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Queen pheromones modulate DNA methyltransferase activity in bee and ant workers (2016)
Journal Article
Holman, L., Trontti, K., & Helanterä, H. (2016). Queen pheromones modulate DNA methyltransferase activity in bee and ant workers. Biology Letters, 12(1), Article 20151038. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.1038

DNA methylation is emerging as an important regulator of polyphenism in the social insects. Research has concentrated on differences in methylation between queens and workers, though we hypothesized that methylation is involved in mediating other fle... Read More about Queen pheromones modulate DNA methyltransferase activity in bee and ant workers.

Highly specific responses to queen pheromone in three Lasius ant species (2016)
Journal Article
Holman, L., Hanley, B., & Millar, J. G. (2016). Highly specific responses to queen pheromone in three Lasius ant species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70(3), 387-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2058-6

Queen pheromones mediate the reproductive division of labor in social insect colonies and provide novel opportunities for investigating the evolution of animal communication. Previous work found that queens in the ant genus Lasius produce several 3-m... Read More about Highly specific responses to queen pheromone in three Lasius ant species.

Bet hedging via multiple mating: A meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Holman, L. (2016). Bet hedging via multiple mating: A meta-analysis. Evolution, 70, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12822

Polyandry has been hypothesized to allow females to “bet hedge” against mating only with unsuitable mates, reducing variance in offspring fitness between members of a polyandrous lineage relative to a single‐mating one. Theoretically, this reduction... Read More about Bet hedging via multiple mating: A meta-analysis.

Evidence of experimental bias in the life sciences: why we need blind data recording (2015)
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Holman, L., Head, M. L., Lanfear, R., & Jennions, M. D. (2015). Evidence of experimental bias in the life sciences: why we need blind data recording. PLOS Biology, 13(7), Article e1002190. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002190

Observer bias and other “experimenter effects” occur when researchers’ expectations influence study outcome. These biases are strongest when researchers expect a particular result, are measuring subjective variables, and have an incentive to produce... Read More about Evidence of experimental bias in the life sciences: why we need blind data recording.

Assessing the alignment of sexual and natural selection using radiomutagenized seed beetles (2015)
Journal Article
Power, D. J., & Holman, L. (2015). Assessing the alignment of sexual and natural selection using radiomutagenized seed beetles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28(5), 1039-1048. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12625

A major unsolved question in evolutionary biology concerns the relationship between natural and sexual selection. Sexual selection might augment natural selection, for example if mutations that harm female fecundity also reduce male mating success. C... Read More about Assessing the alignment of sexual and natural selection using radiomutagenized seed beetles.

The extent and consequences of p-hacking in science (2015)
Journal Article
Head, M. L., Holman, L., Lanfear, R., Kahn, A. T., & Jennions, M. D. (2015). The extent and consequences of p-hacking in science. PLOS Biology, 13(3), Article e1002106. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002106

A focus on novel, confirmatory, and statistically significant results leads to substantial bias in the scientific literature. One type of bias, known as “p-hacking,” occurs when researchers collect or select data or statistical analyses until nonsign... Read More about The extent and consequences of p-hacking in science.

Coevolutionary dynamics of polyandry and sex-linked meiotic drive (2015)
Journal Article
Holman, L., Price, T. A., Wedell, N., & Kokko, H. (2015). Coevolutionary dynamics of polyandry and sex-linked meiotic drive. Evolution, 69(3), 709-720. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12595

Segregation distorters located on sex chromosomes are predicted to sweep to fixation and cause extinction via a shortage of one sex, but in nature they are often found at low, stable frequencies. One potential resolution to this longstanding puzzle i... Read More about Coevolutionary dynamics of polyandry and sex-linked meiotic drive.

Female preferences for timing in a fiddler crab with synchronous courtship waving displays (2014)
Journal Article
Kahn, A. T., Holman, L., & Backwell, P. R. (2014). Female preferences for timing in a fiddler crab with synchronous courtship waving displays. Animal Behaviour, 98, 35-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.09.028

Studies of sexual communication typically focus on the design and information content of a signal of interest, but the timing of signal production relative to nearby competitors can be crucial. Male fiddler crabs, Uca mjoebergi, court females with a... Read More about Female preferences for timing in a fiddler crab with synchronous courtship waving displays.

Even more functions of sperm RNA: a response to Hosken and Hodgson (2014)
Journal Article
Holman, L., & Price, T. A. (2014). Even more functions of sperm RNA: a response to Hosken and Hodgson. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 29(12), 648-649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.014

As recently outlined in TREE [1], many animals and plants are thought to load their male gametes with multiple types of RNA, some of which enters the oocyte upon fertilization. Four classes of ultimate hypotheses for sperm RNA were proposed [1], addi... Read More about Even more functions of sperm RNA: a response to Hosken and Hodgson.