Publications
2017
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2017. Selection for collective aggressiveness favors social susceptibility in social spiders. Current Biology.
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2017. Personality composition alters bacterial transmission dynamics in spider societies. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. 57:E310–E310.
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2017. The index case is not enough: Variation among individuals, groups, and social networks modify bacterial transmission dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology.
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2017. Exposure to predators reduces collective foraging aggressiveness and eliminates its relationship with colony personality composition. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 71:126.
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2017. The complex effect of illumination, temperature, and thermal acclimation on habitat choice and foraging behavior of a pit-building wormlion. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 71:137.
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2017. Queen personality type predicts nest-guarding behaviour, colony size and the subsequent collective aggressiveness of the colony. Animal Behaviour. 124:7–13.
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2017. Intense group selection selects for ideal group compositions, but selection within groups maintains them. Animal behaviour. 124:15–24.
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2017. Smaller and bolder prey snails have higher survival in staged encounters with the sea star Pisaster giganteus. Current Zoology. :zow116.
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2017. Group dynamics and relocation decisions of a trap-building predator are differentially affected by biotic and abiotic factors. Current Zoology. :zow120.
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2017. Behavioral Hypervolumes of Predator Groups and Predator-Predator Interactions Shape Prey Survival Rates and Selection on Prey Behavior. The American Naturalist. 189:254–266.
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2017. Polistes metricus queens exhibit personality variation and behavioral syndromes. Current Zoology. :zox008.
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2017. Replacing bold individuals has a smaller impact on group performance than replacing shy individuals. Behavioral Ecology. 28:883–889.
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2017. Are personality researchers painting the roses red? Maybe: a comment on Beekman and Jordan Behavioral Ecology. 28:628–629.
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2017. Mating alters the link between movement activity and pattern in the red flour beetle. Physiological Entomology.
2016
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2016. Personality composition alters the transmission of cuticular bacteria in social groups. Biology letters. 12:20160297.
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2016. Prolonged food restriction decreases body condition and reduces repeatability in personality traits in web-building spiders. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology. 70:1793–1803.
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2016. Foliar bacteria and soil fertility mediate seedling performance: a new and cryptic dimension of niche differentiation. Ecology. 97:2998–3008.
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2016. Cuticular bacteria appear lethal to social spiders in mixed but not monoculture inoculations. Current Zoology.
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2016. Social context, but not individual personality, alters immigrant viability in a spider with mixed social structure. Animal Behaviour. 120:153–161.
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2016. Habitat preference of wormlions and their behavioural repeatability under illumination/shade conditions. Ecological Entomology. 41:716–726.
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2016. The Achilles' heel hypothesis: misinformed keystone individuals impair collective learning and reduce group success. Proc. R. Soc. B. 283:20152888.
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2016. Participation in cooperative prey capture and the benefits gained from it are associated with individual personality. Current Zoology. :zow097.
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2016. Cuticular bacteria appear detrimental to social spiders in mixed but not monoculture exposure. Current Zoology. 62:377–384.
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2016. Behavioural hypervolumes of spider communities predict community performance and disbandment. Proc. R. Soc. B. 283:20161409.
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2016. Increased bacterial load can reduce or negate the effects of keystone individuals on group collective behaviour. Animal Behaviour. 114:211–218.
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2016. Behavioral repeatability of flour beetles before and after metamorphosis and throughout aging. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 70:745–753.
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2016. Individual and group performance suffers from social niche disruption. The American Naturalist. 187:776–785.
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2016. Colony personality composition alters colony-level plasticity and magnitude of defensive behaviour in a social spider. Animal Behaviour. 115:175–183.
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2016. Individual differences in boldness influence patterns of social interactions and the transmission of cuticular bacteria among group-mates. Proc. R. Soc. B. 283:20160457.
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2016. Using genetically-induced variation in genitalia to examine functional effects of trait variation.. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. 56:E146–E146.
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2016. Variation in host behavioral type and body condition produce heterogeneity in the transmission of cuticular bacteria among group-mates. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. 56:E107–E107.
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2016. The effect of keystone individuals on collective outcomes can be mediated through interactions or behavioral persistence. The American Naturalist. 188:240–252.
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2016. Thermal effects on survival and reproductive performance vary according to personality type. Behavioral Ecology. :arw084.
2015
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2015. The legacy effects of keystone individuals on collective behaviour scale to how long they remain within a group. Proc. R. Soc. B. 282:20151766.
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2015. Cross-fostering by foreign conspecific queens and slave-making workers influences individual-and colony-level personality. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 69:395–405.
