A/Prof Theresa Jones

My main area of research is in the field behavioural ecology with a particular focus on understanding the causes and consequences of variability in mating systems, the role of chemical cues, and most recently the impact of artificial night lighting on individual fitness and community structure.

I am a founding co-director of the Australasian Dark Sky Alliance (ADSA - https://www.australasiandarkskyalliance.org/) an independent non-profit organisation formed to educate and increase awareness about the importance of maintaining the night sky.

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FEATURED Journal article

Sibling rivalry versus mother's curse: can kin competition facilitate a response to selection on male mitochondria?

Theresa Jones' selected work

Testbed 1 Project

Research Contracts

Where have all the stars gone?

NEWS ARTICLE

Dim artificial light at night reduces the cellular immune response of the black field cric..

Journal article

Apr Intern Program - Lucy Mclay - Comparing Olfaction And Dispersal In Wild Vs Laboratory ..

Research Contracts

What happens to wildlife in a city that never sleeps?

NEWS ARTICLE

Streetlights Disrupt Night-Time Sleep in Urban Black Swans

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Projects

Displaying the 12 most recent projects by Theresa Jones.

Testbed 1 Project

2020 - 2021

Active

Apr Intern Program - Lucy Mclay - Comparing Olfaction And Dispersal In Wild Vs Laboratory Reared Queensland Fruit Fly

2019 - 2020

Completed

Artificial Light At Night: Testing The Effects On Trophic Chains In Eucalyptus Woodland Communities

2018 - 2020

Completed

Amsi Intern: Identification Of Volatiles Associated With Protein Feeding Behaviour In The Queensland Fruit Fly, Bactrocera Tryoni

2017 - 2018

Completed

The Function Of Nocturnal Song And The Influence Of Light At Night In A Diurnal Bird Species

2017 - 2018

Completed

Bright Lights, Black Swans: The Effect Of Streetlights On The Behaviour And Circadian Rhythms Of Urban Black Swans (Cygnus Atratus)

2017 - 2020

Completed

Effects Of Artificial Light On Nocturnal Song And Fitness In The Willie Wagtail

2017 - 2020

Completed

Bright Lights, Sleepless Nights: Effects Of Artificial Light At Night On Circadian Rhythms In Black Swans

2016 - 2018

Completed

The Dark Side Of Light: Species And Community Impacts Of Night Lighting

The presence of artificial light at night (LAN) is one of the most profound recent changes in urban ecosystems. Correlated with increases in..

2015 - 2018

Completed

The Dark Side Of Light: Species And Community Level Impact Of Artificial Night Lighting

2014 - 2017

Completed

Habitat Preference And Post-Fire Recovery Of The Smoky Mouse (Pseudomys Fumeus)

2013 - 2014

Completed

The Use Of Web Based Pheromones In Mate Assessment

2012 - 2014

Completed

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 72 most recent scholarly works by Theresa Jones.

Sibling rivalry versus mother's curse: can kin competition facilitate a response to selection on male mitochondria?

Thomas A Keaney, Heidi WS Wong, Damian K Dowling, Theresa M Jones, Luke Holman

Journal article | 2020 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Dim artificial light at night reduces the cellular immune response of the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus

Joanna Durrant, Mark P Green, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2020 | Insect Science

A functioning immune system is crucial for protection against disease and illness, yet increasing evidence suggests that species l..

Streetlights Disrupt Night-Time Sleep in Urban Black Swans

Anne E Aulsebrook, John A Lesku, Raoul A Mulder, Wolfgang Goymann, Alexei L Vyssotski, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2020 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Effects of artificial light at night and male calling on movement patterns and mate location in field crickets

Eliza K Thompson, Naomi L Cullinan, Theresa M Jones, Gareth R Hopkins

Journal article | 2019 | Animal Behaviour

Mother's curse and indirect genetic effects: Do males matter to mitochondrial genome evolution?

