Publications

Chapman, E. G., Pilkington, J. G., & Pemberton, J. M. (2023). Correlates of early reproduction and apparent fitness consequences in male Soay sheep. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e10058.

McKenna-Ell, C., Ravindran, S., Pilkington, J. G., Pemberton, J. M., Nussey, D. H., & Froy, H. (2023). Trait-dependent associations between early-and late-life reproduction in a wild mammal. Biology Letters, 19, 20230050.

Stoffel, M.A., Johnston, S.E., Pilkington, J.G. and Pemberton, J.M. (2023) Purifying and balancing selection on embryonic semi-lethal haplotypes in a wild mammal. Evolution Letters,  https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrad053.

Sweeny, A. R., Lemon, H., Ibrahim, A., Watt, K. A., Wilson, K., Childs, D. Z., Nussey, D.H., Free, A. & McNally, L. (2023). A mixed-model approach for estimating drivers of microbiota community composition and differential taxonomic abundance. MSystems, 8, e00040-23.

Sweeny, A. R., Y. Corripio-Miyar, X. Bal, A. D. Hayward, J. G. Pilkington, T. N. McNeilly, D. H. Nussey, and F. Kenyon. 2022. Longitudinal dynamics of co-infecting gastrointestinal parasites in a wild sheep population. Parasitology 149:593-604.

Regan, C. E., J. M. Pemberton, J. G. Pilkington, and P. T. Smiseth. 2022. Having a better home range does not reduce the cost of reproduction in Soay sheep. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35:1352-1362.

James, C., J. M. Pemberton, P. Navarro, and S. Knott. 2022. The impact of SNP density on quantitative genetic analyses of body size traits in a wild population of Soay sheep. Ecology and Evolution 12.

Hunter, D. C., B. Ashraf, C. Berenos, P. A. Ellis, S. E. Johnston, A. J. Wilson, J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, and J. Slate. 2022. Using genomic prediction to detect microevolutionary change of a quantitative trait. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 289.

Hayward, A. D., J. M. Behnke, D. Z. Childs, Y. Corripio-Miyar, A. Fenton, M. D. Fraser, F. Kenyon, T. N. McNeilly, R. J. Pakeman, A. B. Pedersen, J. M. Pemberton, A. R. Sweeny, K. Wilson, and J. G. Pilkington. 2022. Long-term temporal trends in gastrointestinal parasite infection in wild Soay sheep. Parasitology 149:1749-1759.

de Villemereuil, P., A. Charmantier, D. Arlt, P. Bize, P. Brekke, L. Brouwer, A. Cockburn, S. D. Cote, S. Dobson, S. R. Evans, M. Festa-Bianchet, M. Gamelon, S. Hamel, J. Hegelbach, K. Jerstad, B. Kempenaers, L. E. B. Kruuk, J. Kumpula, T. Kvalnes, A. G. McAdam, S. E. McFarlane, M. B. Morrissey, T. Part, J. M. Pemberton, A. Qvarnstrom, O. W. Rostad, J. Schroeder, J. C. Senar, B. C. Sheldon, M. van de Pol, M. E. Visser, N. T. Wheelwright, J. Tufto, and L. M. Chevin. 2022. Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals (vol 117, pg 31969, 2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119.

Corripio-Miyar, Y., A. Hayward, H. Lemon, A. R. Sweeny, X. Bal, F. Kenyon, J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, D. H. Nussey, and T. N. McNeilly. 2022. Functionally distinct T-helper cell phenotypes predict resistance to different types of parasites in a wild mammal. Scientific Reports 12.

Bonnet, T., M. B. Morrissey, P. de Villemereuil, S. C. Alberts, P. Arcese, L. D. Bailey, S. Boutin, P. Brekke, L. J. N. Brent, G. Camenisch, A. Charmantier, T. H. Clutton-Brock, A. Cockburn, D. W. Coltman, A. Courtiol, E. Davidian, S. R. Evans, J. G. Ewen, M. Festa-Bianchet, C. de Franceschi, L. Gustafsson, O. P. Honer, T. M. Houslay, L. F. Keller, M. Manser, A. G. McAdam, E. McLean, P. Nietlisbach, H. L. Osmond, J. M. Pemberton, E. Postma, J. M. Reid, A. Rutschmann, A. W. Santure, B. Sheldon, J. Slate, C. Teplitsky, M. E. Visser, B. Wachter, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2022. Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals. Science 376:1012-+.

Sparks, A. M., S. E. Johnston, I. Handel, J. G. Pilkington, J. Berry, J. M. Pemberton, D. H. Nussey, and R. J. Mellanby. 2021. Vitamin D status is heritable and under environment-dependent selection in the wild. Molecular Ecology:15. doi:10.1111/mec.16318

Huang, W., K. L. Dicks, K. T. Ballingall, S. E. Johnston, A. M. Sparks, K. Watt, J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton. 2022. Associations between MHC class II variation and phenotypic traits in a free-living sheep population. Molecular Ecology 31:902-915. doi:10.1111/mec.16265

Huang, W., K. L. Dicks, J. D. Hadfield, S. E. Johnston, K. T. Ballingall, and J. M. Pemberton. 2022. Contemporary selection on MHC genes in a free-living ruminant population. Ecology Letters:11. doi:10.1111/ele.13957

Dicks, K. L., J. M. Pemberton, K. T. Ballingall, and S. E. Johnston. 2021. MHC class IIa haplotypes derived by high-throughput SNP screening in an isolated sheep population. G3-Genes Genomes Genetics 11:11. doi:10.1093/g3journal/jkab200

Crawley, M. J., R. J. Pakeman, S. D. Albon, J. G. Pilkington, I. R. Stevenson, M. B. Morrissey, O. R. Jones, E. Allan, A. I. Bento, H. Hipperson, G. Asefa, and J. M. Pemberton. 2021. The dynamics of vegetation grazed by a food-limited population of Soay sheep on St Kilda. Journal of Ecology 109:3988-4006. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13782 

Ashraf, B., D. C. Hunter, C. Bérénos, P. A. Ellis, S. E. Johnston, J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, and J. Slate. 2021. Genomic prediction in the wild: A case study in Soay sheep. Molecular Ecology  https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16262

Paquet, M., Knape, J., Arlt, D., Forslund, P., Part, T., Flagstad, O., Jones, C. G., Nicoll, M. A. C., Norris, K., Pemberton, J. M., Sand, H., Svensson, L., Tatayah, V., Wabakken, P., Wikenros, C., Akesson, M., Low, M. (2021) Integrated population models poorly estimate the demographic contribution of immigration. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, doi:10.1111/2041-210x.13667 (2021).

