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Ingi Agnarsson Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Curator of Invertebrate Collections, Department of Biology, University of Vermont, 109
Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405-0086 E-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://theridiidae.com/ and
http://www.islandbiogeography.org/; Phone: (+1) 802-656-0460
CURRICULUM VITAE
SUMMARY
PhD: 2004. Total pubs: 116. G-Scholar-H:36, i10:74. Covers: 9. Grants: >$2,000,000. Media: Science, BBC.
PERSONAL
Born: Reykjavík, Iceland, 11 January 1971
Citizenship: Icelandic
Languages: (speak/read) – Icelandic, English, Spanish; (read) – Danish; (basic) – German
EDUCATION
George Washington University, Washington DC, 1998-2004, Ph.D.
The University of Iceland, Reykjavík, 1992-1995, B.Sc.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
University of Vermont, Burlington VT, Associate Professor, 2016-present.
University of Vermont, Burlington VT, Assistant Professor, 2012-2016.
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 2004-2007, 2010-
present. Research Associate.
Hubei University, Wuhan, China. Adjunct Professor. 2016-present.
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Assistant Professor and Director of Zoological Museum, 2008-
2012.
Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation (CATEC), UPR, 2008-2012, Research Fellow.
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 2007-2010. Research
Collaborator.
Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, 2007-2009.
Research Associate.
University of Akron, Ohio, 2007-2008. Postdoctoral Research Scholar.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2004-2006. Killam Postdoctoral Fellow.
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 1998-2004. Pre-doctoral
Fellow.
Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Reykjavík, 1995-1998. Researcher (Icelandic invertebrates).
Institute of Biology, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, 1993-1994. Research Assistant (rocky shore
ecology).
GRANTS
National Science Foundation (IOS-1656460), 2017-2021: one of four PIs (total award $903,385 thereof
$128,259 to UVM). Collaborative Research: Comparative analyses of structural designs underlying
functional performance of the toughest spider silk.
UVM Small Grants Research Award. 2016, PI ($3,000). Diversification in Caribbean caves.
Smithsonian Institution Biogenomics/Global Genome Initiative Grant Program. 2015, one of three
co-PIs with PI Coddington ($20,000). Anchored enrichment phylogeny of spiders based on diverse
genome quality tissue sampling.
National Science Foundation (DBI-1349205), 2014-2017: co-PI, ($471,072), “CSBR: Natural History:
Launching the University of Vermont Natural History Museum Step One: Securing the Collections“
(with PI D. Barrington and co-PI C.W. Kilpatrick).
ARRS-Slovenian Research Agency, 2015-2016. coPI on Bilateral grant Slovenia-USA, with M.
Kuntner: “Biology of spiders in the phylogenomic era” (3,500€)
Smithsonian Institution 2013 SI Barcode Network, 2013-present, Principal Investigator with Jonathan
A. Coddington, ($20,000): Barcoding a Mega-diverse Group in a Biodiversity Hotspot – Diversity and
Biogeography of Arachnids in the Caribbean.
National Science Foundation (DEB-1050187-1050253), 2011-2016, Principal Investigator, ($833,000).
“Collaborative Research: the generation of a biodiversity hotspot - paleobiogeography of the Caribbean
inferred from multiple arachnid lineages with differing dispersal abilities” (with PI G. Binford and co-PI
P. Selden). The grant originally based at UPR (1050187) was transferred to UVM in 2012, at the
remaining amount of $543,632 and designated the new grant number DEB-1314749.
National Geographic Society Global Exploration Fund (GEFNE29-11), 2011-2013, Principal
Investigator, ($21,100): “Islands on islands: biogeography of spider web parasites and their hosts in the
Indian Ocean”
National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration (8655-09), 2008-2010, Principal
Investigator, ($23,750): “Casting spider webs across Malagasy rivers: extraordinary silk in giant orb
webs”
Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS 207-26), collaborator on a postdoctoral grant, PI Helen
Smith (198.000AUD), current.
Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS Z1-9799-0618-07) Principal Investigator - research fellowship
(~140.000$), 2007-2009.
Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship (~85.000$), Principal Investigator, University of British Colombia,
2004-2006.
The Biodiversity of the Guianas, 2005, (8.000$, with J. Coddington, J. Miller, and M. Kuntner), for
fieldwork in French Guiana
Smithsonian Small Grants Program, 2005, (4.000$, with J. Coddington, J. Miller, and M. Kuntner), for
fieldwork in French Guiana
Fulbright Student Grant for Foreign Students (IIE 159 85610; 12.000$), 1998-2003.
