Larry Wolf . Professor; Associate Chairman Biology Undergraduate Program Behavior and Ecology llwolf@syr.edu Office: 110C Life Sciences Complex (LSC) Phone: 315-443-3956 / fax: 315-443-2012 Education: • Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1966 • Postdoc, American Museum of Natural History, 1966-1967 (Elsie Binger Naumberg Fellowship) Courses: • BIO 345: Population Biology • BIO 419: Junior/Senior Honors Seminar • BIO 792: Animal Ecology/Behavior Interdisciplinary Program: Environmental Science Program at SU

RESEARCH

Wolf Lab at Syracuse University: http://biology.syr.edu/wolfresearch.html

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Hsu, Y., R.L. Earley, and L.L. Wolf. 2006 Modulating aggression through experience.  Chap 6 in Fish Learning and Behavior, Culum Brown, Kevin Laland, and Jens Kraus, eds. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford UK. pages 96-118.

Hsu, Y. , R. Earley, and L.L. Wolf. 2006. Modulation of aggressive behavior by fighting experience: Mechanisms and contest outcomes. Biological Reviews, 81:33-74.

Polak, M, W.T. Starmer, and L.L. Wolf. 2004. Sexual selection for size and symmetry in a diversifying secondary sexual character in Drosophila bipectinata Duda (Diptera:Drosophilidae). Evolution, 58:597-607.

Starmer, W.T., M. Polak, S. Pitnick, S.F. McEvey, J.S.F. Barker and L.L. Wolf. 2003. Phylogenetic, geographical and temporal analysis of female reproductive trade-offs in Drosophilidae. Evolutionary Biology 33: 139-171.

Hsu, Y. and L.L. Wolf. The winner and loser effect: what fighting behaviors are influenced. Animal Behaviour. 61:777-786.

Polak, M., Wolf, L.L. Starmer, W. T. and Barker, J. S. F., Function of the mating plug in Drosophila hibisci Bock. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 49:196-205.

Wolf, L.L., Starmer, W. T.., Polak, M., and Barker, J. S. F. 2000. Genetic architecture of a wing size measure in Drosophila hibisci from two populations in eastern Australia. Heredity, 85: 521-529.

Wolf, L.L., Polak, M., Barker, J. S. F., Bowles, J. and Starmer, W. T. 2000. Reproductive characteristics of Drosophila hibisci in the Northern Territory, Australia. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 71, 549- 562.