Publications

Selected Publications

Courtship & Competition

Elias, D.O., Kasumovic, M.M., Punzalan, D., Andrade, M.C.B. Mason, A.C. 2008. Male assessment during aggressive contests in jumping spiders. Animal Behaviour. 76: 901-910.

Elias, DO, Botero, CA, Andrade, MCB, Mason, AC & Kasumovic,MM. 2010. High resource valuation fuels "desperado" fighting tactics in female jumping spiders. 21(4):868-875

Kasumovic, MM, D.O. Eliasc, S. Sivalinghem, A.C. Masona & M.C.B. Andrade. 2010. Examination of prior contest experience and the retention of winner and loser effects. Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arp204.

Stoltz, J.A., Elias, D.O. & Andrade, M.C.B. 2009. Male courtship effort determines female response to competing rivals in redback spiders. Animal Behaviour. 77:79-85. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.012 (related popular press coverage)

Stoltz, J.A., Elias, D.O. & Andrade, M.C.B. 2008. Females reward courtship by competing males in a cannibalistic spider. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62 :689-697

Stoltz, J. A. & Andrade, M. C. B. 2010. Female‘s courtship threshold allows intruding males to mate with reduced effort. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 277(1681):585-92

Phenotypic Plasticity & Life history

Kasumovic, MM & Andrade, MCB. 2006. Male development tracks rapidly shifting sexual versus natural selection pressures. Current Biology. 16:R242-R243.

Kasumovic, MM & Andrade, MCB. 2008. A change in competitive context reverses sexual selection on male size. J. Evolutionary Biology. 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01648.x\

Kasumovic, M.M., Brooks, R., and Andrade, M.C.B. 2009. Body condition but not dietary restriction prolongs lifespan in a semelparous capital breeder. Biology Letters. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0335.

Stoltz, JA, Hanna, R & Andrade, MCB. 2010. Longevity cost of remaining unmated under dietary restriction. Functional Ecology. 24: 1270–1280.

Sexual Cannibalism & Male self-sacrifice

Andrade, MCB. 1996. Sexual selection for male sacrifice in the Australian redback spider. Science 240:70-72.

Andrade, MCB. 1998. Female hunger can explain variation in cannibalistic behavior. Behavioural Ecology 9:33-42.

Andrade, MCB & Banta, EM. 2002. Value of male remating and functional sterility.... Animal Behaviour 63: 857-870.

Andrade, MCB. 2003. Risky mate search and male self-sacrifice in redback spiders. Behavioral Ecology 14: 531-538.

Snow, LSE & Andrade, MCB. 2004. Pattern of sperm transfer in redback spiders.... Behavioral Ecology 15(5): 785-792.

Andrade, MCB, Gu, L & Stoltz, JA. 2005. Novel male trait prolongs survival in suicidal mating. Biology Letters 1(3): 276-279.