Peer-Reviewed Publications

Watts, J. C., & Fitzpatrick, C. L. (2024). The effects of intersexual interactions on survival can drive the evolution of female ornaments in the absence of mate limitation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, voae121.

Ehrie, A. J., Iruri-Tucker, A. A., Lord, Y. B., Williamson, H. G., Hunt, K. D., Polly, P. D., Fitzpatrick, C. L., & Wasserman, M. D. 2024. Measuring mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata) testes via parallel laser photogrammetry: Expanding the use of noninvasive methods. American Journal of Primatology, e23616.

DuVal, E. H., Fitzpatrick, C. L., Hobson, E. A., & Servedio, M. R. 2023. Inferred Attractiveness: A generalized mechanism for sexual selection that can maintain variation in traits and preferences over time. PLoS Biology, 21(10), e3002269.

Fitzpatrick, C. L., & Wade, M. J. 2022. When is offspring viability fitness a measure of paternal fitness and when is it not?. Journal of Heredity, 113(1), 48-53.

Fitzpatrick, C.L., C.L. Ciresi, M.J. Wade. 2021. The evolutionary genetics of paternal care: how good genes and extra-pair copulations affect the trade-off between paternal care and mating success. Ecology and Evolution.  

Grebe, N., K. Sharrock, A.P. Starling, C.L. Fitzpatrick, & C.M. Drea. 2019. Organizational and activation androgens, lemur social play, and the ontogeny of female dominance. Hormones & Behavior 15: 104554.

Fitzpatrick, C.L., E.A. Hobson, T. Mendelson, R. Rodrguez, R. Safran, E. Scordato, M.R. Servedio, C. Stern, L. Symes, & M. Kopp. 2018. Theory meets empiry: a citation network analysis. BioScience doi:10.1093/biosci/biy083 (recommended by Faculty of 1000).

Wade, M.J., C.L. Fitzpatrick & C.M. Lively. 2018. 50 year anniversary of Lloyd’s “Mean Crowding”: ideas on patchy distributions. Journal of Animal Ecology 87(5): 1221-1226. 

Fitzpatrick, C.L. & M.R. Servedio. 2018. The evolution of male mate choice and female ornamentation; a review of mathematical models. Current Zoology 64(3): 323-333.

Fitzpatrick, C.L. & M.R. Servedio. 2017. Male mate choice, male quality, and the potential for sexual selection on female traits under polygyny. Evolution 71(1): 174-183. doi: 10.1111/evo.13107.

Mendelson, T.C., C.L. Fitzpatrick, M.E. Hauber, R.L. Rodríguez, R.J. Safran, C.A. Stern, C.H. Pence, & J.E. Stevens. 2016. Cognitive phenotypes and the evolution of animal decisions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31(11): 850-859. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2016.08.008.

Barron, A.B., E.A. Hebets, T.A. Cleland, C.L. Fitzpatrick, M.E. Hauber, J. Stevens. 2015 Forum: Embracing multiple definitions of learning. Trends in Neuroscience 38: 405-407.

Fitzpatrick, C.L., J. Altmann, S.C. Alberts. 2015. Estrous swellings and male mate choice in primates: testing the reliable indicator hypothesis in the Amboseli baboons. Animal Behaviour 104: 175-185.

Fitzpatrick, C.L., 2015. Expanding sexual selection gradients; a synthetic refinement of sexual selection theory. Ethology 121(3): 207-217.

Servedio, M.R., Y. Brandvain, S. Dhole, C.L. Fitzpatrick, E.E.Goldberg, C.A. Stern, J. Van Cleve, D.J. Yeh, 2014. Not just a theory – the utility of mathematical models in evolutionary biology. PLoS Biology 12(12) e1002017.

Fitzpatrick, C.L. J. Altmann, S.C. Alberts. 2014. Sources of variance in a fertility signal; exaggerated estrous swellings in a natural population of baboons. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 1109-1122.

Alberts, S.C. and C.L. Fitzpatrick. 2012. Paternal care and the evolution of exaggerated sexual swellings in primates. Behavioral Ecology 23(4): 699-706. 

Starling, A.P., M.J.E. Charpenteir, C.L. Fitzpatrick, E.S. Scordato, and C.M. Drea. 2009. Seasonality, sociality, and reproduction: Long-term stressors of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). Hormones & Behavior 57 (2010) 76-85.