salmonid: Inferences from tagging and microsatellite studies. Conservation Genetics, 5(1), 25-37. Abstract.
Wilson AJ, Gíslason D, Skúlason S, Snorrason SS, Adams CE, Alexander G, Danzmann RG, Ferguson MM (2004). Population genetic structure of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus from northwest Europe on large and small spatial scales. Mol Ecol, 13(5), 1129-1142. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, McDonald G, Moghadam HK, Herbinger CM, Ferguson MM (2003). Marker-assisted estimation of quantitative genetic parameters in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Genetical Research, 81(2), 145-156. Abstract.
Wilson AJ, Hutchings JA, Ferguson MM (2003). Selective and genetic constraints on the evolution of body size in a stream-dwelling salmonid fish. J Evol Biol, 16(4), 584-594. Abstract. Author URL.
Wilson AJ, Ferguson MM (2002). Molecular pedigree analysis in natural populations of fishes: approaches, applications, and practical considerations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences(59), 1696-1707.
Chapters
Roff DA, Wilson A (In Press). Quantifying genetic by environmental interactions in laboratory systems. In (Ed) Genotype-by-environment interactions and sexual selection.
McAdam AG, Garant D, Wilson AJ (In Press). The effect of other’s genes: maternal and other indirect genetic effects. In (Ed) Quantitative genetics in natural populations.
Hunt J, Rapkin J, House CM, Wilson AJ (2019). Beyond genes and environments: Indirect genetic effects and the evolution of behaviour. In (Ed) Genes and Behaviour: Beyond Nature-Nurture, 61-91. Abstract.
Dall SRX, McNamara JM, Wilson AJ (2019). Ultimate (Re)Thinking for Behavioural Biology. In Hunt J, Hosken DJ, Wedell N (Eds.) Genes and Behaviour: Beyond Nature-Nurture, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 11-25. Abstract.
Wilson AJ, Poissant J (2016). Quantitative Genetics in Natural Populations. In (Ed) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 361-371. Abstract.
Roff DA, Wilson AJ (2014). Quantifying Genotype‐by‐Environment Interactions in Laboratory Systems. In (Ed) Genotype‐by‐Environment Interactions and Sexual Selection, Wiley, 100-136.
Wilson AJ (2009). Maternal effects in ungulates. In Maestripieri D, Mateo JM (Eds.) Maternal Effects in Mammals, University of Chicago Press. Abstract.
Conferences
Houslay TM, Prentice P, White SJ, Young AJ, Earley RL, Wilson AJ (2018). The Quantitative Genetics of Stress Coping Styles in the Trinidadian Guppy. Author URL.
Supervision / Group
Postgraduate researchers
- Paula Marjamaki PhD student
Alumni
- Paula Marjamaki PhD student
- Paula Marjamaki PhD student
- Paula Marjamaki PhD student
