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39.Mark, M.M. and D.R. Rubenstein. 2013. Physiological costs and carry-over effects of avian interspecific brood parasitism influence reproductive tradeoffs. Hormones and Behavior In press.
38.Pilowsky, J.A. and D.R. Rubenstein. 2013. Social context and the lack of sexual dimorphism in song in an avian cooperative breeder. Animal Behaviour 85:709-714. PDF
37.Rubenstein, D.I. and D.R. Rubenstein. 2013. Social behavior. In Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 2nd Edition (Levin, S.A., ed.). Elsevier, Volume 6, pp. 571-579. PDF
36.Duffy, J.E., Macdonald, K.S., Hultgren, K.M., Chak, T.C.S. and D.R. Rubenstein. 2013. Decline and extinction of Caribbean eusocial shrimp. PLoS One 8:e54637. PDF
35.Creel, S., B. Danzter, W. Goymann, and D.R. Rubenstein. 2013. The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment. Functional Ecology 27:66-80. PDF
34.Rubenstein, D.R. 2012. Family feuds: social competition and sexual conflict in complex societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367:2304-2313. PDF | COVER
33.Rubenstein, D.R. 2012. Sexual and social competition: broadening perspectives by defining females roles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367:2248-2252. PDF | COVER
32.Lovette, I.J., B.S. Arbogast, R.L. Curry, R.M. Zink, C.A. Botero, J.P. Sullivan, A.L. Talaba, R.B. Harris, D.R. Rubenstein, R.E. Ricklefs, and E. Bermingham. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships of the mockingbirds and thrashers (Aves: Mimidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63:219-229. PDF
31.Botero, C.A. and D.R. Rubenstein. 2012. Fluctuating environments, sexual selection and the evolution of flexible mate choice in birds. PLoS One 7:e32311. PDF
30.Rubenstein, D.R. 2011. Spatiotemporal environmental variation, risk aversion and the evolution of cooperative breeding as a bet-hedging strategy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108:10816-10822. PDF
29.Jetz, W.* and D.R. Rubenstein*. 2011. Environmental uncertainty and the global biogeography of cooperative breeding in birds. Current Biology 21:72-78. *contributed equally PDF
28.Rubenstein, D.R. and J.A. Kealey. 2010. Cooperation, conflict, and the evolution of complex animal societies. Nature Education Knowledge 1:47. WEB
27.Blumstein, D.T., L.A. Ebensperger, L.D. Hayes, R.A. Vásquez, T.H. Ahern, J.R. Burger, A.G. Dolezal, A. Dosmann, G. González-Mariscal, B.N. Harris, E.A. Herrera, E.A. Lacey, J. Mateo, L. McGraw, D. Olazabal, M. Ramenofsky, D.R. Rubenstein, S.A. Sakhai, W. Saltzman, C. Sainz-Borgo, M. Soto-Gamboa, M.L. Stewart, T.W. Wey, J.C. Wingfield, and L.J. Young. 2010. Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities. Frontiers in Neuroscience 4:1-9. PDF
26.Rubenstein, D.R. and I.J. Lovette. 2009. Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species. Nature 462: 786-789. PDF
25.Rubenstein, D.R. and S.-F. Shen. 2009. Reproductive conflict and the costs of social status in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. The American Naturalist 173:650-661. PDF
24.Rubenstein, D.R. and M.E. Hauber. 2008. Dynamic feedback between phenotype and physiology in sexually selected traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23:655-658. PDF
23.Rubenstein, D.R., A.F. Parlow, C.R. Hutch, and L.B. Martin. 2008. Environmental and hormonal correlates of immune activity in a cooperatively breeding tropical bird. General and Comparative Endocrinology 159:10-15. PDF
22.Vitousek, M.N., K. Nelson, D.R. Rubenstein, and M. Wikelski. 2008. Are hotshots always hot? A longitudinal study of hormones, behavior, and reproductive success in male marine iguanas. General and Comparative Endocrinology 157:227-232. PDF
21.Lovette, I.J., B.V. McCleery, A.L. Talba, and D.R. Rubenstein. 2008. A complete species-level molecular phylogeny for the “Eurasian” starlings (Sturnidae: Sturnus, Acridotheres, and allies): recent diversification in a highly social and dispersive avian group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47:251-260. PDF
