Similar patterns of frequency-dependent selection on animal personalities emerge in three species of social spiders

The ecological consequences of temperament in spiders

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Species-specific influence of group composition on collective behaviors in ants

(2014) Andreas P. Modlmeier et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions

(2014) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   NATURE

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

Individual-level personality influences social foraging and collective behaviour in wild birds

(2014) L. M. Aplin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Me and we: the interplay between individual and group behavioral variation in social collectives

(2014) Adria C LeBoeuf et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

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

Assortative mating by aggressiveness type in orb weaving spiders

(2013) S. Kralj-Fiser et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Multilevel selection and effects of keystone hyperaggressive males on mating success and behavior in stream water striders

(2013) A. T. Chang et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

Interpopulation Variations in Behavioral Syndromes of a Jumping Spider from Insecticide-Treated and Insecticide-Free Orchards

(2013) Raphaël Royauté et al.   ETHOLOGY

Social niche specialization under constraints: personality, social interactions and environmental heterogeneity

(2013) P.-O. Montiglio et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS 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

Individual behavioural consistency and plasticity in an urban spider

(2012) Simona Kralj-Fišer et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Individual sociability and choosiness between shoal types

(2012) Julien Cote et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Animal personalities: consequences for ecology and evolution

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

Amazonian social spiders share similar within-colony behavioural variation and behavioural syndromes

(2011) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

(2011) Andreas P. Modlmeier et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Mate quality, not aggressive spillover, explains sexual cannibalism in a size-dimorphic spider

(2011) Simona Kralj-Fišer et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

Small worker bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) are hardier against starvation than their larger sisters

(2010) M. J. Couvillon et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Relatedness and genetic structure in a socially polymorphic population of the spiderAnelosimus studiosus

(2010) SARAH I. DUNCAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Personality and the emergence of the pace-of-life syndrome concept at the population level

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

Animal personality due to social niche specialisation

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

Sex matters: sexually dimorphic fitness consequences of a behavioural syndrome

(2009) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprints support limited gene flow among social spider populations

(2009) DEBORAH SMITH et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SUCCESS OF CHEATERS DURING FORAGING BOUTS MIGHT LIMIT THEIR SPREAD WITHIN COLONIES OF A SOCIALLY POLYMORPHIC SPIDER

(2009) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   EVOLUTION

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

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

Phenotypic variation in the social behaviour of the spider Anelosimus studiosus along a latitudinal gradient

(2008) Susan E. Riechert et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Shoal composition determines foraging success in the guppy

(2008) John R.G. Dyer et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis

(2008) Brian R. Smith et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Diversity of speed-accuracy strategies benefits social insects

(2008) James G. Burns et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Exploration strategies map along fast-slow metabolic and life-history continua in muroid rodents

(2008) V. Careau et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Energy metabolism and animal personality

(2008) V. Careau et al.   OIKOS

Benefits of cooperation with genetic kin in a subsocial spider

(2008) J. M. Schneider et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cooperative capture of large prey solves scaling challenge faced by spider societies

(2008) E. C. Yip et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Are animal personality traits linked to life-history productivity?

(2008) Peter A. Biro et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION