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2025

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Algora, H.; Tolliver, J. D. M.; Pakanen, V.-M.; Kupan, K.; Belojevic, J.; Rönkä, N.; Küpper, C.; Koivula, K.: Nests, threats, and leks: Nonrandom distributions of nests in ruffs (Calidris pugnax). Ecology and Evolution 15 (3), e70997 (2025)

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Koivula, K.; Algora, H.; Airaksinen, E.; Belojevic, J.; Küpper, C.; Oranen, M.; Rohr‑Bender, V. A.; Rönkä, N.; Tolliver, J. D. M.; Pakanen, V.-M.: Increased wind flood frequency leads to decreased nest success of endangered waders in managed shore meadows. Biological Conservation 302, 110970 (2025)

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Loveland, J. L.; Zemella, A.; Jovanović, V. M.; Möller, G.; Sager, C. P.; Bastos, B.; Dyar, K. A.; Fusani, L.; Gahr, M.; Giraldo Deck, L. M. et al.; Goymann, W.; Lank, D. B.; Tokarz, J.; Nowick, K.; Küpper, C.: A single gene orchestrates androgen variation underlying male mating morphs in ruffs. Science 387 (6732), pp. 406 - 412 (2025)

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Rohr‑Bender, V. A.; Kupan, K.; Lopez-Nava, G.; Forstmeier, W.; Hertel, A.; Razumov, V.; Martin, K.; Kempenaers, B.; Küpper, C.: Sex and morph variation in activity from early ontogeny to maturity in ruffs (Calidris pugnax). Ethology 131 (3), e13543 (2025)

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2024

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Bulla, M.; Küpper, C.; Lank, D. B.; Albrechtová, J.; Loveland, J. L.; Martin, K.; Teltscher, K. L.; Cragnolini, M.; Lierz, M.; Albrecht, T. et al.; Forstmeier, W.; Kempenaers, B.: Sperm swimming speed and morphology differ slightly among the three genetic morphs of ruff sandpiper (Calidris pugnax), but show no clear polymorphism. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12, 1476254 (2024)

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Cimiotti, D. V.; Eberhart-Hertel, L. J.; Audevard, A.; Garcias Salas, P. J.; Gelinaud, G.; Günther, K.; Rocha, A.; Schulz, R.; van der Winden, J.; Schmaljohann, H. et al.; Küpper, C.: Dispersal in Kentish plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus): Adult females perform furthest movements. Journal of Ornithology 165 (2), pp. 301 - 314 (2024)

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Giraldo Deck, L. M.; Loveland, J. L.; Goymann, W.; Lank, D. B.; Küpper, C.: A supergene affects androgen concentrations during early development in a bird with alternative reproductive morphs. Hormones and Behavior 166, 105645 (2024)

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Volkmer, T.; Kupan, K.; Rohr‑Bender, V. A.; Guirao‑Ortiz, M.; Cruz‑López, M.; del Angel, S. G.; Rodrigues, L. F.; Eberhart-Hertel, L. J.; Küpper, C.: Hidden in plain sight: Camouflage and hiding behaviour of wild precocial chicks in an open landscape. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 78 (6), 73 (2024)

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2023

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Eberhart-Hertel, L. J.; Rodrigues, L. F.; Krietsch, J.; Eberhart-Hertel, A. G.; Cruz-López, M.; Vazquez-Rojas, K. A.; González-Medina, E.; Schroeder, J.; Küpper, C.: Egg size variation in the context of polyandry: A case study using long-term field data from snowy plovers. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 77 (12), pp. 2590 - 2605 (2023)

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Tolliver, J. D. M.; Kupan, K.; Lank, D. B.; Schindler, S.; Küpper, C.: Fitness benefits from co-display favour subdominant male-male partnerships between phenotypes. Animal Behaviour 197, pp. 131 - 154 (2023)

