Gábor Herczeg |
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caesar.elte.huResearch interests
- Evolution of behavioural consistency (animal personalities, behavioural syndromes).
- Adaptive divergence in nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius): the effects of predation and competition.
- Sexual selection in European green lizards (Lacerta viridis): visual and chemical signalling.
- Adaptive divergence in common frogs (Rana temporaria) along a latitudinal gradient.
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Publications
| Herczeg, G., Ab Ghani, N.I., Merilä, J. (in press) Evolution of stickleback feeding behaviour: genetics of population divergence at different ontogenetic stages. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. |  |
| Aikio, S., Herczeg, G., Kuparinen, A., Merilä, J. (in press). Optimal growth strategies under divergent predation pressure. Journal of Fish Biology. | |
| Bruneaux, M., Johnston, S.E., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J., Primmer, C.R., Vasemägi, A. (in press). Molecular evolutionary and population genomic analysis of the nine-spined stickleback using a modified RAD tag approach. Molecular Ecology. | |
| Loehr, J., Herczeg, G., Leinonen, A., Gonda, A., Van Dongen, S., Merilä, J. (in press). Asymmetry in threespine stickleback lateral plates. Journal of Zoology. | |
| Ab Ghani, N.I., Herczeg, G., Leinonen, T., Merilä, J. (in press) Evidence for genetic differentiation in timing of maturation among nine-spined stickleback populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. | |
| Saarinen, P.K., Pahlberg, J., Herczeg, G., Viljanen, M., Karjalainen, M.E., Shikano, T., Merilä, J., Donner, K. (2012). Spectral tuning by selective chromophore uptake in rods and cones of eight populations of nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius). Journal of Experimental Biology 215:2760-2773. | |
| Ab Ghani, N.I., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. (2012). Body size divergence in nine-spined sticklebacks: disentangling additive genetic and maternal effects. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107:521-528. | |
| Molnár, O., Bajer, K., Török, J., Herczeg, G. (2012). Individual quality and nuptial throat colour in male European green lizards Journal of Zoology 287:233-239.(DOI:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2012.00916.x) | |
| Herczeg, G., Garamszegi, L.Z. (2012). Individual deviation from behavioural correlations: a simple approach to study the evolution of behavioural syndromes. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 66:161-169. | |
| Loehr, J., Leinonen, T., Herczeg, G., O’Hara, R.B., Merilä, J. (2012). Heritability of asymmetry and lateral plate number int he threespine stickleback. PLoS ONE 7:e39843. | |
| Herczeg, G., Gonda, A., Kuparinen, A., Merilä, J. (2012). Contrasting growth strategies of pond versus marine populations of nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius): a combined effect of predation and competition? Evolutionary Ecology 26:109-122. | |
| Laine, V., Primmer, C., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J., Shikano, T. (2012). Isolation and characterization of 13 new nine-spined stickleback, Pungitius pungitius, microsatellites located nearby candidate genes for behavioural variation. Annales Zoologici Fennici 49:123-128. | |
| Gonda, A., Välimäki, K., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. (2012). Brain development and predation: plastic responses depend on evolutionary history. Biology Letters 8:249-252. | |
| Välimäki, K., Herczeg, G. (2012). Ontogenetic and evolutionary effects of predation and competition on nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) body size. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 859-867. | |
| Bajer, K., Molnár, O., Török, J., Herczeg, G. (2012). Temperature, but not available energy, affects the expression of a sexually selected ultraviolet (UV) colour trait in male European green lizards, Lacerta viridis. PLoS ONE 7(3): e34359. (DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0034359) |  |
| Välimäki, K., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. (2012). Morphological antipredation defences in the nine-spined stickeleback: consititutive, induced or both? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107:854-866. | |
| Trokovic, N., Herczeg, G., Ab Ghani, N.I., Shikano, T., Merilä, J. (2012). High levels of fluctuating asymmetry in isolated stickleback populations. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12:115. | |
| Garamszegi, L.Z., Markó, G., Herczeg, G. (2012). A meta-analysis of correlated behaviours with implications for behavioural syndromes: mean effect size, publication bias, phylogenetic effects and the role of mediator variables. Evolutionary Ecology 26:1213-1235. | |
| Leinonen, T., McCairns, R.J.S., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. (2012). Multiple evolutionary pathways to decreased lateral plate coverage in freshwater threespine sticklebacks. Evolution 66:3866-3875. | |
