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471. Madsen, T., B. Ujvari, R. Shine, and M. Olsson.  2006.  Rain, rats and pythons: climate-driven population dynamics of predators and prey in tropical Australia.  Austral Ecology 31:30-37. 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01540.x
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Brown, G. P., and R. Shine.  2006.  Why do most tropical animals reproduce seasonally?  Testing alternative hypotheses on the snake Tropidonophis mairii (Colubridae).  Ecology 87:133-143.
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Shine, R., J. K. Webb, A. Lane, and R. T. Mason.  2006.  Flexible mate choice: a male snake's preference for larger females is modified by the sizes of females that he  Animal Behaviour 71:203-209. 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.04.005
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Vincent, S. E., B. R. Moon, R. Shine, and A. Herrel.  2006.  The functional meaning of "prey size" in snakes: influence of prey dimensions on feeding performance in water snakes (Nerodia fasciata, Serpentes, Colubridae).  Oecologia 147:204-211. 10.1007/s00442-005-0258-2
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Goldsbrough, C. L., R. Shine, and D. F. Hochuli.  2006.  Factors affecting retreat-site selection by coppertail skinks (Ctenotus taeniolatus) from  Austral Ecology 31:326-336. 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01561.x
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Phillips, B. L., and R. Shine.  2006. Allometry and selection in a novel predator-prey system: Australian snakes and the invading cane  Oikos 112:122-130. 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2006.13795.x
477. Lourdais, O., R. Shine, X. Bonnet, and F. Brischoux.  2006.  Sex differences in body composition, performance and behaviour in the Colombian rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchria maurus, Boidae).  Journal of Zoology (London) 269:175-182. 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00057.x
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O'Connor, D., and R. Shine.  2006.  Kin discrimination in the social lizard Egernia saxatilis (Scincidae).  Behavioral Ecology 17:206-211. 10.1093/beheco/arj019
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Madsen, T., B. Ujvari, R. Shine, W. Buttemer, and M. Olsson.  2006.  Size matters: extraordinary rodent abundance on an Australian tropical floodplain.  Austral Ecology 31:361-365. 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01564.x
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Phillips, B., and R. Shine.  2006.  Spatial and temporal variation in the morphology (and thus, predicted impact) of an invasive species in Australia.  Ecography 29:205-212. 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04413.x
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Avolio, C., R. Shine, and A. Pile.  2006.  Sexual dimorphism in scale rugosity in sea snakes (Hydrophiidae).  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89:343-354. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00678.x
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Llewelyn, J., R. Shine, and J. Webb.  2006.  Time of testing affects locomotor performance in diurnal versus nocturnal snakes.  Journal of Thermal Biology 31:268-273. 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2005.10.005
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Webb, J., K. Christian, and R. Shine.  2006. The adaptive significance of reptilian viviparity in the tropics: testing the "maternal manipulation" hypothesis.  Evolution 60:115-122. 10.1043/0014-3820
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Shine, R., W. R. Branch, P. S. Harlow, J. K. Webb, and T. Shine.  2006.  Biology of burrowing asps (Atractaspididae) from Southern Africa.  Copeia 2006:103-115. 10.1643/0045-8511
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Hagman, M., and R. Shine.  2006.  Spawning-site selection by feral cane toads (Bufo marinus) at an invasion front in tropical Australia.  Austral Ecology 31:551-558. 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01627.x
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Radder, R. S., S. K. Saidapur, R. Shine, and B. A. Shanbhag.  2006. The language of lizards: interpreting the function of visual displays in the Indian rock lizard, Psammophilus dorsalis (Agamidae).  Journal of Ethology 24:275-283. 10.1007/s10164-006-0192-8
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Warner, D., and R. Shine.  2006. Morphological variation does not influence locomotor performance within a cohort of hatchling lizards (Amphibolurus muricatus, Agamidae).  Oikos 114:126-134. 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14761.x
