Dr Shinichi Nakagawa

BSc (Hons), PhD

Dr Shinichi Nakagawa is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago's Department of Zoology.

Born and raised in Japan, Shinichi graduated with a BSc (Hons) at the University of Waikato, before moving on to the University of Sheffield to complete his PhD in 2007. Shinichi was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sheffield and a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, before taking up his current position at Otago.

Shinichi researches evolutionary/behavioural ecology – using animal models, including invertebrates, amphibians, fish and birds – to understand phenotypic evolution and using molecular techniques to understand underling mechanisms of such evolution. He is also interested in applied statistics along with the field of quantitative and population genetics.

Further information

Further information about Shinichi is available at the Department of Zoology website.

Publications

Dunning, J., Sánchez-Tójar, A., Girndt, A., Burke, T., Hsu, Y.-H., Nakagawa, S., … Schroeder, J. (2024). Extrapair paternity alongside social reproduction increases male lifetime fitness. Animal Behaviour, 213, 117-123. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.04.007 Journal - Research Article

Mathot, K. J., Arteaga-Torres, J., Besson, A., Hawkshaw, D. M., Klappstein, N., McKinnon, R. A., … Nakagawa, S. (2024). A systematic review and meta-analysis of unimodal and multimodal predation risk assessment in birds. Nature Communications, 15, 4240. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48702-6 Journal - Research Article

Sanghvi, K., Vega-Trejo, R., Nakagawa, S., Gascoigne, S. J. L., Johnson, S. L., Salguero-Gómez, R., … Sepil, I. (2024). Meta-analysis shows no consistent evidence for senescence in ejaculate traits across animals. Nature Communications, 15, 558. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-44768-4 Journal - Research Article

Besson, A., Johnson, S. L., Nakagawa, S., Meylan, S., & Cree, A. (2023). Do personality traits co-vary with baseline concentrations of glucocorticoids in a viviparous lizard? In D. J. Wilson & J. M. Monks (Eds.), Recent developments in research on the herpetofauna of Aotearoa New Zealand: Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the Society for Research on Amphibians and Reptiles in New Zealand (SRARNZ) 2021: DOC Research and Development Series 369. 2.4. Retrieved from https://www.doc.govt.nz/about-us/science-publications/series/doc-research-and-development-series Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Ragsdale, A., Ortega-Recalde, O., Dutoit, L., Besson, A. A., Chia, J. H. Z., King, T., Nakagawa, S., Hickey, A., Gemmell, N. J., Hore, T., & Johnson, S. L. (2022). Paternal hypoxia exposure primes offspring for increased hypoxia resistance. BMC Biology, 20, 185. doi: 10.1186/s12915-022-01389-x Journal - Research Article

2024

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2023

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

2022

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Haave-Audet, E., Besson, A. A., Nakagawa, S., & Mathot, K. J. (2022). Differences in resource acquisition, not allocation, mediate the relationship between behaviour and fitness: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Biological Reviews, 97, 708-731. doi: 10.1111/brv.12819

Holtmann, B., Lara, C. E., Santos, E. S. A., Gillum, J. E., Gemmell, N. J., & Nakagawa, S. (2022). The association between personalities, alternative breeding strategies, and reproductive success in dunnocks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35, 539-551. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13906

2021

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Hayward, A., Poulin, R., & Nakagawa, S. (2021). A broadscale analysis of host-symbiont cophylogeny reveals the drivers of phylogenetic congruence. Ecology Letters, 24, 1681-1696. doi: 10.1111/ele.13757

2020

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Lara, C. E., Grueber, C. E., Holtmann, B., Santos, E. S. A., Johnson, S. L., Robertson, B. C., … Nakagawa, S. (2020). Assessment of the dunnocks’ introduction to New Zealand using innate immune-gene diversity. Evolutionary Ecology, 34, 803-820. doi: 10.1007/s10682-020-10070-0

Journal - Research Other

Miyahara, M., Lagisz, M., Nakagawa, S., & Henderson, S. (2020). Intervention for children with developmental coordination disorder: How robust is our recent evidence? Child: Care, Health & Development, 46, 397-406. doi: 10.1111/cch.12763

2019

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Jones, D. A., Akbaripasand, A., Nakagawa, S., & Closs, G. P. (2019). Landscape features determine brown trout population structure and recruitment dynamics. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 28, 554-562. doi: 10.1111/eff.12474

2018

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Andrew, S. C., Awasthy, M., Griffith, A. D., Nakagawa, S., & Griffith, S. C. (2018). Clinal variation in avian body size is better explained by summer maximum temperatures during development than by cold winter temperatures. Auk, 135(2), 206-217. doi: 10.1642/auk-17-129.1

Johnson, S. L., Zellhuber-McMillan, S., Gillum, J., Dunleavy, J., Evans, J., Nakagawa, S., & Gemmell, N. J. (2018). Evidence that fertility trades off with early offspring fitness as males age. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285(1871), 20172174. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2174

