Dr Joachim Frommen

Fischer, S., Frommen, J.G. (2022) 'Predation Risk.' Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 5491-5494.

Fischer, S., Frommen, J.G. (2022) 'Predator detection.' In Vonk, J., Shackelford, T.K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 5491-5494.

Frommen, J.G., Fischer, S. (2021) 'Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of cooperation in fishes.' The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition. Cambridge University Press, pp. 272-294.

Penn, D.J., Frommen, J.G. (2010) 'Kin recognition: An overview of conceptual issues, mechanisms and evolutionary theory.' Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms. pp. 55-85.

Jones, N.A.R., Newton-Youens, J., Frommen, J.G. (2024) 'Rise and fall: increasing temperatures have nonlinear effects on aggression in a tropical fish.' Animal Behaviour, 207pp. 1-11.

Jungwirth, A., Zöttl, M., Bonfils, D., Josi, D., Frommen, J.G., Taborsky, M. (2023) 'Philopatry yields higher fitness than dispersal in a cooperative breeder with sex-specific life history trajectories.' Science Advances, 9(9)

Wright, D., Newton-Youens, J., Frommen, J.G. (2023) 'Four’s a crowd: social preferences for larger groups in golden mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) tadpoles.' Evolutionary Ecology,

Saeki, T., Satoh, S., Frommen, J.G., Kohda, M., Awata, S. (2022) 'Kin-structured cooperatively breeding groups due to limited dispersal in the obligate shell-brooding cichlid Neolamprologus meeli.' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(7: 89)

Frommen, J.G., Thünken, T., Santostefano, F., Balzarini, V., Hettyey, A. (2022) 'Effects of chronic and acute predation risk on sexual ornamentation and mating preferences.' Behavioral Ecology, 33(1) pp. 7-16.

Josi, D., Flury, J.M., Reyes-Contreras, M., Tanaka, H., Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G. (2021) 'Sex-specific routes to independent breeding in a polygynous cooperative breeder.' Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9pp. 750483-750483.

Josi, D., Heg, D., Takeyama, T., Bonfils, D., Konovalov, D.A., Frommen, J.G., Kohda, M., Taborsky, M. (2021) 'Age- and sex-dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids.' Evolution, 75(11) pp. 2881-2897.

Josi, D., Frommen, J.G. (2021) 'Through a glass darkly? Divergent reactions of eight Lake Tanganyika cichlid species towards their mirror image in their natural environment.' Ethology, 127(10) pp. 925-933.

Freudiger, A., Josi, D., Thünken, T., Herder, F., Flury, J.M., Marques, D.A., Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G. (2021) 'Ecological variation drives morphological differentiation in a highly social vertebrate.' Functional Ecology, 35(10) pp. 2266-2281.

Josi, D., Freudiger, A., Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G. (2020) 'Experimental predator intrusions in a cooperative breeder reveal threat-dependent task partitioning.' Behavioral Ecology, 31(6) pp. 1369-1378.

Durrer, L., Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G. (2020) 'Group-size preferences in a shoaling cichlid.' Behaviour, 157pp. 415-431.

Josi, D., Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G. (2020) 'Investment of group members is contingent on helper number and the presence of young in a cooperative breeder.' Animal Behaviour, 160pp. 35-42.

Frommen, J.G. (2019) 'Aggressive communication in aquatic environments.' Functional Ecology, 34(2) pp. 364-380.

Taborsky, M., Koblmüller, S., Sefc, K.M., McGee, M., Kohda, M., Awata, S., Hori, M., Frommen, J.G. (2019) 'Insufficient data render comparative analyses of the evolution of cooperative breeding mere speculation: A reply to Dey et al..' Ethology, 125(11) pp. 851-854.

Frommen, J.G. (2019) 'Book review: G. Paz‐y‐Mino‐C & A. Espinosa 2018: Kin recognition in protists and other microbes - Genetics, Evolution, Behavior and Health; Cambridge Scholar Publishing.' Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 66(5) pp. 857-858.

Thünken, T., Baldauf, S.A., Bersau, N., Frommen, J.G., Bakker, T.C.M. (2019) 'Parasite-induced colour alteration of intermediate hosts increases ingestion by suitable final host species.' Behaviour, 156(13-14) pp. 1329-1348.

Jungwirth, A., Balzarini, V., Zöttl, M., Salzmann, A., Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G. (2019) 'Long-term individual marking of small freshwater fish: the utility of Visual Implant Elastomer tags.' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73(4)

Josi, D., Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G. (2019) 'First field evidence for alloparental egg care in cooperatively breeding fish.' Ethology, 125(3) pp. 164-169.

Raveh, S., Langen, K., Bakker, T.C.M., Josephs, C., Frommen, J.G. (2019) 'Oddity, predation risk and social decisions in aquatic invertebrates.' Ethology, 125(2) pp. 106-113.