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2022

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Giraldo Deck, L. M.; Loveland, J. L.; Goymann, W.; Tschirren, B.; Burke, T.; Kempenaers, B.; Lank, D. B.; Küpper, C.: Intralocus conflicts associated with a supergene. Nature Communications 13, 1384 (2022)

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Maney, D. L.; Küpper, C.: Supergenes on steroids. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 377 (1855), 20200507 (2022)

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2021

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Kupan, K.; Székely, T.; Cruz-López, M.; Seymour, K.; Küpper, C.: Offspring desertion with care? Chick mortality and plastic female desertion in Snowy Plovers. Behavioral Ecology 32 (3), pp. 428 - 439 (2021)

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Loveland, J. L.; Giraldo Deck, L. M.; Lank, D. B.; Goymann, W.; Gahr, M.; Küpper, C.: Functional differences in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis are associated with alternative reproductive tactics based on an inversion polymorphism. Hormones and Behavior 127, 104877 (2021)

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Loveland, J. L.; Lank, D. B.; Küpper, C.: Gene expression modification by an autosomal inversion associated with three male mating morphs. Frontiers in Genetics 12, 641620 (2021)

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Rohr, V. A.; Volkmer, T.; Metzler, D.; Küpper, C.: Neoptile feathers contribute to outline concealment of precocial chicks. Scientific Reports 11, 5483 (2021)

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2020

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Cruz-López, M.; Fernández, G.; Hipperson, H.; Palacios, E.; Cavitt, J.; Galindo-Espinosa, D.; Gómez del Angel, S.; Pruner, R.; Gonzalez, O.; Burke, T. et al.; Küpper, C.: Allelic diversity and patterns of selection at the major histocompatibility complex class I and II loci in a threatened shorebird, the Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus). BMC Evolutionary Biology 20, 114 (2020)

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D’Urban Jackson, J.; Bruford, M. W.; Székely, T.; DaCosta, J. M.; Sorenson, M. D.; Russo, I. M.; Maher, K. H.; Cruz-López, M.; Galindo‑Espinosa, D.; Palacios, E. et al.; de Sucre‑Medrano, A. E.; Cavitt, J.; Pruner, R.; Morales, A. L.; Gonzalez, O.; Burke, T.; Küpper, C.: Population differentiation and historical demography of the threatened snowy plover Charadrius nivosus (Cassin, 1858). Conservation Genetics 21 (3), pp. 387 - 404 (2020)

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dos Remedios, N.; Küpper, C.; Székely, T.; Zefania, S.; Burns, F.; Boltons, M.; Lee, P. L. M.: Genetic structure among Charadrius plovers on the African mainland and islands of Madagascar and St. Helena. Ibis 162 (1), pp. 104 - 118 (2020)

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Eberhart-Phillips, L. J.; Cruz-López, M.; Lozano-Angulo, L.; Ángel, S. G. d.; Rojas-Abreu, W.; Bucio-Pacheco, M.; Küpper, C.: CeutaOPEN, individual-based field observations of breeding snowy plovers Charadrius nivosus. Scientific Data 7, 149 (2020)

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Giraldo Deck, L. M.; Goymann, W.; Safari, I.; Dawson, D. A.; Stocks, M.; Burke, T.; Lank, D. B.; Küpper, C.: Development of intraspecific size variation in black coucals, white‐browed coucals and ruffs from hatching to fledging. Journal of Avian Biology 51 (8), e02440 (2020)

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2019

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Plaschke, S.; Bulla, M.; Cruz-López, M.; Ángel, S. G. d.; Küpper, C.: Nest initiation and flooding in response to season and semi-lunar spring tides in a ground-nesting shorebird. Frontiers in Zoology 16, 15 (2019)

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Sadanandan, K. R.; Küpper, C.; Low, G. W.; Yao, C.-T.; Li, Y.; Xu, T.; Rheindt, F. E.; Wu, S.: Population divergence and gene flow in two East Asian shorebirds on the verge of speciation. Scientific Reports 9, 8546 (2019)

