Selected Journal Publications

Seubert, S. M., G. A. Wade and D. D. Wiegmann.  In press.  The Variability of Male Quality and Female Mate Choice Decisions: Second-Order Stochastic Dominance and the Behavior of Searchers Under a Sequential Search Strategy.  Journal of Mathematical Biology

Wiegmann, D. D., K. L. Weinersmith and S. M. Seubert.  2010.  Multi-attribute mate choice decisions and uncertainty in the decision process: a generalized sequential search strategy.  Journal of Mathematical Biology 60, 543-572.

Wiegmann, D. D., S. M. Seubert and G. A. Wade.  2010.  Mate choice and optimal search behavior: fitness returns under the fixed sample and sequential search strategies.  Journal of Theoretical Biology 22, 141-152.

Smith, K. L., J. G. Miner, D. D. Wiegmann and S. P. Newman.  2009. Individual differences in exploratory and antipredator behaviour in juvenile smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu).  Behaviour 146, 283-294.

Wiegmann, D. D. and B. H. Smith.  2009.  Incentive relativity and the specificity of reward expectations in honey bees.  International Journal of Comparative Psychology 22, 141-152.

Wiegmann, D. D. and L. M. Angeloni.  2007.  Mate choice and uncertainty in the decision process.  Journal of Theoretical Biology 249, 654-666.

Wiegmann, D. D. and T. Nguyen.  2006.  Mating system and demographic constraints on the opportunity for sexual selection.  Theoretical Population Biology 69, 34-47.

Waldron, F. A., D. D. Wiegmann and D. A. Wiegmann.  2005.  Negative incentive contrast and flower choice in bumble bees.  Invited paper for special issue of International Journal of Comparative Psychology 18, 281-294.

Wiegmann, D. D. and M. Morris.  2005.  Search behavior and mate choice. Invited paper for Recent Advances in Experimental and Theoretical Biology 1, 201-216.

Wiegmann, D. D., L. M. Angeloni, J. R. Baylis and S. P. Newman.  2004.  Negative Maternal and Paternal Effects on Inheritance of Life History Tactics Under a Conditional Strategy.  Evolution 58, 1530-1535.

Wiegmann, D. D., D. A. Wiegmann, and F. A. Waldron.  2003.  Effects of a reward downshift on the consummatory behavior and flower choices of bumble bee foragers.  Physiology & Behavior 79, 561-566.

Wagner, W. E., Jr., M. R. Smeds and D. D. Wiegmann.  2001.  Experience affects female responses to male song in the variable field cricket.  Ethology 107, 769-776.

Wiegmann, D. D., D. A. Wiegmann, J. MacNeal and J. Gafford.  2000.  Transposition of flower height by bumble bee foragers.  Animal Cognition 3, 85-89.

Wiegmann, D. D. 1999. Search behavior and mate choice by female field crickets, Gryllus integer.  Animal Behaviour 58, 1293-1298.

Wiegmann, D. D., K. Mukhopadhyay and L. A. Real. 1999. Sequential search and the influence of male quality on female mating decisions.  Journal of Mathematical Biology 39, 193-216.

Shafir, S., D. D. Wiegmann, B. H. Smith and L. A. Real. 1999.  Risk-sensitive foraging: choice behavior of honey bees in response to variability in volume of reward.  Animal Behaviour 57, 1055-1061.

Wiegmann, D. D. and K. Mukhopadhyay. 1998. The fixed sample search rule and use of an indicator character to evaluate mate quality. Journal of Theoretical Biology 193, 709-715.

Wiegmann, D. D., J. R. Baylis and M. H. Hoff. 1997. Male body size, fitness and age at first reproduction in smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieui .  Ecology 78, 111-128.

Wiegmann, D. D., L. A. Real, T. A. Capone and S. Ellner.  1996.  Some distinguishing features of models of search behavior and mate choice. The American Naturalist 147, 188-204.

Wiegmann, D. D. and J. R. Baylis. 1995. Male body size and paternal care in smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieui (Pisces: Centrarchidae).  Animal Behaviour 50, 1543-1555.

Baylis, J. R., D. D. Wiegmann and M. H. Hoff. 1993. Alternating Life Histories in smallmouth bass. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 122, 500-510.

Wiegmann, D. D., J. R. Baylis and M. H. Hoff. 1992. Sexual selection and fitness variation in a population of smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieui (Pisces: Centrarchidae).  Evolution 46, 1740-1753.

Wiegmann, D. D. 1990. On assessing the potential for evolutionary change due to male-male competition and female choice in territorial species.  Journal of Theoretical Biology 144, 203-208.

Book Reviews

Wiegmann, D. D. 2000. A bi-directional synapse.  Book Review: Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior, by Sara J. Shettleworth.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15, 257-258.

Wiegmann, D. D.  1995.  The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism: Sexual Selection from Darwin to today, by Helena Cronin.  Book Review: Animal Behaviour 49, 564-566.

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