Tanaka, H., Frommen, J.G., Koblmüller, S., Sefc, K.M., McGee, M., Kohda, M., Awata, S., Hori, M., Taborsky, M. (2018) 'Evolutionary transitions to cooperative societies in fishes revisited.' Ethology, 124(11) pp. 777-789.

Tanaka, H., Kohda, M., Frommen, J.G. (2018) 'Helpers increase the reproductive success of breeders in the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus obscurus.' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72(9: 152)

Thünken, T., Vitt, S., Baldauf, S.A., Jung, T., Frommen, J.G. (2018) 'Individual behavioural responses of an intermediate host to a manipulative acanthocephalan parasite and the effects of intra-specific parasite competition.' Evolutionary Ecology Research, 19(5) pp. 503-516.

Thünken, T., Rick, I.P., Frommen, J.G. (2018) 'Contributions in honour of Theo C.M. Bakker: Testing, not guessing.' Evolutionary Ecology Research, 19(5) pp. 477-486.

Josi, D., Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G. (2018) 'Habitat preferences depend on substrate quality in a cooperative breeder.' Evolutionary Ecology Research, 19(5) pp. 517-527.

Tanaka, H., Frommen, J.G., Kohda, M. (2018) 'Helpers increase food abundance in the territory of a cooperatively breeding fish.' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72(3)

Tanaka, H., Frommen, J.G., Engqvist, L., Kohda, M. (2017) 'Task-dependent workload adjustment of female breeders in a cooperatively breeding fish.' Behavioral Ecology, 29(1) pp. 221-229.

Bakker, T.C.M., Frommen, J.G., Thünken, T. (2017) 'Adaptive parasitic manipulation as exemplified by acanthocephalans.' Ethology, 123(11) pp. 779-784.

Frommen, J.G. (2017) 'Kin recognition and filial cannibalism in an amphibious fish.' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71(10: 141)

Bakker, T.C.M., Giger, T., Frommen, J.G., Largiadèr, C.R. (2017) 'Rapid molecular sexing of three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus L., based on large Y-chromosomal insertions.' Journal of Applied Genetics, 58(3) pp. 401-407.

Odermatt, J., Frommen, J.G., Menz, M.H.M. (2017) 'Consistent behavioural differences between migratory and resident hoverflies.' Animal Behaviour, 127pp. 187-195.

Bayani, D.M., Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G. (2017) 'To pee or not to pee: urine signals mediate aggressive interactions in the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher.' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71(2: 37)

Abila, R., Akoll, P., Albertson, C., Antunes, D., Banda, T., Bills, R., Bulirani, A., Manda, A.C., Cohen, A.S., Cunha-Saraiva, F., Derycke, S., Donohue, I., Du, M., Dudu, A.M., Egger, B., Fritzsche, K., Frommen, J.G., Gante, H.F., Genner, M.J., Haerer, A., Hata, H., Irvine, K., Mwapu, P.I., de Bisthoven, L.J., Jungwirth, A., Kaleme, P., Katongo, C., Kever, L., Koblmueller, S., Konings, A., Lamboj, A., Lemmel-Schaedelin, F., Schiaffino, G.M., Martens, K., Mulungula, P.M., Meyer, A., More, H.L., Musilova, Z., Bukinga, F.M., Muzumani, R., Ntakimazi, G., Okello, W., Phiri, H., Pialek, L., Plisnier, P.D., Raeymaekers, J.A.M., Rajkov, J., Rican, O., Roberts, R., Salzburger, W., Schoen, I., Sefc, K.M., Singh, P., Skelton, P., Snoeks, J., Schneider, K., Sturmbauer, C., Svardal, H., Svensson, O., Dowdall, J.T., Turner, G.F., Tyers, A., van Rijssel, J.C., Van Steenberge, M., Vanhove, M.P.M., Verheyen, E., Weber, A.T., Weyl, O., Ziegelbecker, A., Zimmermann, H. (2016) 'Oil extraction imperils Africa's Great Lakes.' SCIENCE, 354(6312) pp. 561-562.

Chouinard-Thuly, L., Gierszewski, S., Rosenthal, G.G., Reader, S.M., Rieucau, G., Woo, K.L., Gerlai, R., Tedore, C., Ingley, S.J., Stowers, J.R., Frommen, J.G., Dolins, F.L., Witte, K. (2016) 'Technical and conceptual considerations for using animated stimuli in studies of animal behavior.' Current Zoology, 63(1) pp. 5-19.

Balzarini, V., Taborsky, M., Villa, F., Frommen, J.G. (2016) 'Computer animations of color markings reveal the function of visual threat signals in Neolamprologus pulcher.' Current Zoology, 63(1) pp. 45-54.

