School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of New South Wales
Research Interests
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Evolution of mating system and parental care - Comparative analysis and meta-analysis
- Statistical usage in ecology and evolution
- Evolutionary applications to conservation
- Population genetics and quantitative genetics
- Multidisciplinary integrations in understanding animal behaviour (psychology, endocrinology, genetics and evolution)
- Evolution of phenotypic plasticity and behavioural syndrome (or personality types)
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Publications
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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