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Publications

I have published 33 peer-reviewed papers, 30 in Q1 journals, including multiple articles in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Current Biology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Nature Communications, and Proc B. Two additional papers are currently in press and three are under review. PDF indicates freely available full text where possible.

My work has received over 2,450 citations (h-index 25), and I am first author on four of my five most-cited papers (each with 100+ citations). For more details, see my Google Scholar and Researchgate pages.

Forthcoming

  1. Perkes*, A., Jolles*, J. W., Doran, C., Bierbach, D., Wolf, M., Laskowski K. L. (Submitted) Group-level phenotypes are idiosyncratic yet unpredictable over development in a clonal fish.
  2. Pou-Rossell, M., Sol, D., Jolles, J. W. (Under review) Sampling design impacts estimates of parental care in birds: insights from a review and simulations. Animal Behaviour.
  3. Garcia-Raventós, A., Thornton, A., Unzeta, M., McIvor, G. E., Muñoz-Mérida, A., Ferrandiz-Rovira, M., Bota, G., Giralt, D., Sardà-Palomera, F., Pou-Rossell, M., Noguer, L., Bateman-Neubert, A., Jolles, J. W., Lapiedra, O., Sol, D. (Under revision) Directional selection on reeding timing without evolutionary change explained by non-heritable variation in a generalist bird. Journal of Animal Ecology.
  4. Nadler, L. E., Jolles, J. W., Binning, S. A., Bonville, J. De, Domenici, P., Killen, S. S., Silk, M. A. (Submitted) Parasitism and the tradeoffs of social grouping: The role of parasite transmission mode. Doi: 10.32942/X22C9F preprint
  5. Butler-Margalef, M., Rubio-Gracia, F., García-Berthou, E., Jolles, J. W., Vila-Gispert, A. (In press) Metabolism, movement behaviour, and salinity responses of invasive mosquitofish versus a threatened toothcarp. Neobiota.
  6. Killen, S. S., Cortese, D., Cotgrove, L., Chretien, E., Christensen, E., Crespel, A. Jolles, J. W., Pineda, M., Tiddy, I., Fu, C., Kochhann, D., McKenzie, D., Munson, A. (In press). Alone in the lab, but not in the wild: why social context is central to comparative and environmental physiology. Journal of Experimental Biology.

2025

  1. Pou-Rossell, M., Sol, D., Jolles, J. W. (2025) A centralised multi-unit recording system for automated, off-grid animal observation and environmental monitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 16(10): 2167-2530. Doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.70129. PDF Featured on the front cover

2024

  1. Behrmann-Godel, J., Roch, S., Böhm, A., Jolles, J. W., Brinker, A. (2024) Phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation drive troglomorphic character development in European cave loach. Evolution: qpae010. Doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpae010
  2. Jolles, J. W., Böhm, A., Brinker, A., Behrmann-Godel, J. (2024) Unravelling the origins of boldness behaviour: A common garden experiment with cavefish (Barbatula barbatula). Royal Society Open Science. 11, 231517. Doi: doi:10.1098/rsos.231517. PDF

2022

  1. Laskowski, K. L., Bierbach, D., Jolles, J. W., Doran, C., Wolf, M. (2022) The emergence and development of individuality in clonal fish reared under identical conditions. Nature Communications 13(1): 6419. Doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34113-y PDF
  2. Jolles, J. W.*, Sosna, M. M. G.*, Mazué, G. P. F., Twomey, C. R., Bak-Coleman, J., Rubenstein, D. I., Couzin, I. D. (2022) Both Prey and Predator Features Predict the Individual Predation Risk and Survival of Schooling Prey. eLife 11: e76344. Doi: 10.7554/eLife.76344. PDF *joint first authorship.
  3. Oellermann, M., Jolles, J. W., Ortiz, D., Seabra, R., Wenzel, T., Wilson, H., Tanner, R. (2022) Open Hardware in Science: The Benefits of Open Electronics. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icac043. Doi: 10.1093/icb/icac043 PDF
  4. Dibnah, A. J., Herbert-Read, J. E., Boogert, N. J., McIvor, G. E., Jolles, J. W., Thornton, A. (2022) Vocally mediated consensus decisions govern mass departures from jackdaw roosts. Current Biology 32(10): R455-R456. Doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.032 PDF

2021

  1. Killen, S., Cortese D., Cotgrove, L., Jolles, J. W., Munson, A., Ioannou, C. (2021) The potential for physiological performance curves to shape environmental effects on social behaviour. Frontiers in Physiology: 12, 754719. Doi: 10.32942/osf.io/bh968 PDF
  2. Klamser, P. P., Gómez-Nava, L., Landgraf, T., Jolles, J. W., Bierbach, D., Romanczuk, P. (2021) Impact of Variable Speed on Collective Movement of Animal Groups. Frontiers in Physics:9, 1-11. Doi: 10.3389/fphy.2021.715996 PDF
  3. Sbragaglia V.*, Jolles, J. W.*, Coll, M., Arlinghaus, R. (2021) Fisheries-induced changes of shoaling behaviour: mechanisms and potential consequences. Trends in Ecology and Evolution: 36(10), 885-888. Doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.06.015. PDF *joint first authorship
  4. Jolles, J. W. (2021) Broad‐scale applications of the Raspberry Pi: A review and guide for biologists. Methods in Ecology and Evolution: 12, 1562-1579. Doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13652 PDF Featured on the Raspberry Pi official blog and Niche magazine

