Kallivalappil, R, Grattarola, F, de Alwis Pitts, D, Cotter, SC & Pincheira-Donoso, D (2024). Species diversity and extinction risk of vertebrate pollinators in India.Biodiversity and Conservation In Press
Holdbrook, R, Randall, JL, Reavey, CE, Tummala, Y, Simpson, SJ, Smith, JA, Wilson, K & Cotter, SC, (2024). The transition from diet to blood: exploring the insect haemolymph nutrient pool.Physiological Entomology In Press
Erler, S, Cotter, SC, Freitak, D, Koch, H, Palmer-Young, E, de Roode, JC, Smilanich, A & Lattorff, HMG (2024). The role of insects as model organisms in understanding animal medication. Trends in Parasitology, 40: 338-349
Williams, EJ, Cotter, SC & Soulsbury, CD (2023) Consumption of rodenticide baits by invertebrates as a potential route into the diet of insectivores. Animals 13: 3873
Ponton, F, Tan, YX, Forster, C, Austin, A, English, S, Cotter, SC & Wilson, K (2023). The complex crosstalk between nutrition, immunity and infection in insects. Journal of Experimental Biology 226: jeb245714
Bushby, EV, Cotter, SC, Wilkinson, A, Friel, M & Collins, LM. (2022) Judgement bias during pregnancy in domestic pigs. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.881101
Cotter, SC & Al Shareefi, E (2022) Nutritional ecology, infection and immune defence - exploring the mechanisms. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 49: 1-7
Ilardi, M, Cotter, SC, Hammer, EC, Riddell, G & Caruso, T (2021) Scavenging beetles regulate and stabilise the response of soil animal communities to a pulse input of nutrients. Functional Ecology 35: 2033–2044.
Pincheira-Donoso, D, Harvey, L, Cotter, SC, Stark, G, Meiri, S & Hodgson, D (2021) The global macroecology of brood size in amphibians reveals a predisposition of low-fecundity species to extinction. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30: 1299–1310.
Pincheira-Donoso, D, Harvey, L, Grattarola, F, Jara, M, Cotter, SC, Tregenza, T & Hodgson, D (2021) The multiple origins of sexual size dimorphism in global amphibians. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30: 443-458
Soulsbury, CD, Gray, H, Smith, L, Braithwaite, V, Cotter, SC,Elwood, RW, Wilkinson, A & Collins, LM, (2020) The welfare and ethics of research involving wild animals: A primer. Methods in Ecologyand Evolution, 11: 1164–1181
Wilson, K, Holdbrook, R, Reavey, CE, Randall, JL, Tumala, Y,Ponton, F, Simpson, SJ, Smith, JA & Cotter, SC. Osmolality as a novel mechanism explaining diet effects on the outcome of infection with a blood parasite. (2020) Current Biology,30: 2459-2467
Cotter, SC, Pincheira-Donoso, D & Thorogood, R. (2019) Defences against brood parasites from a social immunity perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.374: 20180207
Pincheira-Donoso, D, Bachrati, CZ, Cotter, SC, Brandreth, E, Cole, J, Daly, E, King, C, Montgomery, L, Ortega, E, Reed, T, Sajez, A, Smith, J, Van Der Westhuizen, T, Williams, A & Canto, J (2018). Field observations on the natural history and breeding behavior of the Atacama toad (Rhinella atacamensis, Anura: Bufonidae) from Chile. Boletin del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, 67: 25-31.
Miller, CM & Cotter, SC (2018) Resistance and tolerance: The role of nutrients on pathogen dynamics and infection outcomes in an insect host.Journal of Animal Ecology, 87: 500-510
Duarte, A, Cotter, SC, De Gasperin, O, Houslay, TM, Boncoraglio, G, Welch, M & Kilner, RM (2018) No evidence of a cleaning mutualism between burying beetles and their phoretic mites.Scientific Reports, 1: 13838
Lindstedt, C, Boncoraglio, G, Cotter, SC, Gilbert JDG & Kilner, RM (2017) Aposematism in the burying beetle? Dual function of anal fluid in parental care and chemical defence. Behavioural Ecology, 28: 1414-1422
Duarte, A, Cotter, SC, Reavey, CE, Ward, RJ, De Gasperin, O & Kilner, RM (2016). Social immunity of the family: parental contributions to a public good modulated by brood size. Evolutionary Ecology, 30: 123-135.
Reavey, CE, Warnock, ND, Garbett, A & Cotter, SC (2015) Aging in personal and social immunity: do immune traits senesce at the same rate? Ecology and Evolution, 5: 4365-4375
Reavey, CE, Warnock, ND, Vogel, H & Cotter, SC (2014) Trade-offs between personal immunity and reproduction in the burying beetle, N. vespilloides. Behavioural Ecology, 25: 415-423.
Cotter, SC, Littlefair, JE, Grantham, PJ & Kilner, RM (2013) A direct physiological trade-off between personal and social immunity. Journal of Animal Ecology, 82:846-853.
Ponton, F, Wilson, K, Holmes, AJ, Cotter, SC, Raubenheimer, D and Simpson, SJ (2013) Integrating nutrition and immunology: A new frontier. Journal of Insect Physiology, 59:130-137.
Cotter, SC & Kilner, RM. (2010) Sexual division of antibacterial resource defence in breeding burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides,Journal of Animal Ecology, 79: 35-43 (Cover image for this issue).
Ward, RJS, Cotter, SC, & Kilner, RM. (2009) Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict brood desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, Behavioral Ecology, 20: 1274-1281 (Cover image for this issue).
Povey, SR, Cotter, SC, Simpson, SJ, Lee, KP & Wilson, K (2009) Can the protein costs of bacterial resistance be offset by altered feeding behaviour? Journal of Animal Ecology, 78: 437-446.
Cotter, SC, Myatt, JP, Benskin, CMH & Wilson, K (2008) Selection for cuticular melanism reveals immune function and life-history trade-offs in Spodoptera littoralis.Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21: 1744-1754.
Cotter, SC, Beveridge, M & Simmons, LW (2008) Male morph predicts investment in larval immune function in the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus. Behavioral Ecology, 19: 331-337.
Fitt, GP & Cotter, SC (2005) The Helicoverpa problem in Australia In: Heliothis/ Helicoverpa Management: Emerging trends and strategies for future research H.C. Sharma (Ed). Pg 45-61, Oxford and IBH publishing
Cotter, SC & Wilson, K (2004) Costs of resistance: genetic correlations and potential trade-offs in an insect immune system. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 17:421-429.
Cotter, SC, Hails, RS, Cory, JS & Wilson, K (2004) Density-dependent prophylaxis and condition-dependent immune function in Lepidopteran larvae: a multivariate approach. Journal of Animal Ecology, 73: 283-293.