Peer-reviewed journal articles
10. Ming Liu*, Geoff Wild, Stuart A. West (2023). Equilibria and oscillations in cheat-cooperator dynamics. Evolution Letters (in press).
9. Yu-Heng Lin†, Ying-Yu Chen†, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Ming Liu, Mark Liu, Sheng-Feng Shen* (2023). Environmental quality mediates the ecological dominance of cooperatively breeding birds. Ecology Letters 26(7). Link
8. Ming Liu*, Stuart A. West, Geoff Wild (2022). The evolution of manipulative cheating. eLife 11: e80611. Link
7. Guy A. Cooper*, Ming Liu, Jorge Peña, and Stuart A. West (2022). The evolution of mechanisms to divide labour in microorganisms. Nature Communications 13(195). Link
6. Guy A. Cooper*, Hadleigh Frost, Ming Liu, and Stuart A. West (2021). The evolution of division of labour in structured and unstructured groups. eLife 10: e71968. Link
5. Ming Liu*, Stuart A. West, and Guy A. Cooper (2021). Relatedness and the evolution of mechanisms to divide labour in microorganisms. Ecology and Evolution 11(21):14475-14489. Link
4. Ming Liu, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Siew Ann Cheong, and Sheng-Feng Shen* (2021). Antagonistic effects of long- and short-term environmental variation on species coexistence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288:20211491. Link
3. Elizabeth A. Tibbetts*, Ming Liu, Emily C. Laub, and Sheng-Feng Shen (2020). Complex signals alter recognition accuracy and conspecific acceptance thresholds. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375: 20190482. Link
2. Ming Liu, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Wei-Chung Liu, and Sheng-Feng Shen* (2019). A continuum of biological adaptations to environmental fluctuation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286: 20191623. Link
1. Ming Liu, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Siew Ann Cheong, and Sheng‐Feng Shen* (2018). Multitasking and the evolution of optimal clutch size in fluctuating environments. Ecology and Evolution 8(17): 8803-8817. Link
†: Co-first authorship; *: Correspondance
Papers under review or revision
Sheng-Feng Shen*, Ming Liu, Dustin R. Rubenstein. Group size and the resolution of insider-outsider conflict in animal societies.
Guy A. Cooper, Ming Liu*, Zheren Zhang, Roberta Fisher, Stuart A. West. The evolution of predominantly sterile social groups.