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  1. Optimists or realists? How ants allocate resources in making reproductive investments

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, May 2018, Wiley

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  2. The cost of being queen: Investment across Pogonomyrmex harvester ant gynes that differ in degree of claustrality

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  3. Cultural evolution and emergent group-level traits through social heterosis

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  4. Resolving the evolution of sterile worker castes: a window on the advantages and disadvantages of monogamy

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  5. Foundress polyphenism and the origins of eusociality in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae)

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  6. Modeling Disease Evolution with Multilevel Selection: HIV as a Quasispecies Social Genome

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Medicine, January 2012, Ashdin Publishing

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  7. Urban Infestation Patterns of Argentine Ants,Linepithema humile, in Los Angeles

    Article • Psyche A Journal of Entomology, January 2012, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  8. The past, present and future of reproductive skew theory and experiments

    Article • Biological Reviews, April 2011, Wiley

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  9. Monogamy and high relatedness do not preferentially favor the evolution of cooperation

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  10. Support for maternal manipulation of developmental nutrition in a facultatively eusocial bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae)

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  11. Ground truth is the test that counts

    Article • Nature, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  12. Bordered tug-of-war models are neither general nor predictive of reproductive skew

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  13. Sexual harassment by males reduces female fecundity in the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  14. Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949–2006 . By Edward O. Wilson. Baltimore (Maryland): Johns Hopkins University Press. $35.00. x + 719 p.; ill.; index. 0‐8018‐8329‐6. 2006.

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, June 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  15. Extreme Polygyny: Multi-seasonal “Hypergynous” Nesting in the Introduced Paper Wasp Polistes dominulus

    Article • Journal of Insect Behavior, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  16. TUG-OF-WAR HAS NO BORDERS: IT IS THE MISSING MODEL IN REPRODUCTIVE SKEW THEORY

    Article • Evolution, March 2007, Wiley

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  17. The Ecology and Evolution of Hybridization in Ants1

    Article • Ecology, September 2006, Wiley

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  18. INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION IN ANTS: AT THE INTERSECTION OF ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND BEHAVIOR

    Article • Ecology, September 2006, Wiley

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  19. Transactional Skew and Assured Fitness Return Models Fail to Predict Patterns of Cooperation in Wasps

    Article • The American Naturalist, April 2006, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  20. Testing models of parental investment strategy and offspring size in ants

    Article • Oecologia, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  21. Solitary nesting and reproductive success in the paper wasp Polistes aurifer

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  22. Measuring the reliability of skew indices: is there one best index?

    Article • Animal Behaviour, March 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  23. Sex Ratios and Skew Models: The Special Case of Evolution of Cooperation in Polistine Wasps

    Article • The American Naturalist, July 2002, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  24. Measuring and Using Skew in the Study of Social Behavior and Evolution

    Article • The American Naturalist, December 2000, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  25. Nestmate Recognition and Intraspecific Aggression Based on Environmental Cues in Argentine Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Article • Annals of the Entomological Society of America, November 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  26. The red and the black: habituation and the dear-enemy phenomenon in two desert Pheidole ants

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, September 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  27. Modeling foraging in the northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax): individual behavior can predict school dynamics and population biology

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, May 1998, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  28. Patch sampling behaviour and future foraging expectations in Argentine ants,Linepithema humile

    Article • Animal Behaviour, March 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  29. Evolution of Social Insect Colonies: Sex Allocation and Kin Selection. Ross H. Crozier Pekka Pamilo

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, September 1997, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  30. Within-group aggression and the value of group members: theory and a field test with social wasps

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  31. Sex Ratios and Multifaceted Parental Investment

    Article • The American Naturalist, September 1996, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  32. The Ecology of Cooperation in Wasps: Causes and Consequences of Alternative Reproductive Decisions

    Article • Ecology, April 1995, Wiley

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  33. Changing colony growth rates inCamponotus floridanus as a behavioral response to conspecific presence (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Article • Journal of Insect Behavior, January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  34. Modeling the behavior of the northern anchovy, Engraulis mordax, as a schooling predator exploiting patchy prey

    Article • Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, January 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  35. The economics of brood raiding and nest consolidation during ant colony founding

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, November 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  36. Opportunistic adoption of orphaned nests in paper wasps as an alternative reproductive strategy

    Article • Behavioural Processes, August 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  37. Weak queen or social contract?

    Article • Nature, June 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  38. Is Satisficing an Alternative to Optimal Foraging Theory?

    Article • Oikos, June 1993, JSTOR

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  39. The role of queen pheromones in social insects: queen control or queen signal?

    Article • Animal Behaviour, April 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  40. Evolution of parental care: the social insect paradigm

    Article • Behavioural Processes, February 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  41. Male Parentage and Sexual Deception in the Social Hymenoptera

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  42. Selfish Larvae: Development and the Evolution of Parasitic Behavior in the Hymenoptera

    Article • Evolution, December 1992, JSTOR

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  43. Social contracts in wasp societies

    Article • Nature, October 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  44. Alloparental Care and Eusocial Evolution: The Limits of Queller's Head-Start Advantage

    Article • Oikos, May 1991, JSTOR

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  45. Mortality risk versus food quality trade‐offs in ants: patch use over time

    Article • Ecological Entomology, February 1991, Wiley

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  46. Less growth with more food: How insect-prey availability changes colony demographics in the ant, Camponotus floridanus

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, January 1991, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  47. Mortality Risk vs. Food Quality Trade‐Offs in a Common Currency: Ant Patch Preferences

    Article • Ecology, October 1990, Wiley

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  48. Death in the Distance: Mortality Risk as Information for Foraging Ants

    Article • Behaviour, January 1990, Brill

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  49. Size and Kinship Affect Success of Co-Founding Lasius Pallitarsis Queens

    Article • Psyche A Journal of Entomology, January 1990, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  50. Competition and kin discrimination in colony founding by social Hymenoptera

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, July 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  51. From Individual to Collective Behavior in Social Insects. Les Treilles Workshop Jacques M. Pasteels Jean-Louis Deneubourg

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, June 1988, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  52. Queen Number in Colonies of Social Hymenoptera as Kin-Selected Adaptation

    Article • Evolution, May 1988, JSTOR

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  53. Ant Reproductive Strategies and Sex Allocation Theory

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 1986, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  54. Sex-Ratio Determination Within Colonies of Ants

    Article • Evolution, January 1986, JSTOR

    Dr Peter Nonacs

  55. Foraging in a Dynamic Mimicry Complex

    Article • The American Naturalist, August 1985, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Peter Nonacs