Publications

Journal Articles

Knapwerth, L & Burke, N. W. (2024). The luring cannibal: dishonest sexual signalling in the springbok mantis. Functional Ecology. Submitted.

Burke, N. W. & Knapwerth, L. (2024). Strategic deployment of secondary defences in the springbok mantis (Miomantis caffra). Ethology. Submitted.

Wilner, D., Boldbaatar, J., Miller, S., Burke, N. W., Bonduriansky, R. (2024). Can sexual conflict drive transitions to asexuality? Female resistance to fertilization in a facultatively parthenogenetic insect. Evolution. In press.

Boldbaatar, J., Vasconcelos, A. C., Burke, N. W., & Bonduriansky, R. (2024). Could adult or juvenile dispersal shape geographical parthenogenesis? Evidence from the facultatively parthenogenetic phasmid Megacrania batesii. Evolutionary Ecology, 1-19.

Burke, N. W. (2024). Sexual cannibalism as a female resistance trait: a new hypothesis. Evolution 78: 612-623.

Burke, N. W. and Holwell, G. (2024). Plastic background colour matching in the springbok mantis. Functional Ecology 38: 449-464.

Miller, S. M., Stuart, K. C., Burke, N. W., Rollins, L. A. and Bonduriansky, R. (2024). Genotypic and phenotypic consequences of local transitions between sexual and parthenogenetic reproduction in the wild. The American Naturalist 203: 000-000.

Burke, N. W. and Holwell, G. (2023). Should females cannibalise with or without mating in the facultatively parthenogenetic Springbok mantis? Animal Behaviour 197: 113-121.

Burke, N. W. and Holwell, G. (2023). Costs and benefits of polyandry in a sexually cannibalistic mantis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36: 412-423.

Burke, N. W. and Bonduriansky, R. (2022). Sexually but not parthenogenetically produced females benefit from sexual reproduction in a stick insect. Functional Ecology, 36(8): 2001-2014.

Pollo, P., Burke, N. W. and Holwell, G. (2021). Effects of male and female personality on sexual cannibalism in the Springbok mantis. Animal Behaviour 182: 1-7.

Burke, N. W., Nakagawa, S. and Bonduriansky, R. (2021). Sexual conflict mediated by ecological sex differences can generate diverse patterns of transgenerational plasticity. BioRxiv.

Burke, N. W. and Holwell, G. (2021). Male coercion and female injury in a sexually cannibalistic mantis. Biology Letters 16: 0200811.

Burke, N. W. and Holwell, G. (2021). Increased male mating success in the presence of prey and rivals in a sexually cannibalistic mantis. Behavioral Ecology, arab022, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab022

Burke, N. W. and Bonduriansky, R. (2019). The paradox of obligate sex: the roles of sexual conflict and mate scarcity in transitions to obligate and facultative asexuality. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32(11): 1230-1241.

Burke, N. W. and Bonduriansky, R. (2019). Exposure to juvenile males during development suppresses female capacity for parthenogenesis in a stick insect. Animal Behaviour 154: 85-94.

Burke, N. W. and Bonduriansky, R. (2018). The geography of sex: sexual conflict, environmental gradients, and local loss of sex in facultatively parthenogenetic animals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 373: 20170422.

Burke, N. W. and Bonduriansky, R. (2018). The fitness effects of delayed switching to sex in a facultatively asexual stick insect. Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3895.

Burke, N. W. and Bonduriansky, R. (2017). Sexual conflict, facultative asexuality, and the true paradox of sex. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32: 646-652.

Burke, N. W. (2016). The short end of the stick: cloning and costly sex in the spiny leaf insect. Wildlife Australia 53: 28-31.

Burke, N. W., Crean, A. J. and Bonduriansky, R. (2015). The role of sexual conflict in the evolution of facultative parthenogenesis: a study on the spiny leaf stick insect. Animal Behaviour 101: 117-127.

Science Outreach

Burke, N. W. 2022. Lotteries are the fairest route to prejudice-free hiring. Times Higher Education. Web. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/lotteries-are-fairest-route-prejudice-free-hiring.

Crean, A. J, Burke, N. W, and Bonduriansky, R. 2015. If you could clone yourself, would you still have sex? The Conversation. Web. http://theconversation.com/if-you-could-clone-yourself-would-you-still-have-sex-37514.

Burke, N. W. (Director). 2015, March 31. Escaping the sex trap: can female resistance promote the loss of sex? https://vimeo.com/123792957.