Dr Vicki Balfour
Research Fellow
Selected publications
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Open access
Is mating failure caused by cryptic male choice in the seed bug Lygaeus simulans?
Balfour, V. L., Armand, M. & Shuker, D. M., Sept 2024, In: Ecology and Evolution. 14, 9, 11 p., e70341.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Post‐copulatory sexual selection in an insect with high levels of mating failure
Balfour, V., Armand, M. & Shuker, D., Oct 2024, In: Ecology and Evolution. 14, 10, 12 p., e70407.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The role of condition on sexual selection in the seed bug Lygaeus simulans
Balfour, V. L., Corliss, M. K. & Shuker, D. M., 4 Sept 2024, In: Ecology and Evolution. 14, 9, 10 p., e70226.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
A single pleiotropic locus influences the rate of hybridization between two sibling species of Lygaeus bugs
Balfour, V. L., Black, D. & Shuker, D. M., Nov 2020, In: Ecology and Evolution. 10, 21, p. 12224-12232 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mating failure shapes the patterns of sperm precedence in an insect
Balfour, V. L., Black, D. & Shuker, D. M., 27 Jan 2020, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 74, 14 p., 25.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Same-sex sexual behaviour
Balfour, V. L. & Shuker, D. M., 16 Nov 2020, In: Current Biology. 30, 22, p. R1345-R1346Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The fitness effects of a pale mutant in the aposematic seed bug Lygaeus simulans indicate pleiotropy between warning coloration and life history
Balfour, V. L., Aumont, C., Dougherty, L. R. & Shuker, D. M., Dec 2018, In: Ecology and Evolution. 8, 24, p. 12855-12866 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Can females choose to avoid mating failure in the seed bug Lygaeus simulans?
Greenway, E. V., Balfour, V. L. & Shuker, D. M., Jul 2017, In: Animal Behaviour. 129, p. 61-69 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review