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The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success (2015)
Journal Article
Capellini, I., Baker, J., Allen, W. L., Street, S. E., & Venditti, C. (2015). The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success. Ecology letters, 18(10), 1099-1107. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12493

Why some organisms become invasive when introduced into novel regions while others fail to even establish is a fundamental question in ecology. Barriers to success are expected to filter species at each stage along the invasion pathway. No study to d... Read More about The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success.

The ancient Britons: groundwater fauna survived extreme climate change over tens of millions of years across NW Europe (2014)
Journal Article
McInerney, C. E., Maurice, L., Robertson, A. L., Knight, L. R. F. D., Arnscheidt, J., Venditti, C., …Hänfling, B. (2014). The ancient Britons: groundwater fauna survived extreme climate change over tens of millions of years across NW Europe. Molecular ecology, 23(5), 1153-1166. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12664

Global climate changes during the Cenozoic (65.5–0 Ma) caused major biological range shifts and extinctions. In northern Europe, for example, a pattern of few endemics and the dominance of wide-ranging species is thought to have been determined by th... Read More about The ancient Britons: groundwater fauna survived extreme climate change over tens of millions of years across NW Europe.

Placentation and maternal investment in mammals (2010)
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Capellini, I., Venditti, C., & Barton, R. A. (2011). Placentation and maternal investment in mammals. The American naturalist, 177(1), 86-98. https://doi.org/10.1086/657435

The mammalian placenta exhibits striking interspecific morphological variation, yet the implications of such diversity for reproductive strategies and fetal development remain obscure. More invasive hemochorial placentas, in which fetal tissues direc... Read More about Placentation and maternal investment in mammals.

Adaptive evolution of four microcephaly genes and the evolution of brain size in anthropoid primates (2010)
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Montgomery, S. H., Capellini, I., Venditti, C., Barton, R. A., & Mundy, N. I. (2011). Adaptive evolution of four microcephaly genes and the evolution of brain size in anthropoid primates. Molecular biology and evolution, 28(1), 625-638. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq237

The anatomical basis and adaptive function of the expansion in primate brain size have long been studied; however, we are only beginning to understand the genetic basis of these evolutionary changes. Genes linked to human primary microcephaly have re... Read More about Adaptive evolution of four microcephaly genes and the evolution of brain size in anthropoid primates.

Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals (2010)
Journal Article
Capellini, I., Venditti, C., & Barton, R. A. (2010). Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals. Ecology, 91(9), 2783-2793. https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0817.1

The scaling of metabolic rates to body size is widely considered to be of great biological and ecological importance, and much attention has been devoted to determining its theoretical and empirical value. Most debate centers on whether the underlyin... Read More about Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals.