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Marshall HH, Johnstone RA, Thompson FJ, Nichols HJ, Wells D, Hoffman JI, Kalema-Zikusoka G, Sanderson JL, Vitikainen EIK, Blount JD, Cant MA (2021): A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society. Nature Communications 12, 3717.
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Nagel R, Mews S, Adam T, Stainfield C, Fox-Clarke C, Toscani C, Langrock R, Forcada J, Hoffman JI (2021): Movement patterns and activity levels are shaped by the neonatal environment in Antarctic fur seal pups. Scientific Reports 11, 14323.
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Nagel R, Stainfield C, Fox-Clarke C, Toscani C, Forcada J, Hoffman JI (2021): Evidence for an Allee effect in a declining fur seal population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 288, 20202882.
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Nakagawa S, Lagisz M, Jennions MD, Koricheva J, Noble DWA, Parker TH, Sánchez‐Tójar A, Yang Y, O'Dea RE (2022): Methods for testing publication bias in ecological and evolutionary meta‐analyses. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13, 4–21.
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Nichols HJ, Fuchs B, Paijmans AJ, Lewis G, Bonin CA, Goebel ME, Hoffman JI (2021): Where are the beachmasters? Unexpectedly weak polygyny among southern elephant seals on a South Shetland Island. Journal of Zoology.
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Peart CR, Williams C, Pophaly SD, Neely BA, Gulland FMD, Adams DJ, Ng BL, Cheng W, Goebel ME, Fedrigo O, Haase B, Mountcastle J, Fungtammasan A, Formenti G, Collins J, Wood J, Sims Y, Torrance J, Tracey A, Howe K, Rhie A, Hoffman JI, Johnson J, Jarvis ED, Breen M, Wolf JBW (2021): Hi-C scaffolded short- and long-read genome assemblies of the California sea lion are broadly consistent for syntenic inference across 45 million years of evolution. Molecular Ecology Resources 21, 2455–2470.
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Takola E, Krause ET, Müller C, Schielzeth H (2021): Novelty at second glance: a critical appraisal of the novel object paradigm based on meta-analysis. Animal Behaviour 180, 123–142.
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Zanchi C, Lo LK, R R, Moritz I, Kurtz J, Müller C (2021): Survival of the aawfly Athalia rosae upon infection by an entomopathogenic fungus and in relation to clerodanoid uptake. Frontiers in Physiology 12, 637617.
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2020

Caspers BA, Krause ET, Hermanski I, Wiesbrock C, Kastrup F-W, Steinfartz S (2020): Developmental costs of yellow colouration in fire salamanders and experiments to test the efficiency of yellow as a warning colouration. Amphibia-Reptilia 41, 373–385.
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Ernst UR (2020): Digest: Evolution of eusociality favored by split sex ratios under worker-control. Evolution 74, 201–202.
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Ernst UR, Detienne G, Cardoen D (2020): Beekeepers and Scientists, or Beekeepers vs. Scientists? Bee World 97, 75–77.
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Nakagawa S, Dunn AG, Lagisz M, Bannach-Brown A, Grames EM, Sánchez-Tójar A, O'Dea RE, Noble DWA, Westgate MJ, Arnold PA, Barrow S, Bethel A, Cooper E, Foo YZ, Geange SR, Hennessy E, Mapanga W, Mengersen K, Munera C, Page MJ, Welch V, Haddaway NR (2020): A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 498–501.
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Paijmans AJ, Stoffel MA, Bester MN, Cleary AC, Bruyn PJN de, Forcada J, Goebel ME, Goldsworthy SD, Guinet C, Lydersen C, Kovacs KM, Lowther A, Hoffman JI (2020): The genetic legacy of extreme exploitation in a polar vertebrate. Scientific Reports 10, 5089.
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Sachser N, Zimmermann TD, Hennessy MB, Kaiser S (2020): Sensitive phases in the development of rodent social behavior. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 36, 63–70.
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Sánchez-Tójar A, Lagisz M, Moran NP, Nakagawa S, Noble DWA, Reinhold K (2020): The jury is still out regarding the generality of adaptive 'transgenerational' effects. Ecology Letters 23, 1715–1718.
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Schielzeth H, Dingemanse NJ, Nakagawa S, Westneat DF, Allegue H, Teplitsky C, Réale D, Dochtermann NA, Garamszegi LZ, Araya‐Ajoy YG (2020): Robustness of linear mixed‐effects models to violations of distributional assumptions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11, 1141–1152.
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Tebbe J, Humble E, Stoffel MA, Tewes LJ, Müller C, Forcada J, Caspers B, Hoffman JI (2020): Chemical patterns of colony membership and mother-offspring similarity in Antarctic fur seals are reproducible. PeerJ 8, e10131.
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van Benthem KJ, Wittmann MJ (2020): Density dependence on multiple spatial scales maintains spatial variation in both abundance and traits. Journal of Theoretical Biology 491, 110142.
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Voelkl B, Altman NS, Forsman A, Forstmeier W, Gurevitch J, Jaric I, Karp NA, Kas MJ, Schielzeth H, van de Casteele T, Würbel H (2020): Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 21, 384–393.
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2019

