Two recent publications from Dustin Penn's odortype project are rated as "Hot articles" by the journals in which they were published. Dixon et al. 2007 is Number 4 in the top 25 "hottest" articles inChemometrics Intelligent Laboratory Systems (Link)
and Xu et al. 2007 is rated as "highly significant" by the peer-reviewers of The Analyst (Link ).

December '06
Evolutionary costs of reproduction in humans
By analyzing demographic records of a pre-industrial population, Dustin Penn and Ken Smith found that parents paid fitness costs for
reproduction and that women incurred greater costs than men.

November '06
Scent signals individuality and gender
A multidisciplinary team of researchers, led by Dustin Penn, recently found evidence that body odor contains a large number of volatile compounds that provide signals of individuality and sex, and their results are published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

March '06
 Jungle diva sings to the cheap seats
Some birds treat the rainforest as a concert hall, and tailor their song so that it resonates through the structure of the habitat. An article of Erwin Nemeth, Torben Dabelsteen, S.B. Pedersen and Hans Winkler has been recently featured in the New Scientist

September '04
  Chemical pollutants cause pathological effects on the behavior
A recent paper by Sarah Zala and Dustin Penn, published in Animal Behaviour, reviews decades of work on how chemical pollutants, known as "endocrine disruptors," also cause pathological effects on the behavior of a wide variety of species.

July '04
  Public Information: From Nosy Neighbors to Cultural Evolution
Richard Wagner has co-authored a review article in Science.

Dr. Richard Wagner's recent paper on sperm ejection in kittiwakes, which had received publicity in several magazines and newspapers, has led to a 3 page write up of Dr. Wagner in the Journal of Current Biology (Vol 14, No 5).

Here you find:
a brief description of the paper
and
the full article published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society London: Richard H. Wagner, Fabrice Helfenstein and Etienne Danchin (2004), Female choice of young sperm in a genetically monogamous bird, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (Suppl.) 271, S134–S137

Other citations of this article are found in:
New Scientist Magazine, 31 January 2004, page 17
BBC Wildlife Magazine, May 2004, page 31
Die Presse, 26 January 2004
Observer 30 January 2004