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William D. Brown
Associate Professor
Department of Biology, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063
William.Brown@fredonia.edu
Office: 230 Jewett Hall
Phone: (716) 673-3620
Fax: (716) 673-3493
Education
Ph.D University of Toronto 1994
M.S. Arizona State University 1989
B.Sc. Simon Fraser University 1987
Teaching Interests
BIOL 111 Introduction to Biology
BIOL 330/331 General Ecology & Lab
BIOL 421 Biological Conservation
BIOL 447 Evolution
BIOL 450 Sociobiology
Research Interests
Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Ecology and Insect Ecology
Recent Publications (full list here)
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Anderson, A.L., Brown, W. D. 2009. Plasticity of hatching in green frogs (Rana clamitans) to both egg and tadpole predators. Herpetologica (In press). |
| Lelito, J.P., Brown, W.D. 2008. Mate Attraction by females in a sexually cannibalistic praying mantis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63: 313-320. |
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Brown, W. D. 2008. Size-biased mating in both sexes of the black-horned tree cricket, Oecanthus nigricornis Walker (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae). Journal of Insect Behavior 21: 130-142. |
| Lelito, J.P., Brown, W.D. 2006. Complicity or conflict over sexual cannibalism? Male risk-taking in the praying mantis Tenodera aridifolia sinensis. The American Naturalist 168: 263-269. New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Loom |
| Brown, W.D., Keller, L. 2006. Resource supplements cause a change in colony sex-ratio specialization in the mound-building ant Formica exsecta. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60: 612-618. |
| Brown, W. D., Smith, A. T., Moskalik, B.* & Gabriel, J.* 2006. Aggressive contests in house crickets: size, motivation and the information content of aggressive songs. Animal Behaviour 72: 225-233. |
| Brown, W. D., Bjork, A., Schneider, K. & Pitnick, S. 2004. No evidence that polyandry benefits females in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 58: 1242-1250. |
| Liautard, C., Brown, W. D., Helms, K. & Keller, L. 2003. Temporal and spatial variation in female production in the ant Formica exsecta. Oecologia 136: 558-564. |
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Brown, W. D., Liautard, C. & Keller, L. 2003. Sex-ratio dependent execution of queens in the ant, Formica exsecta. Oecologia 134: 12-17. |
| Brown, W. D., Keller, L. & Sundström, L. 2002. Sex allocation in mound-building ants: the roles of resources and queen replenishment. Ecology 83: 1945–1952. |
| Brown, W. D. & Keller, L. 2002. Queen recruitment and split sex ratios in the wood ant Formica exsecta. Ecology Letters 5: 102-109. |
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Keller, L., Liautard, C., Reuter, M., Brown, W. D., Chapuisat, M. & Sundström, L. 2001. |
| Pitnick, S., Brown, W. D. & Miller, G. 2001. Evolution of female remating behaviour after experimental removal of sexual selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268: 557-563. |
| Brown, W. D. & Keller, L. 2000. Colony sex ratios vary with queen number but not relatedness asymmetry in the ant Formica exsecta. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267:1751-1757. |
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Pitnick, S. & Brown, W. D. 2000. Criteria for demonstrating female sperm choice. Evolution 54: 1052-1056. |
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Brown, W. D. & Kuns, M. M. 2000. Female choice and the consistency of courtship feeding in black-horned tree crickets. Ethology 106: 543-558. |