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Allsop, D. J., D. Warner, T. Langkilde, W. Du, and R. Shine.  2006.  Do operational sex ratios influence sex allocation in viviparous lizards with temperature-dependent sex determination?  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19:1175-1182. 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01086.x
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Shah, B., S. Hudson, and R. Shine.  2003.  Social aggregation by thick-tailed geckos (Nephrurus milii): does scat-piling play a role?  Australian Journal of Zoology 54:271-275. 10.1071/ZO06012
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Phillips, B. L., and R. Shine.  2006.  An invasive species induces rapid adaptive change in a native predator: cane toads and black snakes in Australia.  Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series B 273:1545-1550. 10.1098/rspb.2006.3479
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Langkilde, T., and R. Shine.  2006.  How much stress do researchers inflict on their study animals? A case study using a scincid lizard, Eulamprus heatwoleiJournal of Experimental Biology 209:1035-1043. 10.1242/jeb.02112
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Shine, R., T. Langkilde, M. Wall, and R. T. Mason.  2006.  Temporal dynamics of emergence and dispersal of garter snakes from a communal den in Manitoba.  Wildlife Research 33:103-111. 10.1071/WR05030
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Avolio, C., R. Shine, and A. J. Pile.  2006.  The adaptive significance of sexually dimorphic scale rugosity in sea snakes.  American Naturalist 167:728-738.
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Shine, R.  2006.  Is increased maternal basking an adaptation or a pre-adaptation to viviparity in lizards?  Journal of Experimental Zoology 305A:524-535. 10.1002/jez.a.291
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Greenlees, M. J., G. P. Brown, J. K. Webb, B. L. Phillips, and R. Shine.  2006.  Effects of an invasive anuran (the cane toad, Bufo marinus) on the invertebrate fauna of a tropical Australian floodplain.  Animal Conservation 9:431-438. 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2006.00057.x
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Brown, G. P., C. M. Shilton, and R. Shine.  2006.  Do parasites matter? Assessing the fitness consequences of haemogregarine infection in snakes.  Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:668-676. 10.1139/206-044
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Elphick, M., J. Thomas, and R. Shine.  2006. Courtship and copulation in the southern water skink, Eulamprus heatwoleiHerpetofauna 36:25-26.
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Shine, R., W. R. Branch, J. K. Webb, P. S. Harlow, and T. Shine.  2006.  Sexual dimorphism, reproductive biology and dietary habits of psammophiine snakes (Colubridae) from southern  Copeia 2006:650-664. 10.1643/0045-8511(2006)6[650:SDRBAD]2.0.CO;2
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Brown, G. P., B. L. Phillips, J. K. Webb, and R. Shine.  2006. Toad on the road: Use of roads as dispersal corridors by cane toads (Bufo marinus) at an invasion front in tropical Australia.  Biological Conservation 133:88-94. 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.05.020
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Phillips, B. L., G. P. Brown, J. Webb, and R. Shine.  2006.  Runaway toads: an invasive species evolves speed and thus spreads more rapidly through Australia.  Nature 439:803. 10.1038/439803a
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Radder, R., and R. Shine.  2006.  Thermally-induced torpor in fullterm lizard embryos synchronises hatching with ambient conditions.  Biology Letters 2:415-416. 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0495
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Brown, G. P., and R. Shine.  2006.  Effects of nest temperature and moisture on phenotypic traits of hatchling snakes (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae) from tropical Australia.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89:159-168. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00669.x
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Ineich, I, X. Bonnet, R. Shine, T. Shine, F. Brischoux, M. Lebreton, and L. Chirio.  2006.  What, if anything, is a 'typical' viper? Biological attributes of basal viperid snakes (genus Causus Wagler, 1830).  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89:575-588. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00690.x
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Shine, R., and M. B. Thompson.  2006.  Did embryonic responses to incubation conditions drive the evolution of reproductive modes in squamate reptiles?  Herpetological Monographs 20:159-171. 0.1655/0733-1347(2007)20[159:DERTIC]2.0.CO;2
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