Tanaka, H., Frommen, J.G., Takahashi, T., Kohda, M. (2016) 'Predation risk promotes delayed dispersal in the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus obscurus.' Animal Behaviour, 117pp. 51-58.

Groenewoud, F., Frommen, J.G., Josi, D., Tanaka, H., Jungwirth, A., Taborsky, M. (2016) 'Predation risk drives social complexity in cooperative breeders.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(15) pp. 4104-4109.

Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G., Riehl, C. (2016) 'The evolution of cooperation based on direct fitness benefits.' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1687: 20150472)

Taborsky, M., Frommen, J.G., Riehl, C. (2016) 'Correlated pay-offs are key to cooperation.' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1687: 20150084)

Hettyey, A., Tóth, Z., Thonhauser, K.E., Frommen, J.G., Penn, D.J., Van Buskirk, J. (2015) 'The relative importance of prey-borne and predator-borne chemical cues for inducible antipredator responses in tadpoles.' Oecologia, 179(3) pp. 699-710.

Hesse, S., Anaya-Rojas, J.M., Frommen, J.G., Thünken, T. (2015) 'Kinship reinforces cooperative predator inspection in a cichlid fish.' Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28(11) pp. 2088-2096.

Mehlis, M., Thünken, T., Bakker, T.C.M., Frommen, J.G. (2015) 'Quantification acuity in spontaneous shoaling decisions of three-spined sticklebacks.' Animal Cognition, 18(5) pp. 1125-1131.

Hesse, S., Anaya-Rojas, J.M., Frommen, J.G., Thünken, T. (2015) 'Social deprivation affects cooperative predator inspection in a cichlid fish.' Royal Society Open Science, 2(3) pp. 140451-140451.

Frommen, J.G., Hanak, S., Schmidl, C.A., Thünken, T. (2015) 'Visible implant elastomer tagging influences social preferences of Zebrafish (Danio Rerio).' Behaviour, 152(12-13) pp. 1765-1777.

Fischer, S., Taborsky, B., Burlaud, R., Fernandez, A.A., Hess, S., Oberhummer, E., Frommen, J.G. (2014) 'Animated images as a tool to study visual communication: A case study in a cooperatively breeding cichlid.' Behaviour, 151(12-13) pp. 1921-1942.

Balzarini, V., Taborsky, M., Wanner, S., Koch, F., Frommen, J.G. (2014) 'Mirror, mirror on the wall: The predictive value of mirror tests for measuring aggression in fish.' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68(5) pp. 871-878.

Thünken, T., Eigster, M., Frommen, J.G. (2014) 'Context-dependent group size preferences in large shoals of three-spined sticklebacks.' Animal Behaviour, 90pp. 205-210.

Frommen, J.G., Zala, S.M., Raveh, S., Schaedelin, F.C., Wernisch, B., Hettyey, A. (2013) 'Investigating the effect of familiarity on kin recognition of three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).' Ethology, 119(6) pp. 531-539.

Fischer, S., Frommen, J.G. (2013) 'Eutrophication alters social preferences in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 67(2) pp. 293-299.

Zöttl, M., Frommen, J.G., Taborsky, M. (2013) 'Group size adjustment to ecological demand in a cooperative breeder.' Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1756)

Frommen, J.G., Bakker, T.C.M., Proscurcin, L.C., Mehlis, M. (2012) 'Gravidity-associated shoaling decisions in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).' Ethology, 118(12) pp. 1149-1156.

Mehlis, M., Frommen, J.G., Rahn, A.K., Bakker, T.C.M. (2012) 'Inbreeding in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.): Effects on testis and sperm traits.' Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 107(3) pp. 510-520.

FROMMEN, J.G. (2011) 'Book review: Tinbergen's legacy in Behaviour: 60 years of landmark stickleback papers - Edited by F. A. von Hippel.' Journal of Fish Biology, 79(1) pp. 310-311.

Frommen, J.G., Herder, F., Engqvist, L., Mehlis, M., Bakker, T.C.M., Schwarzer, J., Thünken, T. (2011) 'Costly plastic morphological responses to predator specific odour cues in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).' Evolutionary Ecology, 25(3) pp. 641-656.

Mehlis, M., Bakker, T.C.M., Engqvist, L., Frommen, J.G. (2010) 'To eat or not to eat: Egg-based assessment of paternity triggers fine-tuned decisions about filial cannibalism.' Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1694) pp. 2627-2635.

Thünken, T., Baldauf, S.A., Bersau, N., Bakker, T.C.M., Kullmann, H., Frommen, J.G. (2010) 'Impact of olfactory non-host predator cues on aggregation behaviour and activity in Polymorphus minutus infected Gammarus pulex.' Hydrobiologia, 654(1) pp. 137-145.

