Select Publications:
Alfieri, M.S. and Dugatkin, L.A. (in press) Cooperation and Cognition in Fishes In: Fish Cognition and Behavior Blackwell Publishing 2nd. Ed. (Eds) C. Brown, K.N. Laland, and J. Krause.
Alfieri, M.S and Dugatkin, L.A. (2009) Increased survival as a function of interactions with experienced partners Ethology, Ecology, and Evolution 21: 101-109
Alfieri, M.S. (2008) General Biology Laboratory Manual (for Viterbo University Biology 159) 71pages
Alfieri, M.S. and Dugatkin, L.A. (2006) Cooperation and Cognition in Fishes In: Fish Cognition and Behavior Blackwell Publishing (Eds) C. Brown, K.N. Laland, and J. Krause.
Godin, J.G., Alfieri, M.S, Hoare, D., and Sadowski, J.A. (2003) Conspecific familiarity and shoaling preferences in a wild guppy population experiencing low predation risk. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81: 1899-1904
Chute-Cannon, E. and Alfieri, M.S. (2003) Relationship between fluctuating asymmetry (FA) and social behavior in the guppy. Winona State University Science journal 1: 23-38
Dugatkin, L.A. and Alfieri, M.S. (2003) Boldness, behavioral inhibition and learning: an evolutionary approach. Ethology, Ecology, and Evolution: 15: 43-49
Dugatkin, L. A. and Alfieri, M. S. (2002) A Cognitive approach to the study of animal cooperation. In The Cognitive Animal MIT Press, (Eds) A. Bekoff, C. Allen and G. Burghardt.
Crowley, P. H., Provencher, L., Sloane, S., Dugatkin, L. A., Spohn, B., Rogers, L., and Alfieri, M.S. (1996) Evolving cooperation: The role of individual recognition. Biosystems: 37: 49-66
Dugatkin, L., Alfieri, M.S. and Moore, A. (1994) Can dominance hierarchies be replicated? Form-reform experiments using the cockroach, Nauphoeta cinerea. Ethology 97 (2): 94-102
Dugatkin, L. and Alfieri, M.S. (1992) Interpopulational differences in the use of the Tit-For-Tat strategy during predator inspection in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Evolutionary Ecology 6: 519-526
Dugatkin, L. and Alfieri, M.S. (1991) Guppies and the TIT FOR TAT strategy: Preference based on past interaction. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 28:243-246
Dugatkin, L. and Alfieri, M.S. (1991) TIT FOR TAT in guppies (Poecilia reticulata): the relative nature of cooperation and defection during predator inspection. Evolutionary Ecology 5:300-309
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