Working Papers
Ellingsen et al. “Civic Capital in Two Cultures: The Nature of Cooperation in Romania and USA..” (2013): n. pag. Print.
Submitted
Tarnita, Corina E., and Arne Traulsen. “Reconciling Ecology and Evolutionary Game Theory or ‘When Not to Think cooperation’.” Biorxiv n. pag. Print.
In Press
Michel-Mata, Sebastian et al. “The Evolution of Private Reputations in Abundant Information Landscapes.” Nature n. pag. Print.
Forthcoming
Staps, Merlijn, Corina E. Tarnita, and Mari Kawakatsu. “Ecological Principles for the Evolution of Communication in Collective Systems.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences n. pag. Print.
2024
Kawakatsu, Mari et al. “When Do Stereotypes Undermine Indirect Reciprocity?.” PLoS Comp Biol (2024): n. pag.
2023
Kessinger, Taylor, Corina E. Tarnita, and Joshua Plotkin. “Evolution of Norms for Judging Social Behavior.” PNAS 120.24 (2023): n. pag. Print.
Martinez-Garcia, Ricardo et al. “Integrating Theory and Experiments to Link Local Mechanisms and Ecosystem-Level Consequences of Vegetation Patterns in Drylands.” Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 166 (2023): n. pag. Print.
Staps, Merlijn et al. “Development Shapes the Evolutionary Diversification of Rodent Stripe Patterns.” PNAS 120.45 (2023): e2312077120.
2022
Martinez-Garcia, Ricardo, CE Tarnita, and Juan A. Bonachela. “Spatial Patterns in Ecological Systems: From Microbial Colonies to Landscapes.” Emerging Topics in Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20210282 (2022): n. pag. Print.
Rossine, Fernando et al. “Structured Foraging of Soil Predators Unveils Functional Responses to Bacterial Defenses.” PNAS 119.52 (2022): n. pag. Print.
Staps, Merlijn, and CE Tarnita. “When Being Flexible Matters: Ecological Underpinnings for the Evolution of Collective Flexibility and Task Allocation.” PNAS 119.18 (2022): e2116066119. Print.
Staps, Merlijn, Jordi Gestel, and CE Tarnita. “Life Cycles As a Central Organizing Theme for Studying Multicellularity.” The Evolution of Multicellularity. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2022. Print.
Strogatz, Steven et al. “Fifty Years of ‘More Is different’.” Nature Reviews Physics (2022): n. pag.
2021
Castillo Vardaro, Jessica et al. “Resource Availability and Heterogeneity Shape the Self-Organization of Regular Spatial Patterning.” Ecology Letters https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13822 (2021): n. pag.
Coverdale, Tyler et al. “Large Herbivores Suppress Liana Infestation in an African Savanna.” PNAS 10.1073/pnas.2101676118 (2021): n. pag.
Kawakatsu, Mari et al. “Interindividual Cooperation Mediated by Partisanship Complicates Madison’s Cure for ‘mischiefs of faction’.” PNAS 118 (2021): e2102148118.
Tokita, Christopher K., Guess, and CE Tarnita. “Polarized Information Ecosystems Can Reorganize Social Networks via Information Cascades.” PNAS 118 (2021): e2102147118.
Ulrich, Yuko et al. “Response Thresholds Alone Cannot Explain Empirical Patterns of Division of Labor in Social Insects.” PLoS Biology 19.6 (2021): e3001269.
2020
Baker, CCM et al. “Spatial Patterning of Soil Microbial Communities Created by Fungus-Farming Termites.” Molecular Ecology 29 (2020): 4487–4501.
Pourtois, Julie, Corina E. Tarnita, and Juan A. Bonachela. “Impact of Lytic Phages on Phosphorus- Versus Nitrogen-Limited Marine Microbes.” Frontiers in Microbiology (Aquatic Microbiology) (2020): n. pag. Print.
Rossine, Fernando et al. “Eco-Evolutionary Significance of ’loners’.” PLoS Biology (2020): n. pag. Print.
Staps, Merlijn, and CE Tarnita. “How Geometry Shapes Division of Labor.” eLife 9:e63328 (2020): n. pag. Print.
Tokita, Christopher, and CE Tarnita. “Social Influence and Interaction Bias Can Drive Emergent Behavioural Specialization and Modular Social Networks across Systems.” J. R. Soc. Interface (2020): n. pag. Print.
2019
Atkins, Justine et al. “Cascading Impacts of Large-Carnivore Extirpation in an African Ecosystem.” Science 364 (2019): 173–177.
Stalmans, Marc et al. “War-Induced Collapse and Asymmetric Recovery of Large-Mammal Populations in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.” PLoS ONE 14.3 (2019): e0212864.