Andrew, S. C., Awasthy, M., Bolton, P. E., Rollins, L. A., Nakagawa, S., & Griffith, S. C. (2018). The genetic structure of the introduced house sparrow populations in Australia and New Zealand is consistent with historical descriptions of multiple introductions to each country. Biological Invasions, 20(6), 1507-1522. doi: 10.1007/s10530-017-1643-6

Winney, I. S., Schroeder, J., Nakagawa, S., Hsu, Y.-H., Simons, M. J. P., Sánchez-Tójar, A., … Burke, T. (2018). Heritability and social brood effects on personality in juvenile and adult life-history stages in a wild passerine. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31(1), 75-87. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13197

2017

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Garratt, M., Nakagawa, S., & Simons, M. J. P. (2017). Life-span extension with reduced somatotrophic signaling: Moderation of aging effect by signal type, sex, and experimental cohort. Journals of Gerontology Series A, 72(12), 1620-1626. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glx010

Holtmann, B., Santos, E. S. A., Lara, C. E., & Nakagawa, S. (2017). Personality-matching habitat choice, rather than behavioural plasticity, is a likely driver of a phenotype-environment covariance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284(1864), 20170943. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0943

Lamb, S. D., Taylor, H. R., Holtmann, B., Santos, E. S. A., Tamayo, J. H., Johnson, S. L., Nakagawa, S., & Lara, C. E. (2017). Coprophagy in Dunnocks (Prunella modularis): A frequent behavior in females, infrequent in males, and very unusual in nestlings. Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 129(3), 615-620. doi: 10.1676/16-059.1

Miyahara, M., Hillier, S. L., Pridham, L., & Nakagawa, S. (2017). Task-oriented interventions for children with developmental co-ordination disorder (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 7, CD010914. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010914.pub2

Hsu, Y.-H., Simons, M. J. P., Schroeder, J., Girndt, A., Winney, I. S., Burke, T., & Nakagawa, S. (2017). Age-dependent trajectories differ between within-pair and extra-pair paternity success. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(5), 951-959. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13058

Geßner, C., Nakagawa, S., Zavodna, M., & Gemmell, N. J. (2017). Sexual selection for genetic compatibility: The role of the major histocompatibility complex on cryptic female choice in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Heredity, 118, 442-452. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2016.116

Miyahara, M., Lagisz, M., Nakagawa, S., & Henderson, S. E. (2017). A narrative meta-review of a series of systematic and meta-analytic reviews on the intervention outcome for children with developmental co-ordination disorder. Child: Care, Health & Development, 43(5), 733-742. doi: 10.1111/cch.12437

Holtmann, B., Lagisz, M., & Nakagawa, S. (2017). Metabolic rates, and not hormone levels, are a likely mediator of between-individual differences in behaviour: A meta-analysis. Functional Ecology, 31(3), 685-696. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12779

Foo, Y. Z., Nakagawa, S., Rhodes, G., & Simmons, L. W. (2017). The effects of sex hormones on immune function: A meta-analysis. Biological Reviews, 92(1), 551-571. doi: 10.1111/brv.12243

Booksmythe, I., Mautz, B., Davis, J., Nakagawa, S., & Jennions, M. D. (2017). Facultative adjustment of the offspring sex ratio and male attractiveness: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Biological Reviews, 92(1), 108-134. doi: 10.1111/brv.12220

2016

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Garratt, M., Nakagawa, S., & Simons, M. J. P. (2016). Comparative idiosyncrasies in life extension by reduced mTOR signalling and its distinctiveness from dietary restriction. Aging Cell, 15(4), 737-743. doi: 10.1111/acel.12489

Schroeder, J., Hsu, Y.-H., Winney, I., Simons, M., Nakagawa, S., & Burke, T. (2016). Predictably philandering females prompt poor paternal provisioning. American Naturalist, 188(2), 219-230. doi: 10.1086/687243

Chatterjee, A., Lagisz, M., Rodger, E. J., Zhen, L., Stockwell, P. A., Duncan, E. J., Horsfield, J. A., … Nakagawa, S. (2016). Sex differences in DNA methylation and expression in zebrafish brain: A test of an extended ‘male sex drive’ hypothesis. Gene, 590, 307-316. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2016.05.042

Senior, A. M., Lim, J. N., Adolfsson, S., Lamatsch, D. K., & Nakagawa, S. (2016). Condition and reproductive investment in the western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis): Little evidence for condition-dependent sex-biased investment. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119(2), 430-435. doi: 10.1111/bij.12813

Vanderpham, J. P., Nakagawa, S., Senior, A. M., & Closs, G. P. (2016). Habitat-related specialization of lateral-line system morphology in a habitat-generalist and a habitat-specialist New Zealand eleotrid. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 1631-1641. doi: 10.1111/jfb.12912

Mourocq, E., Bize, P., Bouwhuis, S., Bradley, R., Charmantier, A., de la Cruz, C., … Nakagawa, S., … Griesser, M. (2016). Lifespan and reproductive cost explain interspecific variation in the optimal onset of reproduction. Evolution, 70(2), 296-313. doi: 10.1111/evo.12853

Holtmann, B., Grosser, S., Lagisz, M., Johnson, S. L., Santos, E. S. A., Lara, C. E., Robertson, B. C., & Nakagawa, S. (2016). Population differentiation and behavioural association of the two 'personality' genes DRD4 and SERT in dunnocks (Prunella modularis). Molecular Ecology, 25(3), 706-722. doi: 10.1111/mec.13514

Lagisz, M., Mercer, A. R., de Mouzon, C., Santos, L. L. S., & Nakagawa, S. (2016). Association of amine-receptor DNA sequence variants with associative learning in the honeybee. Behavior Genetics, 46(2), 242-251. doi: 10.1007/s10519-015-9749-z

Besson, A. A., Lagisz, M., Senior, A. M., Hector, K. L., & Nakagawa, S. (2016). Effect of maternal diet on offspring coping styles in rodents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Biological Reviews, 91(4), 1065-1080. doi: 10.1111/brv.12210

Senior, A. M., Johnson, S. L., & Nakagawa, S. (2016). Sperm traits of masculinized fish relative to wild-type males: A systematic review and meta-analyses. Fish & Fisheries, 17(1), 143-164. doi: 10.1111/faf.12096

Journal - Research Other

O'Dea, R. E., Noble, D. W. A., Johnson, S. L., Hesselson, D., & Nakagawa, S. (2016). The role of non-genetic inheritance in evolutionary rescue: Epigenetic buffering, heritable bet hedging and epigenetic traps. Environmental Epigenetics, 2(1), dvv014. doi: 10.1093/eep/dvv014

2015

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Senior, A. M., Nakagawa, S., Liboreau, M., Simpson, S. J., & Raubenheimer, D. (2015). An overlooked consequence of dietary mixing: A varied diet reduces interindividual variance in fitness. American Naturalist, 186(5), 649-659. doi: 10.1086/683182

Lagisz, M., Blair, H., Kenyon, P., Uller, T., Raubenheimer, D., & Nakagawa, S. (2015). Little appetite for obesity: Meta-analysis of the effects of maternal obesogenic diets on offspring food intake and body mass in rodents. International Journal of Obesity, 39, 1669-1678. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2015.160

Santos, E. S. A., Santos, L. L. S., Lagisz, M., & Nakagawa, S. (2015). Conflict and cooperation over sex: The consequences of social and genetic polyandry for reproductive success in dunnocks. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84(6), 1509-1519. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12432

Simons, M. J. P., Winney, I., Nakagawa, S., Burke, T., & Schroeder, J. (2015). Limited catching bias in a wild population of birds with near-complete census information. Ecology & Evolution, 5(16), 3500-3506. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1623

Kohn, Y. Y., Symonds, J. E., Kleffmann, T., Nakagawa, S., Lagisz, M., & Lokman, P. M. (2015). Proteomic analysis of early-stage embryos: Implications for egg quality in hapuku (Polyprion oxygeneios). Fish Physiology & Biochemistry, 41(6), 1403-1417. doi: 10.1007/s10695-015-0095-0

Mittell, E. A., Nakagawa, S., & Hadfield, J. D. (2015). Are molecular markers useful predictors of adaptive potential? Ecology Letters, 18(8), 772-778. doi: 10.1111/ele.12454

Hinks, A. E., Cole, E. F., Daniels, K. J., Wilkin, T. A., Nakagawa, S., & Sheldon, B. C. (2015). Scale-dependent phenological synchrony between songbirds and their caterpillar food source. American Naturalist, 186(1), 84-97. doi: 10.1086/681572

Schroeder, J., Nakagawa, S., Rees, M., Mannarelli, M.-E., & Burke, T. (2015). Reduced fitness in progeny from old parents in a natural population. PNAS, 112(13), 4021-4025. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1422715112

Winney, I., Nakagawa, S., Hsu, Y.-H., Burke, T., & Schroeder, J. (2015). Troubleshooting the potential pitfalls of cross-fostering. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 6, 584-592. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12341

Lamatsch, D. K., Adolfsson, S., Senior, A. M., Christiansen, G., Pichler, M., Ozaki, Y., … Nakagawa, S. (2015). A transcriptome derived female-specific marker from the invasive Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis). PLoS ONE, 10(2), e0118214. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118214

Hsu, Y.-H., Schroeder, J., Winney, I., Burke, T., & Nakagawa, S. (2015). Are extra-pair males different from cuckolded males? A case study and a meta-analytic examination. Molecular Ecology, 24(7), 1558-1571. doi: 10.1111/mec.13124

Senior, A. M., Lokman, M. P., Closs, G. P., & Nakagawa, S. (2015). Ecological and evolutionary applications for environmental sex reversal of fish. Quarterly Review of Biology, 90(1), 23-44. doi: 10.1086/679762

