Casper J. Breuker

Senior Lecturer

Invertebrate Ecology and Biogeography Research GroupSinclair Building, School of Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK

Office: GIP-S3.08d
tel: +44(0)1865483244

email 1: casper_j_breuker(at)yahoo.co.uk

email 2: cbreuker(at)brookes.ac.uk

 

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Publications:

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• Gibbs, M ., Breuker, C.J., Smiseth, P.T., and Moore, A.J. 2007. Does sibling competition have a sex-specific effect on offspring growth and development in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides? Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. IN PRESS

• Breuker C.J., Gibbs M., Van Dyck H., Brakefield P.M., Klingenberg C.P., and Van Dongen S. 2007. Integration of wings and their eyespots in the speckled wood butterfly Pararge aegeria. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 308B: 454-463.

• Breuker C.J., P.M. Brakefield, and Gibbs M. 2007. The association between wing morphology and dispersal is sex-specific in the glanville fritillary butterfly Melitaea cinxia. European Journal of Entomology 104: 445-452.

• Breuker C.J ., De Jong P.W., Victoir K., Vrieling K., and Brakefield P.M. 2007. Pleiotropic effects associated with an allele enabling the flea beetle Phyllotreta nemorum to use Barbarea vulgaris as a host plant. Evolutionary Ecology 21: 13-26.

• Breuker C.J ., Patterson J.S., and Klingenberg C.P. 2006. A single basis for developmental buffering of Drosophila wing shape. PLOS-one 1(1):e7

• Breuker C.J ., Debat V., and Klingenberg C.P. 2006. Functional evo-devo. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 488-492.

• Gibbs M. and Breuker C.J. 2006. Effect of larval rearing density on adult life history traits and developmental stability of the dorsal eyespot pattern in speckled wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 118: 41-47.

• Breuker C.J ., Victoir K., De Jong P.W., Van der Meijden, E., Brakefield P.M., and Vrieling K. 2005. AFLP markers for the R-gene in the flea beetle, Phyllotreta nemorum, conferring resistance to defences in Barbarea vulgaris. Journal of Insect Science, 5, 38, available online: insectscience.org/5.38.

• Breuker C.J and Brakefield P.M. 2003. Lack of response to selection for lower fluctuating asymmetry of mutant eyespots in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana. Heredity 91: 17-27.

• Breuker C.J and Brakefield P.M. 2003. Heat stress in the developmentally sensitive period of butterfly eyespots fails to increase fluctuating asymmetry. Evolution and Development 5: 231-239.

• Breuker C.J and Brakefield P.M. 2002. Female choice depends on size but not symmetry of dorsal eyespots in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series B Biological Sciences 269: 1233-1239.

• Hanski I., Breuker C.J., Schöps K., Setchfield R. and Nieminen M. 2002. Population history and life history influence the migration rate of female Glanville fritillary butterflies. Oikos 98: 87-97.

• Brakefield P.M., El Filali E., van der Laan R., Breuker C.J., Saccheri I.J., and Zwaan B. 2001. Effective population size, reproductive success and sperm precedence in the butterfly, Bicyclus anynana, in captivity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14: 148-156.

• Verhoog M.D., Breuker C.J. and Brakefield, P.M. 1998. The influence of genes for melanism on the activity of the flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella. Animal Behaviour 56: 683-688.

• Brakefield P.M. and Breuker C.J. 1996. The genetical basis of fluctuating asymmetry for developmentally integrated traits in a butterfly eyespot pattern. Proceedings Of The Royal Society Of London, Series B Biological Sciences 263: 1557-1563.