Publications

James Gilbert (2023). Investigating the role of non-helpers in group-living thrips. J. Anim. Ecol., in press.

Preprint Project

Paige Lee, Alan Smith, Hannah King, James Gilbert, Lesley Morrell, Domino Joyce (2022). Territorial aggression in male bower-building cichlids Nyassachromis cf. microcephalus is disrupted by exposure to environmental concentrations of fluoxetine. bioRxiv, pp. 2022.10.25.513719.

Preprint Project

Alex Austin, James Gilbert (2021). Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen. Funct. Ecol. 35 (5), 1069-1080.

PDF Dataset Project

Fiona Tainsh, Shannon R. Woodmansey, Alexander J. Austin, Toby E. Bagnall, James D. J. Gilbert (2020). Sporopollenin as a dilution agent in artificial diets for solitary bees. Apidologie 52, 101–112.

William E Feeney, Rohan M Brooker, Lane N Johnston, James DJ Gilbert, Marc Besson, David Lecchini, Danielle L Dixson, Peter F Cowman, Andrea Manica (2019). Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism. Ecology letters, (22), 2, pp. 256–264.

Alexander James Austin, Lori Lawson-Handley, James Gilbert (2019). Plugging the hunger gap: Organic farming supports more abundant nutritional resources for bees at critical periods. bioRxiv, pp. 837625.

Preprint Project

C Lindstedt, G Boncoraglio, SC Cotter, JDJ Gilbert, RM Kilner (2019). Parental care shapes evolution of aposematism and provides lifelong protection against predators. bioRxiv, pp. 644864.

James DJ Gilbert (2019). No division of labour, and subfertile foundresses, in a phyllode-gluing Acacia thrips. bioRxiv, pp. 755371.

Preprint Project

Charlotte E Howard, James DJ Gilbert, Alexander J Austin (2019). Differential effects of farming practice on cuckoo bumblebee communities in relation to their hosts. bioRxiv, pp. 774406.

Preprint Project

Brian J Stucky, James P Balhoff, Narayani Barve, Vijay Barve, Laura Brenskelle, Matthew H Brush, Gregory A Dahlem, James DJ Gilbert, Akito Y Kawahara, Oliver Keller, {others} (2019). Developing a vocabulary and ontology for modeling insect natural history data: example data, use cases, and competency questions. Biodiversity data journal, (7).

JDJ Gilbert, A Wells, SJ Simpson (2018). Skew in ovarian activation depends on domicile size in phyllode-glueing thrips. Scientific reports, (8), 1, pp. 1–9.

Gerlind UC Lehmann, James DJ Gilbert, Karim Vahed, Arne W Lehmann (2017). Male genital titillators and the intensity of post-copulatory sexual selection across bushcrickets. Behavioral ecology, (28), 5, pp. 1198–1205.

Eduardo SA Santos, Pedro P Bueno, James DJ Gilbert, Glauco Machado (2017). Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates. Biological reviews, (92), 3, pp. 1688–1701.

PDF Project The Conversation

Elizabeth Nicholls, Robert Fowler, Jeremy E Niven, James D Gilbert, Dave Goulson (2017). Larval exposure to field-realistic concentrations of clothianidin has no effect on development rate, over-winter survival or adult metabolic rate in a solitary bee, Osmia bicornis. PeerJ, (5), pp. e3417.

Darren M Evans, James D. J. Gilbert, Gordon R. Port (2017). Everything is connected: network thinking in entomology. Ecological Entomology, (42), S1, pp. 1–3.

Carita Lindstedt, Giuseppe Boncoraglio, Sheena Cotter, James Gilbert, Rebecca M Kilner (2017). Aposematism in the burying beetle? Dual function of anal fluid in parental care and chemical defense. Behavioral Ecology, (28), 6, pp. 1414–1422.

James DJ Gilbert, Andrea Manica (2015). The evolution of parental care in insects: a test of current hypotheses. Evolution, (69), 5, pp. 1255–1270.

Jeremy Field, Gavin Shreeves, Martyn Kennedy, Selina Brace, James DJ Gilbert (2015). Sex-biased parental care and sexual size dimorphism in a provisioning arthropod. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, (69), 12, pp. 1897–1906.

Lena Grinsted, Trine Bilde, James DJ Gilbert (2015). Questioning evidence of group selection in spiders. Nature, (524), 7566, pp. E1–E3.

James DJ Gilbert (2014). Thrips domiciles protect larvae from desiccation in an arid environment. Behavioral Ecology, (25), 6, pp. 1338–1346.

Karim Vahed, James DJ Gilbert, David B Weissman, Ludivina Barrientos-Lozano (2014). Functional equivalence of grasping cerci and nuptial food gifts in promoting ejaculate transfer in katydids. Evolution, (68), 7, pp. 2052–2065.

Caroline E Thomson, James DJ Gilbert, M {de L Brooke} (2014). Cytochrome b divergence between avian sister species is linked to generation length and body mass. PloS one, (9), 2.

James DJ Gilbert, Stephen J Simpson (2013). Natural history and behaviour of Dunatothrips aneurae Mound (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), a phyllode-gluing thrips with facultative pleometrosis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, (109), 4, pp. 802–816.

James DJ Gilbert, Claudia Acquisti, Holly M Martinson, James J Elser, Sudhir Kumar, William F Fagan (2013). GRASP [Genomic Resource Access for Stoichioproteomics]: comparative explorations of the atomic content of 12 Drosophila proteomes. BMC genomics, (14), 1, pp. 599.

James Gilbert (2013). Evolution of Parental Care. OUP.

James DJ Gilbert, Laurence A Mound, Stephen J Simpson (2012). Biology of a new species of socially parasitic thrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) inside Dunatothrips nests, with evolutionary implications for inquilinism in thrips. Biological journal of the Linnean society, (107), 1, pp. 112–122.

Karim Vahed, Darren J Parker, James DJ Gilbert (2011). Larger testes are associated with a higher level of polyandry, but a smaller ejaculate volume, across bushcricket species (Tettigoniidae). Biology letters, (7), 2, pp. 261–264.

James DJ Gilbert (2011). Insect dry weight: shortcut to a difficult quantity using museum specimens. Florida entomologist, (94), 4, pp. 964–970.

Karim Vahed, AW Lehmann, James DJ Gilbert, GUC Lehmann (2011). Increased copulation duration before ejaculate transfer is associated with larger spermatophores, and male genital titillators, across bushcricket taxa. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, (24), 9, pp. 1960–1968.

James DJ Gilbert, William F Fagan (2011). Contrasting mechanisms of proteomic nitrogen thrift in Prochlorococcus. Molecular ecology, (20), 1, pp. 92–104.

Samy Zalat, Francis Gilbert, Hassan Fadel, Magdi Shaban El-Hawagry, M Saleh, Soliman Kamel, James Gilbert (2011). Biological explorations of Sinai: flora and fauna of Wadi Isla and Hebran, St Katherine Protectorate, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Natural History, (5), 1, pp. 6–15.

James DJ Gilbert, Lisa K Thomas, Andrea Manica (2010). Quantifying the benefits and costs of parental care in assassin bugs. Ecological Entomology, (35), 5, pp. 639–651.

James DJ Gilbert, Andrea Manica (2010). Parental care trade-offs and life-history relationships in insects. The American Naturalist, (176), 2, pp. 212–226.

Peter A Hamback, James Gilbert, Katie Schneider, Holly M Martinson, Gundula Kolb, William F Fagan (2009). Effects of body size, trophic mode and larval habitat on Diptera stoichiometry: a regional comparison. Oikos, (118), 4, pp. 615–623.

James Gilbert, Andrea Manica (2009). Brood conspicuousness and clutch viability in male-caring assassin bugs (Rhinocoris tristis). Ecological Entomology, (34), 2, pp. 176–182.

Holly M Martinson, Katie Schneider, James Gilbert, Jessica E Hines, Peter A Hamback, William F Fagan (2008). Detritivory: stoichiometry of a neglected trophic level. Ecological Research. 23: 487-491. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-008-0471-7.

James D. J. Gilbert (2007). The evolution of parental care in insects. University of Cambridge.

Nicola S Clayton, Joanna Dally, James Gilbert, Anthony Dickinson (2005). Food caching by western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica) is sensitive to the conditions at recovery.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, (31), 2, pp. 115.