Publications

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(33) Skovmand, L, O’Dea, R. E., Greig, K, Amato, K, Hendry, A. (2024). Effects of herbivory and non-growing seasonality on plant secondary metabolites: a meta-analysis. Ecology and Evolution. In Press.

(32) Sanderson, S., Bolnick, D. I., Kinnison, M. T., O’Dea, R. E., Gorné, L. D., Hendry, A. P., & Gotanda, K. M. (2023). Contemporary changes in phenotypic variation, and the potential consequences for eco‐evolutionary dynamics. Ecology Letters, 26(S1). DOI: 10.1111/ele.14186.

(31) Nakagawa, S., Lagisz, M., O’Dea, R. E., Pottier, P., Rutkowska, J., Senior, A. M., Yang, Y., & Noble, D. W. A. (2023). orchaRd 2.0: An R package for visualising meta-analyses with orchard plots. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(8). DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14152.

(30) Foo, Y.Z., Lagisz, M., O’Dea, R. E., & Nakagawa, S. (2023). The influence of immune challenges on the mean and variance in reproductive investment: a meta-analysis of the terminal investment hypothesis. BMC Biology 21, 107. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01603-4.

(29) Yang, Y., Sánchez-Tójar, A., O’Dea, R. E., Noble, D. W. A., Koricheva, J., Jennions, M. D., Parker, T. H., Lagisz, M., & Nakagawa, S. (2023). Publication bias impacts on effect size, statistical power, and magnitude (Type M) and sign (Type S) errors in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biology, 21(1), 71. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-022-01485-y.

(28) Nakagawa, S., Ivimey-Cook, E. R., Grainger, M. J., O’Dea, R. E., Burke, S., Drobniak, S. M., Gould, E., Macartney, E. L., Martinig, A. R., Morrison, K., Paquet, M., Pick, J. L., Pottier, P., Ricolfi, L., Wilkinson, D. P., Willcox, A., Williams, C., Wilson, L. A. B., Windecker, S. M., … Lagisz, M. (2023). Method Reporting with Initials for Transparency (MeRIT) promotes more granularity and accountability for author contributions. Nature Communications, 14(1), 1788. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37039-1.

(27) Spake, R., O’Dea, R. E., Nakagawa, S., Doncaster, C. P., Ryo, M., Callaghan, C. T., & Bullock, J. M. (2022). Improving quantitative synthesis to achieve generality in ecology. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6: 1818-1828. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01891-z.

(26) Anwer, H., O’Dea, R. E., Mason, D., Zajitschek, S., Klinke, A., Reid, M., Hesselson, D., Noble, D. W. A., Morris, M. J., Lagisz, M., & Nakagawa, S. (2022). The effects of an obesogenic diet on behavior and cognition in zebrafish (Danio rerio): Trait average, variability, repeatability, and behavioral syndromes. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e9511. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9511.

(25) Noble, D. W., Pottier, P., Lagisz, M., Burke, S., Drobniak, S.M., O’Dea, R.E., & Nakagawa, S. (2022). Meta-analytic approaches and effect sizes to account for ‘nuisance heterogeneity’ in comparative physiology. Journal of Experimental Biology, 225: jeb243225. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.243225.

(24) Sanderson, S., Beausoleil, M.O., O’Dea, R.E., Wood, Z.T., Correa, C., Frankel, V., Gorné, L.D., Haines, G.E., Kinnison, M.T., Oke, K.B., Pelletier, F., Pérez-Jvostov, F., Reyes-Corral W.D., Ritchot, Y., Sorbara, F., Gotanda, K.M., & Hendry, A.P. (2022). The pace of modern life, revisited. Molecular Ecology, 31: 1028-1043. DOI: 10.1111/mec.16299.

(23) O’Dea, R.E., Noble, D. W., & Nakagawa, S. (2022). Unifying individual differences in personality, predictability, and plasticity: a practical guide. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13: 278–293. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13755.

(22) Nakagawa, S., Lagisz, M., Jennions, M. D., Koricheva, J., Noble, D. W., Parker, T. H., Sánchez-Tójar A., Yang, Y., & O’Dea, R.E. (2022). Methods for testing publication bias in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13: 4–21. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13724.

(21) Roche, D.G., O’Dea, R.E., Kerr, K.A., Rytwinski, T., Schuster, R., Nguyen, V.M., Young, N., Bennett, J.R., & Cooke, S.J. (2022). Closing the knowledge-action gap in conservation with open science. Conservation Biology, 36:e13835. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13835.

(20) Foo, Y. Z., O’Dea, R.E., Koricheva, J., Nakagawa, S., & Lagisz, M. (2021). A practical guide to question formation, systematic searching and study screening for literature reviews in ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12: 1705–1720. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13654

(19) Mason, D., Zajitschek, S., Anwer, H., O’Dea, R.E., Hesselson, D., & Nakagawa, S. (2021). Low repeatability of aversive learning in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Journal of Experimental Biology, 224: jeb240846. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.240846

(18) O’Dea, R.E., Lagisz, M., Jennions, M.D., Koricheva, J., Noble, D.W.A., Parker, T.H., Gurevitch, J., Page, M.J., Stewart, G., Moher, D., & Nakagawa, S. (2021). Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension. Biological Reviews, 96: 1695-1722. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12721

