Long-term behavioural consistency in prey capture but not in web maintenance in a social spider

Exploring the effects of individual traits and within-colony variation on task differentiation and collective behavior in a desert social spider

(2014) Carl N. Keiser et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Animal personality aligns task specialization and task proficiency in a spider society

(2014) Colin M. Wright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Linking levels of personality: personalities of the ‘average’ and ‘most extreme’ group members predict colony-level personality

(2013) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Interindividual variability in social insects - proximate causes and ultimate consequences

(2013) Raphaël Jeanson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels

(2013) Jennifer M. Jandt et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Assessing the Effects of Rearing Environment, Natural Selection, and Developmental Stage on the Emergence of a Behavioral Syndrome

(2013) Kayla Sweeney et al.   ETHOLOGY

Habitat productivity constrains the distribution of social spiders across continents – case study of the genus Stegodyphus

(2013) Marija Majer et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Individual personalities shape task differentiation in a social spider

(2013) L. Grinsted et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Iterative Evolution of Increased Behavioral Variation Characterizes the Transition to Sociality in Spiders and Proves Advantageous

(2012) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Personality and plasticity: temporal behavioural reaction norms in a lizard, the Namibian rock agama

(2012) Alecia Carter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Unpredictable animals: individual differences in intraindividual variability (IIV)

(2012) Judy A. Stamps et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

An evolutionary ecology of individual differences

(2012) Sasha R. X. Dall et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Task specialization in two social spiders,Stegodyphus sarasinorum(Eresidae) andAnelosimus eximius(Theridiidae)

(2012) V. Settepani et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Diverse societies are more productive: a lesson from ants

(2012) A. P. Modlmeier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Animal personalities: consequences for ecology and evolution

(2012) Max Wolf et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Variation in personality and behavioural plasticity across four populations of the great tit Parus major

(2011) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Within-group behavioral variation promotes biased task performance and the emergence of a defensive caste in a social spider

(2010) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Temperament in a Fish: A Longitudinal Study of the Development of Individual Differences in Aggression and Social Rank in the Midas Cichlid

(2010) Richard C. Francis   ETHOLOGY

Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality

(2010) D. Reale et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the coevolution of social responsiveness and behavioural consistency

(2010) M. Wolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How within-group behavioural variation and task efficiency enhance fitness in a social group

(2010) J. N. Pruitt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis

(2009) Alison M. Bell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Flexible task allocation and the organization of work in ants

(2009) E. J. H. Robinson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Individual experience and evolutionary history of predation affect expression of heritable variation in fish personality and morphology

(2009) N. J Dingemanse et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity

(2009) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A simple method for distinguishing within- versus between-subject effects using mixed models

(2008) Martijn van de Pol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Comparing the strength of behavioural plasticity and consistency across situations: animal personalities in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus

(2008) M. Briffa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Specialization Does Not Predict Individual Efficiency in an Ant

(2008) Anna Dornhaus   PLOS BIOLOGY