Emma Cunningham
Group leader
Contact details
Background
Emma Cunningham is a behavioural ecologist with a research interests in disease ecology and reproductive ecology. After a degree in Zoology at the University of Glasgow and a PhD in reproductive ecology at the University of Sheffield she was a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. After a year as a Research Associate at the University of California, Santa Barbara she then returned to the UK to take up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. She is now a group leader based in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biology. She is Deputy Director of the E4 Doctoral Training Programme and leads the Centre for Adapting to Changing Environments (ACE).
Research summary
The ecology and behaviour of animal populations.
Please see:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/groups/cunningham
Key research areas: Ecology, Evolution, Reproduction, Maternal effects, Early life, Parasitism, Wildlife Disease
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Early signals of parasitism expressed through behaviour but modulated by social context
(23 pages)
In:
Animal Behaviour, vol. 193, pp. 157-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.07.017
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Sublethal effects of natural parasitism act through maternal, but not paternal; reproductive success in a wild population
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Ecology, vol. 100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2772
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Between-individual variation in nematode burden among juveniles in a wild host: Variation in nematode burdens of juvenile birds
(11 pages)
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Parasitology, vol. 144, pp. 248–258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182016001700
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Indirect effects of parasitism: Costs of infection to other individuals can be greater than direct costs borne by the host
(8 pages)
In:
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, vol. 282
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0602
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Parasitism in early life: environmental conditions shape within-brood variation in responses to infection
(12 pages)
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Ecology and Evolution, vol. 4, pp. 3408-3419
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1192
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Factors affecting the levels of protection transferred from mother to offspring following immune challenge
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Frontiers in Zoology, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-46
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Endoscopy as a novel method for assessing endoparasite burdens in free-ranging European shags (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
(10 pages)
In:
Methods in ecology and evolution, vol. 4, pp. 207-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12015
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Drug treatment of malaria infections can reduce levels of protection transferred to offspring via maternal immunity
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, vol. 279, pp. 2487-2496
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1563
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Parasite treatment affects maternal investment in sons
(2 pages)
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Science, vol. 321, pp. 1681-1682
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1159466
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Reproductive senescence in a long-lived seabird: Rates of decline in late-life performance are associated with varying costs of early reproduction
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The American Naturalist, vol. 171, pp. E90-E101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/524957
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Can sexual selection drive female life histories? A comparative study on Galliform birds
(12 pages)
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 20, pp. 627-638
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01248.x
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Responding to environmental change: plastic responses vary little in a synchronous breeder
(7 pages)
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, vol. 273, pp. 2713-2719
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3631
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Female mate preferences and subsequent resistance to copulation in the mallard
(8 pages)
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Behavioral Ecology, vol. 14, pp. 326-333
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Maternal investment - Sex differences in avian yolk hormone levels - Reply
(2 pages)
In:
Nature, vol. 412, pp. 498-499
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published) -
Differential allocation and 'good genes' - Comment from Cunningham & Russell
(1 page)
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 16, pp. 21-21
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Letter (Published) -
Egg investment is influenced by male attractiveness in the mallard
(4 pages)
In:
Nature, vol. 404, pp. 74-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/35003565
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Biases in sperm use in the mallard: no evidence for selection by females based on sperm genotype
(6 pages)
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, vol. 266, pp. 905-910
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Sex roles and sexual selection
(11 pages)
In:
Animal Behaviour, vol. 56, pp. 1311-1321
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Literature review (Published) -
The insemination window provides a distorted view of sperm competition in birds
(6 pages)
In:
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, vol. 263, pp. 1187-1192
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EFFECTS OF THE CESTODE SCHISTOCEPHALUS-SOLIDUS ON FOOD-INTAKE AND FORAGING DECISIONS IN THE 3-SPINED STICKLEBACK GASTEROSTEUS-ACULEATUS
(11 pages)
In:
Ethology: international journal of behavioural biology, vol. 97, pp. 65-75
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)