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6078
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David M. Shuker publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David M. Shuker sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 133 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

David M. Shuker D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David M. Shuker sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

David M. Shuker is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, the main subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science, Ecology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics covered in their work include Plant and animal studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Hemiptera Insect Studies, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Selected recent publications by David M. Shuker are as follows:

  • The definition of sexual selection, 2021, Behavioral Ecology
  • The definition of sexual selection: a response to comments on Shuker and Kvarnemo, 2021, Behavioral Ecology

Additional relevant papers from collaborators in related research fields include:

  • Genomics of sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis, 2020, BMC Genomics
  • Mating failure shapes the patterns of sperm precedence in an insect, 2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Context-dependent use of visual cues in the shell selection behaviour of the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus, 2021, Behavioural Processes

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with David M. Shuker include:

  • Vicki L. Balfour
  • Charlotta Kvarnemo
  • Bart A. Pannebakker
  • Nicola Cook
  • Joost van den Heuvel

Their publications have appeared in several journals, with multiple papers featured in Ecology and Evolution, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioural Processes, Current Biology, and Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

Best Publications

  • Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.

    John H. Werren;Stephen Richards;Christopher A. Desjardins;Oliver Niehuis

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Fitness consequences of immune responses: strengthening the empirical framework for ecoimmunology

    Andrea Linn Graham;Andrea Linn Graham;David M. Shuker;Laura C. Pollitt;Stuart K.J.R. Auld

  • THE NICHE CONSTRUCTION PERSPECTIVE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL

    Thomas C. Scott-Phillips;Kevin N. Laland;David M. Shuker;Thomas E. Dickins;Thomas E. Dickins

  • The Coevolution of Virulence: Tolerance in Perspective

    Tom J. Little;David M. Shuker;Nick Colegrave;Troy Day

  • Cooperation and the scale of competition in humans.

    Stuart A. West;Andy Gardner;Andy Gardner;David M. Shuker;Tracy Reynolds

  • The effect of experimental design on the measurement of mate choice: a meta-analysis

    Liam R. Dougherty;David M. Shuker

  • Sex-ratio adjustment when relatives interact: a test of constraints on adaptation

    Stuart A. West;David M. Shuker;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Information constraints and the precision of adaptation: Sex ratio manipulation in wasps

    David M. Shuker;Stuart A. West

  • The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems

    David M. Shuker;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Genomic conflict in scale insects: the causes and consequences of bizarre genetic systems

    Laura Ross;Laura Ross;Ido Pen;David M. Shuker;David M. Shuker

  • Distance sampling and the challenge of monitoring butterfly populations

    Nick J. B. Isaac;Katie L. Cruickshanks;Ann M. Weddle;Ann M. Weddle;J. Marcus Rowcliffe

  • The definition of sexual selection.

    David M Shuker;Charlotta Kvarnemo

  • Sexual selection: endless forms or tangled bank?

    David M. Shuker

  • Sex ratios under asymmetrical local mate competition : Theory and a test with parasitoid wasps

    David M. Shuker;Ido Pen;Alison B. Duncan;Sarah E. Reece

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  • Beyond sex allocation: the role of mating systems in sexual selection in parasitoid wasps

    Rebecca A. Boulton;Laura A. Collins;David M. Shuker

  • Recombination and its impact on the genome of the haplodiploid parasitoid wasp Nasonia

    Oliver Niehuis;Joshua D. Gibson;Michael S. Rosenberg;Bart A. Pannebakker;Bart A. Pannebakker

  • Genetic structure of natural Nasonia vitripennis populations: validating assumptions of sex‐ratio theory

    B. K. Grillenberger;T. Koevoets;M. N. Burton-Chellew;E. M. Sykes

  • Facultative Sex Ratio Adjustment in Natural Populations of Wasps: Cues of Local Mate Competition and the Precision of Adaptation

    Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew;Tosca Koevoets;Bernd K. Grillenberger;Edward M. Sykes

  • Kin discrimination and sex ratios in a parasitoid wasp

    Sarah Reece;D M Shuker;I Pen;A B Duncan

  • Patterns of male sterility in a grasshopper hybrid zone imply accumulation of hybrid incompatibilities without selection

    David M Shuker;Karen Underwood;Tania M King;Roger K Butlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart A. West
Stuart A. West University of Oxford
Ido Pen
Ido Pen University of Groningen
Leo W. Beukeboom
Leo W. Beukeboom University of Groningen
Sarah E. Reece
Sarah E. Reece University of Edinburgh
Juergen Gadau
Juergen Gadau University of Münster
Michael E. N. Majerus
Michael E. N. Majerus University of Cambridge
Oliver Niehuis
Oliver Niehuis University of Freiburg
Leigh W. Simmons
Leigh W. Simmons University of Western Australia
Andy Gardner
Andy Gardner University of St Andrews
Mark Blaxter
Mark Blaxter Wellcome Sanger Institute

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