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Overview

Tom Tregenza is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader fields, their work extensively covers subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Ecology; Genetics; Ecological Modeling; and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research topics focus on Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Marine Animal Studies Overview, and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Tom Tregenza include:

  • The multiple origins of sexual size dimorphism in global amphibians, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ship noise inhibits colour change, camouflage, and anti-predator behaviour in shore crabs, 2020, Current Biology
  • Adapting to climate with limited genetic diversity: Nucleotide,DNAmethylation and microbiome variation among populations of the social spiderStegodyphus dumicola, 2022, Molecular Ecology
  • Telomere length is highly heritable and independent of growth rate manipulated by temperature in field crickets, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • Larval Host Preference and Suitability for the Sawfly Mesoneura rufonota among Five Cinnamomun Tree Species, 2020, Insects

Frequently publishing in venues such as Animal Behaviour, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, and Behavioral Ecology, Tom Tregenza has contributed regularly to scholarly journals that emphasize animal behavior and ecological research.

Their common collaborators include Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Paul Hopwood, Jelle J. Boonekamp, Alexandra S. Gardner, and Ilya M. D. Maclean, with multiple coauthored works reflecting ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Genetic compatibility, mate choice and patterns of parentage: invited review.

    T. Tregenza;N. Wedell;N. Wedell

  • Sexual selection and speciation.

    Tami M. Panhuis;Roger Butlin;Marlene Zuk;Tom Tregenza

  • Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors

    Amber E. Budden;Amber E. Budden;Tom Tregenza;Lonnie W. Aarssen;Julia Koricheva

  • Genic capture and resolving the lek paradox

    Joseph L. Tomkins;Jacek Radwan;Janne S. Kotiaho;Tom Tregenza

  • Polyandrous females avoid costs of inbreeding

    Tom Tregenza;Nina Wedell

  • Sexual selection and animal personality

    Wiebke Schuett;Tom Tregenza;Sasha R. X. Dall

  • Phylogenies and the Comparative Method in Animal Behaviour

    Tom Tregenza;Emilia P. Martins

  • Building on the Ideal Free Distribution

    T. Tregenza

  • BENEFITS OF MULTIPLE MATES IN THE CRICKET GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS.

    Tom Tregenza;Nina Wedell

  • Defensive tool use in a coconut-carrying octopus

    Julian K. Finn;Julian K. Finn;Tom Tregenza;Mark D. Norman

  • Natural and Sexual Selection in a Wild Insect Population

    R. Rodriguez-Munoz;A. Bretman;A. Bretman;J. Slate;Craig Walling

  • The evolution of body size under environmental gradients in ectotherms: why should Bergmann's rule apply to lizards?

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;David J Hodgson;Tom Tregenza

  • Definitive evidence for cuticular pheromones in a cricket

    Tom Tregenza;Nina Wedell

  • Inbreeding, inbreeding depression and extinction

    Lucy I. Wright;Tom Tregenza;David J. Hosken

  • Genetic architecture of metabolic rate: environment specific epistasis between mitochondrial and nuclear genes in an insect.

    Göran Arnqvist;Damian K. Dowling;Paul Eady

  • Why do male Callosobruchus maculatus harm their mates

    Martin Edvardsson;Tom Tregenza

  • Gender bias in the refereeing process

    Tom Tregenza

  • Dynamic mimicry in an Indo–Malayan octopus

    Mark D. Norman;Mark D. Norman;Julian Finn;Tom Tregenza

  • Molecular evidence of post-copulatory inbreeding avoidance in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.

    Amanda Bretman;Nina Wedell;Tom Tregenza

  • Sexual conflict and life histories

    Nina Wedell;Charlotta Kvarnemo;C(Kate). M. Lessells;Tom Tregenza

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Hosken
David J. Hosken University of Exeter
Nina Wedell
Nina Wedell University of Exeter
Amanda Bretman
Amanda Bretman University of Leeds
Roger K. Butlin
Roger K. Butlin University of Sheffield
Lonnie W. Aarssen
Lonnie W. Aarssen Queen's University
Roosa Leimu
Roosa Leimu University of Turku
Julia Koricheva
Julia Koricheva Royal Holloway University of London
Christopher J. Lortie
Christopher J. Lortie York University
David J. Hodgson
David J. Hodgson University of Exeter
Daniel Pincheira-Donoso
Daniel Pincheira-Donoso Nottingham Trent University

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