Huang, W., Pilkington, J. G. & Pemberton, J. M. (2021) Patterns of MHC-dependent sexual selection in a free-living population of sheep. Mol Ecol, doi:10.1111/mec.15938 (2021).

Stoffel, M. A., Johnston, S. E., Pilkington, J. G. & Pemberton, J. M. (2021) Genetic architecture and lifetime dynamics of inbreeding depression in a wild mammal. Nature Comms 12, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23222-9 (2021).

Stoffel, M. A., Johnston, S. E., Pilkington, J. G. & Pemberton, J. M. (2021) Mutation load decreases with haplotype age in wild Soay sheep. Evol Lett 5, 187-195, doi:10.1002/evl3.229 (2021).

Huang, W. & Pemberton, J. M. (2021) Within-trio tests provide little support for post-copulatory selection on major histocompatibility complex haplotypes in a free-living population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 288, doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2862 (2021).

Ravindran, S., Froy, H., Underwood, S.L., Dorrens, J., Seeker, L.A., Watt, K., Wilbourn, R.V., Pilkington, J.G., Harrington, L., Pemberton, J.M. and Nussey, D.H., The association between female reproductive performance and leukocyte telomere length in wild Soay sheep. Molecular Ecology (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16175

Froy, H., Underwood, S. L., Dorrens, J., Seeker, L. A., Watt, K., Wilbourn, R. V., Pilkington, J. G., Harrington, L., Pemberton, J. M., Nussey, D. H. (2021)  Heritable variation in telomere length predicts mortality in Soay sheep. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 118, doi:10.1073/pnas.2020563118.

Sparks, A. M., A. D. Hayward, K. Watt, J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, S. E. Johnston, T. N. McNeilly, and D. H. Nussey. 2020. Maternally derived anti-helminth antibodies predict offspring survival in a wild mammal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 287. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1931

Regan, C. E., J. M. Pemberton, J. G. Pilkington, P. T. Smiseth, and A. J. Wilson. 2020. Linking genetic merit to sparse behavioral data: behavior and genetic effects on lamb growth in Soay sheep. Behavioral Ecology 31:114-122. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz166

Kentie, R., S. M. Clegg, S. Tuljapurkar, J. M. Gaillard, and T. Coulson. 2020. Life-history strategy varies with the strength of competition in a food-limited ungulate population. Ecology Letters 23:811-820. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13470

de Villemereuil, P., A. Charmantier, D. Arlt, P. Bize, P. Brekke, L. Brouwer, A. Cockburn, S. D. Côté, F. S. Dobson, S. R. Evans, M. Festa-Bianchet, M. Gamelon, S. Hamel, J. Hegelbach, K. Jerstad, B. Kempenaers, L. E. B. Kruuk, J. Kumpula, T. Kvalnes, A. G. McAdam, S. E. McFarlane, M. B. Morrissey, T. Pärt, J. M. Pemberton, A. Qvarnström, O. W. Røstad, J. Schroeder, J. C. Senar, B. C. Sheldon, M. van de Pol, M. E. Visser, N. T. Wheelwright, J. Tufto, and L.-M. Chevin. 2020. Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America:202009003. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009003117

Regan, C.E., Pemberton, J.M., Pilkington, J.G., Smiseth, P.T., Wilson, A.J. (2020) Linking genetic merit to sparse behavioral data: behaviour and genetic effects on lamb growth in Soay sheep.Behavioral Ecology 31:114-122. doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz166

Kentie, R, Clegg, S.M., Tuljapurkar, S., Gaillard, J-M. and Coulson, T. (2020) Life‐history strategy varies with the strength of competition in a food‐limited ungulate population. Ecology Letters. doi.org/10.1111/ele.13470

Hunter, D. C., Pemberton, J. M., Pilkington, J. G., & Morrissey, M. B. (2019). Pedigree-based estimation of reproductive value. Journal of Heredity, 110(4), 433-444.

Sparks, A.M., Watt, K., Sinclair, R., Pilkington, J.G., Pemberton, J.M., McNeilly, T.N., Nussey, D.H. and Johnston, S.E. (2019) The genetic architecture of helminth-specific immune responses in a wild population of Soay sheep (Ovis aries). PLoS genetics, 15(11). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008461

Hayward, A., Pilkington, J.G., Wilson, K., McNeilly T. and Watt, K. (2019) Reproductive effort influences intra-seasonal variation in parasite-specific antibody responses in wild Soay sheep. Functional Ecology 33:1307-13. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13330

Dicks, K.L., Pemberton J.M. and Ballingall, K.T. (2019) Characterisation of major histocompatibility complex class IIa haplotypes in an island sheep population. Immunogenetics 71:383-393. doi.org/10.1007/s00251-019-01109-w

Froy H, Sparks A M, Watt K, et al. 2019. Senescence in immunity against helminth parasites predicts adult mortality in a wild mammal. Science, 2019, 365(6459): 1296-1298. doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw5822

Hindle, B.J., Pilkington, J.G., Pemberton, J.M. & Childs, D.Z. (2019) Cumulative weather effects can impact across the whole life cycle. Global Change Biology, 25, 3282-3293. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14742

Leivesley, J. A., Bussiere, L. F., Pemberton, J. M., Pilkington, J. G., Wilson, K., & Hayward, A. D. 2019. Survival costs of reproduction are mediated by parasite infection in wild Soay sheep. Ecology letters. doi.org/10.1111/ele.13275

Colchero, F., Jones, O.R., Conde, D.A., Hodgson, D., Zajitschek, F., Schmidt, B.R., Malo, A.F., Alberts, S.C., Becker, P.H., Bouwhuis, S. and Bronikowski, A.M., 2019. The diversity of population responses to environmental change. Ecology letters, 22(2), pp.342-353. doi.org/10.1111/ele.13195

