Mark Elgar

Editorial: Mechanisms of Communication and Recognition in Social Evolution

Mark A Elgar, Christina Riehl

Journal article  |  2021  |  Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Age-dependent chemical signalling and its consequences for mate attraction in the gumleaf skeletonizer moth, Uraba lugens

HT Pham, KB McNamara, MA Elgar

Journal article  |  2021  |  Animal Behaviour

Socially cued anticipatory adjustment of female signalling effort in a moth

Hieu T Pham, Kathryn B McNamara, Mark A Elgar

Journal article  |  2020  |  Biology Letters

Juvenile population density has profound effects on subsequent adult development, morphology and reproductive investment. Yet, lit..

Male Ventroposterior Brush Display Increases the Sexual Receptivity of Females in the Gregarious Beet Webworm Loxostege sticticalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

Yonghong Xiao, Keke Liu, Mark A Elgar, Yunxia Cheng, Xingfu Jiang, Lei Zhang, Lizhi Luo

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Insect Behavior

Free-standing spider silk webs of the thomisid Saccodomus formivorus are made of composites comprising micro- and submicron fibers

Christian Haynl, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Kai RH Mayer, Hendrik Bargel, Vanessa J Neubauer, Mark J Tobin, Mark A Elgar, Thomas Scheibel

Journal article  |  2020  |  Scientific Reports

Our understanding of the extraordinary mechanical and physico-chemical properties of spider silk is largely confined to the fibers..

Territoriality in ants revisited: iconic collective displays reflect resource, not territorial defense in meat antsIridomyrmex purpureus

Shaolin Han, Mark A Elgar

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Science of Nature

Non-injurious, collective ritualized displays may have evolved in some species of ants as a means of resolving contests for key re..

Oviposition preferences and antennal size in carrion flies

Xiu'nan Pang, Genting Liu, Qike Wang, Mark A Elgar, Dong Zhang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

High contrast yellow mosaic patterns are prey attractants for orb-weaving spiders

Po Peng, Devi Stuart-Fox, Szu-Wei Chen, Eunice J Tan, Guan-Lin Kuo, Sean J Blamires, I-Min Tso, Mark A Elgar

Journal article  |  2020  |  Functional Ecology

Collective displays as signals of relative colony size: meat ants, Iridomyrmex purpureus, are economical with the truth

Penelope A Orbell, Jessica R Potter, Mark A Elgar

Journal article  |  2020  |  Animal Behaviour

Evolutionary history of stomach bot flies in the light of mitogenomics

Liping Yan, Thomas Pape, Mark A Elgar, Yunyun Gao, Dong Zhang

Journal article  |  2019  |  Systematic Entomology