(17) O’Dea, R.E., Parker, T.H., Chee, Y.E., Culina, A., Drobniak, S.M., Duncan, D.H., Fidler, F., Gould, E., Ihle, M., Kelly, C.D., Lagisz, M., Roche, D.G., Sánchez-Tójar, A., Wilkinson, D.P., Wintle, B.C., & Nakagawa, S. (2021). Towards open, reliable, and transparent ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biology, 19: 68. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01006-3

(16) Sánchez-Tójar A., Moran, N. P., O’Dea, R.E., Reinhold, K., & Nakagawa, S. (2020). Illustrating the importance of meta-analysing variances alongside means in ecology and evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33: 1216-1223. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13661

(15) Nakagawa, S., Lagisz, M., O’Dea, R.E., Rutkowska, J., Yang, Y., Noble, D.A.W., & Senior, A.M. (2020). The orchard plot: cultivating a forest plot for use in ecology, evolution and beyond. Research Synthesis Methods, 1-9. DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1424

(14) Nakagawa, S., Dunn, A., Lagisz, M., Bannach-Brown, A., Grames, E.M. Sánchez-Tójar, A., O’Dea, R.E., Noble, D.W.A. Westgate, M.J., Arnold, P.A., Barrow, S., Bethel, A., Cooper, E., Foo Y.Z., Geange, S., Hennessy, E., Mapanga, W., Mengersen, K., Munera, C., Page, M.J., Welch, V, Evidence Synthesis Hackathon 2019, & Haddaway, N. (2020). A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4: 498–501. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1153-2

(13) O’Dea, R.E., Lagisz, M., Hendry, A.P., & Nakagawa, S. (2019). Developmental temperature affects phenotypic means and variability: a meta-analysis of fish data. Fish and Fisheries, 20: 1005–1022. DOI: 10.1111/faf.12394

(12) Nakagawa, S., Samarasinghe, G., Haddaway, M.R., Westgate, M. J., O’Dea*, R.E., Noble*, D.W.A., & Lagisz*, M. (2019). Research weaving: visualizing the future of research synthesis. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34(3): 224-238. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.11.007

(11) O’Dea*, R.E., Lagisz*, M., Jennions, M.D. & Nakagawa, S. (2018). Gender differences in individual variation in academic grades fail to fit expected patterns for STEM. Nature Communications, 9:3777. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06292-0

(10) Fangmeier, M.L., Noble, D.W.A., O’Dea, R.E., Usui, T., Lagisz, M. Hesselson, D., & Nakagawa, S. (2018). Computer Animation Technology in Behavioral Sciences: A Sequ). Computer animation technology in behavioral sciences: a sequential, automatic, and high-throughput approach to quantifying personality in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Zebrafish, 1532–4. DOI: 10.1089/zeb.2017.1532

(9) Usui, T., Noble, D.W.A, O’Dea, R.E., Fangmeier, M.L., Lagisz, M., Hesselson, D., & Nakagawa, S. (2018). The French press: a repeatable and high-throughput approach to exercising zebrafish (Danio rerio). PeerJ, 6, e4292. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4292

(8) Nakagawa, S., Kar, F., O’Dea, R.E., Pick, J.L. & Lagisz, M. (2017). Divide and conquer? Size adjustment with allometry and intermediate outcomes. BMC Biology, 15, 107. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-017-0448-5

(7) Noble, D.W.A., Lagisz, M., O’Dea, R.E. & Nakagawa, S. (2017). Nonindependence and sensitivity analyses in ecological and evolutionary meta‐analyses. Molecular Ecology, 26: 2410–2425. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14031

(6) O’Dea, R.E., Noble, D.W.A., Johnson, S.L., Hesselson, D., & Nakagawa, S. (2016). The role of non-genetic inheritance in evolutionary rescue: epigenetic buffering, heritable bet hedging and epigenetic traps. Environmental Epigenetics, 2(1). DOI: 10.1093/eep/dvv014

(5) O’Dea, R.E., Vega-Trejo, R., Head, M.L., & Jennions, M.D. (2015). Maternal effects on offspring size and number in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki. Ecology and Evolution, 5(14): 2945-2955. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1577

(4) Parker, T. H., Nakagawa, S., Gurevitch, J., & IIEE (Improving Inference in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology) workshop participants (including O’Dea, R.E.). (2016). Promoting transparency in evolutionary biology and ecology. Ecology Letters, 19(7), 726–728. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12610

(3) O’Dea, R.E., Jennions, M.D., & Head, M.L. (2015). Male body size and condition affects sperm number and production rates in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27:2739-2744. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12534

(2) Vega-Trejo, R., O’Dea, R.E., Jennions, M.D., & Head, M.L. (2014). The effects of familiarity and mating experience on mate choice in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki. Behavioural Ecology, 25:1205-1211. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru113

(1) Beponis, L.M., O’Dea, R.E., Ohl, V.A., Ryan, M.P., Backwell, P.R.Y., Binning, S.A., & Haff, T.M. (2014). Cleaning up after a meal: The consequences of prey disposal for pit-building antlion larvae. Ethology, 120: 873-880. DOI: 10.1111/eth.12257

Exercising zebrafish using the French press method described in publication 8, above (2017)

Exercising zebrafish using the French press method described in publication 8, above (2017)