Douhard, M., Festa-Bianchet, M., Hamel, S., Nussey, D.H., Côté, S.D., Pemberton, J.M. and Pelletier, F., 2019. Maternal longevity and offspring sex in wild ungulates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1896), p.20181968. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1968

Goudet, J., Kay, T., Weir, B.S. (2018).  How to estimate kinship.  Molecular Ecology 27: 4121-         4135. doi.org/10.1111/mec.14833

Sparks, A.M., Watt, K., Sinclair, R., Pilkington, J.G., Pemberton, J.M., Johnston, S.E., McNeilly, T.N. and Nussey, D.H., 2018. Natural Selection on Antihelminth Antibodies in a Wild Mammal Population. The American Naturalist, 192(6), pp.745-760. doi.org/10.1086/700115

Geiger, M., Marron, S., West, A. R., & Asher, R. J. 2018. Influences of Domestication and Island Evolution on Dental Growth in Sheep. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. doi.org/10.1007/s10914-018-9452-y

Vicari, M., Puentes, A., Granath, G., Georgeff, J., Strathdee, F. and Bazely, D.R., 2018. Unpacking multi-trophic herbivore-grass-endophyte interactions: feedbacks across different scales in vegetation responses to Soay sheep herbivory. The Science of Nature, 105(11-12), p.66. doi.org/10.1007/s00114-018-1590-9

Hunter, D.C., Pemberton, J.M., Pilkington, J.G. and Morrissey, M.B., 2018. Quantification and decomposition of environment‐selection relationships. Evolution, 72(4), pp.851-866. doi.org/10.1111/evo.13461

Froy, H., Börger, L., Regan, C.E., Morris, A., Morris, S., Pilkington, J.G., Crawley, M.J., Clutton‐Brock, T.H., Pemberton, J.M. and Nussey, D.H., 2018. Declining home range area predicts reduced late‐life survival in two wild ungulate populations. Ecology letters, 21(7), pp.1001-1009.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12965

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Hayward, A., Pemberton, J.M., Berenos, C., Wilson, A.J., Pilkington, J.G. and Kruuk, L.E., 2017. Evidence for Selection-by-Environment but Not Genotype-by-Environment Interactions for Fitness-Related Traits in a Wild Mammal Population. Genetics, pp.genetics-300498. doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.300498

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Regan, C.E., Pilkington, J.G. and Smiseth, P.T., 2017. Female Soay sheep do not adjust their maternal care behaviour to the quality of their home range. Behavioral Ecology, 28(4), pp. 962-973. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arx033

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Wilkie, H., Riggio, V., Matika, O., Nicol, L., Watt, K.A., Sinclair, R., Sparks, A.M., Nussey, D.H., Pemberton, J.M., Houston, R.D. and Hopkins, J., 2017. A candidate gene approach to study nematode resistance traits in naturally infected sheep. Veterinary Parasitology, 243, pp. 71-74. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2017.06.010

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Froy, H., Bird, E.J., Wilbourn, R.V., Fairlie, J., Underwood, S.L., Salvo-Chirnside, E., Pilkington, J.G., Bérénos, C., Pemberton, J.M. and Nussey, D.H., 2017. No evidence for parental age effects on offspring leukocyte telomere length in free-living Soay sheep. Scientific reports, 7, p.9991. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09861-3

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Garnier, R., Bento, A.I., Hansen, C., Pilkington, J.G., Pemberton, J.M. and Graham, A.L., 2017. Physiological proteins in resource-limited herbivores experiencing a population die-off. The Science of Nature, 104(7-8), p.68. doi: 10.1007/s00114-017-1490-4

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Caudron, Q., Garnier, R., Pilkington, J.G., Watt, K.A., Hansen, C., Grenfell, B.T., Aboellail, T. and Graham, A.L. 2017. Robust extraction of quantitative structural information from high-variance histological images of livers from necropsied Soay sheep. Royal Society Open Science, 4(7), p.170111. doi: 10.1098/rsos.170111

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Watson, R.L., Bird, E.J., Underwood, S., Wilbourn, R.V., Fairlie, J., Watt, K., Salvo‐Chirnside, E., Pilkington, J.G., Pemberton, J.M., McNeilly, T.N. and Froy, H., Nussey, D.N. 2017. Sex differences in leukocyte telomere length in a free‐living mammal. Molecular Ecology, 26(12), pp.3230-3240.  doi: 10.1111/mec.13992

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Hamel, S., Gaillard, J.-M., Yoccoz, N. G., Albon, S., Côté, S. D., Craine, J. M., Festa-Bianchet, M., Garel, M., Lee, P., Moss, C., Nussey, D. H., Pelletier, F., Stien, A. and Tveraa, T. 2016. Cohort variation in individual body mass dissipates with age in large herbivores. Ecol Monogr, 86: 517–543. doi: 10.1002/ecm.1232

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Garnier, R., Cheung, C. K., Watt, K. A., Pilkington, J. G., Pemberton, J. M. and Graham, A. L. 2017. Joint associations of blood plasma proteins with overwinter survival of a large mammal. Ecol Lett, 20: 175–183. doi: 10.1111/ele.12719

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Watson, R. L., McNeilly, T. N., Watt, K. A., Pemberton, J. M., Pilkington, J. G., Waterfall, M., Hopper, P. R. T., Cooney, D., Zamoyska, R. and Nussey, D. H. 2016. Cellular and humoral immunity in a wild mammal: Variation with age & sex and association with overwinter survival. Ecology and Evolution, 6(24), pp.8695-8705. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2584

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Pemberton, J.M., Ellis, P.E., Pilkington, J.G. and Bérénos, C., 2016. Inbreeding depression by environment interactions in a free-living mammal population. Heredity. 118(1), pp.64-77. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2016.100

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Seeker, L.A., Holland, R., Underwood, S., Fairlie, J., Psifidi, A., Ilska, J.J., Bagnall, A., Whitelaw, B., Coffey, M., Banos, G. & Nussey, D.H. 2016. Method Specific Calibration Corrects for DNA Extraction Method Effects on Relative Telomere Length Measurements by Quantitative PCR. PLOS ONE, 11, e0164046. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0164046

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Christensen, L.L., Selman, C., Blount, J.D., Pilkington, J.G., Watt, K.A., Pemberton, J.M., Reid, J.M. & Nussey, D.H. 2016 Marker-dependent associations among oxidative stress, growth and survival during early life in a wild mammal. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 283. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.1407