Grimaldi, W. W., Seddon, P. J., Lyver, P. O., Nakagawa, S., & Tompkins, D. M. (2015). Infectious diseases of Antarctic penguins: Current status and future threats. Polar Biology, 38(5), 591-606. doi: 10.1007/s00300-014-1632-5

Nakagawa, S., Poulin, R., Mengersen, K., Reinhold, K., Engqvist, L., Lagisz, M., & Senior, A. M. (2015). Meta-analysis of variation: Ecological and evolutionary applications and beyond. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 6(2), 143-152. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12309

Johnson, S. L., Dunleavy, J., Gemmell, N. J., & Nakagawa, S. (2015). Consistent age-dependent declines in human semen quality: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ageing Research Reviews, 19, 22-33. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2014.10.007

Cleasby, I. R., Nakagawa, S., & Schielzeth, H. (2015). Quantifying the predictability of behaviour: Statistical approaches for the study of between-individual variation in the within-individual variance. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 6(1), 27-37. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12281

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Miyahara, M., Lagisz, M., & Nakagawa, S. (2015). Meta review of systematic and meta analytic reviews on the intervention outcome for children with developmental coordination disorder. Journal of Comorbidity, 5(2), (pp. 65). doi: 10.15256/joc.2015.5.52

2014

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McQuillan, H. J., Nakagawa, S., & Mercer, A. R. (2014). Juvenile hormone enhances aversive learning performance in 2-day old worker honey bees while reducing their attraction to queen mandibular pheromone. PLoS ONE, 9(11), e112740. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112740

Kamiya, T., O'Dwyer, K., Westerdahl, H., Senior, A., & Nakagawa, S. (2014). A quantitative review of MHC-based mating preference: The role of diversity and dissimilarity. Molecular Ecology, 23(21), 5151-5163. doi: 10.1111/mec.12934

Nomano, F. Y., Browning, L. E., Nakagawa, S., Griffith, S. C., & Russell, A. F. (2014). Validation of an automated data collection method for quantifying social networks in collective behaviours. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 68(8), 1379-1391. doi: 10.1007/s00265-014-1757-0

Senior, A. M., Nakagawa, S., & Grimm, V. (2014). The evolutionary consequences of disrupted male mating signals: An agent-based modelling exploration of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the guppy. PLoS ONE, 9(7), e103100. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103100

Kamiya, T., O'Dwyer, K., Nakagawa, S., & Poulin, R. (2014). Host diversity drives parasite diversity: Meta-analytical insights into patterns and causal mechanisms. Ecography, 37(7), 689-697. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00571.x

Hsu, Y.-H., Schroeder, J., Winney, I., Burke, T., & Nakagawa, S. (2014). Costly infidelity: Low lifetime fitness of extra-pair offspring in a passerine bird. Evolution, 68(10), 2873-2884. doi: 10.1111/evo.12475

Forstmeier, W., Nakagawa, S., Griffith, S. C., & Kempenaers, B. (2014). Female extra-pair mating: Adaptation or genetic constraint? Trends in Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.05.005

Lim, J. N., Senior, A. M., & Nakagawa, S. (2014). Heterogeneity in individual quality and reproductive trade-offs within species. Evolution, 68(8), 2306-2318. doi: 10.1111/evo.12446

Teplitsky, C., Tarka, M., Møller, A. P., Nakagawa, S., Balbontín, J., Burke, T. A., … Charmantier, A. (2014). Assessing multivariate constraints to evolution across ten long-term avian studies. PLoS ONE, 9(3), e90444. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090444

Simons, M. J. P., Stulp, G., & Nakagawa, S. (2014). A statistical approach to distinguish telomere elongation from error in longitudinal datasets. Biogerontology, 15(1), 99-103. doi: 10.1007/s10522-013-9471-2

Hadfield, J. D., Krasnov, B. R., Poulin, R., & Nakagawa, S. (2014). A tale of two phylogenies: Comparative analyses of ecological interactions. American Naturalist, 182(2), 174-187. doi: 10.1086/674445

Miyahara, M., Hillier, S. L., Pridham, L., & Nakagawa, S. (2014). Task‐oriented interventions for children with developmental co‐ordination disorder (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1, CD010914. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010914

Lagisz, M., Blair, H., Kenyon, P., Uller, T., Raubenheimer, D., & Nakagawa, S. (2014). Transgenerational effects of caloric restriction on appetite: A meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews, 15(4), 294-309. doi: 10.1111/obr.12138

Leung, E. S., Chilvers, B. L., Nakagawa, S., & Robertson, B. C. (2014). Size and experience matter: Diving behaviour of juvenile New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri). Polar Biology, 37(1), 15-26. doi: 10.1007/s00300-013-1405-6

Rutkowska, J., Dubiec, A., & Nakagawa, S. (2014). All eggs are made equal: Meta-analysis of egg sexual size dimorphism in birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27(1), 153-160. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12282