Thomas A Keaney, Heidi WS Wong, Damian K Dowling, Theresa M Jones, Luke Holman

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was originally thought to prevent any response to selection on male phenotypic v..

Phylotranscriptomics resolves phylogeny of the Heliozelidae (Adeloidea: Lepidoptera) and suggests a Late Cretaceous origin in Australia

Liz Milla, Adnan Moussalli, Stephen A Wilcox, Erik J van Nieukerken, David A Young, Mike Halsey, Thomas McConville, Theresa M Jones, Axel Kallies, Douglas J Hilton

Journal article | 2019 | Systematic Entomology

What is the available evidence that artificial light at night affects animal behaviour? A systematic map protocol

Lucy Katherine McLay, Juhani Peter Hopkins, Bob Bern Ming Wong, Ulrika Candolin, Theresa Melanie Jones

Journal article | 2019 | Environmental Evidence

Guiding lights: Foraging responses of juvenile nocturnal orb-web spiders to the presence of artificial light at night

Nikolas J Willmott, Jessica Henneken, Mark A Elgar, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2019 | Ethology

The ecological implications of LED lighting

Theresa Jones, Margaret Grose

Reference Work | 2019 | The Australian Local Government Yearbook Edition 26

The impacts of artificial light at night on urban ecology

M Grose, Theresa Jones

Book Chapter | 2019

Artificial light at night alters life history in a nocturnal orb-web spider

Nikolas J Willmott, Jessica Henneken, Caitlin J Selleck, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2018 | PeerJ

Dim artificial light at night affects mating, reproductive output, and reactive oxygen species in Drosophila melanogaster

Lucy Katherine McLay, Venkatesh Nagarajan-Radha, Mark Philip Green, Theresa Melanie Jones

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology

Artificial light at night as a driver of evolution across urban-rural landscapes

Gareth R Hopkins, Kevin J Gaston, Marcel E Visser, Mark A Elgar, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2018 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Impacts of artificial light at night on sleep: A review and prospectus

Anne E Aulsebrook, Theresa M Jones, Raoul A Mulder, John A Lesku

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology

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AE Aulsebrook, TM Jones, RA Mulder, JA Lesku

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology

Artificial light at night prolongs juvenile development time in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus

Joanna Durrant, L Michael Botha, Mark P Green, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

A preliminary molecular phylogeny of shield- bearer moths (Lepidoptera: Adeloidea: Heliozelidae) highlights rich undescribed diversity

Liz Milla, Erik J van Nieukerken, Ruben Vijverberg, Camiel Doorenweerd, Stephen A Wilcox, Mike Halsey, David A Young, Theresa M Jones, Axel Kallies, Douglas J Hilton

Journal article | 2018 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Novel microsatellite markers suggest the mechanism of parthenogenesis in Extatosoma tiaratum is automixis with terminal fusion

Yasaman Alavi, Anthony van Rooyen, Mark Adrian Elgar, Theresa Melanie Jones, Andrew Raymond Weeks

Journal article | 2018 | Insect Science

Pheromones-based sexual selection in a rapidly changing world

Jessica Henneken, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2017 | Current Opinion in Insect Science

Variation in the web-based chemical cues of Argiope keyserlingi

Jessica Henneken, Jason QD Goodger, Theresa M Jones, Mark A Elgar

Journal article | 2017 | Journal of Insect Physiology

Sex versus versus parthenogenesis; immune function in a facultatively parthenogenetic phasmatid (Extatosoma tiaratum)

Yasaman Alavi, Mark Adrian Elgar, Theresa Melanie Jones

Journal article | 2017 | Journal of Insect Physiology

The potential role of web-based putrescine as a prey-attracting allomone

Jessica Henneken, Jason QD Goodger, Theresa M Jones, Mark A Elgar

Journal article | 2017 | Animal Behaviour

Chronic exposure to dim artificial light at night decreases fecundity and adult survival in Drosophila melanogaster