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Sinclair, R., Melville, L., Sargison, F., Kenyon, F., Nussey, D., Watt, K. & Sargison, N. 2016. Gastrointestinal nematode species diversity in Soay sheep kept in a natural environment without active parasite control. Veterinary Parasitology, 227, 1–7. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2016.07.020

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Johnston SE, Bérénos C, Slate J, Pemberton JM. 2016. Conserved Genetic Architecture Underlying Individual Recombination Rate Variation in a Wild Population of Soay Sheep (Ovis aries). Genetics. 203(1):583-98. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.185553

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Bérénos, C., Ellis, P. A., Pilkington, J. G. and Pemberton, J. M. 2016. Genomic analysis reveals depression due to both individual and maternal inbreeding in a free-living mammal population. Molecular Ecology, 25: 3152–3168. doi:10.1111/mec.13681

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Thackeray, S. J., Henrys, P. A., Hemming, D., Bell, J. R., Botham, M. S., Burthe, S., Helaouet, P., Johns, D. G., Jones, I. D., Leech, D. I., Mackay, E. B., Massimino, D., Atkinson, S., Bacon, P. J., Brereton, T. M., Carvalho, L., Clutton-Brock, T. H., Duck, C., Edwards, M., Elliott, J. M., Hall, S. J. G., Harrington, R., Pearce-Higgins, J W., Høye, T. T., Kruuk, L. E. B., Pemberton, J. M., Sparks, T. H., Thompson, P. M., White, I., Winfield, I. J. & Wanless, S. 2016. Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels. Nature. 535: 241–245. doi.org/10.1038/nature18608 

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Graham, A.L., Nussey, D.H., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Longbottom, D., Maley, M., Pemberton, J.M., Pilkington, J.G., Prager, K.C., Smith, L., Watt, K.A., Wilson, K., McNeilly, T.N. & Brülisauer, F. 2016. Exposure to viral and bacterial pathogens among Soay sheep (Ovis aries) of the St Kilda archipelago. Epidemiology and infection, 1–10. DOI:10.1017/S0950268816000017

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Handel, I., Watt, K.A., Pilkington, J.G., Pemberton, J.M., Macrae, A., Scott, P., McNeilly, T.N., Berry, J.L., Clements, D.N., Nussey, D.H. & Mellanby, R.J. 2016. Vitamin D status predicts reproductive fitness in a wild sheep population. Scientific reports, 6: 18986. DOI: 10.1038/srep18986

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Fairlie, J., Holland, R., Pilkington, J.G., Pemberton, J.M., Harrington, L. & Nussey, D.H. 2016. Lifelong leukocyte telomere dynamics and survival in a free-living mammal. Aging cell, 15: 140-148. DOI: 10.1111/acel.12417

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Watt, K.A., Nussey, D.H., Maclellan, R., Pilkington, J.G. & McNeilly, T.N. 2015. Fecal antibody levels as a noninvasive method for measuring immunity to gastrointestinal nematodes in ecological studies. Ecology and Evolution, 6: 56-67. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1858

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Christensen, L.L., Selman, C., Blount, J.D., Pilkington, J.G., Watt, K.A., Pemberton, J.M., Reid, J.M. & Nussey, D.H. 2015. Plasma markers of oxidative stress are uncorrelated in a wild mammal. Ecology and evolution, 5: 5096–5108. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1771

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Regan, C.E., Pilkington, J.G., Pemberton, J.M. & Crawley, M.J. 2015. Sex differences in relationships between habitat use and reproductive performance in Soay sheep (Ovis aries). Ecology letters, 19: 171–179. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12550

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Hayward, A.D., Moorad, J., Regan, C.E., Berenos, C., Pilkington, J.G., Pemberton, J.M. & Nussey, D.H. 2015. Asynchrony of senescence among phenotypic traits in a wild mammal population. Experimental gerontology, 71: 56–68. DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2015.08.003

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Bérénos, C., Ellis, P. A., Pilkington, J. G., Lee, S. H., Gratten, J. and Pemberton, J. M. 2015. Heterogeneity of genetic architecture of body size traits in a free-living population. Molecular Ecology, 24: 1810–1830. DOI:10.1111/mec.13146

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Arthur, C., Watt, K., Nussey, D.H., Pemberton, J.M., Pilkington, J.G., Herman, J.S., Timmons, Z.L., Clements, D.N. & Scott, P.R. 2015. Osteoarthritis of the temporo-mandibular joint in free-living Soay sheep on St Kilda. Veterinary Journal, 203:120-125. DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2014.10.014

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Simmonds, E. G., & Coulson, T. 2014. Analysis of phenotypic change in relation to climatic drivers in a population of Soay sheep Ovis aries. Oikos, 124: 543–552. DOI: 10.1111/oik.01727

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Rees, M., Childs, D. Z., & Ellner, S. P. 2014. Building integral projection models: a user's guide. Journal of Animal Ecology, 83(3), 528-545. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12178

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Nussey, D.H., Watt K.W., Clark, A., Pilkington, J.G., Pemberton, J.M., Graham, A.L. & McNeilly, T.N. 2014. Multivariate immune defences and fitness in the wild: complex but ecologically important associations among plasma antibodies, health and survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Series B. 281: 20132931. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2931

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Morrissey, M.B. 2014. In search of the best methods for multivariate selection analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5: 1095-1109. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12259

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Morrissey, M.B. 2014. Selection and genetics of causally covarying traits. Evolution 68: 1748-1761. DOI: 10.1111/evo.12385 

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Jones, O.R.  et al (2014) Diversity of ageing across the tree of life. Nature, 505: 169-173. DOI: 10.1038/nature12789 

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Hayward, A.D., Nussey, D.H., Wilson, A.J., Bérénos, C., Pilkington, J.G., Watt, K.A., Pemberton, J.M. and Graham, A.L. 2014. Natural selection on individual variation in tolerance of gastrointestinal nematode infection. PLoS Biology 12:1917. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001917 

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Hayward, A.D., Garnier, R., Watt, K.A., Pilkington, J.G., Grenfell, B.T., Matthews, J.B., Pemberton, J.M., Nussey, H.H. and Graham, A.L. 2014. Heritable, heterogeneous, and costly resistance of sheep against nematodes and potential feedbacks to epidemiological dynamics.  American Naturalist 184: S58-76. DOI: 10.1086/676929

157.