Kamiya, T., O'Dwyer, K., Nakagawa, S., & Poulin, R. (2014). What determines species richness of parasitic organisms? A meta-analysis across animal, plant and fungal hosts. Biological Reviews, 89(1), 123-134. doi: 10.1111/brv.12046

Journal - Research Other

Parker, T. H., & Nakagawa, S. (2014). Mitigating the epidemic of type I error: Ecology and evolution can learn from other disciplines. Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, 2, 76. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00076

Chatterjee, A., Stockwell, P. A., Horsfield, J. A., Morison, I. M., & Nakagawa, S. (2014). Base-resolution DNA methylation landscape of zebrafish brain and liver [Data in brief]. Genomics Data, 2, 342-344. doi: 10.1016/j.gdata.2014.10.008

2013

Journal - Research Article

Chatterjee, A., Ozaki, Y., Stockwell, P. A., Horsfield, J. A., Morison, I. M., & Nakagawa, S. (2013). Mapping the zebrafish brain methylome using reduced representation bisulfite sequencing. Epigenetics, 8(9), 979-989. doi: 10.4161/epi.25797

Uller, T., Nakagawa, S., & English, S. (2013). Weak evidence for anticipatory parental effects in plants and animals. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26(10), 2161-2170. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12212

Cleasby, I. R., Nakagawa, S., & Burke, T. (2013). Providing chicks with extra food lowers male but not female provisioning in the House Sparrow Passer domesticus. Ibis, 155(4), 857-866. doi: 10.1111/ibi.12080

Senior, A. M., Krkosek, M., & Nakagawa, S. (2013). The practicality of Trojan sex chromosomes as a biological control: An agent based model of two highly invasive Gambusia species. Biological Invasions, 15(8), 1765-1782. doi: 10.1007/s10530-013-0407-1

Santos, E. S. A., & Nakagawa, S. (2013). Breeding biology and variable mating system of a population of introduced dunnocks (Prunella modularis) in New Zealand. PLoS ONE, 8(7), e69329. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069329

Nomano, F. Y., Browning, L. E., Rollins, L. A., Nakagawa, S., Griffith, S. C., & Russell, A. F. (2013). Feeding nestlings does not function as a signal of social prestige in cooperatively breeding chestnut-crowned babblers. Animal Behaviour, 86(2), 277-289. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.05.015

Vanderpham, J. P., Nakagawa, S., & Closs, G. P. (2013). Feeding ability of a fluvial habitat-specialist and habitat-generalist fish in turbulent and still conditions. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 22(4), 596-606. doi: 10.1111/eff.12064

Lagisz, M., Hector, K. L., & Nakagawa, S. (2013). Life extension after heat shock exposure: Assessing meta-analytic evidence for hormesis. Ageing Research Reviews, 12(2), 653-660. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2013.03.005

McLean, M. J., Bishop, P. J., & Nakagawa, S. (2013). Assessing the patterns of evolution in anuran vocal sexual signals. Evolutionary Biology, 40(1), 141-149. doi: 10.1007/s11692-012-9197-0

Nakagawa, S., & Schielzeth, H. (2013). A general and simple method for obtaining R2 from generalized linear mixed-effects models. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 4(2), 133-142. doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210x.2012.00261.x

Schroeder, J., Cleasby, I., Dugdale, H. L., Nakagawa, S., & Burke, T. (2013). Social and genetic benefits of parental investment suggest sex differences in selection pressures. Journal of Avian Biology, 44(2), 133-140. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.00010.x

Vanderpham, J. P., Nakagawa, S., & Closs, G. P. (2013). Habitat-related patterns in phenotypic variation in a New Zealand freshwater generalist fish, and comparisons with a closely related specialist. Freshwater Biology, 58(2), 396-408. doi: 10.1111/fwb.12067

Lagisz, M., Poulin, R., & Nakagawa, S. (2013). You are where you live: Parasitic nematode mitochondrial genome size is associated with the thermal environment generated by hosts. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26(3), 683-690. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12068

Santos, E. S. A., Jamieson, I. G., Santos, L. L. S., & Nakagawa, S. (2013). Low genetic and morphological differentiation between an introduced population of dunnocks in New Zealand and an ancestral population in England. Biological Invasions, 15(1), 185-197. doi: 10.1007/s10530-012-0278-x

Schielzeth, H., & Nakagawa, S. (2013). Nested by design: Model fitting and interpretation in a mixed model era. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 4(1), 14-24. doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210x.2012.00251.x

Senior, A. M., & Nakagawa, S. (2013). A comparative analysis of chemically induced sex reversal in teleosts: Challenging conventional suppositions. Fish & Fisheries, 14(1), 60-76. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00446.x

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Leung, E. S., Chilvers, B. L., Nakagawa, S., Moore, A., & Robertson, B. C. (2013). Sexual segregation increases fisheries-related threats to female juvenile New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri). Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. (pp. 123). Retrieved from http://www.marinemammalscience.org/

