Journal articles

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McGinty, S.E., Lehmann, L., Brown, S.P. & Rankin, D.J. (In Press) The Interplay between Relatedness and Horizontal Gene Transfer Drives the Evolution of Plasmid-Carried Public Goods. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. [sup. mat.]

Dos Santos, M., Rankin, D.J. & Wedekind, C. (In press) Human cooperation based on punishment reputation. Evolution.

Dobay, A., Gall, G.E., Rankin D.J. & Bagheri H.C. (2013) Renaissance model of an epidemic with quarantine. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 317: 348-358.

Rankin, D.J., Turner, L. Heinemann, J. & Brown, S.P. (2012) The co-evolution of toxin and antitoxin genes drives the emergence and dynamics of bacterial addiction complexes and intragenomic conflict. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences. 279:3706-3715.

Matias Rodrigues, J.F., Rankin, D.J., Rossetti, V., Wagner, A. & Bagheri, H. (2012) Differences in cell division rates drive the evolution of terminal differentiation in microbes. PLoS Computational Biology. 8: e1002468.

Mc Ginty, S.E. & Rankin, D.J. (2012) The evolution of conflict resolution between plasmids and their bacterial hosts. Evolution. 66: 1662–1670. [sup. mat.]

Baker, C.C.M., Dall, S.R.X. & Rankin, D.J. (2012) Kin selection and the evolution of social information use in animal conflict. PLoS ONE. 7: e31664. [sup. mat.]

Dos Santos, M., Matias Rodrigues, J.F., Wedekind, C. & Rankin, D.J. (2012) The establishment of communication systems depends on the scale of competition. Evolution and Human Behavior. 33: 232–240.

Rankin, D.J., Mc Ginty, S.E., Nogueira, T.,Touchon, M., Taddei, F., Rocha, E.P.C, & Brown, S.P. (2011) Bacterial cooperation controlled by mobile elements: kin selection and infectivity are part of the same process. [reply to Giraud & Shykoff] Heredity. 107: 279–281.

Rankin, D.J., Dieckmann, U. & Kokko, H. (2011) Sexual conflict and the tragedy of the commons. American Naturalist. 177: 780-791.

Svara, F. & Rankin, D.J. (2011) The evolution of plasmid-carried antibiotic resistance. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11: 130. [sup. mat.]

Mc Ginty, S.E., Rankin, D.J. & Brown, S.P. (2011) Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of bacterial cooperation. Evolution. 65: 21-32.

Rankin, D.J. (2011) The social side of Homo economicus. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 26: 1-3.

Rankin, D.J., Rocha, E.P.C. & Brown, S.P. (2011) What traits are carried on mobile elements and why? Heredity.106: 1-10. [comment by Giraud & Shykoff][reply]

Rankin, D.J. (2011) Kin selection and the evolution of sexual conflict. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24: 71-81.

Dos Santos, M., Rankin, D.J. & Wedekind, C. (2011) The evolution of punishment through reputation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences. 278: 371-377. [sup. mat.]

Abbot, P., Abe, J., Alcock, J., Alizon, S., Alpedrinha, J.A.C., Andersson, M., Andre, J.-B., van Baalen, M., Balloux, F., Balshine, S., Barton, N., Beukeboom, L.W., Biernaskie, J.M., Bilde, T., Borgia, G., Breed, M., Brown, S., Bshary, R., Buckling, A., Burley, N.T., Burton-Chellew, M.N., Cant, M.A., Chapuisat, M., Charnov, E.L., Clutton-Brock, T., Cockburn, A., Cole, B.J., Colegrave, N., Cosmides, L., Couzin, I.D., Coyne, J.A., Creel, S., Crespi, B., Curry, R.L., Dall, S.R.X., Day, T., Dickinson, J.L., Dugatkin, L.A., El Mouden, C., Emlen, S.T., Evans, J., Ferriere, R., Field, J., Foitzik, S., Foster, K., Foster, W.A., Fox, C., Gadau, J., Gandon, S., Gardner, A., Gardner, M.G., Getty, T., Goodisman, M.A.D., Grafen, A., Grosberg, R., Grozinger, C.M., Gouyon, P.-H., Gwynne, D., Harvey, P., Hatchwell, B.J., Heinze, J., Helantera, H., Helms, K.R., Hill, K., Jiricny, N., Johnstone, R.A., Kacelnik, A., Kiers, E.T., Kokko, H., Komdeur, J., Korb, J., Kronauer, D., Kümmerli, R., Lehmann, L., Linksvayer, T.A., Lion, S., Lyon, B., Marshall, J.A.R., McElreath, R., Michalakis, Y., Michod, R.E., Mock, D., Monnin, T., Montgomerie, R., Moore, A.J., Mueller, U.G., Noë, R., Okasha, S., Pamilo, P., Parker, G.A., Pen, I., Pedersen, J.S., Pfennig, D., Queller, D.C., Rankin, D.J., Reece, S.E., Reeve, H.K., Reuter, M., Roberts, G., Robson, S.K.A., Roze, D., Rousset, F., Rueppell, O., Sachs, J., Santorelli, L., Schmid-Hempel, P., Schwarz, M.P., Scott-Phillips, T., Sherman, P.W., Shuker, D.M., Smith, J., Spagna, J.C., Suarez, A., Sundström, L., Taborsky, M., Taylor, P., Thompson, G., Tooby, J., Tsutsui, N.D., Tsuji, K., Turillazzi, S., Úbeda, F., Vargo, E.L., Voelkl, B., Wenseleers, T., West, S.A., West-Eberhard, M.J., Westneat, D.F., Wiernasz, D.C., Wild, G., Wrangham, R., Young, A.J., Zeh, D.W., Zeh , J.A. & Zink, A. (2011) Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature. 471: E1-E4.

Rankin, D.J. (2011) A Darwinian Approach. Science. 333: 526.

Rankin, D.J., Bichsel, M. & Wagner, A. (2010) Mobile DNA can drive lineage extinction in prokaryotic populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23: 2422-2341. [sup. mat.]

Nogueira, T., Rankin, D.J., Touchon, M., Taddei, F., Brown, S.P. & Rocha, E.P.C. (2009) Horizontal gene transfer of the secretome drives the evolution of bacterial cooperation and virulence. Current Biology. 19: 1683-1691. [sup. mat.] [dispatch by Lawrence]

Rankin, D.J., Dos Santos, M. & Wedekind, C. (2009) The evolutionary significance of costly punishment still to be demonstrated. [reply to Wu et al] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: E135. [reply by Tao et al]

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. [sup. mat.]

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. [sup. mat.]

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.