2020

  1. Jolles, J. W. (2020) pirecorder: Controlled and automated image and video recording with the raspberry pi. Journal of Open Source Software 5(54): 2584. Doi: 10.21105/joss.02584 PDF
  2. Jolles, J. W., Weimar, N., Landgraf, T., Romanczuk, P., Krause, J.,Bierbach, B. (2020) Group-level patterns emerge from individual speed as revealed by an extremely social robotic fish. Biology Letters 16(9): 20200436. Doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0436 PDF
  3. Jolles, J. W., Geoffrey P. F. Mazué, G. P. F., Davidson, J., Behrmann-Godel, J., Couzin, I. D. (2020) Schistocephalus parasite infection alters individual movement and collective behaviour of three-spined sticklebacks. Scientific Reports 10(1): 12282. Doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69057-0 PDF
  4. Jolles, J. W., King, A. & Killen, S. (2020) The role of individual heterogeneity in collective animal behaviour. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35(3): 278-291. PDF On the front cover

2019

  1. Jolles, J. W., Briggs, H., Araya-Ajoy, Y., Manica, A., Boogert, N. J. (2019) Personality, plasticity and predictability in sticklebacks: bold fish are less plastic and more predictable than shy fish. Animal Behaviour 154: 193-202. Doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.022 PDF Editor’s Choice Aug 2019
  2. Buchmüller, J., Cakmak, E., Andrienko, N., Andrienko, G., Jolles, J. W., Keim, D. A. (2019) Moving Together: Towards a Formalisation of Collective Movement. EuroVis. Doi: 10.2312/eurova.20191122 PDF

2018

  1. Jolles, J. W. (2018) Comment on ‘Consistency of fish‐shoal social network structure under laboratory conditions (Gaffney & Webster, 2018)’ Journal of fish biology 93(5): 762-763. Doi: 10.1111/jfb.13823
  2. Jolles, J. W., Laskowski, K., Boogert, N. J., Manica, A. (2018) Repeatable group differences in the collective behaviour of stickleback shoals across ecological contexts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20172629. Doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.2629 PDF
  3. Daversa, D. D., Manica, A., Bosch, J., Jolles, J. W., Garner, T. W. (2018) Routine habitat switching alters the likelihood and persistence of infection with a pathogenic parasite. Functional Ecology 32(5): 1262-1270. Doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13038 PDF

2017

  1. Jolles, J. W., Boogert, N. J., Sridhar, V., Couzin, I. D., Manica, A. (2017) Consistent individual differences drive collective behaviour and group functioning of schooling fish. Current Biology 27: 1-7. Doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.004 PDF. Dispatch article by James Herbert-read.

2016

  1. Greggor, A., Jolles, J. W., Thornton, A., Clayton, N. S. (2016). Seasonal changes in neophobia and its consistency in rooks: the effect of novelty type and dominance position. Animal Behaviour 121: 11-20. Doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.08.010 PDF
  2. Jolles, J. W., Manica, A. & Boogert, N. J. (2016). Food intake rates of inactive fish are positively linked to boldness in three-spined sticklebacks. Journal of Fish Biology 88(4): 1661-1668. Doi: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12934 PDF
  3. Jolles, J. W., Aaron Taylor, B. & Manica, A. (2016) Recent social conditions affect boldness repeatability in individual sticklebacks. Animal Behaviour 112: 139-145. Doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.12.010 PDF

2015

  1. Jolles, J. W., Boogert, N. & van den Bos, R. (2015). Sex differences in risk-taking and associative learning in rats. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150485. Doi: 10.1098/rsos.150485 PDF
  2. Jolles, J. W., Wilson, A., Stumpe, M. C., Johnstone, R. A., Manica, A. (2015). The role of social attraction and its link with boldness in the collective movements of three-spined sticklebacks. Animal Behaviour 99: 147-153. Doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.11.004 PDF Featured on BBC Radio5 See a 4min video about our paper:

2014

  1. Jolles, J. W., Wilson, A., Stumpe, M. C., Johnstone, R. A., Manica, A. (2014). The role of previous social experience on risk-taking and leadership in three-spined sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology 25(6): 1395-1401. Doi: 10.1093/beheco/aru146 PDF
  2. Zandberg, L., Jolles, J. W., Boogert, N. J., Thornton, A. (2014). Jackdaw nestlings can discriminate between conspecific calls but do not beg specifically to their parents. Behavioral Ecology 25(3): 565–57. Doi: 10.1093/beheco/aru026 PDF

2013

  1. van den Bos, R., Jolles, J. W. & Homberg, J. (2013) Social modulation of decision-making: a cross-species review. Frontiers in Neuroscience 7(301). Doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00301 PDF
  2. Jolles, J. W., Ostojić, L & Clayton, N. S. (2013) Dominance, pair bonds and boldness determine social foraging tactics in rooks (Corvus frugilegus). Animal Behaviour 85(6): 1261-1269. 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.03.013
  3. Jolles, J. W., King, A.J. Manica, A., Thornton, A. (2013) Heterogeneous structure in mixed-species corvid flocks in flight. Animal Behaviour 85(4): 743-750. Doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.01.015 Featured on Planet Earth and BirdGuides blog

2012

  1. van den Bos, R., Jolles, J. W., van der Knaap, L., Baars, A., de Visser, L. (2012) Male and female Wistar rats differ in decision-making performance in a rodent version of the Iowa Gambling Task. Behavioural Brain Research 234(2): 375-379. Doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.07.015

2011

  1. Jolles, J. W., de Visser, L. & van den Bos, R. (2011) Male Wistar rats show individual differences in an animal model of Conformity. Animal Cognition 14: 769-773. Doi: 10.1007/s10071-011-0395-4