Melanie Gibbs

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Gibbs, M. , Breuker, C.J., Smiseth, P.T. & Moore , A.J. 2008. Does sibling competition have a sex-specific effect on offspring growth and development in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides? Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata , 126: 158-164.

Breuker C.J., Gibbs M., Van Dyck H., Brakefield P.M., Klingenberg C.P., and Van Dongen S. 2007. Integration of wings and their eyespots in the speckled wood butterfly Pararge aegeria. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 308B: 454-463.

Breuker C.J., P.M. Brakefield, and Gibbs M. 2007. The association between wing morphology and dispersal is sex-specific in the glanville fritillary butterfly Melitaea cinxia. European Journal of Entomology 104: 445-452.

Gibbs, M. & Breuker, C.J. 2006. Effect of larval rearing density on adult life history traits and developmental stability of the dorsal eyespot pattern in the speckled wood butterfly Pararge aegeria. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 118: 41-47.

Gibbs, M ., Lace, L.A., Jones, M.J. & Moore, A.J. 2006. Multiple host-plant use arising from gender-specific fitness affects. Journal of Insect Science 6:04, available online: insectscience.org/6.04/.

Gibbs, M ., Lace, L.A., Jones, M.J. & Moore, A.J. 2005. Egg size-number trade-off and a decline in oviposition site choice quality: female Pararge aegeria butterflies pay a cost of having males present at oviposition. Journal of Insect Science 5:39, available online: insectscience.org/5.39/

Gibbs, M ., Lace, L.A., Jones, M.J. & Moore, A.J. 2004. Differences in search behaviour of the two Madeiran speckled butterflies, Pararge aegeria and Pararge xiphia (Lepidoptera: Satyridae), implications for interspecific competition? Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal. 55, 5-15.

Gibbs, M ., Lace, L.A., Jones, M.J. & Moore, A.J. 2004. Intraspecific competition in the speckled wood butterfly Pararge aegeria: effect of rearing density and gender on larval life history. Journal of Insect Science 4:16, available online: insectscience.org/4.16/

Gibbs, M ., Broad G.R. & Polaszek, A. 2004. Trichogramma gicai (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) reared as an egg parasitoid of the Madeiran endemic Pararge xiphia (Lepidoptera: Satyridae). Bocagiana 31, 1-5.

Gibbs, M . 2002. Has speckled wood Pararge aegeria (L.) influenced the disappearance of wall brown Lasiommata megera (L.)(Lepidoptera: Satyridae) in Cheshire? Journal of the Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society 124-146, 21-23.