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2018

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Armstrong, C.; Richardson, D. S.; Hipperson, H.; Horsburgh, G. J.; Küpper, C.; Percival-Alwyn, L.; Clark, M.; Burke, T.; Spurgin, L. G.: Genomic associations with bill length and disease reveal drift and selection across island bird populations. Evolution Letters 2 (1), pp. 22 - 36 (2018)

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Eberhart-Phillips, L. J.; Küpper, C.; Carmona-Isunza, M. C.; Vincze, O.; Zefania, S.; Cruz-López, M.; Kosztolányi, A.; Miller, T. E. X.; Barta, Z.; Cuthill, I. C. et al.; Burke, T.; Székely, T.; Hoffman, J. I.; Krüger, O.: Demographic causes of adult sex ratio variation and their consequences for parental cooperation. Nature Communications 9, 1651 (2018)

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Thies, L.; Tomkovich, P. S.; dos Remedios, N.; Lislevand, T.; Pinchuk, P.; Wallander, J.; Dänhardt, J.; Thórisson, B.; Blomqvist, D.; Küpper, C.: Population and subspecies differentiation in a high latitude breeding wader, the Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula. Ardea 106 (2), pp. 163 - 176 (2018)

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2017

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Carmona-Isunza, M. C.; Ancona, S.; Székely, T.; Ramallo-González, A. P.; Cruz-López, M.; Serrano-Meneses, M. A.; Küpper, C.: Adult sex ratio and operational sex ratio exhibit different temporal dynamics in the wild. Behavioral Ecology 28 (2), pp. 523 - 532 (2017)

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Cruz-López, M.; Eberhart-Phillips, L. J.; Fernández, G.; Beamonte-Barrientos, R.; Székely, T.; Serrano-Meneses, M. A.; Küpper, C.: The plight of a plover: Viability of an important snowy plover population with flexible brood care in Mexico. Biological Conservation 209, pp. 440 - 448 (2017)

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D’Urban Jackson, J.; dos Remedios, N.; Maher, K. H.; Zefania, S.; Haig, S.; Oyler-McCance, S.; Blomqvist, D.; Burke, T.; Bruford, M. W.; Székely, T. et al.; Küpper, C.: Polygamy slows down population divergence in shorebirds. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 71 (5), pp. 1313 - 1326 (2017)

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Dos Remedios, N.; Küpper, C.; Székely, T.; Baker, N.; Versfeld, W.; Lee, P. L. M.: Genetic isolation in an endemic African habitat specialist. Ibis 159 (4), pp. 792 - 802 (2017)

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Eberhart-Phillips, L. J.; Küpper, C.; Miller, T. E. X.; Cruz-López, M.; Maher, K. H.; dos Remedios, N.; Stoffel, M. A.; Hoffman, J. I.; Krüger, O.; Székely, T.: Sex-specific early survival drives adult sex ratio bias in snowy plovers and impacts mating system and population growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (27), pp. E5474 - E5481 (2017)

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Maher, K. H.; Eberhart-Phillips, L. J.; Kosztolányi, A.; dos Remedios, N.; Carmona-Isunza, M. C.; Cruz-López, M.; Zefania, S.; St. Clair, J. J. H.; Alrashidi, M.; Weston, M. A. et al.; Serrano-Meneses, M. A.; Krüger, O.; Hoffman, J. I.; Székely, T.; Burke, T.; Küpper, C.: High fidelity: Extra-pair fertilisations in eight Charadrius plover species are not associated with parental relatedness or social mating system. Journal of Avian Biology 48 (7), pp. 910 - 920 (2017)