2012

Journal - Research Article

Dingemanse, N. J., Dochtermann, N. A., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). Defining behavioural syndromes and the role of 'syndrome deviation' in understanding their evolution. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 66(11), 1543-1548. doi: 10.1007/s00265-012-1416-2

McLean, M. J., Bishop, P. J., Hero, J.-M., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). Assessing the information content of calls of Litoria chloris: Quality signalling versus individual recognition. Australian Journal of Zoology, 60(2), 120-126. doi: 10.1071/zo12014

Leung, E. S., Chilvers, B. L., Nakagawa, S., Moore, A. B., & Robertson, B. C. (2012). Sexual segregation in juvenile New Zealand sea lion foraging ranges: Implications for intraspecific competition, population dynamics and conservation. PLoS ONE, 7(9), e45389. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045389

Nakagawa, S., & Poulin, R. (2012). Meta-analytic insights into evolutionary ecology: An introduction and synthesis. Evolutionary Ecology, 26(5), 1085-1099. doi: 10.1007/s10682-012-9593-z

Nakagawa, S., & Santos, E. S. A. (2012). Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis. Evolutionary Ecology, 26(5), 1253-1274. doi: 10.1007/s10682-012-9555-5

Rutkowska, J., Lagisz, M., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). The long and the short of avian W chromosomes: No evidence for gradual W shortening. Biology Letters, 8(4), 636-638. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0083

Santos, E. S. A., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). The costs of parental care: A meta-analysis of the trade-off between parental effort and survival in birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25(9), 1911-1917. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02569.x

Hammond-Tooke, C. A., Nakagawa, S., & Poulin, R. (2012). Parasitism and behavioural syndromes in the fish Gobiomorphus cotidianus. Behaviour, 149(6), 601-622. doi: 10.1163/156853912X648903

Schroeder, J., Nakagawa, S., Cleasby, I. R., & Burke, T. (2012). Passerine birds breeding under chronic noise experience reduced fitness. PLoS ONE, 7(6), e39200. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039200

McQuillan, H. J., Nakagawa, S., & Mercer, A. R. (2012). Mushroom bodies of the honeybee brain show cell population-specific plasticity in expression of amine-receptor genes. Learning & Memory, 19(4), 151-158. doi: 10.1101/lm.025353.111

McLean, M. J., Bishop, P. J., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). Male quality, signal reliability and female choice: Assessing the expectations of inter-sexual selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25, 1513-1520. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02533.x

Hector, K. L., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). Quantitative analysis of compensatory and catch-up growth in diverse taxa. Journal of Animal Ecology, 81(3), 583-593. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01942.x

Cleasby, I. R., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). The influence of male age on within-pair and extra-pair paternity in passerines. Ibis, 154(2), 318-324. doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01209.x

Nakagawa, S., Lagisz, M., Hector, K. L., & Spencer, H. G. (2012). Comparative and meta-analytic insights into life extension via dietary restriction. Aging Cell, 11(3), 401-409. doi: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2012.00798.x

Hector, K. L., Lagisz, M., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). The effect of resveratrol on longevity across species: A meta-analysis. Biology Letters, 8(5), 790-793. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0316

Senior, A. M., Lim, J. N., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). The fitness consequences of environmental sex reversal in fish: A quantitative review. Biological Reviews, 87(4), 900-911. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00230.x

Hector, K. L., Bishop, P. J., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). Consequences of compensatory growth in an amphibian. Journal of Zoology, 286(2), 93-101. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00850.x

Horváthová, T., Nakagawa, S., & Uller, T. (2012). Strategic female reproductive investment in response to male attractiveness in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279(1726), 163-170. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0663

Vanderpham, J. P., Nakagawa, S., & Closs, G. P. (2012). Diel variation in use of cover and feeding activity of a benthic freshwater fish in response to olfactory cues of a diurnal predator. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 93(4), 547-556. doi: 10.1007/s10641-011-9949-1

Koren, L., Nakagawa, S., Burke, T., Soma, K. K., Wynne-Edwards, K. E., & Geffen, E. (2012). Non-breeding feather concentrations of testosterone, corticosterone and cortisol are associated with subsequent survival in wild house sparrows. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279(1733), 1560-1566. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2062

Schroeder, J., Burke, T., Mannarelli, M.-E., Dawson, D. A., & Nakagawa, S. (2012). Maternal effects and heritability of annual productivity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25, 149-156. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02412.x

Journal - Research Other

Nakagawa, S., & Schielzeth, H. (2012). The mean strikes back: Mean-variance relationships and heteroscedasticity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 27(9), 474-475. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.04.003