20.Rubenstein, D.R., B.V. McCleery, and J.E. Duffy. 2008. Microsatellite development suggests evidence of polyploidy in the social sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp Zuzalpheus brooksi. Molecular Ecology Resources 8:890-894. PDF
19.Martin, L.B. and D.R. Rubenstein. 2008. Stress hormones in tropical birds: patterns and future directions. Ornitologia Neotropical 19 (Suppl.):207-218. (Invited Review) PDF
18.Rubenstein, D.R. and I.J. Lovette. 2007. Temporal environmental variability drives the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds. Current Biology 17:1414-1419. PDF
17.Rubenstein, D.R. 2007. Territory quality drives intraspecific patterns in extrapair paternity. Behavioral Ecology 18:1058-1064. PDF
16.Rubenstein, D.R. 2007. Female extrapair mate choice in a cooperative breeder: trading sex for help and increasing offspring heterozygosity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274:1895-1903. PDF
15.Rubenstein, D.R. 2007. Temporal but not spatial environmental variation drives adaptive offspring sex allocation in a plural cooperative breeder. The American Naturalist 170:155-165. PDF
14.Lovette, I.J. and D.R. Rubenstein. 2007. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae): congruent mtDNA and nuclear trees for a cosmopolitan avian radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44:1031-1056. PDF
13.Sachs, J.L. and D.R. Rubenstein. 2007. The evolution of cooperative breeding; is there cheating? Behavioural Processes 76:13-137. (Invited Commentary) PDF
12.Rubenstein, D.R. 2007. Stress hormones and sociality: integrating social and environmental stressors. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274:967-975. PDF
11.Vitousek, M.N., D.R. Rubenstein, and M. Wikelski. 2007. The evolution of foraging behavior in the Galápagos marine iguana: natural and sexual selection on body size drives ecological, morphological, and behavioral specialization. In Foraging Behavior in Lizards (Reilly, S.M., D.B. Miles, and L.D. McBrayer, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 491-507. (Invited Book Chapter) PDF
10.Rubenstein, D.R., D.I. Rubenstein, P.W. Sherman, and T.A. Gavin. 2006. Pleistocene Park: does re-wilding North America represent sound conservation for the 21st century? Biological Conservation 132:232-238. PDF
9.Lovette, I.J., D.R. Rubenstein, and W.N. Watetu. 2006. Provisioning of fledgling conspecifics by males of the brood-parasitic cuckoos Chrysococcyx klaas and C. caprius. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 118:99-101. PDF
8.Rubenstein, D.R. 2005. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the plural cooperatively breeding superb starling, Lamprotornis superbus. Molecular Ecology Notes 5:739-744. PDF
7.Rubenstein, D.R. and M. Wikelski. 2005. Steroid hormones and aggression in female Galápagos marine iguanas. Hormones and Behavior 48:329-341. PDF | COVER
6.McRae, S.B., S.T. Emlen, D.R. Rubenstein, and S.M. Bogdanowicz. 2005. Polymorphic microsatellite loci in a plural breeder, the grey-capped social weaver (Pseudonigrita arnaudi), isolated with an improved enrichment protocol using fragment size-selection. Molecular Ecology Notes 5:16-20. PDF
5.Royle, J.A. and D.R. Rubenstein. 2004. The role of species abundance in determining breeding origins of migratory birds with stable isotopes. Ecological Applications 14:1780-1788. PDF
4.Rubenstein, D.R. and K.A. Hobson. 2004. From birds to butterflies: animal movement patterns and stable isotopes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:256-263. PDF
3.Rubenstein, D.R. and M. Wikelski. 2003. Seasonal changes in food quality: a proximate cue for reproductive timing in marine iguanas. Ecology 84:3013-3023. PDF
2.Rubenstein, D.R., C.P. Chamberlain, R.T. Holmes, M.P. Ayres, J.R. Waldbauer, G.R. Graves, and N.C. Tuross. 2002. Linking breeding and wintering ranges of a migratory songbird using stable isotopes. Science 295:1062-1065. PDF
1.Rittschof, D., J. Sarrica, and D. Rubenstein. 1995. Shell dynamics and microhabitat selection by striped legged hermit crabs, Clibanarius vittatus (Bosc). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 192:157-172. PDF