Integrative Behavioural Ecology of Mating
Are there native black widows in central Canada?
Photo: Ken Jones
Why do female jumping spiders fight to the death?
Photo: Ken Jones
How do male black widows use chemicals to find females & defeat rivals?
Photo: Ken Jones
Are male black widows choosy about females?
Photo by Ken Jones
How do male redback spiders avoid cannibalism?
Photo by Ken Jones
Thanks to the Awesome Summer 2017 Lab Crew!
Amira, Ridda, Allison, Sharunan, Mariaelena, Chris, Abel, Yousef, Vighnesh, Emmanuel
We examine how reciprocal effects of ecological and social factors influence reproductive tactics, life history decisions, physiological performance, and sexual selection. One recent focus is exploring how these processes shape divergence in phenotypic traits related to mating in geographically separated populations. Our work includes laboratory and field studies of invertebrates, and our primary study organisms are the black widow spiders (genus Latrodectus).
News
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| June 2018. Congratulations again to Catherine, who has received the General Motors Women in Science & Mathematics Award!
May 2018. Congratulations to Catherine Scott who is the recipient of both the PhD Post Graduate Scholarship and the Danks Scholarship from the Entomological Society of Canada.
April 2018. Congratulations to Monica Mowery, who has been awarded the George Barlow Award by the Animal Behavior Society for her research proposal: Understanding invasiveness in brown widow spiders. The Barlow Award is given annually to one top-ranked proposal in the Student Research Grant Competition. Great work Monica!
March 2018. Welcome to Professor. Zhenhua Luo who is visiting the lab from Central China Normal University
Congratulations to Monica Mowery and Nishant Singh who represented the lab at the annual EEB Atwood colloquium. |
Recent Publications
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- Scott, CE, Anderson, AG, Andrade, MCB. 2018. A review of the mechanisms and functional roles of male silk use in spider courtship and mating. Journal of Arachnology. 46: 173-206. http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v46_n2/arac-46-2-173.pdf
- Baruffaldi, L & Andrade, MCB. 2017. Neutral fitness outcomes contradict inferences of sexual ‘coercion’ derived from male’s damaging mating tactic in a widow spider. Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 17322 .doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17524-6
- Andreas Fischer, Manfred Ayasse, Maydianne C B Andrade; Natural Compounds as Spider Repellents: Fact or Myth?, Journal of Economic Entomology, tox339, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/tox339
- Rosenthal, MF, Gertler M, Hamilton AD, Prasad S & Andrade, MCB. 2017. Taxonomic bias in animal behaviour publications. Animal Behaviour 127, 83-89 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.02.017
- Biaggio, MD, Sandomirsky, I, Lubin, Y, Harari, AR, Andrade, MCB. 2016. Copulation with immature females increases male fitness in cannibalistic widow spiders. Biology Letters DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0516
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