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2015. Intraspecific variation in collective behaviors drives interspecific contests in acorn ants. Behavioral Ecology. 27:553–559.
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2015. Questioning evidence of group selection in spiders. Nature. 524:E1.
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2015. Integrating animal personality into insect population and community ecology. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 9:77–85.
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2015. Putative microbial defenses in a social spider: immune variation and antibacterial properties of colony silk. Journal of Arachnology. 43:394–399.
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2015. Individual differences in predators but not producers mediate the magnitude of a trophic cascade. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 9:225–232.
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2015. Similar patterns of frequency-dependent selection on animal personalities emerge in three species of social spiders. Journal of evolutionary biology. 28:1248–1256.
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2015. The indirect impact of long-term overbrowsing on insects in the Allegheny National Forest region of Pennsylvania. Northeastern Naturalist. 22:782–797.
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2015. Varying predator personalities generates contrasting prey communities in an agroecosystem. Ecology. 96:2902–2911.
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2015. Personality and morphology shape task participation, collective foraging and escape behaviour in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola. Animal Behaviour. 105:47–54.
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2015. Animal personality in a foundation species drives community divergence and collapse in the wild. Journal of Animal Ecology. 84:1461–1468.
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2015. Genetic changes to a transcriptional silencer element confers phenotypic diversity within and between Drosophila species. PLoS genetics. 11:e1005279.
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2015. Warring arthropod societies: social spider colonies can delay annihilation by predatory ants via reduced apparency and increased group size. Behavioural processes. 119:14–21.
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2015. Behavioral competence: how host behaviors can interact to influence parasite transmission risk. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 6:35–40.
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2015. Pruitt & Goodnight reply. Nature. 524:E4–E4.
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2015. Adult presence augments juvenile collective foraging in social spiders. Animal Behaviour. 109:9–14.
2014
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2014. Precopulatory sexual cannibalism causes increase egg case production, hatching success, and female attractiveness to males. Ethology. 120:453–462.
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2014. Personality composition is more important than group size in determining collective foraging behaviour in the wild. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 281:20141424.
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2014. Individual differences in boldness positively correlate with heart rate in orb-weaving spiders of genus Larinioides. Current Zoology. 60:387–391.
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2014. Exploring the effects of individual traits and within-colony variation on task differentiation and collective behavior in a desert social spider. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology. 68:839–850.
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2014. Evidence of social niche construction: persistent and repeated social interactions generate stronger personalities in a social spider. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 281:20133166.
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2014. Use of locomotor performance capacities reflects the risk level associated with specific cue types in two cursorial spider species. Journal of Arachnology. 42:79–85.
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2014. Exploring how a shift in the physical environment shapes individual and group behavior across two social contexts. Ethology. 120:825–833.
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2014. Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels. Biological Reviews. 89:48–67.
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2014. The personality types of key catalytic individuals shape colonies' collective behaviour and success. Animal Behaviour. 93:87–95.
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2014. Differences in environmental enrichment generate contrasting behavioural syndromes in a basal spider lineage. Animal Behaviour. 93:105–110.
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2014. Animal personality aligns task specialization and task proficiency in a spider society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111:9533–9537.
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2014. Submersion tolerance in a lakeshore population of Pardosa lapidicina (Araneae: Lycosidae). The Journal of Arachnology. 42:192–194.
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2014. Persistent social interactions beget more pronounced personalities in a desert-dwelling social spider. Biology letters. 10:20140419.
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2014. Species-specific influence of group composition on collective behaviors in ants. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology. 68:1929–1937.
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2014. Habitat structure helps guide the emergence of colony-level personality in social spiders. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology. 68:1965–1972.
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2014. Boldness is influenced by sublethal interactions with predators and is associated with successful harem infiltration in Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology. 68:425–435.
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2014. Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions. Nature. 514:359.
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2014. The keystone individual concept: an ecological and evolutionary overview. Animal Behaviour. 89:53–62.
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2014. Individual differences in personality and behavioural plasticity facilitate division of labour in social spider colonies. Animal Behaviour. 97:177–183.
2013
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2013. THE ROYAL.
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2013. Survival of the weakest: increased frond mechanical strength in a wave-swept kelp inhibits self-pruning and increases whole-plant mortality. Functional Ecology. 27:439–445.
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2013. A real-time eco-evolutionary dead-end strategy is mediated by the traits of lineage progenitors and interactions with colony invaders. Ecology letters. 16:879–886.
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2013. The combined behavioural tendencies of predator and prey mediate the outcome of their interaction. Animal Behaviour. 86:317–322.
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2013. Predator and prey activity levels jointly influence the outcome of long-term foraging bouts. Behavioral Ecology. 24:1205–1210.
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2013. Linking levels of personality: personalities of the 'average' and 'most extreme' group members predict colony-level personality. Animal Behaviour. 86:391–399.
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2013. Individual personalities shape task differentiation in a social spider. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 280:20131407.
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2013. Debates: the aggressive spillover hypothesis: existing ailments and putative remedies. Ethology. 119:807–810.
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2013. Spider aggressiveness determines the bidirectional consequences of host–inquiline interactions. Behavioral Ecology. 25:142–151.
2012
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2012. Behavioural traits of colony founders affect the life history of their colonies. Ecology letters. 15:1026–1032.
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2012. Sexual cannibalism is associated with female behavioural type, hunger state and increased hatching success. Animal behaviour. 84:715–721.
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2012. Juvenile exposure to acoustic sexual signals from conspecifics alters growth trajectory and an adult personality trait. Animal behaviour. 84:861–868.
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2012. Iterative evolution of increased behavioral variation characterizes the transition to sociality in spiders and proves advantageous. The American Naturalist. 180:496–510.
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2012. A conceptual and statistical framework for adaptive radiations with a key role for diversity dependence. The American Naturalist. 180:E75–E89.
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2012. Behavioural trait variants in a habitat-forming species dictate the nature of its interactions with and among heterospecifics. Functional ecology. 26:29–36.
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2012. Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes. Ecology letters. 15:278–289.
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2012. The ecological consequences of temperament in spiders. Current Zoology. 58:589–596.
2011
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2011. Intraspecific trait variants determine the nature of interspecific interactions in a habitat-forming species. Ecology. 92:1902–1908.
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2011. Reproductive consequences of male body mass and aggressiveness depend on females' behavioral types. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65:1957–1966.
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2011. Nonconceptive sexual experience diminishes individuals' latency to mate and increases maternal investment. Animal behaviour. 81:789–794.
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2011. Amazonian social spiders share similar within-colony behavioural variation and behavioural syndromes. Animal Behaviour. 82:1449–1455.
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2011. Behavioral types of predator and prey jointly determine prey survival: potential implications for the maintenance of within-species behavioral variation. The American Naturalist. 179:217–227.
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2011. How within-group behavioural variation and task efficiency enhance fitness in a social group. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 278:1209–1215.
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2011. Temperature mediates shifts in individual aggressiveness, activity level, and social behavior in a spider. Ethology. 117:318–325.
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2011. Within-group behavioral variation promotes biased task performance and the emergence of a defensive caste in a social spider. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology. 65:1055–1060.
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2011. Individual-and condition-dependent effects on habitat choice and choosiness. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65:1987–1995.
2010
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2010. The adaptive value of gluttony: predators mediate the life history trade-offs of satiation threshold. Journal of evolutionary biology. 23:2104–2111.
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2010. Differential selection on sprint speed and ad libitum feeding behaviour in active vs. sit-and-wait foraging spiders. Functional Ecology. 24:392–399.
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2010. The effect of reproductive status and situation on locomotor performance and anti-predator strategies in a funnel-web spider. Journal of Zoology. 281:39–45.
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2010. Population differences in behaviour are explained by shared within-population trait correlations. Journal of evolutionary biology. 23:748–756.
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2010. Transgressive aggression in Sceloporus hybrids confers fitness through advantages in male agonistic encounters. Journal of animal ecology. 79:137–147.
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2010. Context-dependent running speed in funnel-web spiders from divergent populations. Functional Ecology. 24:165–171.
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2010. Reproductive success in a socially polymorphic spider: social individuals experience depressed reproductive success in isolation. Ecological entomology. 35:684–690.
2009
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2009. Foraging benefits and limited niche overlap promote a mixed species association between two solitary species of spider. Behaviour. 146:1153–1170.
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2009. Sex matters: sexually dimorphic fitness consequences of a behavioural syndrome. Animal Behaviour. 78:175–181.
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2009. Male mating preference is associated with risk of pre-copulatory cannibalism in a socially polymorphic spider. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 63:1573–1580.
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2009. Frequency-dependent success of cheaters during foraging bouts might limit their spread within colonies of a socially polymorphic spider. Evolution. 63:2966–2973.
2008
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2008. Behavioural syndromes and their fitness consequences in a socially polymorphic spider, Anelosimus studiosus. Animal Behaviour. 76:871–879.