Bringing down the house: male widow spiders reduce the webs of aggressive females more

Plasticity in extended phenotype increases offspring defence despite individual variation in web structure and behaviour

(2018) Nicholas DiRienzo et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

There’s no place like home: the contribution of direct and extended phenotypes on the expression of spider aggressiveness

(2016) Pierre-Olivier Montiglio et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Linking consistent individual differences in web structure and behavior in black widow spiders

(2016) Nicholas DiRienzo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Males choose to keep their heads: Preference for lower risk females in a praying mantid

(2016) Esteban Avigliano et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

The contribution of developmental experience vs. condition to life history, trait variation and individual differences

(2016) Nicholas DiRienzo et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Contact pheromones mediate male preference in black widow spiders: avoidance of hungry sexual cannibals?

(2015) Luciana Baruffaldi et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Web reduction by courting male black widows renders pheromone-emitting females' webs less attractive to rival males

(2015) Catherine Scott et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Strong, convergent male mate choice along two preference axes in field populations of black widow spiders

(2014) Emily C. MacLeod et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A meal or a male: the ‘whispers’ of black widow males do not trigger a predatory response in females

(2014) Samantha Vibert et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Dangerous mating systems: Signal complexity, signal content and neural capacity in spiders

(2014) M.E. Herberstein et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Using observation-level random effects to model overdispersion in count data in ecology and evolution

(2014) Xavier A. Harrison   PeerJ

Sexual cannibalism is associated with female behavioural type, hunger state and increased hatching success

(2012) Aric W. Berning et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evidence that web reduction by western black widow males functions in sexual communication

(2012) Catherine Scott et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Male black widows court well-fed females more than starved females: silken cues indicate sexual cannibalism risk

(2011) J. Chadwick Johnson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The evolution and significance of male mate choice

(2011) Dominic A. Edward et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Conflict or cooperation in the courtship display of the white widow spider, Latrodectus pallidus

(2009) Ally R. Harari et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity

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