| Laine, V.N., Herczeg, G., Shikano, T., Primmer, C.R. (2012). Heterozygosity-behaviour correlations in nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) populations: contrasting effects at random and functional loci. Molecular Ecology 21:4872-4884. | |
| Hjernquist, M.B., Söderman, F., Jönsson, K.I., Herczeg, G., Laurila, A., Merilä, J. (2012) Seasonality determines patterns of growth and age structure over a geographic gradient in an ectothermic vertebrate. Oecologia 170:641-649. | |
| Garamszegi, L.Z., Herczeg, G. (2012). Behavioural syndromes, syndrome deviation and the within- and between-individual components of phenotypic correlations: when reality does not meet statistics. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 66:1651-1658. | |
| Bajer, K., Molnár, O., Török, J., Herczeg, G. (2011). Ultraviolet nuptial colour determines fight success in male European green lizards. Biology Letters 7:866-868. | |
| Gonda, A., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. (2011). Population variation in brain size of nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius) – local adaptation or environmentally induced variation? BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:75. | |
| Shikano, T., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. (2011). Molecular sexing and population genetic inference using a sex-linked microsatellite marker in the nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius). BMC Research Notes 4:119. | |
| Trokovic, N., Gonda, A., Herczeg, G., Laurila, A., Merilä, J. (2011). Brain plasticity over the metamorphic boundary: carry-over effect of larval environment on froglet brain development. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:1380-1385. | |
| Trokovic, N., Herczeg, G., McCairns, R.J.S., Ab Ghani, N.I., Merilä, J. (2011). Intraspecific divergence in the lateral line system in the nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:1546-1558. | |
| Alho, J.S., Herczeg, G., Laugen, A.T., Räsänen, K., Laurila, A., Merilä, J. (2011). Allen’s rule revisited: quantitative genetics of extremity length in the common frog along a latitudinal gradient. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:59-70. | |
| Kopena, R., Martín, J., López, P., Herczeg, G. (2011). Vitamin E supplementation increases the attractiveness of males’ scent for female European green lizards. PLoS ONE 6(4):e19410. | |
| Leinonen, T., Herczeg, G., Cano J.M., Merilä, J. (2011). Predation-imposed selection on threespines stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) morphology: a test of the refuge use hypothesis. Evolution 65: 2916-2926. | |
| Herczeg, G., Välimäki, K. (2011). Intraspecific variation in behaviour: effects of evolutionary history, ontogenetic experience and sex. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:2434-2444. | |
| Kuparinen, A., Cano, J.M., Loehr, J., Herczeg, G., Gonda, A., Merilä, J. (2011). Fish age at maturation is influenced by temperature independently from growth. Oecologia 167:435-443. | |
| Bajer, K., Molnár, O.R., Török, J., Herczeg, G. (2010). Female European green lizards (Lacerta viridis) prefer males with high ultraviolet throat reflectance. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 64:2007-2014. (DOI 10.1007/s00265-010-1012-2) | |
| Herczeg, G., Matsuba, C., Merilä, J. (2010). Sequence variation in the melanocortin-1 receptor gene (Mc1r) does not explain variation in the degree of melanism in a widespread amphibian. Annales Zoologici Fennici 47:37-45. | |
| Waser, W., Sahoo, T.P., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J., Nikkinmaa, M. (2010). Physiological differentiation among nine-spined stickleback populations: effects of copper exposure. Aquatic Toxicology 98:188-195. | |
| Herczeg, G., Turtiainen, M., Merilä, J. (2010). Morphological divergence of North-European nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius): signatures of parallel evolution. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 101:403-416. | |
| Alho, J.S., Herczeg, G., Söderman, F., Laurila, A., Jönsson K.I., Merilä, J. (2010). Increasing melanism along a latitudinal gradient: local adaptation, ontogenic or environmental plasticity? BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:317. | |
| Herczeg, G., Gonda, A., Merilä, J. (2010). Rensch’s rule inverted – female-driven gigantism in nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius). Journal of Animal Ecology 79:581-588. | |
| Gonda, A., Trokovic, N., Herczeg, G., Laurila, A., Merilä, J. (2010). Predation- and competition-mediated brain plasticity in Rana temporaria tadpoles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23:2300-2308. | |
| Shikano, T., Shimada, Y., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. (2010). History vs. habitat type: explaining the genetic structure of European nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) populations. Molecular Ecology 19:1147-1161. | |
| Bajer, K., Molnár, O., Hegyi, G., Herczeg, G., Laczi, M., Török, J. (2009). Zöld gyíkok színezete és morfológiája: jelzések és funkciók. Állattani közlemények 94(2):167-176. | |
| Herczeg, G., Gonda, A., Merilä, J. (2009). The social cost of shoaling covaries with predation risk in nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) populations. Animal Behaviour 77:575-580. | |