Engqvist, L., Frommen, J.G. (2010) 'New insights into the relationship between the h-index and self-citations?.' Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(7) pp. 1514-1516.

Mehlis, M., Bakker, T.C.M., Langen, K., Frommen, J.G. (2009) 'Cain and Abel reloaded? Kin recognition and male-male aggression in three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus L..' Journal of Fish Biology, 75(8) pp. 2154-2162.

Frommen, J.G., Mehlis, M., Bakker, T.C.M. (2009) 'Predator-inspection behaviour in female three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus is associated with status of gravidity.' Journal of Fish Biology, 75(8) pp. 2143-2153.

Frommen, J.G., Hiermes, M., Bakker, T.C.M. (2009) 'Erratum to Disentangling the effects of group size and density on shoaling decisions of three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (Behav Ecol Sociobiol, 10.1007/s00265-009-0767-9).' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63(11) pp. 1691-1691.

Frommen, J.G., Rahn, A.K., Schroth, S.H., Waltschyk, N., Bakker, T.C.M. (2009) 'Mate-choice copying when both sexes face high costs of reproduction.' Evolutionary Ecology, 23(3) pp. 435-446.

Mehlis, M., Bakker, T.C.M., Frommen, J.G. (2009) 'Nutritional benefits of filial cannibalism in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).' Naturwissenschaften, 96(3) pp. 399-403.

Frommen, J.G., Hiermes, M., Bakker, T.C.M. (2009) 'Disentangling the effects of group size and density on shoaling decisions of three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63(8) pp. 1141-1148.

Kullmann, H., Thünken, T., Baldauf, S.A., Bakker, T.C.M., Frommen, J.G. (2008) 'Fish odour triggers conspecific attraction behaviour in an aquatic invertebrate.' Biology Letters, 4(5) pp. 458-460.

Mehlis, M., Bakker, T.C.M., Frommen, J.G. (2008) 'Smells like sib spirit: Kin recognition in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is mediated by olfactory cues.' Animal Cognition, 11(4) pp. 643-650.

Engqvist, L., Frommen, J.G. (2008) 'Double-blind peer review and gender publication bias.' Animal Behaviour, 76(3)

Engqvist, L., Frommen, J.G. (2008) 'The h-index and self-citations.' Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23(5) pp. 250-252.

Frommen, J.G., Luz, C., Mazzi, D., Bakker, T.C.M. (2008) 'Inbreeding depression affects fertilization success and survival but not breeding coloration in threespine sticklebacks.' Behaviour, 145(4-5) pp. 425-441.

Frommen, J.G., Luz, C., Bakker, T.C.M. (2007) 'Nutritional state influences shoaling preference for familiars.' Zoology, 110(5) pp. 369-376.

Frommen, J.G., Luz, C., Bakker, T.C.M. (2007) 'Erratum: Kin discrimination in sticklebacks is mediated by social learning rather than innate recognition (Ethology (2007) 113, (276-282)).' Ethology, 113(4)

Frommen, J.G., Luz, C., Bakker, T.C.M. (2007) 'Kin discrimination in sticklebacks is mediated by social learning rather than innate recognition (vol 113, pg 276, 2007).' ETHOLOGY, 113(4) pp. 414-414.

Frommen, J.G., Brendler, C., Bakker, T.C.M. (2007) 'The tale of the bad stepfather: Male three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus L. recognize foreign eggs in their manipulated nest by egg cues alone.' Journal of Fish Biology, 70(4) pp. 1295-1301.

Frommen, J.G., Luz, C., Bakker, T.C.M. (2007) 'Kin discrimination in sticklebacks is mediated by social learning rather than innate recognition.' Ethology, 113(3) pp. 276-282.

Frommen, J.G., Mehlis, M., Brendler, C., Bakker, T.C.M. (2007) 'Shoaling decisions in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) - Familiarity, kinship and inbreeding.' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61(4) pp. 533-539.

Baldauf, S.A., Thünken, T., Frommen, J.G., Bakker, T.C.M., Heupel, O., Kullmann, H. (2007) 'Infection with an acanthocephalan manipulates an amphipod's reaction to a fish predator's odours.' International Journal for Parasitology, 37(1) pp. 61-65.

Frommen, J.G., Bakker, T.C.M. (2006) 'Inbreeding avoidance through non-random mating in sticklebacks.' Biology Letters, 2(2) pp. 232-235.

Bakker, T.C.M., Zbinden, M., Frommen, J.G., Weiss, A., Largiadèr, C.R. (2006) 'Slow fertilization of stickleback eggs: The result of sexual conflict?.' BMC Ecology, 6

Frommen, J.G., Bakker, T.C.M. (2004) 'Adult three-spined sticklebacks prefer to shoal with familiar kin.' Behaviour, 141(11-12) pp. 1401-1409.