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2013 and in press

• Kölliker, M., Smiseth, P. T. & Royle, N. J.. in press. The evolution of parental care. In: The Princeton Guide to Evolution (Losos, J., Baum, D., Futuyma, D. J. et al., eds). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Gómez, Y. & Kölliker, M. in press. Maternal care, mother-offspring aggregation and age-depdendent co-adaptation in the European earwig. Journal of evolutionary Biology.
• Wong, J. W. Y., Meunier, J. & Kölliker, M. 2013. The evolution of parental care in insects: The roles of ecology, life history and the social environment. Ecological Entomology 38: 123-137. link to paper. Highlighted as The Editor's Choice for the April issue of volume 38. Freely available online.
• Belz, E., Kölliker, M. & Balmer O. 2013. Olfactory attractiveness of flowering plants to the parasitoid Microplitis mediator: potential implications for biological control. BioControl 58: 163-173. (pdf-file: 462k)

2012

• Royle, N. J., Smiseth, P. T. & Kölliker, M. (eds.). 2012. The evolution of parental care. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Smiseth, P. T., Kölliker, M. & Royle, N. J. What is parental care? (chapter 1)
• Kölliker, M., Royle, N. J. & Smiseth, P. T. Parent-offspring coadaptation. (chapter 16)
• Royle, N. J., Smiseth, P. T. & Kölliker, M. The evolution of parental care: summary, conclusions and implications. (chapter 18)
• Royle, N. J., Pike, T., Heeb, P., Richner, H. & Kölliker, M. 2012. Offspring social network structure predicts fitness in families. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 4914-4922. (pdf-file: 489k)
• Meunier, J. & Kölliker, M. 2012. Parental antagonism and parent-offspring co-adaptation interact to shape family life. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 3981-3988. (pdf-file: 578k)
• Meunier, J. & Kölliker, M. 2012. When it is costly to have a caring mother: food limitation erases the benefits of parental care in earwigs. Biology Letters 8: 547-550. (pdf-file: 277k)
• Wong, J. W. Y. & Kölliker, M. 2012. The effect of female condition on maternal care in the European earwig. Ethology 118: 450-459. (pdf-file: 590k)
• Meunier, J., Wong, J. W. Y., Gomez, Y., Kuttler, S., Röllin, L., Stucki, D. & Kölliker, M. 2012. One clutch or two clutches? Fitness correlates of coexisting alternative female life-histories in the European earwig. Evolutionary Ecology 26: 669-682. (pdf-file: 327k)

2011

• Wong, J. W. Y. & Michiels, N. K. 2011. Control of social monogamy through aggression in a hermaphroditic shrimp. Frontiers in Zoology 8: 30.
• Mas, F., Meunier, J. & Kölliker, M. 2011. A new function of hydrocarbons in insect communication: maternal care and offspring signalling in the European earwig. Chimia 65: 744.
• Dobler, R. & Kölliker, M. 2011. Influence of weight asymmetry and kinship on siblicidal and cannibalistic behaviour in earwigs. Animal Behaviour 82: 667-672. (pdf-file: 228k)
• Kölliker, M. 2011. On the meaning of hunger and behavioral control in the evolution of honest begging. Behavioral Ecology. (pdf-file: 40k)
• Mas, F., & Kölliker, M. 2011. An offspring signal of quality affects the timing of future parental reproduction. Biology Letters 7: 352-354. (pdf-file: 197k)
• Meunier, J., Delemont, O. & Lucas, C. 2011. Recognition in ants: social origin matters. PLoS ONE 6(5): e19347.
• Mas, F., & Kölliker, M. 2011. Differential effects of offspring condition-dependent signals on maternal care regulation in the European earwig. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65: 341-349. (pdf-file: 237k)
• Meunier, J., Figueiredo Pinto, S., Burri, R. & Roulin, A. 2011. Eumelanin-based coloration and fitness parameters in birds: a meta-analysis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65: 559-567.
• Meunier, J., Reber, A. & Chapuisat, M. 2011. Queen acceptance in a socially polymorphic ant. Animal Behaviour 81: 163-168.

2010

• Roulin, A., Dreiss, A. N. & Kölliker, M. 2010. Evolutionary perspective on the interplay between family life, and parent and offspring personality. Ethology 116: 1-10. (pdf-file: 131k)
• Kalberer, N., Reisenmann, C. E. & Hildebrand, G. J. 2010. Male moths bearing transplanted female antennae express characteristically female behaviour and central neural activity. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 1272-1280.
• Dobler, R. & Kölliker, M. 2010. Kin selected siblicide and cannibalism in the European earwig. Behavioural Ecology 21: 257-263.(pdf-file: 148k)
• Reber, A., Meunier, J. & Chapuisat, M. 2010. Flexible colony founding strategies in a socially polymorphic ant. Animal Behaviour 78, 467-472.
• Kölliker, M., Ridenhour, B. J. & Gaba, S. 2010. Antagonistic parent-offspring co-adaptation. PLoS ONE 5: e8606.(link to paper; pdf-file: 548k)
• Dobler, R. & Hosken, D. J. 2010. Response to selection and realized heritability of sperm length in the yellow dungfly (Scathophaga stercoraria). Heredity 104, 61-66.

2009

• Pitnick, S., Dobler R. & Hosken, D. J. 2009. Sperm length is not influenced by haploid gene expression in the flies Drosophila melanogaster and Scathophaga stercoraria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276, 4029-4034 .
• Maclaux, F., Hammond, R. R., Meunier, J., Gouhier-Darimont, C., Keller, L. & Reymond, P. 2009. Competitive ability not kinship affects growth of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. New Phytologist 185: 322-331.
• Mas, F., Haynes, K. F. & Kölliker, M. 2009. A chemical signal of offspring quality affects maternal care in a social insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276: 2847-2853. (pdf-file: 152k)
• Dobler, R. & Kölliker, M. 2009. Behavioural attainability of evolutionarily stable strategies in repeated interactions. Animal Behaviour 77: 1427-1434. (pdf-file: 452k)

2008

• Staerkle, M. & Kölliker, M. 2008. Maternal food regurgitation to nymphs in earwigs (Forficula auricularia). Ethology 114: 844-850.(pdf-file: 140k)
• Mas, F. & Kölliker, M. 2008. Maternal care and offspring begging in social insects: chemical signalling, hormonal regulation and evolution. Animal Behaviour76: 1121-1131. (pdf-file: 304k)
• Smiseth, P. T., Wright, J. & Kölliker, M. 2008. Parent-offspring conflict and co-adaptation: behavioural ecology meets quantitative genetics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 275: 1823-1830. (pdf-file: 199k)
• Tanner, M., Kölliker, M. & Richner, H. 2008. Differential food allocation by male and female great tit (Parus major) parents: are parents or offspring in control?. Animal Behaviour 75: 1563-1569. (pdf-file: 253k)

2007

• Kölliker, M. 2007. Benefits and costs of earwig (Forficula auricularia) family life. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 1489-1497. (pdf-file: 205k)
• Tanner, M., Kölliker, M. & Richner, H. 2007. Parental influence on sibling rivalry in great tit (Parus major) nests. Animal Behaviour 74: 977-983. (pdf-file: 394k)
• Kölliker, M. & Vancassel, M. 2007. Maternal attendance and the maintenance of family groups in common earwigs (Forficula auricularia): a field experiment. Ecological Entomology 32: 24-28. (pdf-file: 64k)

2006

• Kölliker, M., Chuckalovcak, J. P., Haynes, K. F. & Brodie III, E. D. 2006. Maternal food provisioning in relation to condition-dependent offspring odours in burrower bugs (Sehirus cinctus). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273: 1523-1528.(pdf-file: 170k), (suppl. material: 140k)

2005

• Kölliker, M., Brodie III, E. D. & Moore, A. J. 2005. The coadaptation of parental supply and offspring demand. American Naturalist 166/4:506-516.(pdf-file: 430k)
• Kölliker, M., Chuckalovcak, J. P. & Brodie III, E. D. 2005. Offspring chemical cues affect maternal food provisioning in burrower bugs (Sehirus cinctus). Animal Behaviour 69: 959-966.(pdf-file: 169k)
• Kölliker, M. 2005. Ontogeny in the family. Behavior Genetics 35/1: 7-18.(pdf-file: 210 k)

2004

• Linder, R., Geier, J. & Kölliker, M. 2004. Artificial neural networks, classification trees and regression: which method for which customer base? Journal of Database Marketing & Customer Strategy Management 11/4, 344-356.(abstract)
• Kölliker, M. & Richner, H. 2004. Navigation in a cup: chick positioning in great tit (Parus major) nests. Animal Behaviour 68: 941-948.(pdf-file: 252k)

2003

• Kölliker, M. 2003. Estimating mechanisms and equilibria for offspring begging and parental provisioning. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (Suppl.) 270: Biology Letters, s100-s103.(pdf-file: 82k)
• Fitze, P.S., Kölliker, M. & Richner, H. 2003. Effects of common origin and common environment on nestling plumage coloration in the great tit (Parus major). Evolution 57(1) : 144-150.(pdf-file: 90k)
• Neuenschwander, S., Brinkhof, M.W.G., Kölliker M. & Richner, H. 2003. Brood size, sibling competition and the cost of begging in great tits (Parus major). Behavioral Ecology 14: 457-462.(pdf-file: 99k)

2001

• Kölliker, M. & Richner, H. 2001. Parent-offspring conflict and the genetics of offspring solicitation and parental response. Animal Behaviour 62: 395-407.(pdf-file: 208k)

2000

• Kölliker, M., Brinkhof, M.W.G., Heeb, P., Fitze, P.S. & Richner H. 2000. The quantitative genetic basis of offspring solicitation and parental response in a passerine bird with biparental care. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267: 2127-2132.(pdf-file: 193k)
• Heeb, P., Kölliker, M. & Richner, H. 2000. Bird-ectoparasite interactions, nest humidity, and ectoparasite community structure. Ecology 81/4, 958-968.(pdf-file: 120k)
• Roulin, A., Kölliker, M. & Richner, H. 2000. Barn owl (Tyto alba) siblings vocally negotiate resources. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267: 459-464.(pdf-file: 173k)

1999

• Brinkhof, M.W.G., Heeb, P., Kölliker, M. & Richner, H. 1999. Immunocompetence of nestling great tits in relation to rearing environment and parentage. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266: 2315-2322.(pdf-file: 152k)
• Kölliker, M., Heeb, P., Werner, I., Mateman, A.C., Lessells, C.M. & Richner, H. 1999. Offspring sex ratio is related to male body size in the great tit (Parus major). Behavioral Ecology 10: 68-72.(pdf-file: 151k)
• Heeb, P., Werner, I., Mateman, C., Kölliker, M., Brinkhof, M.W.G., Lessells, K. & Richner, H. 1999. Ectoparasite infestation and sex-biased local recruitment. Nature 400: 63-65.(abstract)

1998

• Kölliker, M., Richner, H., Werner, I. & Heeb, P. 1998. Begging signals and biparental care: nestling choice between parental feeding locations. Animal Behaviour 55: 215-222.(pdf-file: 151k)
• Heeb, P., Werner, I., Kölliker, M. & Richner, H. 1998. Benefits of induced host responses against an ectoparasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 265: 51-56.(pdf-file: 268k)

1996

• Heeb, P., Werner, I., Richner, H. & Kölliker, M. 1996. Horizontal transmission and reproductive rates of hen fleas in great tit nests. Journal of Animal Ecology 65: 474-484.(pdf-file: 1.9Mb)

Other Publications

• Kölliker, M. 2009. Zwischen Kooperation und Konflikt. In "Darwin und die Evolution", UNI NOVA 111, 22-25. (pdf-file whole issue: 7.7Mb), (pdf-file article: 1.1Mb)
• Kölliker, M. 2005. Circular statistics Macros in SAS: Calculation of circular moments, one-sample Raileigh-tests, circular correlations (parametric and non-parametric) and two-sample Watson-Williams tests. Freely available online here.
• Kölliker, M. 2001. Zielgenau dank Data Mining. Marketing und Kommunikation 5/2001: 38 - 40.(pdf-file: 1.1Mb)