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Peter Nonacs is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States, with a focus on the agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, sociology and political science, and insect science.

Their research concentrates on topics related to insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, animal behavior and reproduction, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, wildlife ecology and conservation, insect and pesticide research, and evolution and genetic dynamics.

Peter Nonacs has published in a variety of venues, with frequent contributions to Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Insectes Sociaux, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, and Royal Society Open Science.

  • Age-related division of labor occurs in ants at the earliest stages of colony initiation (2021, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology)
  • Major Evolutionary Transitions and the Roles of Facilitation and Information in Ecosystem Transformations (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Individual variation in tolerance of human activity by urban Dark-eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis) (2022, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology)
  • Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters (2023, Insectes Sociaux)
  • Ant foraging path use responds to different types of risk and their encounter probabilities (2021, Insectes Sociaux)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter Nonacs include Kaleda K. Denton, Hayley M. Stansell, Pamela J. Yeh, Amanda N. Robin, and Saba Ebrahimi.

Best Publications

  • The role of queen pheromones in social insects: queen control or queen signal?

    Laurent Keller;Peter Nonacs

  • State dependent behavior and the Marginal Value Theorem

    Peter Nonacs

  • MORTALITY RISK VS. FOOD QUALITY TRADE-OFFS IN A COMMON CURRENCY: ANT PATCH PREFERENCES'

    Peter Nonacs;Lawrence M. Dill

  • Ant Reproductive Strategies and Sex Allocation Theory

    Peter Nonacs

  • Measuring and Using Skew in the Study of Social Behavior and Evolution.

    Peter Nonacs

  • QUEEN NUMBER IN COLONIES OF SOCIAL HYMENOPTERA AS A KIN-SELECTED ADAPTATION.

    Peter Nonacs

  • Sex Ratios and Multifaceted Parental Investment

    Jay A. Rosenheim;Peter Nonacs;Marc Mangel

  • The red and the black: habituation and the dear-enemy phenomenon in two desert Pheidole ants

    Tom A. Langen;Frédéric Tripet;Peter Nonacs

  • The past, present and future of reproductive skew theory and experiments.

    Peter Nonacs;Reinmar Hager

  • Genetic support for the evolutionary theory of reproductive transactions in social wasps.

    H K Reeve;P T Starks;J M Peters;P Nonacs

  • Social heterosis and the maintenance of genetic diversity.

    P. Nonacs;K. M. Kapheim

  • Social contracts in wasp societies

    Hudson K. Reeve;Peter Nonacs

  • Foraging for Work and Age‐Based Polyethism: The Roles of Age and Previous Experience on Task Choice in Ants

    Frederic Tripet;Peter Nonacs

  • SEX-RATIO DETERMINATION WITHIN COLONIES OF ANTS.

    Peter Nonacs

  • Measuring the reliability of skew indices: is there one best index?

    Peter Nonacs

  • THE ECOLOGY OF COOPERATION IN WASPS: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ALTERNATIVE REPRODUCTIVE DECISIONS'

    Peter Nonacs;Peter Nonacs;Hudson K. Reeve;Hudson K. Reeve

  • Support for maternal manipulation of developmental nutrition in a facultatively eusocial bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae).

    Karen M. Kapheim;Sandra P. Bernal;Adam R. Smith;Peter Nonacs

  • When can ants discriminate the sex of brood? A new aspect of queen-worker conflict.

    Peter Nonacs;Norman F. Carlin

  • SELFISH LARVAE: DEVELOPMENT AND THE EVOLUTION OF PARASITIC BEHAVIOR IN THE HYMENOPTERA.

    Peter Nonacs;John E. Tobin

  • Dispersal of first “workers” in social wasps: Causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy

    Reeve Hk;Peters Jm;Nonacs P;Starks Pt

Frequent Co-Authors

Hudson K. Reeve
Hudson K. Reeve Cornell University
William T. Wcislo
William T. Wcislo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Lawrence M. Dill
Lawrence M. Dill Simon Fraser University
Robert K. Wayne
Robert K. Wayne University of California, Los Angeles
Laurent Keller
Laurent Keller University of Lausanne
Gro V. Amdam
Gro V. Amdam Arizona State University
Marc Mangel
Marc Mangel University of Bergen
Daniel T. Blumstein
Daniel T. Blumstein University of California, Los Angeles
Allen G. Gibbs
Allen G. Gibbs University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jay A. Rosenheim
Jay A. Rosenheim University of California, Davis

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