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Nick Britton's Recent Publications

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Journal and other refereed articles

Refereed articles since 1996 in reverse chronological order.




Journal articles

L N Lili, N F Britton and E J Feil,
The persistence of parasitic plasmids,
Genetics, 177, 399-405, 2007;
doi:10.1534/genetics.107.077420.

N F Britton, R Planque and N R Franks,
Evolution of defence portfolios in exploiter-victim systems,
Bull. Math. Biol, 69(3), 957-988, 2007.

P J F Hancock and N F Britton,
Adaptive responses to spatial aggregation and habitat destruction in heterogeneous landscapes,
Evol. Ecol. Research 8(8), 1349–1376, 2006.

G Room and N Britton,
The dynamics of social exclusion,
Int. J. Social Welfare 15(4), 280-289, 2006.
See Graham Room's website.

J A Stewart-Cox, N F Britton and M Mogie,
Space mediates coexistence of females and hermaphrodites,
Bull. Math. Biol 67, 1273-1302, 2005.

J A Stewart-Cox, N F Britton and M Mogie,
Pollen limitation or mate search need not induce an Allee effect,
Bull. Math. Biol 67, 1049-1079, 2005.

J A Stewart-Cox, N F Britton and M Mogie,
Timescale separated pollination-colonisation models,
Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 3305, 765-774, 2004.

J A Stewart-Cox, N F Britton and M Mogie,
Endosperm triploidy has a selective advantage during ongoing parental conflict via imprinting,
Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 271, 1737-1743, 2004.

N R Franks, N F Britton, A B Sendova-Franks and others,
Centrifugal waste disposal and the optimisation of ant nest craters,
Animal Beh. 67, 965-973, 2004.

I Gudelj, K A J White and N F Britton,
The effects of spatial movements and group interactions on disease dynamics of social animals,
Bull. math. Biol 66, 91-108, 2004.

R Planque, N F Britton, N R Franks and M Peletier,
The adaptiveness of defence strategies against cuckoo parasitism,
Bull. Math. Biol. 64, 1045-1068, 2002.

N R Franks, S C Pratt, E A Mallon, N F Britton and D J T Sumpter,
Mathematical models for information flow and adaptive house-hunting,
Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 357, 1567-1583, 2002.

M S Penney and N F Britton,
Modelling natural burst firing in nigral dopamine neurons,
J. theor. Biol. 219, 207-233, 2002.

C Carrillo, N F Britton and M Mogie,
Coexistence of sexual and asexual conspecifics: a cellular automaton model,
J. theor. Biol. 217, 275-285, 2002.

N F Britton, N R Franks, S C Pratt and T D Seeley,
Deciding on a new house: how do honey bees agree?,
Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 269, 1383-1388, 2002.

M L Wilson, N F Britton and N R Franks,
Chimpanzees and the mathematics of battle,
Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 269, 1107-1112, 2002.

A B Sendova-Franks, N R Franks and N F Britton,
The role of competition in task switching during colony emigration in the ant Leptothorax albipennis,
Animal Beh. 63, 715-725, 2002.

N F Britton and M Mogie,
Poor male function favours the coexistence of sexual and asexual relatives,
Ecology Letters 4, 116-121, 2001.

G P Boswell, N R Franks and N F Britton,
Arms races and the evolution of big fierce societies,
Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 268, 1723-1730, 2001.

N R Franks and N F Britton,
The possible role of reaction-diffusion in leaf shape,
Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 267, 1295-1300, 2000.

E L Stott, N F Britton, J A Glazier and M Zajac,
Stochastic simulation of benign avascular tumour growth using the Potts model,
Math. Comp. Modelling 30, 199-209, 1999.

N F Britton, L W Partridge and N R Franks,
A model of survival times for predator populations:
the case of army ants,
Bull. math. Biol. 61, 469-482, 1999.

S Boi, N del Buono, I D Couzin, N R Franks and N F Britton,
Coupled oscillators and activity waves in ant colonies,
Proc. Roy. Soc. B 266, 371-378, 1999.

N F Britton, T R Stickland and N R Franks,
Analysis of ant foraging algorithms,
J. biol. Sys. 6, 315-336, 1998.

G P Boswell, N F Britton and N R Franks,
Habitat fragmentation, percolation theory and the conservation of a keystone species,
Proc. Roy. Soc. B 265, 1921-1925, 1998.

N F Britton and S M Skevington,
On the mathematical modelling of pain,
Neurochem. Res. 21, 1139-1146, 1996.

L W Partridge, N F Britton and N R Franks,
Army ant population dynamics: the effects of habitat quality and reserve size on population size and time to extinction,
Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 263, 735-741, 1996.

N F Britton, M A J Chaplain and S M Skevington,
A mathematical model for pain: the role of NMDA receptors,
IMA J. Math. appl. Med. Biol. 13, 193-205, 1996.

S A Gourley, N F Britton, M A J Chaplain and H M Byrne,
Stabilising and destabilising effects for systems of reaction-diffusion equations,
J. math. Biol. 34, 857-877, 1996.

N F Britton, L W Partridge and N R Franks,
A mathematical model for the population dynamics of army ants,
Bull. math. Biol. 58, 471-492, 1996.

S A Gourley and N F Britton,
A predator-prey reaction-diffusion system with nonlocal effects,
J. math. Biol. 34, 299-333, 1996.

Other refereed articles and chapters

N F Britton, G P Boswell and N R Franks,
Dispersal and conservation in fragmented landscapes,
in Insect Movement: Mechanisms and Consequences, eds I Woiwod, C Thomas and D Reynolds, pp 299-320,
CABI Publishing, Wallingford, 2001.

N R Franks, G P Boswell and N F Britton.
Habitat fragmentation and swarm-raiding army ants,
in Behaviour and Conservation, eds L M Gosling and W J Sutherland, pp 141-158,
Cambridge University Press in association with the Zoological Society of London, 2000.

T R Stickland, N F Britton and N R Franks,
The persistence of ant foraging signals,
in Foraging in Social Insects, eds C Detrain, J-L Deneubourg and J M Pasteels, pp 83-100,
Birkhaeuser, 1999.




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