Alastair Wilson Publications

  In press   A.J. Wilson & D.H. Nussey. What is individual quality? An evolutionary perspective. Trends in Ecology and Evolution  
         
      M.B. Morrissey & A.J. Wilson. pedantics, an R package for pedigree-based genetic simulation and pedigree manipulation, characterization and viewing. Molecular Ecology Resources  
         
      J.E. Brommer, K. Rattiste, A.J. Wilson. The rate of ageing in a long-lived bird is not heritable. Heredity  
         
      A. Husby, D.H. Nussey, M.E. Visser, A.J. Wilson, B.C. Sheldon & L. E.B. Kruuk. Contrasting patterns pf phenotypic plasticity in reproductive traits in two great tit (Parus major) populations. Evolution  
         
      J. Gratten, A.J. Wilson, A.F. McRae, D. Beraldi, P.M. Visscher, J.M. Pemberton, J. Slate. No evidence for warming climate theory of coat colour change in Soay sheep: a comment on Maloney et al. Biology Letters.  
         
  2010   A. J. Wilson, D. Réale, M.N. Clements, M.M. Morrissey, E. Postma, C.A. Walling, L.E.B. Kruuk, D.H. Nussey (2010) . An ecologist's guide to the animal model. Journal of Animal Ecology. 79: 13-26  
         
      J.D. Hadfield, A.J. Wilson, D. Garant, B.C. Sheldon, L.E.B. Kruuk(2010). The Misuse of BLUP in Ecology and Evolution. American Naturalist. 175: 116-125.  
         
  2009   A.J. Wilson, U. Gelin, M. Perron, D. Réale (2009). Indirect genetic effects and the evolution of aggression in a vertebrate system. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B. 276: 533-541.  
         
      A.J. Wilson, J.M. Pemberton, J.G. Pilkington, T.H. Clutton-Brock & L.E.B. Kruuk (2009). Trading offspring size for number in a changing environment: selection on reproductive investment in female Soay sheep. Journal of Animal Ecology. 78: 354-364.  
         
      J. Poissant, A.J. Wilson and D.W. Coltman. Sex specific genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism: a systematic review of cross-sex genetic correlations. Evolution. 64: 97-107.  
         
      M. R. Robinson, A.J. Wilson, J.G. Pilkington, T.H. Clutton-Brock, J.M. Pemberton, & L. E.B. Kruuk (2009). The impact of environmental heterogeneity on genetic architecture in a wild population of Soay sheep. Genetics. 181: 1639-1648.  
         
      A.D. Hayward, A.J. Wilson, J.G. Pilkington, J.M. Pemberton, L.E.B. Kruuk (2009). Ageing in a variable habitat: environmental stress affects senescence in parasite resistance in St Kilda Soay sheep. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B. 276:3477-3485.  
         
      T.E. Reed, P. Warzybok, A.J. Wilson, R.W. Bradley, S. Wanless & W.J. Sydeman (2009).
Adjusting to extreme environments: changing phenology and fluctuating selection in a colonial seabird. Journal of Animal Ecology. 78: 376-387.
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      R. M. Sawalha, L. Bell, S. Brotherstone, I. White, A. Wilson, B. Villanueva (2009). Scrapie resistant sheep show certain coat colour characteristics. Genetics Research 91: 39-46.  
         
  2008   A.J. Wilson, A. Charmantier and J. Hadfield (2008). Evolutionary genetics of ageing in the wild: empirical patterns and future perspectives. Functional Ecology 22: 431-442. pdf
         
      A.J. Wilson (2008). Why h2 does not always equal VA/VP. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21: 647-650. pdf
         
      A.J. Wilson and A. Rambaut (2008). Breeding racehorses – what price good genes? Biology Letters, 4: 173-175. pdf
         
      J. Gratten, A.J. Wilson, A.F. McRae, D. Beraldi, P.M. Visscher, J.M. Pemberton and J. Slate (2008).
A localized negative genetic correlation constrains microevolution of coat color in wild sheep. Science, 319: 318-320.
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      J. Poissant, A.J. Wilson, M. Festa-Bianchet, J.T. Hogg, and D.W. Coltman (2008). Quantitative genetics and sex-specific selection on sexually dimorphic traits in bighorn sheep. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B, 275: 623-628.  
         
      J. E. Brommer, K. Rattiste and A.J. Wilson (2008). Exploring plasticity in the wild: Laying date - temperature reaction norms in the common gull Larus canus. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B, 275: 687-694. pdf
         
      D.H. Nussey, A.J. Wilson, A. Donald, T. Clutton-Brock and L.E.B. Kruuk (2008). Quantitative genetic correlations between early life fecundity and ageing rates in a wild red deer population: Support for the antagonistic pleiotropy theory of ageing. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B, 275: 745-750. pdf
         
      P.I. Ward, A.J. Wilson and C. Reim. A cost of cryptic female choice in the yellow dung fly. Genetica, 134 : 63-67. pdf
         
      B. Pujol, A.J. Wilson, R. Ross, J.R. Pannell. Are QST – FST comparisons for natural populations meaningful? Molecular Ecology 17: 4782-4785  
         
      J. E. Pettay, A. Charmantier, A.J. Wilson and V. Lummaa (2008). Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women. Evolution 62: 2297-2304.  
         
      C.E. Adams, A.J. Wilson and M.M. Ferguson. Parallel divergence of sympatric genetic and body size forms of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus, from two Scottish lakes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95: 748-757.  
         
      L. Ph. Breitling, A.J. Wilson, A. Raiko, M.Lagog, P. Siba, M. Shaw, R.J. Quinnell. Sex-specific heritability of human hookworm infection in rural Papua New Guinea. Parasitology 135: 1407-1415.  
         
      L.E.B. Kruuk, J. Slate and A.J. Wilson. New answers for old questions: the quantitative genetics of wild animal populations. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 35: 525-548.  
         
  2007   A.J. Wilson, D.H. Nussey, J.M. Pemberton, T.H. Clutton-Brock, J.G. Pilkington, A. Morris, F. Pelletier and L.E.B Kruuk (2007). Evidence for a genetic basis of aging in two wild vertebrate populations. Current Biology, 17: 2136-2142. pdf
         
      A.J. Wilson, J.M. Pemberton, J.G. Pilkington, T.H. Clutton-Brock, D.W. Coltman and L.E.B. Kruuk. (2007). Quantitative genetics of growth and cryptic evolution of body weight in an island population. Evolutionary Ecology, 21: 337-356.  pdf
         
      J. Hadfield and A.J. Wilson (2007). Multilevel Selection 3: Modeling the effects of interacting individuals as a function of group size. Genetics, 177: 667-668. pdf
         
      D.H. Nussey, A.J. Wilson and J.E. Brommer (2007). The evolutionary ecology of individual plasticity in wild populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20: 831-844.  pdf
         
      J.E. Brommer, A.J. Wilson and L.Gustafsson (2007). Genetic, environmental and age-related variance components of annual fitness in the wild. American Naturalist, 170: 643-650. pdf
         
      M.B. Morrissey, A.J. Wilson, J.M. Pemberton and M.M. Ferguson (2007). A framework for power and sensitivity analyses for studies of the quantitative genetics of natural populations, and a case study in Soay sheep (Ovis aries). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20: 2309-2321 . pdf
         
      C.E. Adams, D. Fraser, A.J. Wilson, G. Alexander, M.M. Ferguson and S. Skúlason (2007). Patterns of phenotypic and genetic variability in the Arctic charr show hidden diversity in Scottish Arctic charr. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 16:78-86.  pdf
         
  2006   A.J. Wilson, J.M. Pemberton, J.G. Pilkington, D.W. Coltman, D.M. Mifsud, T.H. Clutton-Brock and L.E.B. Kruuk (2006). Environmental coupling of selection and heritability limits phenotypic evolution. PloS Biology, 4:1270-1275.  pdf
         
      A.J. Wilson and D. Réale (2006). Ontogeny of additive and maternal genetic effects: lessons from domestic mammals. American Naturalist, 167: E23-E38.  pdf
         
      C.E. Adams, D. J. Hamilton, I. McCarthy, A.J. Wilson, A. Grant, G. Alexander, S. Waldron, S.S. Snorasson, M, M. Ferguson and S. Skúlason (2006). Does breeding site fidelity drive phenotypic and genetic sub-structuring of a population of Arctic charr? Evolutionary Ecology, 20: 11-26.   pdf
         
  2005   A.J. Wilson, L.E.B. Kruuk and D.W. Coltman (2005). Ontogenetic patterns in heritable variation for body size: using random regression models in a wild ungulate population. American Naturalist, 166: E177-E192.  pdf
     

 

 
      A.J. Wilson, J.G. Pilkington, J.M. Pemberton, D.W. Coltman, A.D.J. Overall, K.A. Byrne, and L.E.B. Kruuk (2005). Selection on mothers and offspring: whose phenotype is it and does it matter? Evolution, 59: 451-463.  pdf
         
      A.J. Wilson, D.W. Coltman, J.M. Pemberton, A.D.J. Overall, K.A. Byrne, and L.E.B. Kruuk (2005). Maternal genetic effects set the potential for evolution in a free-living vertebrate population. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 18: 405-414.  pdf
         
      M.B. Morrissey and A.J. Wilson (2005). The potential costs of accounting for genotypic errors in molecular parentage analyses. Molecular Ecology, 14: 4111-4121.  pdf
         
  2004   A.J. Wilson, D. Gíslason, S. Skúlason, S.S. Snorrason, C.E. Adams, G. Alexander, R.G. Danzmann, and M.M. Ferguson (2004). Population genetic structure of Arctic Charr, Salvelinus alpinus from Northwest Europe on large and small spatial scales. Molecular Ecology, 13: 1129-1142.  pdf
         
      A.J. Wilson, J.A. Hutchings, and M.M. Ferguson (2004). Dispersal in a stream dwelling salmonid: Inferences from tagging and microsatellite studies. Conservation Genetics, 5:25-37.  pdf
         
  2003   A.J. Wilson, J.A. Hutchings, and M.M. Ferguson (2003). Selective and genetic constraints on the evolution of body size in a stream-dwelling salmonid fish. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 16: 584-594. 
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      A.J. Wilson, G. McDonald, H.K. Moghadam, C.M. Herbinger, and M.M. Ferguson (2003). Marker assisted estimation of quantitative genetic parameters in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Genetical Research, 81: 145-156. pdf
         
  2002   A.J. Wilson and M.M. Ferguson (2002). Molecular pedigree analysis in natural populations of fishes: approaches, applications, and practical considerations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 59:1696-1707.  pdf
         
  Book chapters   A. J. Wilson and M. Festa-Bianchet (2009). Maternal effects in ungulates. (In: Maestripieri, D. & Mateo, J.M. (Eds.) Maternal Effects in Mammals. University of Chicago Press,  Chicago).