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Vincze, O.; Kosztolányi, A.; Barta, Z.; Küpper, C.; Alrashidi, M.; Amat, J. A.; Argüelles-Ticó, A.; Burns, F.; Cavitt, J.; Conway, W. C. et al.; Cruz-López, M.; De Sucre-Medrano, A. E.; dos Remedios, N.; Figuerola, J.; Galindo-Espinosa, D.; García-Pena, G. E.; Gómez Del Angel, S.; Gratto-Trevor, C.; Jönsson, P.; Lloyd, P.; Montalvo, T.; Parra, J. E.; Pruner, R.; Que, P.; Liu, Y.; Saalfeld, S. T.; Schulz, R.; Serra, L.; St. Clair, J. J. H.; Stenzel, L. E.; Weston, M. A.; Yasué, M.; Zefania, S.; Székely, T.: Parental cooperation in a changing climate: Fluctuating environments predict shifts in care division. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26 (3), pp. 347 - 358 (2017)

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2016

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Almalki, M.; Kupan, K.; Carmona-Isunza, M. C.; López, P.; Veiga, A.; Kosztolányi, A.; Székely, T.; Küpper, C.: Morphological and genetic differentiation among Kentish plover Charadrius alexandrinus populations in Macaronesia. Ardeola 64 (1), pp. 3 - 16 (2016)

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Argüelles-Ticó, A.; Küpper, C.; Kelsh, R. N.; Kosztolányi, A.; Székely, T.; van Dijk, R. E.: Geographic variation in breeding system and environment predicts melanin-based plumage ornamentation of male and female Kentish plovers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70 (1), pp. 49 - 60 (2016)

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Bulla, M.; Valcu, M.; Dokter, A. M.; Dondua, A. G.; Kosztolányi, A.; Rutten, A. L.; Helm, B.; Sandercock, B. K.; Casler, B.; Ens, B. J. et al.; Spiegel, C. S.; Hassell, C. J.; Küpper, C.; Minton, C.; Burgas, D.; Lank, D. B.; Payer, D. C.; Loktionov, E. Y.; Nol, E.; Kwon, E.; Smith, F.; Gates, H. R.; Vitnerova, H.; Prüter, H.; Johnson, J. A.; Clair, J. J. H. S.; Lamarre, J.-F.; Rausch, J.; Reneerkens, J.; Conklin, J. R.; Burger, J.; Liebezeit, J.; Bêty, J.; Coleman, J. T.; Figuerola, J.; Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W.; Alves, J. A.; Smith, J. A. M.; Weidinger, K.; Koivula, K.; Gosbell, K.; Exo, K.-M.; Niles, L.; Koloski, L.; McKinnon, L.; Praus, L.; Klaassen, M.; Giroux, M.-A.; Sládeček, M.; Boldenow, M. L.; Goldstein, M. I.; Šálek, M.; Senner, N. R.; Rönkä, N.; Lecomte, N.; Gilg, O.; Vincze, O.; Johnson, O. W.; Smith, P. A.; Woodard, P. F.; Tomkovich, P. S.; Battley, P. F.; Bentzen, R.; Lanctot, R. B.; Porter, R.; Saalfeld, S. T.; Freeman, S.; Brown, S. C.; Yezerinac, S.; Székely, T.; Montalvo, T.; Piersma, T.; Loverti, V.; Pakanen, V.-M.; Tijsen, W.; Kempenaers, B.: Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds. Nature 540 (7631), pp. 109 - 113 (2016)

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Küpper, C.; Stocks, M.; Risse, J. E.; dos Remedios, N.; Farrell, L. L.; McRae, S. B.; Morgan, T. C.; Karlionova, N.; Pinchuk, P.; Verkuil, Y. I. et al.; Kitaysky, A. S.; Wingfield, J. C.; Piersma, T.; Zeng, K.; Slate, J.; Blaxter, M.; Lank, D. B.; Burke, T.: A supergene determines highly divergent male reproductive morphs in the ruff. Nature Genetics 48 (1), pp. 79 - 83 (2016)