Bérénos, C., Ellis, P. A., Pilkington, J. G. & Pemberton, J. M. 2014. Estimating quantitative genetic parameters in wild populations: a comparison of pedigree and genomic approaches. Molecular Ecology 14:3434-3451. DOI: 10.1111/mec.12827

156.

Langrock, R. and King, R. 2013. Maximum likelihood estimation of mark-recapture-recovery models in the presence of continuous covariates. Annals of Applied Statistics 7:1709-1732. doi:10.1214/13-AOAS644

155.

Johnston, S.E., Gratten, J., Berenos, C., Pilkington, J.G., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Pemberton J.M. and Slate, J. 2013. Life history trade-offs at a single locus maintain sexually-selected genetic variation. Nature 502: 93-93. DOI: 10.1038/nature12489

154.

Hayward, A. D.; Wilson, A. J.; Pilkington, J. G., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Pemberton, J.M. and Kruuk, L.E.B. 2013. Reproductive senescence in female Soay sheep: variation across traits and contributions of individual ageing and selective disappearance. Functional Ecology 27:184-195. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12029

153.

Feulner, P.G.D., Gratten, J., Kijas, J.W., Visscher, P.M., Pemberton, J.M. and Slate, J. 2013. Introgression and the fate of domesticated genes in a wild mammal population. Molecular Ecology 16: 4210-4221. DOI: 10.1111/mec.12378

152.

Connelly, L., Craig, B. H., Jones, B., & Alexander, C. L. 2013. Characterising The Genetic Diversity of Cryptosporidium species Within a Remote Population of Soay Sheep on St. Kilda Islands, Scotland. Applied and environmental microbiology, AEM-02823. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02823-12

151.

Brown, E. A.; Pilkington, J. G.; Nussey, D. H., Watt, K.A. Hayward, A.D., Tucker, R., Graham, A. L., Paterson, S., Beraldi, D., Pemberton, J. M. and Slate, J. 2013. Detecting genes for variation in parasite burden and immunological traits in a wild population: testing the candidate gene approach. Molecular Ecology 22: 757-773. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05757.x

150.

Preston, B. T., Stevenson, I. R., Lincoln, G. A., Monfort, S. L., Pilkington, J. G., & Wilson, K. 2012. Testes size, testosterone production and reproductive behaviour in a natural mammalian mating system. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 296-305. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01907.x

149.

Nussey, D. H., Watt, K., Pilkington, J. G., Zamoyska, R. & McNeilly, T. N. 2012. Age-related variation in immunity in a wild mammal population. Aging Cell 11: 178-180. DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00771.x

148.

Morrissey, M.B., Parker, D.J., Korsten, P., Pemberton J.M., Kruuk, L.E.B. and Wilson, A.J. 2012. The prediction of adaptive evolution: empirical application of the secondary theorem of selection and comparison to the breeder’s equation. Evolution 66: 2399-2410. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01632.x

147.

Kijas, J.W., Lenstra, J.A., Hayes, B., Boitard, S., Porto, N., Laercio, R., San Cristobal, M., Servin, B., McCulloch, R., Wahn, V., Gietzen, K., Paiva, S., Barendse, W., Ciani, E., Raadsma, H., McEwan, J., Dalrymple, B., and the International Sheep Genomics Consortium Members 2012. Genome-wide analysis of the world's sheep breeds reveals high levels of historic mixture and strong recent selection. PLoS Biology 10:e1001258. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001258

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Hayward, A.D., Wilson, A.J., Pilkington J.G., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Pemberton, J.M. and Kruuk, L.E.B. 2012 Reproductive senescence in female Soay sheep: variation across traits and contributions of individual ageing and selective disappearance. Functional Ecology 27: 184-195. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12029

145.

Gratten, J., Pilkington, J. G., Brown, E. A., Clutton-Brock, T. H., Pemberton, J. M., and Slate, J. 2012. Selection and microevolution of coat pattern are cryptic in a wild population of sheep. Molecular Ecology 21:2977-2990. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05536.x

144.

Coulson, T. 2012. Integral projections models, their construction and use in posing hypotheses in ecology. Oikos 121:1337-1350. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00035.x 

143.

Nussey, DH., Coulson, T., Delorme, D., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Pemberton, J.M., Festa-Bianchet, M., Gaillard, J.M. 2011. Patterns of body mass senescence and selective disappearance differ among three species of free-living ungulates. Ecology 10:1936-1947.

142.

Johnston, S. E., J. C. McEwan, N. K. Pickering, J. W. Kijas, D. Beraldi, J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, and J. Slate. 2011. Genome-wide association mapping identifies the genetic basis of discrete and quantitative variation in sexual weaponry in a wild sheep population. Molecular Ecology 20:2555-2566. 

141.

Hayward, A. D., A. J. Wilson, J. G. Pilkington, T. H. Clutton-Brock, J. M. Pemberton, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2011. Natural selection on a measure of parasite resistance varies across ages and environmental conditions in a wild mammal. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:1664-1676 

140.

Di Fonzo, M. M. I., F. Pelletier, T. H. Clutton-Brock, J. M. Pemberton, and T. Coulson. 2011. The population growth consequences of variation in individual heterozygosity. PloS One 6:e19667. 

139.

Childs, D. Z., T. N. Coulson, J. M. Pemberton, T. H. Clutton-Brock, and M. Rees. 2011. Predicting trait values and measuring selection in complex life histories: reproductive allocation decisions in Soay sheep. Ecology Letters 14:985-992. 

138.

Slate, J., A. W. Santure, P. G. D. Feulner, E. A. Brown, A. D. Ball, S. E. Johnston, and J. Gratten. 2010. Genome mapping in intensively studied wild vertebrate populations. Trends in Genetics 26:275-284. 

137.

Johnston, S. E., D. Beraldi, A. F. McRae, J. M. Pemberton, and J. Slate. 2010. Horn type and horn length genes map to the same chromosomal region in Soay sheep. Heredity 104:196-205. 

136.

