Omar Tonsi Eldakar

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
oeldakar@email.arizona.edu
Fax: (520) 621 9190
Office: Bio West 120
Mailing address: P.O. Box 210088, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0088

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PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed publications

Eldakar, O. T. and *Gallup, A. C. (2011) The consequences and evolution of sexual conflict in multigroup populations. PLoS one, in press.

Gallup, A. C. and Eldakar, O. T. (2011) Contagious yawning and climate variation. Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience 3, 1-4.

Eldakar, O. T. and Wilson D. S. (2011) Eight criticisms not to make about group selection. Evolution 65, 1523-1526.

Suni, S. S. and Eldakar, O. T. (2011) High mating frequency and variation with lineage ratio in dependent-lineage harvester ants. Insectes Sociaux 58, 357-364.

Eldakar, O. T., Wilson, D. S, Dlugos, M., and Pepper J. W. (2010) The role of multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual conflict in the water strider Aquarius remigis. Evolution 64, 3183-3189.

Eldakar, O. T., Dlugos, M., *Holt, G. P., Wilson, D. S. and Pepper J. W. (2010) Population structure influences sexual conflict in wild populations of water striders. Behaviour 147, 1615-1631.

Eldakar, O. T., Dlugos, M., Pepper, J. W. and Wilson, D. S. (2009) Population structure mediates sexual conflict in water striders. Science 326, 816.

Eldakar, O. T., Dlugos, M., Wilcox, R. S. and Wilson, D. S. (2009) Aggressive mating as a tragedy of the commons in a water strider Aquarius remigis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64, 25-33.

Eldakar, O. T. and Wilson, D. S. (2008) Selfishness as second-order altruism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 109, 6982-6986.

Eldakar, O. T., Farrell, D. and Wilson, D. S. (2007) Selfish punishment: Altruism can be maintained by competition among cheaters. Journal of Theoretical Biology 29, 198-205.

Eldakar, O. T., Wilson, D. S. and O'Gorman, R (2006) Emotions and actions associated with altruistic helping and punishment. Evolutionary Psychology 4, 274-286.

Eldakar, O. T., Wilson, D. S. and O'Gorman, R (2009) Emotions and actions associated with altruistic helping and punishment, in Understanding Altruism (ed. S. Gopalan) Icfai University Press. [reprinted from Eldakar et al. 2006]

Popular Press

Eldakar, O. T. An evolutionary biologist learns how to be remembered: cheat someone. Nature 460, 783-783 (12 August 2009). (invited for Nature's Journal Club)

Manuscripts in review:

Eldakar, O. T. and *Gallup, A. C. Mate disruption in the water strider Aquarius remigis. In review

* Graduate Student researcher at the time of research