Journal Publications (request a pdf) Simmons, L. W., House, C. M., Hunt, J. & García-González, F. 2009. Evolutionary response to sexual selection in male genital morphology. Current Biology, 19: 1442-1446. Binks, R. M., Lukehurst, S. S., García-González, F. & Evans, J. P. 2009. Characterization of microsatellite loci for the Australian sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma. Molecular Ecology Resources, 9: 1259-1261. Simmons, L. W. & García-González, F. 2008. Evolutionary reduction in testes size and competitive fertilization success in response to the experimental removal of sexual selection in dung beetles. Evolution, 62: 2580-2591. García-González, F. 2008. The relative nature of fertilization success: implications for the study of post-copulatory sexual selection. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8:140. (open access: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/140) García-González, F. 2008. Male genetic quality and the inequality between paternity success and fertilization success: consequences for studies of sperm competition and the evolution of polyandry. Evolution, 62:1653-1665. Gomendio, M., García-González, F., Reguera, P. & Rivero A. 2008. Male egg-carrying in Phyllomorpha laciniata is favoured by natural not sexual selection. Animal Behaviour, 75:763-770. García-González, F. & Simmons, L. W. 2007. Paternal indirect genetic effects on offspring viability and the benefits of polyandry. Current Biology, 17: 32-36. García-González, F. & Simmons, L. W. 2007. Shorter sperm confer higher competitive fertilization success. Evolution, 61: 816-824. Link to PDF
Simmons, L. W. & García-González, F. 2007. Female crickets trade offspring viability for fecundity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20: 1617-1623. Evans, J. P., García-González, F. & Marshall, D. J. 2007. Sources of genetic and phenotypic variance in sperm performance and larval traits in a sea urchin. Evolution, 61: 2832-2838. García-González, F., Roldan, E. R. S., Ponz, F. & Gomendio, M. 2007. The adaptive significance of male egg carrying in the golden egg bug: defining research avenues. A reply to Härdling et al. Ecological Entomology 32: 578-581.
García-González, F. & Simmons, L. W. 2005. The evolution of polyandry: intrinsic sire effects contribute to embryo viability. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 18:1097-1103.
García-González, F. & Simmons, L. W. 2005. Sperm viability matters in insect sperm competition. Current Biology, 15: 271-275.
García-González, F., Núñez, Y., Ponz, F., Roldán, E. R. S., & Gomendio, M. 2005. Paternity analysis in the golden egg bug using AFLPs: do the males preferentially accept their true genetic offspring? Ecological Entomology, 30: 444-455.
García-González, F. 2004. Infertile matings and sperm competition: the effect of "non sperm representation" on intraspecific variation in sperm precedence patterns. American Naturalist 164: 457-472.
García-González, F. and Gomendio, M. 2004. Adjustment of copula duration and ejaculate size according to the risk of sperm competition in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata). Behavioral Ecology, 15:23-30.
García-González, F., Núñez, Y., Ponz, F., Roldán, E. R. S., and Gomendio, M. 2003. Sperm competition mechanisms, confidence of paternity, and the evolution of paternal care in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata). Evolution 57:1078-1088.
García-González, F. and Gomendio, M. 2003. A field test of the intraspecific brood parasitism hypothesis in the golden egg bug (Phyllormorpha laciniata). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 53:332-339.
Simmons, L.W.; Wernham, J.; García-González, F. & Kamien, D. 2003. Variation in paternity in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus: no influence of sperm numbers or sperm length. Behavioral Ecology, 14: 539-545.
García-González, F. and Gomendio, M. 2003. Oviposition site selection and oviposition stimulation by conspecifics in the golden egg bug (Phyllormorpha laciniata): implications on female fitness. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 53: 385-392.
Pitnick, S. & García-González, F. 2002. Harm to females increases with male body size in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London series B, Biological Sciences, 269: 1821-1828.
García-González, F. & Ornosa, C. 2001. Daily activity pattern of the wild bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) pollinators to the blackberries (Rubus ulmifolius Schott, 1818, Rosaceae) in Central Spain. Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia, S6: 495-505. (In Spanish with English abstract). Ornosa, C.; García-González, F. & Ortíz-Sánchez, F. J. 2001. Some teratological cases in Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia, S6: 507-512. (In Spanish with English abstract).
García-González, F. & Ornosa, C. 1999. Territorial behaviour associated with the resource defense polygyny of Anthidium florentinum (Fabricius, 1775) (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología, 23: 41-51. (In Spanish with English abstract). García-González, F. & Ornosa, C. 1998. Metrical relations in Anthidium florentinum (Fabricius, 1775), (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): a tool for studying its territorial behaviour. Entomofauna, 19 (9): 185-188.
García-González, F. & Ornosa, C. 1998. Pollinators to the blackberries (Rubus ulmifolius Schott, 1818, Rosaceae) in Central Spain: composition and identity. Zoologia Baetica, 9: 69-90. (In Spanish with English abstract).
Other publications
Gomendio, M. & García-González, F. 2005. ¿Quién se ocupa de las crías?. Quercus, 232: 46-51. (In Spanish. Natural history and Conservation journal).
García-González, F. 2002. The evolution of egg carrying in Phyllomorpha laciniata (Het., Coreidae): a behavioural, physiological and molecular approach to explain its adaptive significance in males and females. PhD Thesis, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid. |