Hernandez-Sanchez, J., A. Chatzipli, D. Beraldi, J. Gratten, J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton. 2010. Mapping quantitative trait loci in a wild population using linkage and linkage disequilibrium analyses. Genetics Research 92:273-281.

135.

Hayward, A. D., J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2010. Maternal effects and early-life performance are associated with parasite resistance across life in free-living Soay sheep. Parasitology 137:1261-1273.

134

Gratten, J., A. J. Wilson, A. F. McRae, D. Beraldi, P. M. Visscher, J. M. Pemberton, and J. Slate. 2010. No evidence for warming climate theory of coat colour change in Soay sheep: a comment on Maloney et al. Biology Letters 6:678-679. 

133

Gratten, J., J. G. Pilkington, E. A. Brown, D. Beraldi, J. M. Pemberton, and J. Slate. 2010. The genetic basis of recessive self-colour pattern in a wild sheep population. Heredity 104:206-214. 

132

Graham, A. L., A. D. Hayward, K. A. Watt, J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, and D. H. Nussey. 2010. Fitness Correlates of Heritable Variation in Antibody Responsiveness in a Wild Mammal. Science 330:662-665.

131

Gibson, W., J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton. 2010. Trypanosoma melophagium from the sheep ked Melophagus ovinus on the island of St Kilda. Parasitology 137:1799-1804. 

130

Ezard, T. H. G. and T. Coulson. 2010. How sensitive are elasticities of long-run stochastic growth to how environmental variability is modelled? Ecological Modelling 221:191-200. 

129

Craig, B. H., J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton. 2010. Sex ratio and morphological polymorphism in an isolated, endemic Teladorsagia circumcincta population. Journal of Helminthology 84:208-215. 

128

Coulson, T., S. Tuljapurkar, and D. Z. Childs. 2010. Using evolutionary demography to link life history theory, quantitative genetics and population ecology. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:1226-1240. 

127

Clutton-Brock, T. and B. C. Sheldon. 2010. Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25:562-573. 

126

Wilson, A. J., J. M. Pemberton, J. G. Pilkington, T. H. Clutton-Brock, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2009. Trading offspring size for number in a variable environment: selection on reproductive investment in female Soay sheep. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:354-364 

125

Tavecchia, G., P. Besbeas, T. Coulson, B. J. T. Morgan, and T. H. Clutton-Brock. 2009. Estimating Population Size and Hidden Demographic Parameters with State-Space Modeling. American Naturalist 173:722-733. 

124

Robinson, M. R., A. J. Wilson, J. G. Pilkington, T. H. Clutton-Brock, J. M. Pemberton, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2009. The Impact of Environmental Heterogeneity on Genetic Architecture in a Wild Population of Soay Sheep. Genetics 181:1639-1648. 

123

Ozgul, A., S. Tuljapurkar, T. G. Benton, J. M. Pemberton, T. H. Clutton-Brock, and T. Coulson. 2009. The Dynamics of Phenotypic Change and the Shrinking Sheep of St. Kilda. Science 325:464-467. 

122.

Nussey, D. H., J. M. Pemberton, J. G. Pilkington, and J. D. Blount. 2009. Life history correlates of oxidative damage in a free-living mammal population. Functional Ecology 23:809-817. 

121.

Korsten, P., T. Clutton-Brock, J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2009. Sexual conflict in twins: male co-twins reduce fitness of female Soay sheep. Biology Letters 5:663-666.

120.

Hayward, A. D., A. J. Wilson, J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2009. Ageing in a variable habitat: environmental stress affects senescence in parasite resistance in St Kilda Soay sheep. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 276:3477-3485 

119.

Craig, B. H., O. R. Jones, J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton. 2009. Re-establishment of nematode infra-community and host survivorship in wild Soay sheep following anthelmintic treatment. Veterinary Parasitology 161:47-52. 

118.

Chessa, B., F. Pereira, F. Arnaud, A. Amorim, F. Goyache, I. Mainland, R. R. Kao, J. M. Pemberton, D. Beraldi, M. J. Stear, A. Alberti, M. Pittau, L. Iannuzzi, M. H. Banabazi, R. R. Kazwala, Y.-p. Zhang, J. J. Arranz, B. A. Ali, Z. Wang, M. Uzun, M. M. Dione, I. Olsaker, L.-E. Holm, U. Saarma, S. Ahmad, N. Marzanov, E. Eythorsdottir, M. J. Holland, P. Ajmone-Marsan, M. W. Bruford, J. Kantanen, T. E. Spencer, and M. Palmarini. 2009. Revealing the History of Sheep Domestication Using Retrovirus Integrations. Science 324:532-536.

117.

Slate, J. 2008. Robustness of linkage maps in natural populations: a simulation study. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 275:695-702. 

116.

Robinson, M. R., J. G. Pilkington, T. H. Clutton-Brock, J. M. Pemberton, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2008. Environmental heterogeneity generates fluctuating selection on a secondary sexual trait. Current Biology 18:751-757. 

115.

King, R., S. P. Brooks, and T. Coulson. 2008. Analyzing Complex Capture-Recapture Data in the Presence of Individual and Temporal Covariates and Model Uncertainty. Biometrics 64:1187-1195. 

114.

Jones, O. R., J.-M. Gaillard, S. Tuljapurkar, J. S. Alho, K. B. Armitage, P. H. Becker, P. Bize, J. Brommer, A. Charmantier, M. Charpentier, T. Clutton-Brock, F. S. Dobson, M. Festa-Bianchet, L. Gustafsson, H. Jensen, C. G. Jones, B.-G. Lillandt, R. McCleery, J. Merila, P. Neuhaus, M. A. C. Nicoll, K. Norris, M. K. Oli, J. Pemberton, H. Pietiainen, T. H. Ringsby, A. Roulin, B.-E. Saether, J. M. Setchell, B. C. Sheldon, P. M. Thompson, H. Weimerskirch, E. J. Wickings, and T. Coulson. 2008. Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast-slow life-history continuum. Ecology Letters 11:664-673. 

113.

Gratten, J., A. J. Wilson, A. F. McRae, D. Beraldi, P. M. Visscher, J. M. Pemberton, and J. Slate. 2008. A localized negative genetic correlation constrains microevolution of coat color in wild sheep. Science 319:318-320. 

