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Research interests 

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Evolutionary discussion group

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Current Lab members

Borja Milá Valcárcel                     postdoctoral fellow

Katleen Huyghe                          postdoctoral fellow (start Dec 09)

Virginia González Jimena             PhD student

Luis Martín San José García          PhD student

Merel Breedveld                          PhD student

Cristina Romero Díaz                   Master student

Guillem Malet Ponsati                  Master student

Miguel Peñalver Alcázar               Technician

M. Rosa Arribas Ramos                Practical

Alumni

PhD students

Julien Cote

Master students

Julien Cote

Pierre Barrault

Barbara Tschirren

Karin Büchler

Last year projects

Itziar López Zandueta

Prospective students

Interested students are very welcome. They may contact me by email. Please send a letter of interest including a CV written in English, Spanish, French, or German. Postdoctoral fellows should additionally attach their three best scientific articles.

* authors that contributed equally.

Fitze, Cote, Clobert (2010) Mating order dependent female mate choice in the polygynandrous Common Lizard Lacerta vivipara. Oecologia in press.

Mila, Wayne, Fitze & Smith (2009) Divergence with gene flow and fine-scale phylogographic structure in the wedge-billed woodcreeper (Glyphorynchus spirurus), a Neotropical rainforest bird. Molecular Ecology 18: 2979-2995.

Fitze, Cote, San-Jose, Meylan, Isaksson, Andersson, Rossi & Clobert (2009) Carotenoid-based Colours Reflect the Stress Response in the Common Lizard. PLoSONE 4:e5111. PDF

San-Jose, Gonzalez-Jimenez & Fitze (2008) Frequency and phenotypic differences of a melanistic and normally coloured common lizard, Lacerta (Zootoca) vivipara, Jacquin, 1787 of the Southern Pyrenees (Spain) Herpetological Review. 39: 422-425. PDF

Cote, Le Galliard, Rossi & Fitze (2008) Environmentally induced changes in carotenoid-based coloration of female lizards: a comment on Vercken et al. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1165-1172. PDF 

Fitze & Le Galliard (2008) Operational sex ratio, sexual conflict, and the intensity of sexual selection. Ecology Letters 11: 1-8. PDF 
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Fitze, Cote, Martínez-Rica & Clobert (2008) Determinants of male fitness: disentangling intra- and inter-sexual selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 246-255. PDF

Le Galliard, Cote & Fitze (2008) Lifetime and intergenerational fitness consequences of harmful male interactions for female lizards. Ecology 89: 56-64. PDF

Cote, Clobert & Fitze (2007) Mother-offspring competition promotes colonization success. Proccedings of the National American Society of the United States of America 104: 9703-9708 PDF

Fitze,Tschirren, Gasparini & Richner (2007) Carotenoid-based plumage colors and immune function: Is there a trade-off for rare carotenoids? American Naturalist 169: S137-144. PDF

Tschirren, Fitze & Richner (2007) Maternal modulation of natal dispersal in a passerine bird: an adaptive strategy to cope with parasitism? American Naturalist 169: 87-93. PDF

Cote, Clobert, Meylan & Fitze (2006) Experimental enhan cement of corticosterone levels positively affects subsequent male survival. Hormones and Behavior 49: 320-327. PDF

Fitze & Tschirren (2006). No evidence for survival selection on carotenoid-based nestling coloration in great tits (Parus major). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 91-100. PDF

Le Galliard*, Fitze*, Ferrière & Clobert (2005) Sex ratio bias, male aggression, and population collapse in lizards. Proccedings of the National American Society of the United States of America 102: 18231-18236. PDF

Fitze* Le Galliard*, Federici, Richard & Clobert (2005) Conflict over multiple partner mating between males and females of the polygynandrous common lizards. Evolution 59: 2451-2459. PDF

Le Galliard*, Fitze*, Cote, Massot, & Clobert (2005) Female common lizards (Lacerta vivipara) do not adjust their sex-biased investment in relation to the adult sex ratio. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18: 1455-1463. PDF

Tschirren, Saladin, Fitze, Schwabl, & Richner (2005) Maternal yolk androgens and ectoparasites: effects on nestling morphology, plasma corticosterone and immune function in great tit nestlings. Journal of Animal Ecology 74: 675-682. PDF

Tschirren, Fitze, & Richner (2005) Carotenoid-based nestling coloration and parental favouritism in the great tit (Parus major). Oecologia 143: 477-482. PDF

Fitze, Clobert & Richner (2004) Long-term life-history consequences of ectoparasite-modulated growth and development. Ecology 85: 2018-2026. PDF

Fitze, Tschirren & Richner (2004) Life history - and Fitness Consequences of Ectoparasites in a natural bird population. Journal of Animal Ecology 73: 216-226. PDF

Fitze, Tschirren & Richner (2003) Carotenoid-based colour expression is determined early in nestling life. Oecologia 137:148-152. PDF

Tschirren, Fitze & Richner (2003) Sexual dimorphism in susceptibility to parasites and cell-mediated immunity in great tit nestlings. Journal of Animal Ecology 72: 839-845. PDF

Tschirren, Fitze & Richner (2003) Proximate mechanisms of variation in the carotenoid-based plumage coloration of nestling Great tits (Parus major), Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 16: 91-100. PDF

Fitze, Köliker & Richner (2003) Effects of common origin and common environment on nestling plumage coloration in the Great tit (Parus major). Evolution 57: 144-150. PDF

Büchler, Fitze, Gottstein, Jacot & Richner (2002) Analysis of Parasite-induced Maternal Responses in a Natural bird population. Journal of Animal Ecology. 71: 247-252. PDF

Fitze & Richner (2002) Differential Effects of a Parasite on Ornamental Structures Based on Melanins and Carotenoids, Behavioral Ecology. 13: 401-407. PDF

Kölliker, Brinkhof, Heeb, Fitze & Richner (2000). The quantitative genetic basis of offspring solicitation and parental response in a passerine bird with biparental care. Proccedings of the Royal Society London: Biological Sciences: 267, 2137-2132. PDF