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, 37(11), 1356-1367. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/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, 86(6), e23616. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23616.

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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002269.

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. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esab055.

Fitzpatrick, C. L., Ciresi, C. M., & Wade, M. J. (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, 11(3), 1165-1174. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7058.

Grebe, N., Sharrock, K., Starling, A. P., Fitzpatrick, C. L., & Drea, C. M. (2019). Organizational and activation androgens, lemur social play, and the ontogeny of female dominance. Hormones & Behavior, 15, 104554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.07.002.

Fitzpatrick, C. L., Hobson, E. A., Mendelson, T. C., Rodríguez, R. L., Safran, R. J., Scordato, E. S., Servedio, M. R., Stern, C. A, Symes, L. B., & Kopp, M. (2018). Theory meets empiry: A citation network analysis. BioScience, 68(10), 805-812. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy083. (Recommended by Faculty of 1000).

Wade, M. J., Fitzpatrick, C. L., & Lively, C. M. (2018). 50 year anniversary of Lloyd’s “Mean Crowding”: ideas on patchy distributions. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87(5), 1221-1226. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12854.

Fitzpatrick, C. L., & Servedio, M. R. (2018). The evolution of male mate choice and female ornamentation: a review of mathematical models. Current Zoology, 64(3), 323-333. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoy029.

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

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

Barron, A. B., Hebets, E. A., Cleland, T. A., Fitzpatrick, C. L., Hauber, M. E., & Stevens, J. R. (2015). Forum: Embracing multiple definitions of learning. Trends in Neurosciences, 38, 405-407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2015.04.008.

Fitzpatrick, C. L., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2015). Exaggerated sexual swellings and male mate choice in primates: testing the reliable indicator hypothesis in the Amboseli baboons. Animal Behaviour, 104, 175-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.03.019.

Fitzpatrick, C. L. (2015). Expanding sexual selection gradients; a synthetic refinement of sexual selection theory. Ethology, 121(3), 207-217. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12352.

Servedio, M. R., Brandvain, Y., Dhole, S., Fitzpatrick, C. L., Goldberg, E. E., Stern, C. A., Van Cleve, J., & Yeh, D. J. Not just a theory – the utility of mathematical models in evolutionary biology. PLoS Biology, 12(12), e1002017. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002017.

Fitzpatrick, C. L., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2014). Sources of variance in a fertility signal: exaggerated estrous swellings in a natural population of baboons. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68(7), 1109-1122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1722-y.

Alberts, S. C., & Fitzpatrick, C. L. (2012). Paternal care and the evolution of exaggerated sexual swellings in primates. Behavioral Ecology, 23(4), 699-706. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ars052.

Starling, A. P., Charpentier, M. J. E., Fitzpatrick, C. L., Scordato, E. S., & Drea, C. M. (2009). Seasonality, sociality, and reproduction: Long-term stressors of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). Hormones & Behavior, 57, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.09.016.