Journal articles

Nogueira, T., Rankin, D.J., Touchon, M., Taddei, F., Brown, S.P. & Rocha, E.P.C. (In Press) Horizontal gene transfer of the secretome drives the evolution of bacterial cooperation and virulence. Current Biology.

Rankin, D.J. & Taborsky, M. (2009) Assortment and the evolution of generalised reciprocity. Evolution. 63: 1913-1922.

Heubel, K.U., Rankin, D.J. & Kokko, H. (2009) How to go extinct by mating too much: population consequences of male mate choice and efficiency in a sexual-asexual species complex. Oikos. 118:513-520.

Rankin, D.J. & Eggimann, F. (2009) The evolution of judgement-bias in indirect reciprocity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences. 276: 1339-1345.

Hochberg, M.E., Rankin, D.J. & Taborsky, M. (2008) The coevolution of cooperation and dispersal in social groups and its implications for the emergence of multicellularity. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8: 238.

Rankin, D.J. & Arnqvist, G. (2008) Sexual dimorphism is associated with population fitness in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. Evolution. 62: 622-630.

Rankin, D.J. (2008) Can punishment maintain sex? Oikos 117: 173-176.

Kokko, H., Heubel, K.U. & Rankin, D.J. (2008) How populations persist when asexuality requires sex: the spatial dynamics of coping with sperm parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 275: 817-825.

Rankin, D.J. (2008) Learning much from a bug's life. Science 320: 1591-1592.

Rankin, D.J., Bargum, K. & Kokko, H. (2007) The tragedy of the commons in evolutionary biology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 643-651.

Rankin, D.J., López-Sepulcre, A., Foster, K.R & Kokko, H. (2007) Species-level selection reduces intraspecific selfishness through competitive exclusion. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1459-1468.

Rankin, D.J. & Kokko, H. (2007) Do males matter? The role of males in population dynamics. Oikos 116: 335-348.

Rankin, D.J. (2007) Simple maths for a perplexing world. Science 318: 919.

Rankin, D.J. (2007) Resolving the tragedy of the commons: the feedback between intraspecific conflict and population density. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20 : 173-180.

Rankin, D.J. & Kokko, H. (2006) Sex, death and tragedy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 225-226.

Kokko, H. & Rankin, D.J. (2006) Lonely hearts or sex in the city? Density-dependent effects in mating systems? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 361: 319-334.

Rankin, D.J. & López-Sepulcre, A. (2005) Can adaptation lead to extinction? Oikos 111: 616-619.

Pexton, J.J., Rankin, D.J., Dytham, C. & Mayhew, P.J. (2003) Asymmetric larval mobility and the evolutionary transition from siblicide to nonsiblicidal behaviour in parasitoid wasps. Behavioral Ecology 14: 182-193.

Other publications

Rankin, D.J. (2007) The Population Consequences of Sex and Conflict. PhD Thesis, University of Helsinki Press. ISBN 952-92-1422-7.