Rufus A. Johnstone

Dalhousie University — Canada

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Animal Behavior and Reproduction(85), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(71), Plant and animal studies(56), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior(49), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(26)

Publications188 total

Enhanced Image Annotation in Wild Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) Fields Using Sequential Zero-Shot Detection and Segmentation Models
Sensors·2025Open Access
A landscape of intergroup conflict shapes den site choice in banded mongooses
2025Open Access
Spend today or build for tomorrow? Kinship dynamics and the evolution of alternative helping strategies in cooperative breeders
2025Open Access
White Matter Hyperintensities Mediate the Negative Impact of HbA1c Levels on Cognitive Function
Brain Sciences·2025Open Access
Predicting the Patterns of Kinship Dynamics in Human Societies
2025Open Access
Predicting kinship dynamics during pre- and post-reproductive life stages
2025Open Access
Streamlining Dataset Development: A GUI for Automated Image Annotation in Wild Blueberry (<i>Vaccinium angustifolium</i> Ait.) with Multimodal Optimization
2025
Group size modulates kinship dynamics and selection on social traits
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Costly lifetime maternal investment in killer whales
Current Biology·2023· 27 citedOpen Access
Code and data for "Costly lifetime maternal investment in killer whales"
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
Code and data for "Costly lifetime maternal investment in killer whales"
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2022· 24 citedOpen Access
Leaders of war: modelling the evolution of conflict among heterogeneous groups
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
Untangling the oxidative cost of reproduction: An analysis in wild banded mongooses
Ecology and Evolution·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
Kinship dynamics: patterns and consequences of changes in local relatedness
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2021· 43 citedOpen Access
A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society
Nature Communications·2021· 44 citedOpen Access
A long postreproductive life span is a shared trait among genetically distinct killer whale populations
Ecology and Evolution·2021· 23 citedOpen Access
Evolution of epigenetic transmission when selection acts on fecundity versus viability
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2021· 6 citedOpen Access
A long post-reproductive lifespan is a shared trait among genetically distinct killer whale populations
2021
Data supporting Marshall et al (2021) Nature Communications
Figshare·2021Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Michael A. Cant(8), Hanna Kokko(5), Andrea Manica(4), Reinmar Hager(4), Redouan Bshary(3), Alan Grafen(3), Camilla A. Hinde(3), Tim Clutton‐Brock(2), Sam P. Brown(2), Bernard J. Crespi(2), Sasha R. X. Dall(2), Jeremy Field(2), Rebecca M. Kilner(2), John D. Reynolds(2), James C. Deutsch(2), Sean A. Rands(2), Guy Cowlishaw(2), Richard A. Pettifor(2), J. Marcus Rowcliffe(2), Jennifer L. Harcourt(2)