| Hettyey, A., Herczeg, G., Laurila, A., Crochet, P-A., Merilä, J. (2009). Body temperature, size, nuptial colouration and mating success in male Moor frogs (Rana arvalis). Amphibia-Reptilia 30:37-43. | |
| Hettyey A, Herczeg G, Hoi H (2009). Testing the phenotype-linked fertility hypothesis in male Moor Frogs (Rana arvalis) exhibiting a conspicuous nuptial colouration. Amphibia-Reptilia 30:581-586. | |
| Jönsson, K.I., Herczeg, G., O’Hara, R.B., Söderman, F., ter Shure, A.F.H., Larsson, P., Merilä, J. (2009). Sexual patterns of prebreeding energy reserves in the common frog Rana temporaria along a latitudinal gradient. Ecography 32:831-839. | |
| Herczeg, G., Gonda, A., Merilä, J. (2009). Evolution of gigantism in nine-spined stickleback. Evolution 63:3190-3200. | |
| Gonda, A., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. (2009). Adaptive brain size divergence in nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius)? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:1721-1726. | |
| Herczeg, G., Gonda, A., Merilä, J. (2009). Predation mediated population divergence in complex behaviour of nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:544-552. | |
| Gonda, A., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. (2009). Habitat-dependent and -independent plastic responses to social environment in the nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) brain. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276:2085-2092. | |
| Sos, T., Herczeg, G. (2009). Sexual size dimorphism in Eastern slow-worm (Anguis fragilis cholchica, Reptilia: Anguidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 16:304-310. | |
| Alho, J.S., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. (2008). Female-biased sex ratios in subarctic common frogs. Journal of Zoology 275:57-63. | |
| Herczeg, G., Herrero, A., Saarikivi, J., Gonda, A., Jäntti, M., Merilä, J. (2008). Experimental support for the cost-benefit model of lizard thermoregulation: the effects of predation risk and food supply. Oecologia 155:1-10. | |
| Herczeg, G., Török, J., Korsós, Z. (2007). Size-dependent heating rates determine the spatial and temporal distribution of small-bodied lizards. Amphibia-Reptilia 28:347-356. | |
| Herczeg, G., Kovács, T., Korsós, Z., Török, J. (2007). Microhabitat use, seasonal activity and diet of the snake-eyed skink (Ablepharus kitaibelii fitzingeri) with comparisons to the sympatric lacertids in Hungary. Biologia, Bratislava 62:482-487. | |
| Herczeg, G., Saarikivi, J., Gonda, A., Perälä, J., Tuomola, A., Merilä, J. (2007). Suboptimal thermoregulation in male adders (Vipera berus) after hibernation imposed by spermiogenesis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 92:19-27. | |
| Herczeg, G., Gonda, A., Perälä, J., Saarikivi, J., Tuomola, A., Merilä, J. (2007). Ontogenetic differences in the preferred body temperature of the European Adder Vipera berus (Serpentes: Viperidae). Herpetological Journal 17:58-61. | |
| Ihász, N., Bajer, K., Kopena, R., Molnár, O., Herczeg, G., Török, J. (2006). Szemben a ragadozóval – a zöld gyík (Lacerta viridis) búvóhelyközpontú menekülési stratégiája. Állattani Közlemények 91:127-138. | |
| Herczeg, G., Gonda, A., Saarikivi, J., Merilä, J. (2006). Experimental support for the cost-benefit model of lizard thermoregulation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:405-414. | |
| Herczeg, G., Szabó, K., Korsós, Z. (2005). Asymmetry and population characteristics in dice snakes (Natrix tessellata): an interpopulation comparison. Amphibia-Reptilia 26:422-426. | |
| Toth, T., Kovács, T., Herczeg, G. (2005). Morphological anomalies in a Finnish Subarctic population of the adder (Vipera berus berus). Litteratura Serpentinum 25:206-215. | |
| Hettyey, A., Laurila, A., Herczeg, G., Jönsson, K.I., Kovács, T., Merilä, J. (2005). Does testis size declines towards the subarctic? – A case study on the common frog, Rana temporaria. Naturwissenschaften 92:188-192. | |
| Harmos, K., Herczeg, G. (2004). A pannongyík elterjedése és természetvédelmi helyzete a Központi-Cserhátban és környékén. Folia Historico-naturalia Musei Matraensis 27:349-357. | |
| Herczeg, G., Kovács, T., Tóth, T., Török, J., Korsós, Z., Merilä, J. (2004). Tail loss and thermoregulation in the common lizard Zootoca vivipara. Naturwissenschaften 91:485-488. | |
| Herczeg, G., Tóth, T., Kovács, T., Korsós, Z., Török, J. (2004). Distribution of Ablepharus kitaibelii fitzingeri Mertens, 1952 (Squamata: Scincidae) in Hungary. Russian Journal of Herpetology 11:99-105. | |
| Herczeg, G., Korsós, Z. (2003). Az interspecifikus kompetíció hatása a pannongyíkra (Ablepharus kitaibelii fitzingeri) egy antropogén hatásoknak kitett élőhelyen. Állattani Közlemények 88:73-84. | |
| Herczeg, G., Kovács, T., Hettyey, A., Merilä, J. (2003). To thermoconform or thermoregulate? An assessment of thermoregulation opportunities for the lizard Zootoca vivipara in the subarctic. Polar Biology 26:486-490. | |
| Herczeg, G., Krecsák, Sz.L., Marsi, Z. (2002). Új bizonyító adat a haragos sikló előfordulásáról Budapest belterületén a Sas-hegyről. Folia Historico-naturalia Musei Matraensis 26:341-344. | |