Staps, Merlijn, Jordi Gestel, and Corina E. Tarnita. “Emergence of Diverse Life Cycles and Life Histories at the Origin of Multicellularity.” Nature Ecology & Evolution (2019): n. pag.
2018
Tarnita, Corina E. “Fast Evolution Unlocks Forbidden Communities.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 2 (2018): 1525–1526.
Tarnita, Corina. “Termite Patterning at Multiple Scales.” Current Biology 28 (2018): R1382–R1405.
Ulrich, Yuko et al. “Fitness Benefits and Emergent Division of Labour at the Onset of Group Living.” Nature 560 (2018): 635–638.
2017
Gestel, Jordi, and Corina E. Tarnita. “On the Origin of Biological Construction, With a Focus on Multicellularity.” Proc Natl Acad Sci 114.42 (2017): 11018–11026.
Martinez-Garcia, Ricardo, and Corina E. Tarnita. “Seasonality Can Induce Coexistence of Multiple Bet-Hedging Strategies in Dictyostelium Discoideum via Storage Effect.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 426 (2017): 104–116.
Pringle, Robert, and Corina E. Tarnita. “Spatial Self-Organization of Ecosystems: Integrating Multiple Mechanisms of Regular-Pattern Formation.” Annual Review of Entomology 62 (2017): 359–377.
Tarnita, Corina E. “The Ecology and Evolution of Social Behavior in Microbes.” Journal of Experimental Biology. Special Issue: Evolution of Social Behavior 220.1 (2017): 18–24.
Tarnita, Corina E. et al. “A Theoretical Foundation for Multi-Scale Regular Vegetation Patterns.” Nature 541 (2017): 398–401.
Thutupalli et al. “Farming and Public Goods Production in C. Elegans Populations.” Proc Natl Acad Sci 114.9 (2017): 2289–2294.
2016
Constable, George W.A. et al. “Demographic Noise Can Reverse the Direction of Deterministic Selection.” Proc Natl Acad Sci 113.32 (2016): E4745–E4754. Print.
Martinez-Garcia, Ricardo, and Corina E. Tarnita. “Lack of Ecological and Life History Context Can Create the Illusion of Social Interactions in Dictyostelium Discoideum.” PLoS Computational Biology 12.12 (2016): e1005246.
Tarnita, Corina E. “Mathematical Approaches or Agent-Based Methods? Comment on ‘Evolutionary Game Theory Using Agent-Based Methods’ by Christoph Adami Et Al.” Physics of Life Reviews 10.1016/j.plrev.2016.10.017.(invited comment) (2016): n. pag. Print.
Widder et al. “Challenges in Microbial Ecology: Building Predictive Understanding of Community Function and Dynamics.” ISME J (2016): 1–12. Print.
2015
Bonachela, Juan et al. “Termite Mounds Can Increase the Robustness of Drylands Ecosystems to Climatic Change.” Science 347 (2015): 651–655. Print.
Tarnita, Corina E. et al. “Fitness Tradeoffs Between Spores and Nonaggregating Cells Can Explain the Coexistence of Diverse Genotypes in Cellular Slime Molds.” Proc Natl Acad Sci 112 (2015): 2776–2781. Print.
Tarnita, Corina. “Fairness and Trust in Structured Populations.” GAMES (Special issue: Cooperation, Trust, and Reciprocity) 6 (2015): 214–230. Print.
2014
Allen, and CE Tarnita. “Measures of Success in a Class of Evolutionary Models With Fixed Population Size and Structure..” Journal of Mathematical Biology 68 (2014): 109–143. Print.
Pringle, RM et al. “Low Functional Redundancy Among Mammalian Browsers in Regulating an Encroaching Shrub (Solanum Campylacanthum) in African Savannah.” Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 281.1785 (2014): n. pag. Print.
Tarnita, Corina, and Peter Taylor. “Measures of Relative Fitness of Social Behaviors in Finite Structured Population Models.” American Naturalist 184.4 (2014): 477–488. Print.
Tarnita, Corina, Todd Palmer, and Robert Pringle. “Colonization and Competition Dynamics Can Explain Incomplete Sterilization Parasitism in Ant-Plant Symbioses.” Ecology Letters 17.10 (2014): 1290–1298. Print.
2013
Rand, DG* et al. “The Evolution of Fairness in the One-Shot Anonymous Ultimatum Game..” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (2013): 2581–2586 *joint first authors. Print.
Tarnita, CE, CH Taubes, and MA Nowak. “Evolutionary Construction by Staying Together and Coming Together..” Journal of Theoretical Biology 320 (2013): 10–22. Print.
2012
Allen et al. “How Mutation Affects Evolutionary Games on Graphs..” Journal of Theoretical Biology 299 (2012): 97–105. Print.
Cavaliere et al. “Prosperity Is Associated With Instability in Dynamical Networks..” Journal of Theoretical Biology 299 (2012): 126–138. Print.