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Stoddard, M. C.; Kupan, K.; Eyster, H. N.; Rojas-Abreu, W.; Cruz-López, M.; Serrano-Meneses, M. A.; Küpper, C.: Camouflage and clutch survival in plovers and terns. Scientific Reports 6, 32059 (2016)

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2015

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Carmona-Isunza, M. C.; Küpper, C.; Serrano-Meneses, M. A.; Székely, T.: Courtship behavior differs between monogamous and polygamous plovers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69 (12), pp. 2035 - 2042 (2015)

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Dos Remedios, N.; Lee, P. L. M.; Burke, T.; Székely, T.; Küpper, C.: North or south? Phylogenetic and biogeographic origins of a globally distributed avian clade. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 89, pp. 151 - 159 (2015)

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Dos Remedios, N.; Székely, T.; Küpper, C.; Lee, P. L. M.; Kosztolányi, A.: Ontogenic differences in sexual size dimorphism across four plover populations. Ibis 157 (3), pp. 590 - 600 (2015)

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Ekanayake, K. B.; Weston, M. A.; Nimmo, D. G.; Maguire, G. S.; Endler, J. A.; Küpper, C.: The bright incubate at night: Sexual dichromatism and adaptive incubation division in an open-nesting shorebird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1806), 20143026 (2015)

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Farrell, L. L.; Küpper, C.; Burke, T.; Lank, D. B.: Major breeding plumage color differences of male ruffs (Philomachus pugnax) are not associated with coding sequence variation in the MC1R gene. Journal of Heredity 106 (2), pp. 211 - 215 (2015)

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2014

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Buckland, S.; Cole, N. C.; Groombridge, J. J.; Küpper, C.; Burke, T.; Dawson, D. A.; Gallagher, L. E.; Harris, S.: High risks of losing genetic diversity in an endemic mauritian gecko: Implications for conservation. PLoS One 9 (6), e93387 (2014)

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2013

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Vincze, O.; Székely, T.; Küpper, C.; Alrashidi, M.; Amat, J. A.; Argüelles-Ticó, A.; Burgas, D.; Burke, T.; Cavitt, J.; Figuerola, J. et al.; Shobrak, M.; Montalvo, T.; Kosztolányi, A.: Local environment but not genetic differentiation influences biparental care in ten plover populations. PLoS One 8 (4), e60998 (2013)

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2012

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Kosztolányi, A.; Küpper, C.; Chastel, O.; Parenteau, C.; Yilmaz, K. T.; Miklósi, A.; Székely, T.; Lendvai, A. Z.: Prolactin stress response does not predict brood desertion in a polyandrous shorebird. Hormones and Behavior 61 (5), pp. 734 - 740 (2012)

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Küpper, C.; Augustin, J.; Edwards, S. V.; Székely, T.; Kosztolányi, A.; Burke, T.; Janes, D. E.: Triploid plover female provides support for a role of the W chromosome in avian sex determination. Biology Letters 8 (5), pp. 787 - 789 (2012)

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Küpper, C.; Edwards, S. V.; Kosztolányi, A.; Alrashidi, M.; Burke, T.; Herrmann, P.; Argüelles-Ticó, A.; Amat, J. A.; Amezian, M.; Rocha, A. et al.; Hötker, H.; Ivanov, A.; Chernicko, J.; Székely, T.: High gene flow on a continental scale in the polyandrous Kentish plover Charadrius alexandrinus. Molecular Ecology 21 (23), pp. 5864 - 5879 (2012)

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2011

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Alrashidi, M.; Kosztolányi, A.; Shobrak, M.; Küpper, C.; Székely, T.: Parental cooperation in an extreme hot environment: Natural behaviour and experimental evidence. Animal Behaviour 82 (2), pp. 235 - 243 (2011)

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Kosztolányi, A.; Barta, Z.; Küpper, C.; Székely, T.: Persistence of an extreme male-biased adult sex ratio in a natural population of polyandrous bird. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24 (8), pp. 1842 - 1846 (2011)

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