Publications
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(35) Noble, D. W. A., Xirocostas, Z. A., Wu, N. C., Martinig, A. R., Almeida, R. A., Bairos-Novak, K. R., Balti, H., Bertram, M. G., Bliard, L., Brand, J. A., Byrne, I., Chan, Y. C., Clink, D.J., Corbel, Q., Correia, R. A., Crawford-Ash, J., Culina, A., D'Bastiani, E., Deme, G. G., de Souza Leite, M., Dhellemmes, F., Dimri, S., Drobniak, S. M., Elsy, A. D., Everingham, S. E., Gascoigne, S. J. L., Grainger, M. J., Hossack, G. C., Hovstad, K. A., Ivimey-Cook, E. R., Lloyd Jones, M., Kačergytė, I., Küstner, G., Leibold, D. C., Mair M. M., Martin, J., Mizuno, A., Moodie, I. R., Moreau, D., O’Dea, R. E., Orr, J. A., Paquet, M., Parajuli, R., Pick, J. L., Pottier, P., Purgar, M., Recio, P., Roche, D. G., Royauté, R., Sabet, S. S., Segovia, J. M. G., Silva, I., Sánchez-Tójar, A., Soares, B. E., Szabo, B., Takola, E., Thoré, E. S. J., Timilsina, B., van Dis, N. E., Verberk, W. C. E. P., Vriend, S. J. G., Wild, K. H., Williams, C., Yang, Y., Nakagawa, S., & Lagisz, M. (2025). The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences. 291: 20241487. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1487.
(34) Coles, N. A., Tenney, E. R., Chin, J. M., Friedrich, J. C., O’Dea, R. E., & Holcombe, A. O. (2024). Team scientists should normalize disagreement. Science, 384(6700), 1076–1077. DOI: 10.1126/science.ado7070.
(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, 14, e10912. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10912.
(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)