Shinichi Nakagawa

This paper introduces a flexible modelling framework using a four-parameter log-logistic model to estimate thermal tolerance and sensitivity, improving reliability over conventional two-stage analyses.

This study reviews and analyzes preclinical rodent studies on music exposure's effects on anxiety and depression-like behaviors, finding a significant reduction in mean behaviors but no overall change in variability.

The paper compares R packages for phylogenetic generalised linear mixed models and shows glmmTMB is faster and more flexible for fitting PGLMMs with likelihood-based models.

This study compares transgenesis and genome editing across 72 species and 55 genes to assess their effectiveness in enhancing animal production traits, finding gene editing more impactful overall.

This study quantitatively synthesizes rodent model data to show environmental enrichment reduces depressive and anxiety-like behaviors by 16% and decreases inter-individual variability by 12%.

This study investigates how in-vivo sperm storage affects sperm quality, fertilization success, and offspring quality across humans and non-human animals, finding that storage duration and other factors influence these outcomes.

YOLOv8 detection with SORT event grouping and grid-search tuning quantifies visually distinct behaviours from video across 5 case studies, reaching f1-scores of 0.62 to 0.94.

The paper evaluates generality in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses, finding that 20% of meta-analyses show consistent effects across contexts.

This paper surveys 222 Best Paper awards across disciplines and finds they lack transparency, inclusivity, and support for Open Science, with geographic and gender biases.

This paper introduces a bivariate multilevel meta-analysis method for log response ratio and standardized mean difference to improve reproducibility and reduce false positives in environmental and biological meta-analyses.

partR2 quantifies part R2 and structure coefficients for fixed effects in generalized linear mixed models, providing variance decomposition and confidence intervals.

This paper argues for embracing heterogeneity in preclinical research to improve reproducibility and generalizability through meta-analysis of phenotypic variability in ischaemic stroke models.

This paper reviews and proposes new estimators for effect size statistics lnVR and lnCVR to compare variability between two groups in meta-analyses, emphasizing the importance of accounting for group dependence.

This study shows that house sparrows exhibit similar mortality senescence in wild and captive settings, but lower frailty in captivity, suggesting species-specific ageing rates insensitive to environment.

The paper tests the certainty of paternity hypothesis in dunnocks, finding within-male adjustment in paternal care when paternity is lost, but no strong between-male effect.

This paper provides methods to infer evolutionary quantitative genetic parameters from generalized linear mixed models, enabling prediction of response to selection for non-normal traits.