Preprints

Rubi, T.L., Knowles, L.L., and Dantzer, B. Museum epigenomics: characterizing cytosine methylation in historic museum specimens. Submitted April 2019.      bioRxiv

Published manuscripts

Rubi, T.L., Clark, D.L., Keller, J.S., and Uetz, G.W. (2019). Courtship behavior and coloration influence conspicuousness of wolf spiders (Schizocosa ocreata (Hentz)) to avian predators. Behavioural Processes 162: 215-220.      Behav Proc          PDF

Polnaszek, T.J., Rubi, T.L., and Stephens, D.W. (2017). When it’s good to signal badness: using objective measures of discriminability to test the value of conspicuousness. Animal Behaviour 129: 113-125. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.05.009      An Behav           PDF

Rubi, T.L. and Stephens, D.W. (2016). Why complex signals matter, sometimes. In Bee, M.A. and Miller, C.T., eds, Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication. Springer International Publishing, New York. pp. 119-135.      SpringerLink           PDF

Rubi, T.L. and Stephens, D.W. (2016). Does multimodality per se improve receiver performance? An explicit comparison of multimodal versus unimodal complex signals in a learned signal-following task. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70 (3): 409-416. doi: 10.1007/s00265-016-2061-y     Behav Ecol Sociobiol         PDF

Rubi, T.L. and Stephens, D.W. (2016). Should receivers follow multiple signal components? An economic perspective. Behavioral Ecology 27 (1): 36-44. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arv121      Behav Ecol           PDF

Freeman, N.J., Pasternak, G.M., Rubi, T.L., Barrett, L., and Henzi, S.P. (2012). Evidence for scent-marking in vervet monkeys? Primates 53 (3): 311-315.        Primates           PDF