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Lagisz, M., Blair, H., Kenyon, P., Uller, T., & Nakagawa, S. (2012, November). You are what your mother ate: Transgenerational effects of maternal nutrition on feeding behaviour in mammals: A meta-analysis. Verbal presentation at the Gravida Annual Science Symposium: What Makes the Best Start for a Healthy Life? Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Asmad, K., Nakagawa, S., Lopez-Villalobos, N., Kenyon, P. R., Pain, S. J., & Blair, H. T. (2012, November). Effects of maternal nutrition during pregnancy on the growth and reproductive development of male sheep: A meta-analysis. Verbal presentation at the Gravida Annual Science Symposium: What Makes the Best Start for a Healthy Life? Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Nakagawa, S., Hector, K. L., & Lagisz, M. (2012, November). French Paradox unresolved: Red wine, resveratrol and becoming a centenarian. Verbal presentation at the Gravida Annual Science Symposium: What Makes the Best Start for a Healthy Life? Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Hitchcock, M. J., & Nakagawa, S. (2012, November). Behavioural side effects of compensatory growth in fish, and the implications for aquaculture. Verbal presentation at the Gravida Annual Science Symposium: What Makes the Best Start for a Healthy Life? Palmerston North, New Zealand.

2011

Journal - Research Article

Schuett, W., Dall, S. R. X., Baeumer, J., Kloesener, M. H., Nakagawa, S., Beinlich, F., & Eggers, T. (2011). "Personality" variation in a clonal insect: The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Developmental Psychobiology, 53(6), 631-640. doi: 10.1002/dev.20538

Watt, P. J., Skinner, A., Hale, M., Nakagawa, S., & Burke, T. (2011). Small subordinate male advantage in the zebrafish. Ethology, 117(11), 1003-1008. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01953.x

Cleasby, I. R., Burke, T., Schroeder, J., & Nakagawa, S. (2011). Food supplements increase adult tarsus length, but not growth rate, in an island population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus). BMC Research Notes, 4, 431. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-431

Cleasby, I. R., & Nakagawa, S. (2011). Neglected biological patterns in the residuals: A behavioural ecologist's guide to co-operating with heteroscedasticity. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 65(12), 2361-2372. doi: 10.1007/s00265-011-1254-7

Sutton, J. T., Nakagawa, S., Robertson, B. C., & Jamieson, I. G. (2011). Disentangling the roles of natural selection and genetic drift in shaping variation at MHC immunity genes. Molecular Ecology, 20(21), 4408-4420. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05292.x

Dean, R., Nakagawa, S., & Pizzari, T. (2011). The risk and intensity of sperm ejection in female birds. American Naturalist, 178(3), 343-354. doi: 10.1086/661244

Wehi, P. M., Nakagawa, S., Trewick, S. A., & Morgan-Richards, M. (2011). Does predation result in adult sex ratio skew in a sexually dimorphic insect genus? Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24(11), 2321-2328. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02366.x

Schroeder, J., Cleasby, I. R., Nakagawa, S., Ockendon, N., & Burke, T. (2011). No evidence for adverse effects on fitness of fitting passive integrated transponders (PITs) in wild house sparrows Passer domesticus. Journal of Avian Biology, 42(3), 271-275. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.05271.x

Ninnes, C. E., Waas, J. R., Ling, N., Nakagawa, S., Banks, J. C., Bell, D. G., … Möstl, E. (2011). Environmental influences on Adelie penguin breeding schedules, endocrinology, and chick survival. General & Comparative Endocrinology, 173(1), 139-147. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.05.006

Santos, E. S. A., Scheck, D., & Nakagawa, S. (2011). Dominance and plumage traits: Meta-analysis and metaregression analysis. Animal Behaviour, 82(1), 3-19. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.03.022

Grueber, C. E., Nakagawa, S., Laws, R. J., & Jamieson, I. G. (2011). Multimodel inference in ecology and evolution: Challenges and solutions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24(4), 699-711. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02210.x

Nakagawa, S., & Hauber, M. E. (2011). Great challenges with few subjects: Statistical strategies for neuroscientists. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35(3), 462-473. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.06.003

Journal - Research Other

Schroeder, J., Nakagawa, S., & Hinsch, M. (2011). Behavioural ecology is not an endangered discipline [Letters response]. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26(7), 320-321. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.03.013

Nakagawa, S., & Freckleton, R. P. (2011). Model averaging, missing data and multiple imputation: A case study for behavioural ecology. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 65(1), 103-116. doi: 10.1007/s00265-010-1044-7

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Nakagawa, S. (2011). Does dietary restriction extend lifespan in all species? Proceedings of the Centre for Reproduction and Genomics Third Annual Research Colloquium. (pp. 10). Retrieved from http://www.crg.org.nz/colloquium/programme-2011.pdf

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Vanderpham, J. P., Closs, G. P., & Nakagawa, S. (2011, September). Habitat related patterns in phenotypic variation in the generalist common bully (Gobiomorphus cotidianus) and comparisons to the closely related redfin bully (Gobiomorphus huttoni). Verbal presentation at the Joint Congress of the Australian Society for Limnology (ASL) and the New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society (NZFSS): Variability and the Future of Aquatic Ecosystems in Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, Australia.

2010

Journal - Research Article

Laws, R. J., Townsend, S. M., Nakagawa, S., & Jamieson, I. G. (2010). Limited inbreeding depression in a bottlenecked population is age but not environment dependent. Journal of Avian Biology, 41(6), 645-652. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.05164.x

Cleasby, I. R., Nakagawa, S., Gillespie, D. O. S., & Burke, T. (2010). The influence of sex and body size on nestling survival and recruitment in the house sparrow. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 101(3), 680-688. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01515.x

English, S., Nakagawa, S., & Clutton-Brock, T. H. (2010). Consistent individual differences in cooperative behaviour in meerkats (Suricata suricatta). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23(8), 1597-1604. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02025.x

Grueber, C. E., Laws, R. J., Nakagawa, S., & Jamieson, I. (2010). Inbreeding depression accumulation across life-history stages of the endangered Takahe. Conservation Biology, 24(6), 1617-1625. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01549.x

Nakagawa, S., & Schielzeth, H. (2010). Repeatability for Gaussian and non-Gaussian data: A practical guide for biologists. Biological Reviews, 85(4), 935-956. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00141.x

Coats, J., Poulin, R., & Nakagawa, S. (2010). The consequences of parasitic infections for host behavioural correlations and repeatability. Behaviour, 147(3), 367-382. doi: 10.1163/000579509x12574307194101

Hadfield, J. D., & Nakagawa, S. (2010). General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology: Phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous and categorical characters. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23(3), 494-508. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01915.x

Ninnes, C. E., Waas, J. R., Ling, N., Nakagawa, S., Banks, J. C., Bell, D. G., … Möstl, E. (2010). Comparing plasma and faecal measures of steroid hormones in Adelie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 180(1), 83-94. doi: 10.1007/s00360-009-0390-0

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Ninnes, C. E., Waas, J. R., Ling, N., Nakagawa, S., Banks, J. C., Bell, D. G., … Möstl, E. (2010). The influence of colony size on Adélie penguin breeding schedules and endocrinology in ‘good’ or ‘bad’ sea ice years: No evidence for the Darling effect. In H. Urquhart, D. Laughlin & P. DiBona (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Penguin Conference. (pp. 2). Boston, MA: New England Aquarium. [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Nakagawa, S. (2010, November). The epigenetic origin and evolution of personality: A hypothesis. Invited presentation at the Genetics Otago Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2009

Journal - Research Article

Zsolt Garamszegi, L., Calhim, S., Dochtermann, N., Hegyi, G., Hurd, P. L., Jørgensen, C., … Nakagawa, S. (2009). Changing philosophies and tools for statistical inferences in behavioral ecology. Behavioral Ecology, 20(6), 1363-1375. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arp137

Jones, K. S., Nakagawa, S., & Sheldon, B. C. (2009). Environmental sensitivity in relation to size and sex in birds: Meta-regression analysis. American Naturalist, 174(1), 122-133. doi: 10.1086/599299

Chapman, J. R., Nakagawa, S., Coltman, D. W., Slate, J., & Sheldon, B. C. (2009). A quantitative review of heterozygosity-fitness correlations in animal populations [Invited review]. Molecular Ecology, 18(13), 2746-2765. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04247.x

Knowles, S. C. L., Nakagawa, S., & Sheldon, B. C. (2009). Elevated reproductive effort increases blood parasitaemia and decreases immune function in birds: A meta-regression approach. Functional Ecology, 23(2), 405-415. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01507.x

2008

Journal - Research Article

Nakagawa, S., & Burke, T. (2008). The mask of seniority? A neglected age indicator in house sparrows Passer domesticus. Journal of Avian Biology, 39(2), 222-225. doi: 10.1111/j.2008.0908-8857.04171.x

Nakagawa, S., Lee, J.-W., Woodward, B. K., Hatchwell, B. J., & Burke, T. (2008). Differential selection according to the degree of cheating in a status signal. Biology Letters, 4(6), 667-669. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0349

Nakagawa, S., & Freckleton, R. P. (2008). Missing inaction: The dangers of ignoring missing data. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23(11), 592-596. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.06.014

2007

Journal - Research Article

Nakagawa, S., Ockendon, N., Gillespie, D. O. S., Hatchwell, B. J., & Burke, T. (2007). Assessing the function of house sparrows' bib size using a flexible meta-analysis method. Behavioral Ecology, 18, 831-840.

Nakagawa, S., Ockendon, N., Gillespie, D. O. S., Hatchwell, B. J., & Burke, T. (2007). Does the badge of status influence parental care and investment in house sparrows? An experimental test. Oecologia, 153, 749-760.

Nakagawa, S., & Cuthill, I. C. (2007). Effect size, confidence interval and statistical significance: A practical guide for biologists. Biological Reviews, 82, 591-605.

Nakagawa, S., Gillespie, D. O. S., Hatchwell, B. J., & Burke, T. (2007). Predictable males and unpredictable females: Sex difference in repeatability of parental care in a wild bird population. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20, 1674-1681.