112.

Ezard, T. H. G., J. M. Gaillard, M. J. Crawley, and T. Coulson. 2008. Habitat dependence and correlations between elasticities of long-term growth rates. American Naturalist 172:424-430. 

111.

Craig, B. H., L. J. Tempest, J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton. 2008. Metazoan-protozoan parasite co-infections and host body weight in St Kilda Soay sheep. Parasitology 135:433-441 

110.

Coulson, T., T. H. G. Ezard, F. Pelletier, G. Tavecchia, N. C. Stenseth, D. Z. Childs, J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, L. E. B. Kruuk, T. H. Clutton-Brock, and M. J. Crawley. 2008. Estimating the functional form for the density dependence from life history data. Ecology 89:1661-1674.

109.

Wilson, A. J., J. M. Pemberton, J. G. Pilkington, T. H. Clutton-Brock, D. W. Coltman, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2007. Quantitative genetics of growth and cryptic evolution of body size in an island population. Evolutionary Ecology 21:337-356. 

108.

Sims, M., D. A. Elston, A. Larkham, D. H. Nussey, and S. D. Albon. 2007. Identifying when weather influences life-history traits of grazing herbivores. Journal of Animal Ecology 76:761-770. 

107.

Robinson, M. R. and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2007. Function of weaponry in females: the use of horns in intrasexual competition for resources in female Soay sheep. Biology Letters 3:651-654. 

106.

Pelletier, F., T. Clutton-Brock, J. Pemberton, S. Tuljapurkar, and T. Coulson. 2007. The evolutionary demography of ecological change: Linking trait variation and population growth. Science 315:1571-1574. 

105.

Morrissey, M. B., A. J. Wilson, J. M. Pemberton, and M. M. Ferguson. 2007. A framework for power and sensitivity analyses for quantitative genetic studies of natural populations, and case studies in Soay sheep (Ovis aries). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20:2309-2321. 

104.

Gratten, J., D. Beraldi, B. V. Lowder, A. F. McRae, P. M. Visscher, J. M. Pemberton, and J. Slate. 2007. Compelling evidence that a single nucleotide substitution in TYRP1 is responsible for coat-colour polymorphism in a free-living population of Soay sheep. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 274:619-626. 

103.

Ezard, T., J.-M. Gaillard, J. M. Pemberton, M. J. Crawley, and T. Coulson. 2007. Dynamic elasticities of Soay sheep in stochastic environments. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts.

102.

Craig, B. H., J. G. Pilkington, L. E. B. Kruuk, and J. M. Pemberton. 2007. Epidemiology of parasitic protozoan infections in Soay sheep (Ovis aries L.) on St Kilda. Parasitology 134:9-21. 

101.

Chen, X. and B.-L. Li. 2007. Assessing the relative importance of intrinsic and extrinsic influence on sheep population dynamics on Hirta Island, UK. Journal for Nature Conservation 15:54-58. 

100.

Beraldi, D., A. F. McRae, J. Gratten, J. Slate, P. M. Visscher, and J. M. Pemberton. 2007. Mapping quantitative trait loci underlying fitness-related traits in a free-living sheep population. Evolution 61:1403-1416. 

Beraldi, D., A. F. McRae, J. Gratten, J. G. Pilkington, J. Slate, P. M. Visscher, and J. M. Pemberton. 2007. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping of resistance to strongyles and coccidia in the free-living Soay sheep (Ovis aries). International Journal for Parasitology 37:121-129. 

Wilson, A. J., J. M. Pemberton, J. G. Pilkington, D. W. Coltman, D. V. Mifsud, T. H. Clutton-Brock, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2006. Environmental coupling of selection and heritability limits evolution. Plos Biology 4:1270-1275.

Smith, L. A., P. C. L. White, and M. R. Hutchings. 2006. Effect of the nutritional environment and reproductive investment on herbivore-parasite interactions in grazing environments. Behavioral Ecology 17:591-596. 

Ruckstuhl, K. E., A. Manica, A. D. C. MacColl, J. G. Pilkington, and T. H. Clutton-Brock. 2006. The effects of castration, sex ratio and population density on social segregation and habitat use in Soay sheep. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59:694-703.

Robinson, M. R., J. G. Pilkington, T. H. Clutton-Brock, J. M. Pemberton, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2006. Live fast, die young: Trade-offs between fitness components and sexually antagonistic selection on weaponry in Soay sheep. Evolution 60:2168-2181. 

McRae, A. F. and D. Beraldi. 2006. Examination of a region showing linkage map discrepancies across sheep breeds. Mammalian Genome 17:346-353.

King, R., S. P. Brooks, B. J. T. Morgan, and T. Coulson. 2006. Factors influencing soay sheep survival: A Bayesian analysis. Biometrics 62:211-220. 

Jones, O. R., J. G. Pilkington, and M. J. Crawley. 2006. Distribution of a naturally fluctuating ungulate population among heterogeneous plant communities: ideal and free? Journal of Animal Ecology 75:1387-1392. 

Jones, O. R., R. M. Anderson, and J. G. Pilkington. 2006. Parasite-induced anorexia in a free-ranging mammalian herbivore: an experimental test using Soay sheep. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie 84:685-692. 

Csillery, K., T. Johnson, D. Beraldi, T. Clutton-Brock, D. Coltman, B. Hansson, G. Spong, and J. M. Pemberton. 2006. Performance of marker-based relatedness estimators in natural populations of outbred vertebrates. Genetics 173:2091-2101. 

Craig, B. H., J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton. 2006. Gastrointestinal nematode species burdens and host mortality in a feral sheep population. Parasitology 133:485-496. 

Craig, B. H., J. G. Pilkington, L. E. B. Kruuk, B. Wimmer, J. M. Pemberton, and Medimond. 2006. Parasite diversity in Soay sheep on St. Kilda.

Coulson, T., T. G. Benton, P. Lundberg, S. R. X. Dall, B. E. Kendall, and J. M. Gaillard. 2006. Estimating individual contributions to population growth: evolutionary fitness in ecological time. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 273:547-555. 

Berryman, A. and M. Lima. 2006. Deciphering the effects of climate on animal populations: Diagnostic analysis provides new interpretation of soay sheep dynamics. American Naturalist 168:784-795.

