Selected publications
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Experimental increase in eviction load does not impose a growth cost for cuckoo chicks. I Medina, ML Hall, CJ Taylor, RA Mulder, NE Langmore - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2019
Climate is a strong predictor of near-infrared reflectance but a poor predictor of colour in butterflies. JT Munro, I Medina, K Walker, A Moussalli, K Rankin, D Stuart-Fox - Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2019
Conspicuous Plumage Does Not Increase Predation Risk: A Continent-Wide Test Using Model Songbirds. KE Cain, ML Hall, I Medina, AV Leitao, K Delhey, L Brouwer, A Peters, S Pruet-Jones, M Webster, N Langmore, R Mulder - The American Naturalist, 2019
Nest illumination and the evolution of egg rejection in hosts of brood parasites. I Medina, NE Langmore - The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 2019
Host density predicts the probability of parasitism by avian brood parasites. I Medina, NE Langmore - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019
The role of the environment in the evolution of nest shape in Australian passerines. I Medina - Scientific reports, 2019 PDF
Reflection of near-infrared light confers thermal protection in birds. I Medina, E Newton, MR Kearney, RA Mulder, W. Porter, D. Stuart-Fox - Nature communications, 2018 PDF
Walk, swim or fly? Locomotor mode predicts genetic differentiation in vertebrates. I Medina, GM Cooke, TJ Ord - Ecology letters, 2018
Tolerance in hosts of brood parasites: a comment on Avilés. I Medina, NE Langmore - Behavioral Ecology, 2017 PDF
Habitat structure is linked to the evolution of plumage colour in female, but not male, fairy-wrens. I Medina, K Delhey, A Peters, KE Cain, ML Hall, R Mulder, N Langmore - BMC evolutionary biology, 2017 PDF
Egg shape mimicry in parasitic cuckoos. MRG Attard, I Medina, NE Langmore, E Sherratt - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2017 PDF
The evolution of clutch size in hosts of avian brood parasites. I Medina, NE Langmore, R Lanfear, H Kokko - The American Naturalist, 2017 PDF
Conspicuousness, color resemblance, and toxicity in geographically diverging mimicry: The pan‐Amazonian frog Allobates femoralis. A Amézquita, Ó Ramos, MC González, C Rodríguez, I. Medina, P. Simoes, A. Lima - Evolution, 2017
Evolution of dorsal pattern variation in Greater Antillean Anolis lizards. I Medina, JB Losos, DL Mahler - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2016
Brood parasitism is linked to egg pattern diversity within and among species of Australian passerines. I Medina, J Troscianko, M Stevens, NE Langmore - The American Naturalist, 2016
Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots. G Olah, SHM Butchart, A Symes, I Medina… - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2016
Batten down the thatches: front-line defences in an apparently defenceless cuckoo host. I Medina, NE Langmore - Animal behaviour, 2016
Coevolution is linked with phenotypic diversification but not speciation in avian brood parasites. I Medina, NE Langmore - Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2015
The costs of avian brood parasitism explain variation in egg rejection behaviour in hosts. I Medina, NE Langmore - Biology letters, 2015
Tantilla alticola (Boulenger, 1903)(Squamata: Colubridae): filling a geographical distribution gap in western Colombia. J Vanega-Guerrero, A Batista, I Medina, F Vargas-Salinas - 2015
Brood parasitism and the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds. WE Feeney, I Medina, M Somveille, R Heinsohn, M Hall, R. Mulder, JA Stain, R.M. Kilner, N Langmore - Science, 2013
Hybridization promotes color polymorphism in the aposematic harlequin poison frog, Oophaga histrionica. I Medina, IJ Wang, C Salazar, A Amézquita - Ecology and evolution, 2013
Environmental variability and acoustic signals: a multi-level approach in songbirds. I Medina, CD Francis - Biology Letters, 2012
Dispersal syndromes among three landscape units in Colombian lowland Amazonia. MN Umaña, P Stevenson, AB Hurtado, D Correa, I Medina - The International Journal of Plant Reproductive Biology, 2011