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Overview

Reuven Dukas is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and conducts research primarily within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Insect Science; Genetics; Social Psychology; and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research covers a broad range of topics related to animal and insect behavior and ecology, such as:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect behavior and control techniques
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Insects and Parasite Interactions

Reuven Dukas has published in several scholarly outlets with multiple papers appearing in the journal Evolution, followed by publications in Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. The frequent venues highlight a focus on evolutionary biology and animal behavior.

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • The Cognitive Ecology of Animal Movement: Evidence From Birds and Mammals, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Natural history of social and sexual behavior in fruit flies, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Plasticity in male mating behavior modulates female life history in fruit flies, 2020, Evolution
  • Abnormal Social Interactions in a Drosophila Mutant of an Autism Candidate Gene: Neuroligin 3, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Evolution of sociability by artificial selection, 2021, Evolution

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, indicating a networked research approach. Notable frequent co-authors include Janice L. Yan, Ian Dworkin, Andrew Scott, David C. S. Filice, and Carling M. Baxter.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive ecology : the evolutionary ecology of information processing and decision making

    Reuven Dukas

  • Evolutionary biology of insect learning

    Reuven Dukas

  • Evolutionary Biology of Animal Cognition

    Reuven Dukas

  • Behavioural and ecological consequences of limited attention

    Reuven Dukas

  • Costs of memory: ideas and predictions.

    Reuven Dukas

  • Causes and consequences of limited attention.

    Reuven Dukas

  • Limited attention: the constraint underlying search image

    Reuven Dukas;Alan C. Kamil

  • The cost of limited attention in blue jays

    Reuven Dukas;Alan C. Kamil

  • Learning improves growth rate in grasshoppers

    Reuven Dukas;Elizabeth A. Bernays

  • Crab spiders affect flower visitation by bees

    Reuven Dukas;Douglass H. Morse

  • Effects of perceived danger on flower choice by bees

    Reuven Dukas

  • Lifetime learning by foraging honey bees

    Reuven Dukas;P.Kirk Visscher

  • Social learning about egg-laying substrates in fruitflies.

    Sachin Sarin;Reuven Dukas

  • Learning foraging tasks by bees: a comparison between social and solitary species

    Reuven Dukas;Leslie A. Real

  • Survivorship of foraging honey bees

    P.K. Visscher;R. Dukas

  • Cognitive ecology II

    Reuven Dukas;John Morgan Ratcliffe

  • The influence of phenotypic modifications on evolution: the Baldwin effect and modern perspectives

    Beren W. Robinson;Reuven Dukas

  • Honey bees recognize development of nestmates' ovaries

    Kirk P. Visscher;Reuven Dukas

  • Effects of learning on evolution: robustness, innovation and speciation

    Reuven Dukas

  • Information Processing and Prey Detection

    Reuven Dukas;Stephen Ellner

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglass H. Morse
Douglass H. Morse Brown University
Luc-Alain Giraldeau
Luc-Alain Giraldeau University of Quebec at Montreal
Leslie A. Real
Leslie A. Real Emory University
Ronald J. Prokopy
Ronald J. Prokopy University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amots Dafni
Amots Dafni University of Haifa
Avi Shmida
Avi Shmida Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel Sol
Daniel Sol Spanish National Research Council
Simon M. Reader
Simon M. Reader McGill University
Susan D. Healy
Susan D. Healy University of St Andrews
Louis Lefebvre
Louis Lefebvre McGill University

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