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Marlene Zuk
Researcher at University of Minnesota
Publications - 201
Citations - 16413
Marlene Zuk is an academic researcher from University of Minnesota. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sexual selection & Teleogryllus oceanicus. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 197 publications receiving 15422 citations. Previous affiliations of Marlene Zuk include University of California & University of Michigan.
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Heritable true fitness and bright birds: a role for parasites?
William D. Hamilton,Marlene Zuk +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of seven surveys of blood parasites in North American passerines reveals weak, highly significant association over species between incidence of chronic blood infections (five genera of protozoa and one nematode) and striking display (three characters: male "brightness", female "brights", and male song).
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Sexual selection and speciation.
TL;DR: It is argued that more detailed studies are needed, examining extinction rates and other sources of variation in species richness, to convincingly conclude speciation by sexual selection.
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Sex differences in parasite infections: Patterns and processes
Marlene Zuk,Kurt A. McKean +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that sexual differences in disease have evolved just as sex differences in morphology and behavior, and are the result of selection acting differently on males and females.
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Exploitation of Sexual Signals by Predators and Parasitoids
Marlene Zuk,Gita R. Kolluru +1 more
TL;DR: Signals used to attract mates are often conspicuous to predators and parasites, and their evolution via sexual selection is expected to be opposed by viability selection, while plants emit attractants analogous to secondary sex characters in animals, and may also be vulnerable to signal exploitation.
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Immune defense and host life history.
Marlene Zuk,Andrew M. Stoehr +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that immune response is indeed costly and that future work would do well to include invertebrates, which have sometimes been neglected in studies of the ecology of immune defense.