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

Personality in social insects: How does worker personality determine colony personality?

(2016) Noa Pinter-Wollman   Current Zoology

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

Individual personality traits influence group exploration in a feral guppy population

(2013) C. Brown et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels

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

A real-time eco-evolutionary dead-end strategy is mediated by the traits of lineage progenitors and interactions with colony invaders

(2013) Jonathan N. Pruitt   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

How is activity distributed among and within tasks in Temnothorax ants?

(2012) Noa Pinter-Wollman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Loss of genetic variability in social spiders: genetic and phylogenetic consequences of population subdivision and inbreeding

(2012) I. Agnarsson et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

Social Personality Polymorphism and the Spread of Invasive Species: A Model

(2011) Sean Fogarty et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Individual variation in helping in a cooperative breeder: relatedness versus behavioural type

(2011) A.L. Le Vin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Productivity increases with variation in aggression among group members in Temnothorax ants

(2011) Andreas P. Modlmeier et al.   BEHAVIORAL 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

Pedogenetic Sociogenesis via the “Sibling-route” and some Consequences for Stegodyphus Spiders

(2010) Wolfgang Wickler et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

Animal personality due to social niche specialisation

(2010) Ralph Bergmüller et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Antipredator responses of wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) to sensory cues representing an avian predator

(2009) Anne K. Lohrey et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Individual differences influence collective behaviour in social caterpillars

(2008) A. Dussutour et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Behavioural syndromes and their fitness consequences in a socially polymorphic spider, Anelosimus studiosus

(2008) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Colony nutrition skews reproduction in a social spider

(2008) Mor Salomon et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY