PUBLICATIONS

  • Ilardi, M, Cotter, SC & Caruso, T (In prep) Scavenging beetles regulate and stabilise the response of soil animal communities to a pulse input of nutrients. 
  • Lindstedt, C, Boncoraglio, G, Cotter, SC, Gilbert JDG & Kilner, RM (In Review) Parental care shapes the evolution of aposematism and provides lifelong protection against predators
  • Ponton, F, Morimoto, J, Robinson, K, Kumar, SS, Cotter, SC, Wilson, K & Simpson, SJ (In Press) Macronutrients modulate survival to infection and immunity in Drosophila. Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Cotter, SC, Reavey, CE, Tumala, Y, Randall, JL, Holdbrook, R, Ponton, F, Simpson, SJ, Smith, JA  & Wilson, K.  (2019) Diet modulates the relationship between immune gene expression and functional immune responses. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 109: 128-141 
  • Soulsbury, CD, Bateson, M, Braithwaite, V, Brash, M, Cotter, SC, Elwood, RW, Gray, H, Smith, L, Whiting, M, Wilkinson, A &  Collins, LM, (In Revision) How to…welfare and ethical considerations in research involving the use of wild animals. Journal of Animal Ecology 
  • 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    https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0207
  • 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   https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656
  • 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
  • Miller, CVL & Cotter, SC (2017) Pathogen and immune dynamics during maturation are explained by Batemans Principle. Ecological Entomology, 42: 28-38
  • 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, Silva, FW & Cotter, SC (2015). Bacterial infection increases reproductive investment in burying beetles. Insects, 6: 926-942.
  • 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, Beare, L & Cotter, SC (2014) Parental care influences social immunity in burying beetle larvae. Ecological Entomology, 39: 395-398.
  • 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.
  • Povey, SR, Cotter, SC, Simpson, SJ & Wilson, K (2014) Dynamics of macronutrient self-medication and illness-induced anorexia in virally infected insects. Journal of Animal Ecology, 83: 245-255. 
  • Wilson K & Cotter SC (2013) Host-Parasite Interactions and the Evolution of Immune Defense. Advances in the Study of Behaviour, 45: 81-174
  • 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. 
  • Ponton, F, Wilson, K, Cotter, SC, Raubenheimer, D & Simpson, SJ. (2011) Nutritional Immunology: A Multi-Dimensional Approach. PLoS Pathogens, 7(12): e1002223.
  • Cotter, SC, Ward, RJS & Kilner, RM. (2011) Age-specific reproductive investment in female burying beetles: independent effects of state and risk of death. Functional Ecology, 25:652-660.
  • Cotter, SC, Simpson, SJ, Raubenheimer, D & Wilson, K. (2011) Macronutrient balance mediates trade-offs amongst competing life-history and immune traits. Functional Ecology, 25:186-198.
  • Cotter, SC, Topham, E.A., Price, AJP & Kilner, RM. (2010) Fitness costs associated with mounting a social immune response. Ecology Letters, 13:1114-1123.
  • Cotter, SC & Kilner, RM (2010) Personal immunity versus social immunity? Behavioral Ecology, 21: 663-668.
  • 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.
  • Wilson, K & Cotter, SC (2009) Density-dependent prophylaxis in insects. In: Insects and Phenotypic Plasticity: Mechanisms and Consequences. TN Ananthakrishnan & DW Whitman (Eds) pp. 137-176. Science Publishers, Inc., Plymouth, UK.
  • 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.
  • Cotter, SC & Edwards, OR (2006) Quantitative genetics of preference and performance in the noctuid moth, Helicoverpa armigera. Heredity, 96: 396-402.
  • 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
  • Clement, SL, Ridsdill-Smith, J & Cotter, SC (2005) First-instar Helicoverpa punctigera larvae: feeding responses and survival on desi chickpea and the wild relative Cicer bijugum. International Chickpea and Pigeonpea Newsletter 12, 35-37 (extension paper)
  • 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.
  • Cotter, SC & Wilson, K (2002) Heritability of immunocompetence in the caterpillar Spodoptera littoralis. Heredity, 88: 229-234.
  • Wilson, K, Cotter, SC, Reeson, AF & Pell, JK (2001). Melanism and disease resistance in insects. Ecology Letters, 4: 637-649.

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