Halmos Faculty Published Paper on Social Environment Adaptation

Halmos College Associate Professor Omar T. Eldakar, Ph.D., and collaborators from SUNY Polytechnic Institute, New York, published a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

The article, entitled “Plasticity of Mating Duration in Response to Slight Biased Operational Sex Ratios in the Water Strider (Aquarius remigis): The Effect of Cohabitation Under Standard Laboratory Conditions”, showed that a social insect (water strider) can change its mating behavior based on its social environment. It is interesting that an insect can readily survey the social environment and adjust its behaviors adaptively.