Mark Elgar

Motion: enhancing signals and concealing cues

Eunice J Tan, Mark A Elgar

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOLOGY OPEN

Animal colour patterns remain a lively focus of evolutionary and behavioural ecology, despite the considerable conceptual and tech..

Urban street lighting differentially affects community attributes of airborne and ground-dwelling invertebrate assemblages

Martin T Lockett, Theresa M Jones, Mark A Elgar, Kevin J Gaston, Marcel E Visser, Gareth R Hopkins

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The introduction of artificial light at night (ALAN) into natural and urbanised landscapes is a known and highly pervasive disrupt..

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

Hieu T Pham, Kathryn B McNamara, Mark A Elgar

Journal article  |  2021  |  ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Theoretical models predict that virgin females at risk of not mating should strategically adjust their signalling investment as th..

Editorial: Mechanisms of Communication and Recognition in Social Evolution

Mark A Elgar, Christina Riehl

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The eyes have it: dim-light activity is associated with the morphology of eyes but not antennae across insect orders

Christopher B Freelance, Simon M Tierney, Juanita Rodriguez, Devi M Stuart-Fox, Bob BM Wong, Mark A Elgar

Journal article  |  2021  |  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

The perception of cues and signals in visual, olfactory and auditory modalities underpins all animal interactions and provides cru..

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

Males of many moths possess scent organs, ranging from simple scales and hair-tufts to complex glands. Males of the gregarious bee..

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  |  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

Carrion-feeding flies use odours emanating from the decomposing corpse as cues for oviposition and are described as generalists be..