Omar Tonsi Eldakar

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
oeldakar@email.arizona.edu
Ph: 607-624-6952 (cell)
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., Dlugos, M., Pepper, J. W. and Wilson, D. S. (In press) Population structure mediated sexual conflict in water striders. Science.

Eldakar, O. T., Dlugos, M., Wilcox, R. S. and Wilson, D. S. (In press) Aggressive mating as a tragedy of the commons in a water strider Aquarius remigis. Beh. Ecol. Sociobiol.

Eldakar, O. T. and Wilson, D. S.(2008) Selfishness as second-order altruism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 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 (2006) Emotions and actions associated with altruistic helping and punishment, in Understanding Altruism (ed. S. Gopalan) Icfai University Press.

Non-peer-reviewed publications

Eldakar, O. T. (2009) An evolutionary biologist learns how to be remembered: cheat someone. Nature 460, 783-783

O’Brien, D. T., Eldakar, O. T. and Gallup, A. C. (In press.) Carving out a niche: selfish punishment as a self-limiting strategy in humans. (proceedings of the NEEPS conference, Southern New Hampshire University) in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology.

In preparation

O’Brien, D. T, Wilson, D. S., Eldakar, O. T., and Carpenter, J. World in a city. In review

Eldakar, O. T., Dlugos, M., Pepper J. W. and Wilson, D. S. Nice guys don’t always finish last: The role of dispersion in regulating aggressive mating in the water strider Aquarius remigis. In preparation

Eldakar, O. T., Dlugos, M., Hall, G., and Pepper J. W. Differences in aggression between ephemeral and perennial streams in the water strider Aquarius remigis. In preparation

Dlugos, M., Eldakar, O. T. and Wilcox, R. S. Individual differences in mating tactic choice of the water strider Aquarius remigis. In preparation

Dlugos, M., Wilcox, R. S. and Eldakar, O. T. Ecological influences of mating tactic choice in the water strider Aquarius remigis. In preparation