Damian O. Elias

Assistant Professor
PhD  Neurobiology and Behavior    Cornell University, 2005
B.S.   Ecology and Evolutionary Biology    University of Arizona, 1998

5028 VLSB
Berkeley, California 94720
doelias@berkeley.edu
office: 510-642-6396   lab: 510-642-6396   fax:  510-643-5438

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The goal of my research program is to understand basic principals in behavior and behavioral adaptation. By exploring the interface between sensory physiology, behavior, and ecology, my lab seeks to identify basic principals of sensory integration, multimodal communication, complex signal evolution and how organisms adapt to biophysical constraints on these processes. Ongoing work in the lab focuses on vibratory and visual communication in invertebrate model systems.

Kasumovic M.M., Elias D.O., Punzalan D., Mason, A.C. and Andrade M.C.B. (2009). The role of multiple experiences on contest outcome and patterns of selection in a jumping spider. Animal Behavior 77, 1533-1538.

Lee N, Elias D.O., and Mason A.C. (2009) A precedence effect resolves phantom sound source illusions in the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 106 (15), 6357-6362.

Stoltz J.A., Elias D.O., and Andrade M.C.B. (2009) Matched male size rival shifts female receptivity. Animal Behavior, 77 (1), 79-85.

Elias D.O., Kasumovic M. M. , Punzalan D., Andrade M. C. B, and Mason, A. C. (2008). Assessment strategies in male jumping spider contests. Animal Behavior, 76 (3), 901-910. Animal Behavior, 76 (3), 901-910.

Hebets E.A., Elias, D. O., Mason, A. C., Miller, G. L., and Stratton, G. P. (2008). Substrate-dependant signaling success in the wolf spider Schizocosa retrorsa. Animal Behavior, 75 (2), 605-615.

Stoltz, J. A., Elias, D. O., and Andrade, M. C. B. (2008). Female punishment enforces prolonged courtship in competing males. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(5), 689-697.

Elias, D. O., Hebets, E. A., Hoy, R. R., Maddison, W. P., and Mason, A. C. (2007). Regional song differences in sky-island populations of Habronattus pugillis Griswold. Journal of Arachnology, 34 (3): 545-557.

Elias, D. O., Hebets, E. A., and Hoy, R. R. (2006). Female preference for signal complexity/novelty in a jumping spider. Behavioral Ecology, 17(5): 765-771.

Elias, D. O., Land, B. R., Mason, A. C., and Hoy, R. R. (2006). The classification and quantification of dynamic visual signals in jumping spiders. Journal of Comparative Physiology - A, 192: 785-797.

Elias, D. O., Lee, N., Hebets, E. A., and Mason, A. C. (2006). Seismic signal production in a wolf spider: parallel versus serial multicomponent signals. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209, 1074-1084.

Elias, D. O., Hebets, E. A., Hoy, R. R. and Mason, A. C. (2005). Seismic signals are crucial for male mating success in a visual specialist jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae). Animal Behaviour, 69 (4), 931-938.

Elias, D. O., Mason, A. C., and Hoy, R. R. (2004). The effect of substratum type on the efficacy of seismic courtship signal transmission in the jumping spider Habronattus dossenus (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Experimental Biology, 207, 4105-4110.

Elias, D. O., Mason, A. C., Maddison, W. P. and Hoy, R. R. (2003). Seismic signals in a courting male jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Experimental Biology 206, 4029-4039.