Senior Lecturer
Russell Bonduriansky
ACADEMIC CAREER
- Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Fellow (2009) UNSW
- Lecturer and Australian Research Fellow (2007) UNSW
- Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (2004) UNSW
- Ph.D. (2004) University of Toronto
- B.Sc., M.Sc. University of Guelph
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Evolutionary theory
- Genetic and environmental sources of phenotypic variation
- Nongenetic inheritance
- Sexual selection and conflict
- Ageing in wild and laboratory populations
CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
- Margo Adler (PhD): Ageing and sexual selection - How do males and females shape each other's life histories?
- Luis Cayetano (MPhil): Evolution of insect genitalia
- Alex Jordan (PhD): Evolution of male reproductive strategies (Primiary supervisor: Rob Brooks)
- Scott Allen (PhD, University of Queensland): Sexually antagonistic fitness variation in Drosophila serrata (Primary supervisor: Steve Chenoweth)
RESEARCH FELLOW
- Dr Angela Crean
LAB ALUMNI
- Udani Chandrasoma (MPhil 2010): Diet, fat accumulation and fitness in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus
- Hawa Othman (Honours 2010): The genetics of condition dependence and sexual dimorphism
- Judita Jeran (Practicum 2009)
- Dr Claudia Fricke (Visiting Research Fellow, 2009-2010)
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING
- BIOS3171 - Evolution
RECENT LAB PUBLICATIONS
Bonduriansky, R. 2010. Sexual Conflict. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.
Pizzari, T. and Bonduriansky, R. 2010. Sexual behaviour: conflict, cooperation and co-evolution. In Social Behaviour: genes, ecology and evolution. (T. Szekely, A.J. Moore and J. Komdeur, editors). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Adler, M. 2010. Sexual conflict in waterfowl: why do females resist extra-pair copulations? Behavioral Ecology 21: 182-192.
Maklakov, A.A., Cayetano, L, Brooks, R.C. and Bonduriansky, R. 2010. The roles of life-history selection and sexual selection in the adaptive evolution of mating behaviour in a beetle. Evolution 64: 1273-1282.
Bonduriansky, R. 2009. Reappraising sexual coevolution and the sex roles. PLoS Biology 7 (12): e1000255.
Bonduriansky, R. and Day, T. 2009. Nongenetic inheritance and its evolutionary implications. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 40: 103-125.
Maklakov, A.A., Bonduriansky, R. and Brooks, R.C. 2009. Sex differences, sexual selection and ageing: an experimental evolution approach. Evolution 63: 2491-2503.
Maklakov, A.A. and Bonduriansky, R. 2009. Sex differences in survival costs of homosexual and heterosexual interactions: evidence from a fly and a beetle. Animal Behaviour 77: 1375-1379.
Maklakov, A.A., Hall, M., Simpson, S.J., Dessman, J., Clissold, F., Zajitschek, F., Lailvaus, S.P., Raubenheimer, D., Bonduriansky, R. and Brooks, R.C. 2009. Sex differences in nutrient-dependent reproductive ageing. Aging Cell 8: 324-330.
Bonduriansky, R. and Chenoweth, S.F. 2009. Intralocus sexual conflict. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 280-288.
Zajitschek, F., Bonduriansky, R., Zajitschek, S.R.K. and Brooks, R. 2009. Sexual dimorphism in life history: age, survival and reproduction in male and female field crickets, Teleogryllus commodus, under semi-natural conditions. The American Naturalist 173: 792-802.
Zajitschek, F., Brassil, C.E., Bonduriansky, R. and Brooks, R. 2009. Sex-effects on lifespan and senescence in the wild when dates of birth and death are unknown. Ecology 90: 1698-1707.
Bonduriansky, R. 2009. Condition dependence of developmental stability in the sexually dimorphic fly Telostylinus angusticollis (Diptera: Neriidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 861-872.
Marshall, D. J., Bonduriansky, R. and Bussiere, L. F. 2008. Offspring size variation within broods as a bet-hedging strategy in unpredictable environments. Ecology 89: 2506-2517.
Kawasaki, N., Brassil, C.E., Brooks, R. and Bonduriansky, R. 2008. Environmental Effects on the Expression of Lifespan and Aging: An Extreme Contrast Between Wild and Captive Cohorts of Telostylinus angusticollis (Diptera: Neriidae). The American Naturalist 172: 346-357.
Maklakov, A.A., Simpson, S.J., Zajitschek, F., Hall, M., Dessman, J., Clissold, F., Raubenheimer, D., Bonduriansky, R. and Brooks, R.C. 2008. Sex-specific fitness effects of nutrient intake on reproduction and lifespan. Current Biology 18: 1062-1066.
Bonduriansky, R., Maklakov, A., Zajitschek, F. and Brooks, R. 2008. Sexual selection, sexual conflict and the evolution of ageing and lifespan. Functional Ecology 22: 443-453.
Bonduriansky, R. and Head, M. 2007. Maternal and paternal condition effects on offspring phenotype in Telostylinus angusticollis (Diptera: Neriidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 2379-2388.
Bonduriansky, R. 2007. The genetic architecture of sexual dimorphism: the potential roles of genomic imprinting and condition dependence. In Sex, Size And Gender Roles: Evolutionary Studies of Sexual Size Dimorphism. (D.J. Fairbairn, W.U. Blanckenhorn and T. Szekely, editors). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Bonduriansky, R. 2007. Sexual selection and allometry: a reappraisal of the evidence and ideas. Evolution 61: 838-849.
Bonduriansky, R. 2007. The evolution of condition dependent sexual dimorphism. The American Naturalist 169: 9-19.
Staff Profile
Russell Bonduriansky
Contact Details
| Room: | 543A |
| Phone: | +61 2 9385 3439 |
| Fax: | +61 2 9385 1558 |
| Email: | r.bonduriansky@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | http://www.bonduriansky.net/ |
