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Howard D. Rundle

Howard D. Rundle

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
8724
World Ranking
6279
National Ranking
389

Overview

Howard D. Rundle is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their primary research areas focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, with a significant number of publications in Genetics and Insect Science.

The main topics covered in their work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and animal studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Insect and Pesticide Research, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research.

Rundle has published in a range of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues consist of:

  • Evolution
  • The American Naturalist
  • Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Recent notable papers by Rundle include:

  • The Alignment of Natural and Sexual Selection, 2021, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Quantifying selection on standard metabolic rate and body mass in Drosophila melanogaster, 2020, Evolution
  • Sex-specific genetic (co)variances of standard metabolic rate, body mass and locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster, 2021, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Development time mediates the effect of larval diet on ageing and mating success of male antler flies in the wild, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • On Male Harm: How It Is Measured and How It Evolves in Different Environments, 2021, The American Naturalist

Rundle collaborates frequently with several researchers in their field, including:

  • Aneil F. Agrawal
  • Vincent Careau
  • Mathieu Videlier
  • Christopher S. Angell
  • Will M. C. Jarvis

Best Publications

  • Ecological speciation: Ecological speciation

    Howard D. Rundle;Patrik Nosil

  • Natural Selection and Parallel Speciation in Sympatric Sticklebacks

    Howard D. Rundle;Laura Nagel;Janette Wenrick Boughman;Dolph Schluter

  • Speciation in nature : the threespine stickleback model systems

    Jeffrey S. McKinnon;Howard D. Rundle

  • REINFORCEMENT OF STICKLEBACK MATE PREFERENCES: SYMPATRY BREEDS CONTEMPT.

    Howard D. Rundle;Dolph Schluter

  • PARALLEL EVOLUTION OF SEXUAL ISOLATION IN STICKLEBACKS

    Jeanette Wendwick Boughman;Howard D. Rundle;Dolph Schluter

  • Divergent Selection and the Evolution of Signal Traits and Mating Preferences

    Howard D Rundle;Stephen F Chenoweth;Paul Doughty;Mark W Blows

  • A genetic interpretation of ecologically dependent isolation.

    Howard D. Rundle;Michael C. Whitlock

  • A TEST OF ECOLOGICALLY DEPENDENT POSTMATING ISOLATION BETWEEN SYMPATRIC STICKLEBACKS

    Howard D. Rundle

  • Experimental test of predation's effect on divergent selection during character displacement in sticklebacks.

    Howard D. Rundle;Steven M. Vamosi;Dolph Schluter

  • The contribution of selection and genetic constraints to phenotypic divergence.

    Stephen F. Chenoweth;Howard D. Rundle;Mark W. Blows

  • THE ROLES OF NATURAL AND SEXUAL SELECTION DURING ADAPTATION TO A NOVEL ENVIRONMENT

    Howard D. Rundle;Stephen F. Chenoweth;Mark W. Blows

  • Genetic variance in female condition predicts indirect genetic variance in male sexual display traits

    Donna Petfield;Stephen F. Chenoweth;Howard D. Rundle;Mark W. Blows

  • Genetic constraints and the evolution of display trait sexual dimorphism by natural and sexual selection.

    Stephen F. Chenoweth;Howard D. Rundle;Mark W. Blows

  • Natural selection and ecological speciation in sticklebacks

    Howard D. Rundle;Dolph Schluter

  • Genomic Evidence that Sexual Selection Impedes Adaptation to a Novel Environment

    Stephen F. Chenoweth;Nicholas C. Appleton;Scott L. Allen;Howard D. Rundle

  • Characterizing the evolution of genetic variance using genetic covariance tensors

    Emma Hine;Stephen F. Chenoweth;Howard D. Rundle;Mark W. Blows

  • The physical environment mediates male harm and its effect on selection in females

    Li Yun;Patrick J. Chen;Amardeep Singh;Aneil F. Agrawal

  • Sexually antagonistic genetic variance for fitness in an ancestral and a novel environment

    Matthieu Delcourt;Mark W. Blows;Howard D. Rundle

  • ADAPTATION TO DESICCATION FAILS TO GENERATE PRE- AND POSTMATING ISOLATION IN REPLICATE DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER LABORATORY POPULATIONS

    Lucia Kwan;Howard D. Rundle

  • The ecology of sexual conflict: ecologically dependent parallel evolution of male harm and female resistance in Drosophila melanogaster

    Devin Arbuthnott;Emily M. Dutton;Aneil F. Agrawal;Howard D. Rundle

  • SEXUAL SELECTION IS INEFFECTUAL OR INHIBITS THE PURGING OF DELETERIOUS MUTATIONS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

    Devin Arbuthnott;Howard D. Rundle

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen F. Chenoweth
Stephen F. Chenoweth University of Queensland
Mark W. Blows
Mark W. Blows University of Queensland
Aneil F. Agrawal
Aneil F. Agrawal University of Toronto
Dolph Schluter
Dolph Schluter University of British Columbia
Michael C. Whitlock
Michael C. Whitlock University of British Columbia
Arne Ø. Mooers
Arne Ø. Mooers Simon Fraser University
Russell Bonduriansky
Russell Bonduriansky University of New South Wales
Steven M. Vamosi
Steven M. Vamosi University of Calgary
Patrik Nosil
Patrik Nosil University of Sheffield
John Hunt
John Hunt Western Sydney University

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