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Liam R. Dougherty
Researcher at University of Liverpool
Publications - 34
Citations - 773
Liam R. Dougherty is an academic researcher from University of Liverpool. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sexual selection & Mating. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 30 publications receiving 567 citations. Previous affiliations of Liam R. Dougherty include University of St Andrews & University of Western Australia.
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The effect of experimental design on the measurement of mate choice: a meta-analysis
TL;DR: It is found that mating preferences were significantly stronger when tested using a choice design compared with a no-choice design, and the use of choice tests in species in which mates are primarily encountered sequentially in the wild may lead to mating preferences being significantly overestimated.
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Linking personality and cognition: a meta-analysis
TL;DR: There is evidence that bold animals are faster learners, but only when boldness is measured in response to a predator and not when bolds is measured by exposure to a novel object (or novel food).
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Sexual conflict and correlated evolution between male persistence and female resistance traits in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus.
Liam R. Dougherty,Emile van Lieshout,Kathryn B. McNamara,Joe A. Moschilla,Göran Arnqvist,Leigh W. Simmons +5 more
TL;DR: This study detects positive correlated evolution between the injuriousness of male genitalia and putative female resistance adaptations across populations of the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus and provides rare evidence for sexually antagonistic coevolution of male and female traits at the within-species level.
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Experimental reduction of intromittent organ length reduces male reproductive success in a bug.
Liam R. Dougherty,Imran A. Rahman,Emily Burdfield-Steel,E.V. (Ginny) Greenway,David M. Shuker +4 more
TL;DR: This study uses micro-computed tomography and flash-freezing to reconstruct in high resolution the interaction between the male intromittent organ and the female internal reproductive anatomy during mating and presents rare, direct experimental evidence that an internal genital trait functions to increase reproductive success.
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Precopulatory sexual selection in the seed bug Lygaeus equestris :a comparison of choice and no-choice paradigms
TL;DR: The method of mate assessment in L. equestris appears to be primarily via contact cues, which may limit simultaneous comparison between options, and there is no significant effect of choice paradigm on the patterns of sexual selection for males or females.