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Tim R. Birkhead
Researcher at University of Sheffield
Publications - 253
Citations - 22798
Tim R. Birkhead is an academic researcher from University of Sheffield. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sperm & Sperm competition. The author has an hindex of 76, co-authored 245 publications receiving 21710 citations. Previous affiliations of Tim R. Birkhead include Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University & Uppsala University.
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Sperm competition and sexual selection
TL;DR: This chapter discusses Sperm Competition in Birds, Sexual Selection in Spiders and Other Arachnids, and Reproduction, Mating Strategies and Sperm competition in Marsupials and Monotremes.
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Sperm Competition in Birds: Evolutionary Causes and Consequences
TL;DR: Birds as vehicles for sperm competition avian mating systems and sperm competition male and female reproductive systems and the fertile period sperm precedence and mechanisms of sperm competition copulation behaviour - pair copulation, extra-pair copulation paternity guards.
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The genome of a songbird
Wesley C. Warren,David F. Clayton,Hans Ellegren,Arthur P. Arnold,LaDeana W. Hillier,Axel Künstner,Steve Searle,Simon D. M. White,Albert J. Vilella,Susan Fairley,Andreas Heger,Lesheng Kong,Chris P. Ponting,Erich D. Jarvis,Claudio V. Mello,Patrick Minx,Peter V. Lovell,Tarciso A. F. Velho,Margaret Ferris,Christopher N. Balakrishnan,Saurabh Sinha,Charles Blatti,Sarah E. London,Yun Li,Ya-Chi Lin,Jimin George,Jonathan V. Sweedler,Bruce R. Southey,Preethi H. Gunaratne,Michael E. Watson,Kiwoong Nam,Niclas Backström,Linnéa Smeds,Benoit Nabholz,Yuichiro Itoh,Osceola Whitney,Andreas R. Pfenning,Jason T. Howard,Martin Völker,Benjamin M. Skinner,Darren K. Griffin,Liang Ye,William M. McLaren,Paul Flicek,Víctor Quesada,Gloria Velasco,Carlos López-Otín,Xose S. Puente,Tsviya Olender,Doron Lancet,Arian F.A. Smit,Robert Hubley,Miriam K. Konkel,Jerilyn A. Walker,Mark A. Batzer,Wanjun Gu,David D. Pollock,Lin Chen,Ze Cheng,Evan E. Eichler,Jessica Stapley,Jon Slate,Robert Ekblom,Tim R. Birkhead,Terry Burke,David W. Burt,Constance Scharff,Iris Adam,Hugues Richard,Marc Sultan,Alexey Soldatov,Hans Lehrach,Scott V. Edwards,Shiaw-Pyng Yang,XiaoChing Li,Tina Graves,Lucinda Fulton,Joanne O. Nelson,Asif T. Chinwalla,Shunfeng Hou,Elaine R. Mardis,Richard K. Wilson +81 more
TL;DR: This work shows that song behaviour engages gene regulatory networks in the zebra finch brain, altering the expression of long non-coding RNAs, microRNAs, transcription factors and their targets and shows evidence for rapid molecular evolution in the songbird lineage of genes that are regulated during song experience.
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Postcopulatory sexual selection.
Tim R. Birkhead,Tommaso Pizzari +1 more
TL;DR: Three main issues that should be resolved to advance the understanding of postcopulatory sexual selection are identified: to determine the genetic basis of different male fertility traits and female traits that mediate sperm selection, and establish the coevolutionary trajectory of sexes.
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Carotenoid modulation of immune function and sexual attractiveness in zebra finches.
TL;DR: It is shown that manipulation of dietary carotenoid supply invokes parallel changes in cell-mediated immune function and sexual attractiveness in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).