Predator-prey coevolution

Rough-skinned newt being eaten by garter snake.
Photo: E. D. Brodie III

Lecture bibliography

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Abrams, P. A. 2000. The evolution of predator-prey interactions: theory and evidence. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 2000. 31:79-105

Alatalo, R. V. and J. Mappes. 1996. Tracking the evolution of warning signals. Nature 382: 708-710.

Bakker, R. T. 1983. The deer flies, the wolf pursues: incongruencies in the fossil record. In Coevolution (eds. D. J. Futuyma and M. Slatkin), pp 350-382. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass.

Brodie, E. D., B. J. Ridenhour, E. D. Brodie, 2002. The evolutionary response of predators to dangerous prey: hotspots and coldspots in the geographic mosaic of coevolution between garter snakes and newts. Evolution 56: 2067-2082.

Dawkins, R. and Krebs, J. R. 1979. Arms races between and within species. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 205: 489-511.

Endler, J. A. 1991. Interactions between predators and prey. In Behavioural Ecology (3rd edn.) (eds. J. R. Krebs and N. B. Davies), pp 169-196 Blackwell, Oxford.

Guilford, T. 1988. The evolution of conspicuous coloration. Am. Nat. 131 (Suppl.): S7-S21.

Hanifin, C. T., E. D. Brodie Jr, and E. D. Brodie III. 2008. Phenotypic mismatches reveal escape from arms-race coevolution. PLoS biology 6: e60.

Jerison, H. J. 1973. Evolution of the brain and intelligence. New York, Academic Press.

Savage, R. J G. 1977. Evolution in carnivorous mammals. Palaeontology 20:237-271.

Sillen-Tullberg, B. 1988. Evolution of gregariousness in aposematic butterfly larvae: a phylogenetic analysis. Evolution 1988: 293-305.

Vaelli, P. M., K. R. Theis, J. E. Williams, L. A. O’Connell, J. A. Foster, and H. L. Eisthen. 2020. The skin microbiome facilitates adaptive tetrodotoxin production in poisonous newts. Elife 9: e53898.

Vermeij, G. J. 1987. Evolution and escalation: an ecological history of life. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N.J.