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  • Crosby, L, Cotter, SC & Varga, S  (2025). Harnessing entomopathogenic fungi: A meta‐analysis on their role as plant growth promoters.  ​Plants People Planet.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70053
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  • Holdbrook, R, Randall, JL, Reavey, CE, Andongma, AA, Tummala, Y, Simpson, SJ, Smith, JA, Cotter, SC & Wilson, K  (2025). Nutribloods: novel synthetic lepidopteran haemolymphs for understanding insect-microbe interactions in vitro. ​Physiological Entomology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/phen.12486
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  • Holdbrook, R, Reavey, CE, Randall, JL, Andongma, AA, Tummala, Y, Rice, A,  Simpson, SJ, Smith, JA, ​​Cotter, SC ​& Wilson, K  (2025). Combining in vivo and in vitro approaches to better understand host-pathogen nutritional interactions. Journal of Animal Ecology,  https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70000 
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  • 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, 33: 2109-2130. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02848-3
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  • Holdbrook, R, Randall, JL, Reavey, CE, Andongma, AA, Tummala, Y, Simpson, SJ, Smith, JA, Cotter, SC & Wilson, K  (2024). Nutribloods: novel synthetic lepidopteran haemolymphs for understanding insect-microbe interactions in vitro. ​BioRxiv 2024.04.17.589926. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.17.589926
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  • Holdbrook, R, Andongma, AA, Randall, JL, Reavey, CE, Tummala, Y,  Wright, GA, Simpson, SJ, Smith, JA,  Wilson, K & Cotter, SC,  (2024). The transition from diet to blood: exploring homeostasis in the insect haemolymph nutrient pool. Physiological Entomology, 49:227-243. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/PHEN.12440
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  • 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. 
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Curwen, AE, Still, RL, Angell, JW, Eady, PE, Millson, SH, Staton, GJ, Evans, NJ, Duncan, JS, Cotter, SC & Clegg, SR (2023). A reduced potential for lameness bacterial transmission by Lucilia sericata larvae and flies through metamorphosis. Research in Veterinary Science, 163, 104967.
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  • Lindstedt, C, Boncoraglio, G, Cotter, SC, Gilbert JDG & Kilner, RM (2022) Parental care shapes the evolution of aposematism and provides lifelong protection against predators.  BioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/644864
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  • Bushby, EV, Cotter, SC, Wilkinson, A, Friel, M  & Collins, LM. (2022) Judgement bias during pregnancy in domestic pigs. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9: 881101. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.881101
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  • Cotter, SC & Al Shareefi, E (2022) Nutritional ecology, infection and immune defence - exploring the mechanisms. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 49: 1-7 
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  • 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.
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  • 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. 
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  • 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 ​
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  • 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 Ecology and Evolution, 11: 1164–1181
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  • ​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
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  • Ponton, F, Morimoto, J, Robinson, K, Kumar, SS, Cotter, SC, Wilson, K & Simpson, SJ (2020) Macronutrients modulate survival to infection and immunity in Drosophila. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 460-470
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  • Cotter, SC, Reavey, CE, Tummala, 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 
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  • 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  
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  • Al Shareefi, E & Cotter, SC (2019) The nutritional ecology of maturation in a carnivorous insect. Behavioral Ecology  30: 256-266   
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  • 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.
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  • 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 
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Miller, CVL & Cotter, SC (2017) Pathogen and immune dynamics during maturation are explained by Batemans Principle. Ecological Entomology, 42: 28-38
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  • 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.
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  • Reavey, CE, Silva, FW & Cotter, SC (2015). Bacterial infection increases reproductive investment in burying beetles. Insects, 6: 926-942.
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  • 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
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  • Reavey, CE, Beare, L & Cotter, SC (2014) Parental care influences social immunity in burying beetle larvae. Ecological Entomology, 39: 395-398.
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  • 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.
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  • 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. 
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  • Wilson K & Cotter SC (2013) Host-Parasite Interactions and the Evolution of Immune Defense. Advances in the Study of Behaviour, 45: 81-174
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  • 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.
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  • 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. 
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  • Ponton, F, Wilson, K, Cotter, SC, Raubenheimer, D & Simpson, SJ. (2011) Nutritional Immunology: A Multi-Dimensional Approach. PLoS Pathogens, 7(12): e1002223.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Cotter, SC, Topham, E.A., Price, AJP & Kilner, RM. (2010) Fitness costs associated with mounting a social immune response. Ecology Letters, 13:1114-1123.
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  • Cotter, SC & Kilner, RM (2010) Personal immunity versus social immunity? Behavioral Ecology, 21: 663-668.
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  • 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).
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  • 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).
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Cotter, SC & Edwards, OR (2006) Quantitative genetics of preference and performance in the noctuid moth, Helicoverpa armigera. Heredity, 96: 396-402.
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  • 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
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  • 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)
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Cotter, SC & Wilson, K (2002) Heritability of immunocompetence in the caterpillar Spodoptera littoralis. Heredity, 88: 229-234.
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  • Wilson, K, Cotter, SC, Reeson, AF & Pell, JK (2001). Melanism and disease resistance in insects. Ecology Letters, 4: 637-649.
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