Ben Phillips

Perverse outcomes from fencing fauna: Loss of antipredator traits in a havened mammal population

ND Harrison, BL Phillips, NJ Mitchell, JC Wayne, MA Maxwell, CG Ward, AF Wayne

Journal article  |  2023  |  Biological Conservation

Populations of threatened animals are increasingly preserved within predator-free havens, where populations tend to grow rapidly, ..

Group resource-holding potential: worker size, colony size and the outcome of contests in ants

S Han, BL Phillips, MA Elgar

Journal article  |  2023  |  Animal Behaviour

Disputes over resources are initially resolved by signals, which reveal the resource-holding potential (RHP) of the contestants. C..

Can conditioned taste aversion be deployed at a landscape level to mitigate the impact of invasive cane toads on northern quolls?

Naomi L Indigo, Ella Kelly, James Smith, Jonathan K Webb, Ben L Phillips

Journal article  |  2023  |  Wildlife Research

A metapopulation model reveals connectivity-driven hotspots in treatment resistance evolution in a marine parasite

Andrew Coates, Nick Robinson, Tim Dempster, Francisca Samsing, Ingrid Johnsen, Ben L Phillips

Journal article  |  2022  |  ICES Journal of Marine Science: journal du conseil

In salmon aquaculture, the sustainable management of salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) is limited by the adaptive capacity of ..

Ethical Publishing: How Do We Get There?

Fernando Racimo, Nicolas Galtier, Véronique De Herde, Noémie Aubert Bonn, Ben Phillips, Thomas Guillemaud, Denis Bourget

Journal article  |  2022  |  Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology

The academic journal publishing model is deeply unethical: today, a few major, for-profit conglomerates control more than 50% of ..

Population genomics of a predatory mammal reveals patterns of decline and impacts of exposure to toxic toads

Brenton von Takach, Louis Ranjard, Christopher P Burridge, Skye F Cameron, Teigan Cremona, Mark DB Eldridge, Diana O Fisher, Stephen Frankenberg, Brydie M Hill, Rosemary Hohnen, Chris J Jolly, Ella Kelly, Anna J MacDonald, Adnan Moussalli, Kym Ottewell, Ben L Phillips, Ian J Radford, Peter BS Spencer, Gavin J Trewella, Linette S Umbrello, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Mammal declines across northern Australia are one of the major biodiversity loss events occurring globally. There has been no regi..

Effects of developmental environment on animal personality in a tropical skink

Madeleine de Jong, Ben L Phillips, John Llewelyn, David G Chapple, Bob BM Wong

Journal article  |  2022  |  BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Abstract: Developmental environments play a significant role in shaping animal phenotype, including behavior. Within a species, in..

Applying genetic technologies to combat infectious diseases in aquaculture

Nicholas A Robinson, Diego Robledo, Lene Sveen, Rose Ruiz Daniels, Aleksei Krasnov, Andrew Coates, Ye Hwa Jin, Luke T Barrett, Marie Lillehammer, Anne H Kettunen, Ben L Phillips, Tim Dempster, Andrea Doeschl-Wilson, Francisca Samsing, Gareth Difford, Sarah Salisbury, Bjarne Gjerde, John-Erik Haugen, Erik Burgerhout, Binyam S Dagnachew, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  REVIEWS IN AQUACULTURE

Disease and parasitism cause major welfare, environmental and economic concerns for global aquaculture. In this review, we examine..

Slow and steady wins the race: Spatial and stochastic processes and the failure of suppression gene drives

Jeff F Paril, Ben L Phillips

Journal article  |  2022  |  MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Gene drives that skew sex ratios offer a new management tool to suppress or eradicate pest populations. Early models and empirical..

Identifying the most effective behavioural assays and predator cues for quantifying anti-predator responses in mammals: a systematic review protocol

Natasha D Harrison, Ben L Phillips, Jan M Hemmi, Adrian F Wayne, Rochelle Steven, Nicola J Mitchell

Journal article  |  2021  |  ENVIRONMENTAL EVIDENCE

Background: Mammals, globally, are facing population declines. Strategies increasingly employed to recover threatened mammal popul..