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