Beraldi, D., A. F. McRae, J. Gratten, J. Slate, P. M. Visscher, and J. M. Pemberton. 2006. Development of a linkage map and mapping of phenotypic polymorphisms in a free-living population of Soay sheep (Ovis aries). Genetics 173:1521-1537. 

Benton, T. G., S. J. Plaistow, and T. N. Coulson. 2006. Complex population dynamics and complex causation: devils, details and demography. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 273:1173-1181. 

Wilson, A. J., J. G. Pilkington, J. M. Pemberton, D. W. Coltman, A. D. J. Overall, K. A. Byrne, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2005. Selection on mothers and offspring: Whose phenotype is it and does it matter? Evolution 59:451-463. 

Wilson, A. J., D. W. Coltman, J. M. Pemberton, A. D. J. Overall, K. A. Byrne, and L. E. B. Kruuk. 2005. Maternal genetic effects set the potential for evolution in a free-living vertebrate population. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18:405-414. 

Tavecchia, G., T. Coulson, B. J. T. Morgan, J. M. Pemberton, J. C. Pilkington, F. M. D. Gulland, and T. H. Clutton-Brock. 2005. Predictors of reproductive cost in female Soay sheep. Journal of Animal Ecology 74:201-213. 

Preston, B. T., I. R. Stevenson, J. M. Pemberton, D. W. Coltman, and K. Wilson. 2005. Male mate choice influences female promiscuity in Soay sheep. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 272:365-373. 

Overall, A. D. J., K. A. Byrne, J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton. 2005. Heterozygosity, inbreeding and neonatal traits in Soay sheep on St Kilda. Molecular Ecology 14:3383-3393. 

McRae, A. F., J. M. Pemberton, and P. M. Visscher. 2005. Modeling linkage disequilibrium in natural populations: The example of the Soay sheep population of St. Kilda, Scotland. Genetics 171:251-258. 

Jones, O. R., M. J. Crawley, J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton. 2005. Predictors of early survival in Soay sheep: cohort-, maternal- and individual-level variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 272:2619-2625. 

Coulson, T., J. M. Gaillard, and M. Festa-Bianchet. 2005. Decomposing the variation in population growth into contributions from multiple demographic rates. Journal of Animal Ecology 74:789-801. 

Charbonnel, N. and J. Pemberton. 2005. A long-term genetic survey of an ungulate population reveals balancing selection acting on MHC through spatial and temporal fluctuations in selection. Heredity 95:377-388. 

Wimmer, B., B. H. Craig, J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton. 2004. Non-invasive assessment of parasitic nematode species diversity in wild Soay sheep using molecular markers. International Journal for Parasitology 34:625-631. 

Wilson, K., B. T. Grenfell, J. G. Pilkington, H. E. G. Boyd, and F. M. D. Gulland. 2004. Parasites and their impact. Soay Sheep: Dynamics and Selection in an Island Population:113-165.

Stevenson, I. R., P. Marrow, B. T. Preston, J. M. Pemberton, and K. Wilson. 2004. Adaptive reproductive strategies.

Stenseth, N. C., K. S. Chan, G. Tavecchia, T. Coulson, A. Mysterud, T. Clutton-Brock, and B. Grenfell. 2004. Modelling non-additive and nonlinear signals from climatic noise in ecological time series: Soay sheep as an example. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 271:1985-1993. 

Stenseth, N. C. 2004. Soay sheep - Dynamics and selection in an island population. Science 305:479-479.

Pemberton, J. M., D. W. Coltman, J. A. Smith, and D. R. Bancroft. 2004. Mating patterns and male breeding success. Soay Sheep: Dynamics and Selection in an Island Population:166-189.

Pemberton, J. M., D. W. Coltman, D. R. Bancroft, J. A. Smith, and S. Paterson. 2004. Molecular genetic variation and selection on genotype.

Milner, J. M., S. D. Albon, L. E. B. Kruuk, and J. M. Pemberton. 2004. Selection on phenotype.

Hallett, T. B., T. Coulson, J. G. Pilkington, T. H. Clutton-Brock, J. M. Pemberton, and B. T. Grenfell. 2004. Why large-scale climate indices seem to predict ecological processes better than local weather. Nature 430:71-75. 

Crawley, M. J., S. D. Albon, D. R. Bazely, J. M. Milner, G. Pilkington, and A. L. Tuke. 2004. Vegetation and sheep population dynamics. Soay Sheep: Dynamics and Selection in an Island Population:89-112.

Clutton-Brock, T. H., J. M. Pemberton, T. Coulson, I. R. Stevenson, and A. D. C. MacColl. 2004. The sheep of St Kilda.

Clutton-Brock, T. H. and J. M. Pemberton. 2004. Individuals and populations.

Clutton-Brock, T. H., B. T. Grenfell, T. Coulson, A. D. C. MacColl, A. W. Illius, M. C. Forchhammer, K. Wilson, J. Lindstrom, M. J. Crawley, and S. D. Albon. 2004. Population dynamics in Soay sheep.

Clutton-Brock, T. H. 2004. The causes and consequences of instability.

Catchpole, E. A., B. J. T. Morgan, and T. Coulson. 2004. Conditional methodology for individual case history data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C-Applied Statistics 53:123-131. 

Braisher, T. L., N. J. Gemmell, B. T. Grenfell, and W. Amos. 2004. Host isolation and patterns of genetic variability in three populations of Teladorsagia from sheep. International Journal for Parasitology 34:1197-1204. 

Preston, B. T., I. R. Stevenson, and K. Wilson. 2003. Soay rams target reproductive activity towards promiscuous females' optimal insemination period. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 270:2073-2078. 

Preston, B. T., I. R. Stevenson, J. M. Pemberton, D. W. Coltman, and K. Wilson. 2003. Overt and covert competition in a promiscuous mammal: the importance of weaponry and testes size to male reproductive success. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 270:633-640. 

Thomas, S. C., D. W. Coltman, and J. M. Pemberton. 2002. The use of marker-based relationship information to estimate the heritability of body weight in a natural population: a cautionary tale. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15:92-99. 

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Paterson, S. 1998. Evidence for balancing selection at the major histocompatibility complex in a free-living ruminant. Journal of Heredity 89:289-294. 

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