Dr Benjamin Jarrett

Lecturer in Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology

  1. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. A limit to the extent to which increased egg size can compensate for a poor post-natal environment, revealed experimentally in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides

    Schrader, M., Crosby, R., Hesketh, A., Jarrett, B. & Kilner, R., Jan 2016, In: Ecology and Evolution. 6, 1, p. 329-336

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  3. A sustained change in the supply of parental care causes adaptive evolution of offspring morphology

    Jarrett, B., Evans, E., Haynes, H., Leaf, M., Rebar, D., Duarte, A., Schrader, M. & Kilner, R., 28 Sept 2018, In: Nature Communications. 9, p. 3987

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Academic ecosystems must evolve to support a sustainable postdoc workforce

    Alund, M., Emery, N., Jarrett, B. J. M., MacLeod, K. J., McCreery, H. F., Mamoozadeh, N., Phillips, J. G., Schossau, J., Thompson, A. W., Warwick, A. R., Yule, K. M., Zylstra, E. R. & Gering, E., 1 Jun 2020, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 4, 6, p. 777-781

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Adaptation to a novel family environment involves both apparent and cryptic phenotypic changes

    Schrader, M., Jarrett, B., Rebar, D. & Kilner, R., 13 Sept 2017, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284, 1862, p. 20171295

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  6. Adaptive evolution of synchronous egg-hatching in compensation for the loss of parental care

    Jarrett, B., Rebar, D., Haynes, H., Leaf, M., Halliwell, C., Kemp, R. & Kilner, R., 29 Aug 2018, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 285, 1885, p. 20181452

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  7. An evolutionary switch from sibling rivalry to sibling cooperation, caused by a sustained loss of parental care

    Rebar, D., Jarrett, B., Bailey, N. & Kilner, R., 21 Jan 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 117, p. 2544-2550

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Cooperative interactions within the family enhance the capacity for evolutionary change in body size

    Jarrett, B., Schrader, M., Rebar, D., Houslay, T. & Kilner, R., 26 May 2017, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 1, 0178.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Evolutionary change in the construction of the nursery environment when parents are prevented from caring for their young directly

    Jarrett, B., Duarte, A., Rebar, D., Hallett, A. & Kilner, R., 30 Nov 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 118, 48, e2102450118.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Experimental adaptation of native parasitoids to the invasive insect pest, Drosophila suzukii

    Jarrett, B., Szucs, M., Linder, S., Fanning, P. & Isaacs, R., 1 Apr 2022, In: Biological Control. 167, 104843.

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  11. Forest gaps, edge, and interior support different ant communities in a tropical peat-swamp forest in Borneo

    Schreven, S., Perlett, E., Jarrett, B., Marchant, N., Harsanto, F., Purwanto, A., Sykora, K. & Harrison, M., 2018, In: Asian Myrmecology. 10, e010010.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover

    Global Urban Evolution Project, 17 Mar 2022, In: Science. 375, 6586, p. 1275-1281

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  13. Published

    Host Plant Effects on Sexual Selection Dynamics in Phytophagous Insects

    Jarrett, B. & Miller, C., 1 Jan 2024, In: Annual Review of Entomology. 69, p. 41-57

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  14. Larval environmental conditions influence plasticity in resource use by adults in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides

    Schrader, M., Jarrett, B. & Kilner, R., 1 Mar 2022, In: Evolution. 76, 3, p. 667-674

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  15. Limited gains in native parasitoid performance on an invasive host beyond three generations of selection

    Linder, S., Jarrett, B., Fanning, P., Isaacs, R. & Szucs, M., 1 Dec 2022, In: Evolutionary Applications.

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  16. Non-target attack of the native stink bug, Podisus maculiventris by Trissolcus japonicus, comes with fitness costs and trade-offs

    Linder, S., Jarrett, B. & Szucs, M., 1 Feb 2023, In: Biological Control. 177, p. 105107

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  17. Parental care and sibling competition independently increase phenotypic variation among burying beetle siblings

    Schrader, M., Jarrett, B. & Kilner, R., 1 Nov 2018, In: Evolution. 72, p. 2546-2552

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  18. Parental care masks a density-dependent shift from cooperation to competition among burying beetle larvae

    Schrader, M., Jarrett, B. & Kilner, R., 17 Apr 2015, In: Evolution. 69, 4, p. 1077-1084

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  19. Parental effects alter the adaptive value of an adult behavioural trait

    Kilner, R., Boncoraglio, G., Henshaw, J., Jarrett, B., De Gasperin, O., Attisano, A. & Kokko, H., 22 Oct 2015, In: Elife. p. e07340

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  20. Plastic sexual ornaments: Assessing temperature effects on color metrics in a color-changing reptile

    Assis, B., Jarrett, B., Koscky, G., Langkilde, T. & Avery, J., 20 May 2020, In: PLoS ONE. 15, p. e0233221

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  21. Rapid local adaptation linked with phenotypic plasticity

    Sun, S.-J., Catherall, A., Pascoal, S., Jarrett, B., Miller, S., Sheehan, M. & Kilner, R., 1 Aug 2020, In: Evolution Letters. 4, 4, p. 345-359

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  22. Published

    Selection on the joint actions of pairs leads to divergent adaptation and coadaptation of care-giving parents during pre-hatching care

    Jarrett, B., Mashoodh, R., Issar, S., Pascoal, S., Rebar, D., Sun, S.-J., Schrader, M. & Kilner, R., Jun 2024, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 291, 2024, 20240876.

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  23. Superior stimulation of female fecundity by subordinate males provides a mechanism for telegony

    Pascoal, S., Jarrett, B., Evans, E. & Kilner, R., 1 Apr 2018, In: Evolution Letters. 2, 2, p. 114-125

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  24. The Discovery of Trissolcus japonicus (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) in Michigan

    Jarrett, B., Pote, J., Talamas, E., Gut, L. & Szucs, M., 1 Sept 2019, In: The Great Lakes Entomologist. 52, 1, p. 1-6

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  25. Published

    The effect of experimental warming on reproductive performance and parental care in the burying beetle Nicrophorus nepalensis

    Malik, T., Jarrett, B. & Sun, S.-J., Oct 2024, In: Royal Society Open Science. 11, 10, p. 240653

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  26. Traits across trophic levels interact to influence parasitoid establishment in biological control releases

    Jarrett, B. & Szucs, M., 10 Mar 2022, In: Ecology and Evolution. 12, p. e8654

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  27. Using experimental evolution to study adaptations for life within the family

    Schrader, M., Jarrett, B. & Kilner, R., 1 May 2015, In: American Naturalist. 185, p. 610-619

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