LK McLay, MP Green, TM Jones

Journal article | 2017 | Journal of Insect Physiology

Effects of lifetime exposure to artificial light at night on cricket (Teleogryllus commodus) courtship and mating behaviour

L Michael Botha, Theresa M Jones, Gareth R Hopkins

Journal article | 2017 | Animal Behaviour

Consequences of evolutionary transitions in changing photic environments

Simon M Tierney, Markus Friedrich, William F Humphreys, Theresa M Jones, Eric J Warrant, William T Wcislo

Journal article | 2017 | Austral Entomology

Diet-Mediated Pheromones and Signature Mixtures Can Enforce Signal Reliability

Jessica Henneken, Jason QD Goodger, Theresa M Jones, Mark A Elgar

Journal article | 2017 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

A method for paraffin sectioning and identification of indoleamines in the brain of insects with a sclerotized cuticle

Christopher B Freelance, Laura Leone, Colin R Anderson, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2017 | Journal of Histotechnology

The Lutzomyia longipalpis complex: a brief natural history of aggregation-sex pheromone communication

Carolina N Spiegel, Denise B dos Santos Dias, Alejandra S Araki, James GC Hamilton, Reginaldo P Brazil, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2016 | Parasites & Vectors

Sleep Ecophysiology: Integrating Neuroscience and Ecology

Anne E Aulsebrook, Theresa M Jones, Niels C Rattenborg, Timothy C Roth, John A Lesku

Journal article | 2016 | Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Male Mating Success and the Effect of Mating History on Ejaculate Traits in a Facultatively Parthenogenic Insect (Extatosoma tiaratum)

Yasaman Alavi, Mark A Elgar, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2016 | Ethology

Diet influences female signal reliability for male mate choice

Jessica Henneken, Theresa M Jones, Jason QD Goodger, Daniel A Dias, Andre Walter, Mark A Elgar

Journal article | 2015 | Animal Behaviour

Constant illumination reduces circulating melatonin and impairs immune function in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus

Joanna Durrant, Ellie B Michaelides, Thusitha Rupasinghe, Dedreia Tull, Mark P Green, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2015 | PEERJ

Patterns of Sperm Transfer in the Golden Orb-Weaver Nephila edulis

Leonor Ceballos, Theresa M Jones, Mark A Elgar

Journal article | 2015 | Ethology

Melatonin: a possible link between the presence of artificial light at night and reductions in biological fitness

Theresa M Jones, Joanna Durrant, Ellie B Michaelides, Mark P Green

Journal article | 2015 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Gender differences in conference presentations: a consequence of self-selection?

Theresa M Jones, Kerry V Fanson, Rob Lanfear, Matthew RE Symonds, Megan Higgie

Journal article | 2014 | PeerJ

Aggregation and mating success of Capnodis tenebrionis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

Carmelo Peter Bonsignore, Theresa Melanie Jones

Journal article | 2014 | Insect Science

Promiscuous words

Mark A Elgar, Theresa M Jones, Kathryn B McNamara

Journal article | 2013 | Frontiers in Zoology

Female resistance behaviour and progeny sex ratio in two Bradysia species (Diptera: Sciaridae) with paternal genome elimination

R Featherston, TM Jones, MA Elgar

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Age-dependent trade-offs between immunity and male, but not female, reproduction

Kathryn B McNamara, Emile van Lieshout, Theresa M Jones, Leigh W Simmons

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of Animal Ecology

A female preference for experienced males in the almond moth, Cadra cautella

Kathryn B McNamara, Julia L McKenzie, Mark A Elgar, Theresa M Jones

Journal article | 2012 | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Size-assortative pairing across three developmental stages in the Zeus bug, Phoreticovelia disparata

Theresa M Jones, Goran Arnqvist, Kathryn B McNamara, Mark A Elgar

Journal article | 2012 | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology