Peter Nonacs - Publications

Affiliations: 
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 
Area:
Behavioral ecology and social evolution, using both theoretical and experimental approaches.

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2019 Nonacs P. Reproductive skew in cooperative breeding: Environmental variability, antagonistic selection, choice, and control. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 10163-10175. PMID 31624543 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.5502  0.432
2019 Tolley SJA, Nonacs P, Sapountzis P. Horizontal Transmission Events in Ants: What Do We Know and What Can We Learn? Frontiers in Microbiology. 10: 296. PMID 30894837 DOI: 10.3389/Fmicb.2019.00296  0.332
2019 Mahavni A, Lessig EK, Nonacs P. Exploratory behavior of Argentine Ants ( Linepithema humile ) encountering novel areas Insectes Sociaux. 66: 653-656. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-019-00723-X  0.377
2018 Enzmann BL, Nonacs P. Optimists or realists? How ants allocate resources in making reproductive investments. The Journal of Animal Ecology. PMID 29687883 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12840  0.766
2017 Nonacs P. Go High or Go Low? Adaptive Evolution of High and Low Relatedness Societies in Social Hymenoptera Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 5. DOI: 10.3389/Fevo.2017.00087  0.42
2017 Chapin KJ, Nonacs P, Hayes LD. Evaluating an Open-Exam Approach to Engaging Students in Evolutionary Paradoxes: Cheating to Learn The American Biology Teacher. 79: 144-148. DOI: 10.1525/Abt.2017.79.2.144  0.674
2016 Kapheim KM, Chan TY, Smith AR, Wcislo WT, Nonacs P. Ontogeny of division of labor in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis Insectes Sociaux. 63: 185-191. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-015-0454-Y  0.65
2015 Nonacs P, Richards MH. How (not) to review papers on inclusive fitness. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 30: 235-7. PMID 25804868 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tree.2015.02.007  0.365
2015 Kapheim KM, Nonacs P, Smith AR, Wayne RK, Wcislo WT. Kinship, parental manipulation and evolutionary origins of eusociality. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 282: 20142886. PMID 25694620 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.2886  0.708
2014 Enzmann BL, Gibbs AG, Nonacs P. The cost of being queen: investment across Pogonomyrmex harvester ant gynes that differ in degree of claustrality. Journal of Insect Physiology. 70: 134-42. PMID 25111688 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jinsphys.2014.07.006  0.772
2014 Nonacs P, Kapheim KM. Cultural evolution and emergent group-level traits through social heterosis. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37: 266-7. PMID 24970413 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X1300294X  0.653
2014 Nonacs P. Resolving the evolution of sterile worker castes: a window on the advantages and disadvantages of monogamy. Biology Letters. 10: 20140089. PMID 24647729 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0089  0.367
2013 Kapheim KM, Smith AR, Nonacs P, Wcislo WT, Wayne RK. Foundress polyphenism and the origins of eusociality in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 67: 331-340. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-012-1453-X  0.719
2012 Kapheim KM, Smith AR, Ihle KE, Amdam GV, Nonacs P, Wcislo WT. Physiological variation as a mechanism for developmental caste-biasing in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 279: 1437-46. PMID 22048951 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2011.1652  0.724
2012 Nonacs P, Kapheim KM. Modeling Disease Evolution with Multilevel Selection: HIV as a Quasispecies Social Genome Journal of Evolutionary Medicine. 1: 1-13. DOI: 10.4303/jem/235553  0.621
2012 Gilboa S, Klotz JH, Nonacs P. Urban infestation patterns of Argentine ants, Linepithema humile, in Los Angeles Psyche (New York). DOI: 10.1155/2012/925149  0.337
2012 Enzmann BL, Kapheim KM, Wang TB, Nonacs P. Giving them what they want: Manipulating Argentine ant activity patterns with water Journal of Applied Entomology. 136: 588-595. DOI: 10.1111/J.1439-0418.2011.01690.X  0.713
2011 Kapheim KM, Bernal SP, Smith AR, Nonacs P, Wcislo WT. Support for maternal manipulation of developmental nutrition in a facultatively eusocial bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65: 1179-1190. PMID 21743768 DOI: 10.1007/S00265-010-1131-9  0.72
2011 Nonacs P. Kinship, greenbeards, and runaway social selection in the evolution of social insect cooperation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 10808-15. PMID 21690344 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100297108  0.37
2011 Nonacs P. Monogamy and high relatedness do not preferentially favor the evolution of cooperation. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 11: 58. PMID 21375755 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-58  0.392
2011 Nonacs P, Hager R. The past, present and future of reproductive skew theory and experiments. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 86: 271-98. PMID 20545672 DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-185X.2010.00144.X  0.357
2010 Nonacs P. Bordered tug-of-war models are neither general nor predictive of reproductive skew. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 266: 739-41. PMID 20674580 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jtbi.2010.07.029  0.43
2010 Enzmann BL, Nonacs P. Digging beneath the surface: incipient nest characteristics across three species of harvester ant that differ in colony founding strategy. Insectes Sociaux. 57: 115-123. PMID 20098502 DOI: 10.1007/S00040-009-0056-7  0.752
2010 Rossi BH, Nonacs P, Pitts-Singer TL. Sexual harassment by males reduces female fecundity in the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata Animal Behaviour. 79: 165-171. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2009.10.023  0.715
2009 Wang TB, Nonacs P, Blumstein DT. Social skew as a measure of the costs and benefits of group living in marmots Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates: Proximate and Ultimate Causes. 114-133. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511641954.007  0.501
2008 Nonacs P, Kapheim KM. Social heterosis and the maintenance of genetic diversity at the genome level Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21: 631-635. DOI: 10.1111/J.1420-9101.2007.01489.X  0.684
2008 Liebert AE, Hui J, Nonacs P, Starks PT. Extreme polygyny: Multi-seasonal "hypergynous" nesting in the introduced paper wasp Polistes dominulus Journal of Insect Behavior. 21: 72-81. DOI: 10.1007/S10905-007-9108-X  0.793
2007 Nonacs P, Kapheim KM. Social heterosis and the maintenance of genetic diversity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 20: 2253-65. PMID 17956388 DOI: 10.1111/J.1420-9101.2007.01418.X  0.68
2007 Nonacs P. Tug-of-war has no borders: it is the missing model in reproductive skew theory. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 61: 1244-50. PMID 17492975 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2007.00092.X  0.441
2006 Nonacs P. Nepotism and brood reliability in the suppression of worker reproduction in the eusocial Hymenoptera. Biology Letters. 2: 577-9. PMID 17148292 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2006.0549  0.423
2006 Nonacs P. Interspecific hybridization in ants: at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and behavior. Ecology. 87: 2143-7. PMID 16995613 DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2143:Ihiaat]2.0.Co;2  0.442
2006 Nonacs P, Liebert AE, Starks PT. Transactional skew and assured fitness return models fail to predict patterns of cooperation in wasps. The American Naturalist. 167: 467-80. PMID 16670991 DOI: 10.1086/501168  0.769
2006 Gilboa S, Nonacs P. Testing models of parental investment strategy and offspring size in ants. Oecologia. 146: 667-74. PMID 16249898 DOI: 10.1007/S00442-005-0139-8  0.394
2006 Tripet F, Fournier D, Nonacs P, Keller L. Kin recognition and the paradoxical patterns of aggression between colonies of a Mojave desert Pheidole ant Insectes Sociaux. 53: 127-135. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-005-0846-5  0.388
2006 Nonacs P. The rise and fall of transactional skew theory in the model genus Polistes Annales Zoologici Fennici. 43: 443-455.  0.319
2005 Liebert AE, Nonacs P, Wayne RK. Solitary nesting and reproductive success in the paper wasp Polistes aurifer Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 57: 445-456. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-004-0875-5  0.786
2004 Nonacs P, Reeve HK, Starks PT. Optimal reproductive-skew models fail to predict aggression in wasps. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 271: 811-7. PMID 15255099 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2003.2668  0.433
2002 Nonacs P. Sex ratios and skew models: the special case of evolution of cooperation in polistine wasps. The American Naturalist. 160: 103-18. PMID 18707502 DOI: 10.1086/340600  0.459
2002 Thomas JF, Nonacs P. Size dimorphism and male aggregation behavior in the sand wasp, Steniolia nigripes (Sphecidae: Bembecinae) Sociobiology. 40: 317-323.  0.547
2001 Nonacs P. State dependent behavior and the Marginal Value Theorem Behavioral Ecology. 12: 71-83. DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Beheco.A000381  0.377
2001 Nonacs P. A life-history approach to group living and social contracts between individuals Annales Zoologici Fennici. 38: 239-254.  0.349
2000 Nonacs P. Measuring and Using Skew in the Study of Social Behavior and Evolution. The American Naturalist. 156: 577-589. PMID 29592547 DOI: 10.1086/316995  0.375
2000 Reeve HK, Starks PT, Peters JM, Nonacs P. Genetic support for the evolutionary theory of reproductive transactions in social wasps. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 267: 75-9. PMID 10670956 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2000.0969  0.438
2000 Chen JSC, Nonacs P. Nestmate recognition and intraspecific aggression based on environmental cues in argentine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 93: 1333-1337. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[1333:Nraiab]2.0.Co;2  0.387
2000 Langen TA, Tripet F, Nonacs P. The red and the black: Habituation and the dear-enemy phenomenon in two desert Pheidole ants Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 48: 285-292. DOI: 10.1007/S002650000223  0.381
1998 Reeve HK, Peters JM, Nonacs P, Starks PT. Dispersal of first "workers" in social wasps: causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 95: 13737-42. PMID 9811870 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.23.13737  0.349
1998 Nonacs P, Smith PE, Mangel M. Modeling foraging in the northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax): Individual behavior can predict school dynamics and population biology Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 55: 1179-1188. DOI: 10.1139/F98-010  0.517
1998 Nonacs P, Soriano JL. Patch sampling behaviour and future foraging expectations in Argentine ants, Linepithema humile Animal Behaviour. 55: 519-527. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.1997.0615  0.321
1997 Reeve HK, Nonacs P. Within-group aggression and the value of group members: Theory and a field test with social wasps Behavioral Ecology. 8: 75-82. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/8.1.75  0.385
1997 Nonacs P. Evolution of Social Insect Colonies: Sex Allocation and Kin Selection.Ross H. Crozier , Pekka Pamilo The Quarterly Review of Biology. 72: 331-332. DOI: 10.1086/419891  0.36
1996 Rosenheim JA, Nonacs P, Mangel M. Sex ratios and multifaceted parental investment American Naturalist. 148: 501-535. DOI: 10.1086/285937  0.576
1995 Nonacs P, Reeve HK. The ecology of cooperation in wasps: Causes and consequences of alternative reproductive decisions Ecology. 76: 953-967. DOI: 10.2307/1939359  0.491
1994 Nonacs P, Smith PE, Bouskila A, Luttbeg B. Modeling the behavior of the northern anchovy, Engraulis mordax, as a schooling predator exploiting patchy prey Deep-Sea Research Part Ii. 41: 147-169. DOI: 10.1016/0967-0645(94)90065-5  0.685
1994 Calabi P, Nonacs P. Changing colony growth rates in Camponotus floridanus as a behavioral response to conspecific presence (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Journal of Insect Behavior. 7: 17-27. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01989824  0.371
1993 Nonacs P, Reeve HK. Opportunistic adoption of orphaned nests in paper wasps as an alternative reproductive strategy. Behavioural Processes. 30: 47-59. PMID 24896471 DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(93)90011-F  0.445
1993 Reeve HK, Nonacs P. Weak queen or social contract? Nature. 363: 503-503. DOI: 10.1038/363503A0  0.316
1993 Nonacs P, Reeve H. Evolution of parental care: the social insect paradigm Behavioural Processes. 28: 228. DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(93)90104-Y  0.31
1993 Nonacs P. The economics of brood raiding and nest consolidation during ant colony founding Evolutionary Ecology. 7: 625-633. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01237825  0.457
1993 Keller L, Nonacs P. The role of queen pheromones in social insects: Queen control or queen signal? Animal Behaviour. 45: 787-794. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.1993.1092  0.389
1992 Nonacs P, Tobin JE. SELFISH LARVAE: DEVELOPMENT AND THE EVOLUTION OF PARASITIC BEHAVIOR IN THE HYMENOPTERA. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 46: 1605-1620. PMID 28567772 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1992.Tb01157.X  0.422
1992 Nonacs P, Calabi P. Competition and predation risk: Their perception alone affects ant colony growth Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 249: 95-99. DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.1992.0089  0.336
1992 Reeve HK, Nonacs P. Social contracts in wasp societies Nature. 359: 823-825. DOI: 10.1038/359823A0  0.451
1992 Nonacs P. Queen condition and alate density affect pleometrosis in the ant Lasius pallitarsis Insectes Sociaux. 39: 3-13. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01240527  0.401
1992 Nonacs P, Tobin JE. Selfish larvae: development and the evolution of parasitic behavior in the Hymenoptera Evolution. 46: 1605-1620.  0.308
1991 Nonacs P. Alloparental Care and Eusocial Evolution: The Limits of Queller's Head-Start Advantage Oikos. 61: 122-125. DOI: 10.2307/3545413  0.314
1991 Nonacs P. Less growth with more food: How insect-prey availability changes colony demographics in the ant, Camponotus floridanus Journal of Insect Physiology. 37: 891-898. DOI: 10.1016/0022-1910(91)90004-J  0.431
1991 Nonacs P. Exploratory behavior of Lasius pallitarsis ants encountering novel areas Insectes Sociaux. 38: 345-349. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01241870  0.31
1990 Nonacs P, Dill LM. Mortality risk vs. food quality trade-offs in a common currency: ant patch preferences Ecology. 71: 1886-1892. DOI: 10.2307/1937596  0.302
1990 Nonacs P, Carlin NF. When can ants discriminate the sex of brood? A new aspect of queen-worker conflict Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 87: 9670-9673. DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.87.24.9670  0.412
1989 Nonacs P. Competition and kin discrimination in colony founding by social Hymenoptera Evolutionary Ecology. 3: 221-235. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02270723  0.421
1988 Nonacs P. QUEEN NUMBER IN COLONIES OF SOCIAL HYMENOPTERA AS A KIN-SELECTED ADAPTATION. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 42: 566-580. PMID 28564012 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1988.Tb04161.X  0.475
1988 Nonacs P. From Individual to Collective Behavior in Social Insects. Les Treilles Workshop. Jacques M. Pasteels , Jean-Louis Deneubourg The Quarterly Review of Biology. 63: 251-252. DOI: 10.1086/415920  0.324
1988 Nonacs P. Queen number in colonies of social Hymenoptera as a kin-selected adaptation Evolution. 42: 566-580.  0.375
1986 Nonacs P. SEX-RATIO DETERMINATION WITHIN COLONIES OF ANTS. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 40: 199-204. PMID 28564115 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1986.Tb05731.X  0.439
1986 Nonacs P. Ant Reproductive Strategies and Sex Allocation Theory The Quarterly Review of Biology. 61: 1-21. DOI: 10.1086/414723  0.455
1985 Nonacs P. Foraging in a dynamic mimicry complex American Naturalist. 126: 165-180. DOI: 10.1086/284407  0.326
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