Areas of Expertise Animal Colouration Visual Ecology Comparative Methods Life History Invasion Biology Start Date End Date Position Held Location April 2016 Present Lecturer Swansea University

Allen, W., Street, S., Capellini, I. & Rejmanek, M. (2017). Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles. Ecology Letters 20(2), 222-230. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31577 doi:10.1111/ele.12728 Dubuc, C., Allen, W., Cascio, J., Lee, D., Maestripieri, D., Petersdorf, M., Winters, S. & Higham, J. (2016). Who cares? Experimental attention biases provide new insights into a mammalian sexual signal. Behavioral Ecology 27(1), 68-74. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27992 doi:10.1093/beheco/arv117 Capellini, I., Baker, J., Allen, W., Street, S. & Venditti, C. (2015). The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success. Ecology Letters 18(10), 1099-1107. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27991 doi:10.1111/ele.12493 Allen, W. & Higham, J. (2015). Assessing the potential information content of multicomponent visual signals: a machine learning approach. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282(1802), 20142284-20142284. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27993 doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.2284 Grueter, C., Zhu, P., Allen, W., Higham, J., Ren, B. & Li, M. (2015). Sexually selected lip colour indicates male group-holding status in the mating season in a multi-level primate society. Royal Society Open Science 2(12), 150490 https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27990 doi:10.1098/rsos.150490 Hughes, K., Higham, J., Allen, W., Elliot, A. & Hayden, B. (2015). Extraneous color affects female macaques’ gaze preference for photographs of male conspecifics. Evolution and Human Behavior 36(1), 25-31. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27994 doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.08.003 Dubuc, C., Winters, S., Allen, W., Brent, L., Cascio, J., Maestripieri, D., Ruiz-Lambides, A., Widdig, A. & Higham, J. (2014). Sexually selected skin colour is heritable and related to fecundity in a non-human primate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281(1794), 20141602-20141602. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27995 doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1602 Allen, W., Stevens, M. & Higham, J. (2014). Character displacement of Cercopithecini primate visual signals. Nature Communications 5 https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27996 doi:10.1038/ncomms5266 Dubuc, C., Allen, W., Maestripieri, D. & Higham, J. (2014). Is male rhesus macaque red color ornamentation attractive to females?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68(7), 1215-1224. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27999 doi:10.1007/s00265-014-1732-9 Allen, W., Baddeley, R., Scott-Samuel, N. & Cuthill, I. (2013). The evolution and function of pattern diversity in snakes. Behavioral Ecology 24(5), 1237-1250. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27997 doi:10.1093/beheco/art058 Allen, W. & Higham, J. (2013). Analyzing Visual Signals as Visual Scenes. American Journal of Primatology 75(7), 664-682. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27998 doi:10.1002/ajp.22129 Allen, W., Baddeley, R., Cuthill, I. & Scott-Samuel, N. (2012). A Quantitative Test of the Predicted Relationship between Countershading and Lighting Environment. The American Naturalist 180(6), 762-776. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28000 doi:10.1086/668011