Adam T, Griffiths CA, Leos‐Barajas V, Meese EN, Lowe CG, Blackwell PG, Righton D, Langrock R (2019): Joint modelling of multi‐scale animal movement data using hierarchical hidden Markov models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10, 1536–1550.
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Edme A, Zobač P, Korsten P, Albrecht T, Schmoll T, Krist M (2019): Moderate heritability and low evolvability of sperm morphology in a species with high risk of sperm competition, the collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32, 205–217.
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Eriksson TH, Hölldobler B, Taylor JE, Gadau J (2019): Intraspecific variation in colony founding behavior and social organization in the honey ant Myrmecocystus mendax. Insectes Sociaux 66, 283–297.
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Ehlman SM, Trimmer PC, Sih A (2019): Prey responses to exotic predators: effects of old risks and new cues. American Naturalist 193, 575–587.
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Greggor AL, Trimmer PC, Barrett BJ, Sih A (2019): Challenges of learning to escape evolutionary traps. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7.
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Grosser S, Sauer J, Paijmans AJ, Caspers BA, Forcada J, Wolf JBW, Hoffman JI (2019): Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality. Molecular Ecology 28, 2406–2422.
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Jakobs R, Schweiger R, Müller C (2019): Aphid infestation leads to plant part-specific changes in phloem sap chemistry, which may indicate niche construction. New Phytologist 221, 503–514.
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Litzke V, Ottensmann M, Forcada J, Heitzmann L, Ivan Hoffman J (2019): Heterozygosity at neutral and immune loci is not associated with neonatal mortality due to microbial infection in Antarctic fur seals. Ecology and Evolution 9, 7985–7996.
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Mutwill AM, Zimmermann TD, Reuland C, Fuchs S, Kunert J, Richter SH, Kaiser S, Sachser N (2019): High reproductive success despite queuing – socio-sexual development of males in a complex social environment. Frontiers in Psychology 10, 2810.
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Nagel R, Forcada J, Hoffman JI (2019): Complete mitochondrial genome of the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella). Mitochondrial DNA Part B 4, 2936–2937.
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Paul SC, Putra R, Müller C (2019): Early life starvation has stronger intra-generational than transgenerational effects on key life-history traits and consumption measures in a sawfly. PloS One 14, e0226519.
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Princen SA, Oliveira RC, Ernst UR, Millar JG, van Zweden JS, Wenseleers T (2019): Honeybees possess a structurally diverse and functionally redundant set of queen pheromones. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 286, 20190517.
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Richter SH, Hintze S (2019): From the individual to the population – and back again? Emphasising the role of the individual in animal welfare science. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 212, 1–8.
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Rodríguez-Caro RC, Wiegand T, White ER, Sanz-Aguilar A, Giménez A, Graciá E, van Benthem KJ, Anadón JD (2019): A low cost approach to estimate demographic rates using inverse modeling. Biological Conservation 237, 358–365.
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Trimmer PC, Barrett BJ, McElreath R, Sih A (2019): Rapid environmental change in games: complications and counter-intuitive outcomes. Scientific Reports 9, 7373.
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2018

Hoffman JI, Bauer E, Paijmans AJ, Humble E, Beckmann LM, Kubetschek C, Christaller F, Kröcker N, Fuchs B, Moreras A, Shihlomule YD, Bester MN, Cleary AC, Bruyn PJN de, Forcada J, Goebel ME, Goldsworthy SD, Guinet C, Hoelzel AR, Lydersen C, Kovacs KM, Lowther A (2018): A global cline in a colour polymorphism suggests a limited contribution of gene flow towards the recovery of a heavily exploited marine mammal. Royal Society Open Science 5, 181227.
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Humble E, Dasmahapatra KK, Martinez-Barrio A, Gregório I, Forcada J, Polikeit A-C, Goldsworthy SD, Goebel ME, Kalinowski J, Wolf JBW, Hoffman JI (2018): RAD sequencing and a hybrid Antarctic fur seal genome assembly reveal rapidly decaying linkage disequilibrium, global population structure and evidence for inbreeding. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics 8, 2709–2722.
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Sachser N, Hennessy MB, Kaiser S (2018): The adaptive shaping of social behavioural phenotypes during adolescence. Biology Letters 14.
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Stoffel MA, Humble E, Paijmans AJ, Acevedo-Whitehouse K, Chilvers BL, Dickerson B, Galimberti F, Gemmell NJ, Goldsworthy SD, Nichols HJ, Krüger O, Negro S, Osborne A, Pastor T, Robertson BC, Sanvito S, Schultz JK, Shafer ABA, Wolf JBW, Hoffman JI (2018): Demographic histories and genetic diversity across pinnipeds are shaped by human exploitation, ecology and life-history. Nature Communications 9, 4836.
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