Doctoral fellowship, 1998-2004, funded by a National Science Foundation PEET grant to Gustavo
Hormiga and Jonathan Coddington (DOEB 9712353).
Sallee Charitable Trust, 2000, (7.000$, with M. Kuntner) fieldwork in S. Africa and Madagascar
AWARDS
“Top Ten” new species Award, for the discovery of the remarkable new species Caerostris darwini. The
International Institute for Species Exploration, May 23, 2011.
Best Student Paper Competition, first place, American Arachnological Society, 2003.
Best Student Paper Competition, second place, American Arachnological Society, 1999.
Tuition award, George Washington University 1998-2004.
PATENT
UA 737 PCT, Humidity Responsive Materials and Systems and Methods Using Humidity Responsive
Materials. USA application in process.
ACADEMIC SERVICES AND PUBLIC OUTREACH
‘Senator’ - UVM Faculty Senate for the Department of Biology, 2014-2016.
Member – UVM Suiter/Aple committee (student research and travel funds), 2013-2015.
Director, American Arachnological Society (2012-2014).
Editorial Board, Zookeys (2013-present), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, section Social Evolution
2014-present, Hacquetia, 2007-present. Associate Editor, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society,
2013-present, Journal of Arachnology (Systematics and Taxonomy) 2007-2012.
Reviewing for: Acta Oecologica, Acta Theriologica Sinica, Animal Behavior, Arthropoda Selecta,
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biology Letters, Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society, Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Washington, BMC
Evolutionary Biology, BMC Genomics, Cladistics, Ecography, Ethology, Ethology Ecology &
Evolution, European Journal of Entomology, Evolution, Fauna of Arabia, Frontiers in Zoology, GENE,
Genome Biology and Evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution, Genetica, GREENART, Hacquetia,
Insectes Sociaux, Invertebrate Systematics, ISRN Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Animal Ecology,
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Journal of Arachnology, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of
Ethology, Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal of Experimental Zoology A, Journal of Insect
Behavior, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Journal of Natural History, Journal of Zoology, Molecular
Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, National Science
Foundation, Nature Communications, Naturwissenschaften, Oecologia, Pacific Science, Palaios, PeerJ,
PLoS One, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, PNAS, Revista Ibérica de Aracnología,
Royal Society Interface, Spider Genera of North America, Systematic Biology, Tuhinga, Zoological
Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoological Science, Zoology, Zookeys, Zootaxa.
Interactive Key, Agnarsson I. 2003a. Interactive Key to the World Genera of Cobweb Spiders
(Theridiidae), version 1.0 beta. George Washington University, online at
http://www.gwu.edu/~spiders/keys.htm.
Press coverage and interviews (selection):
August 2006: New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9820-societyfocused-spiders-live-and-hunt-
together.html, Science 360 http://news.science360.gov/archives/20090616_breaking_story.aspx.
December 2006: Science (314: 1516).
April 2009: Journal of Zoology “podcast” http://www.wiley.com/bw/podcast/jzo.asp. May 2009: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8064000/8064075.stm, Inside JEB (J. Exp. Biol.
2009, 212: ii), Teheran Times.
June 2009: weirdscience.ca, New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227135.800-spider-silk-could-yield-
superpowerful-muscle.html, Science News ScienceShots http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/science-shots/. July 2009: Cosmos Magazine http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2842/how-sticky-too-sticky.
November 2009: “Inspirations” interview in The Systematics 29, online:
http://systass.org/newsletter/TheSystematist29-cover.pdf, BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8383000/8383070.stm.
December 2009: YouTube on Nakanai spiders, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPPITjcHnw.
September 2010: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9001000/9001866.stm, Science News http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/malagasy-spiders-spin-the-worlds.html, National Geographic http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/photogalleries/100917-darwins-bark-spider-new-species-spider-webs-madagascar-science-
pictures-strongest/?now=2010-09-17-00:01#/huge-spider-webs-kid_26176_600x450.jpg, Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin's_bark_spider, EoL, The Sun, Time Magazine, Live Science, various media
worldwide.
October 2010: Science (330: 21), Science News http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/10/new-species-
slideshow.html, New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn19531-new-species-discovered-in-papua-new-guinea, BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_9060000/newsid_9064700/9064756.stm, Conservation International http://www.conservation.org/FMG/Articles/Pages/200_new_species_png_expedition_muller_nakanai.aspx, Live Science, Reuters,
Time Magazine, AFP, Scientific American, various media worldwide.
May 2011: BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13500847, The Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-
market/2011/05/24/top-10-new-species, MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43140816/?gt1=43001,
Cosmos magazine http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4343/top-10-new-species-2011-announced, Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=most-interesting-discovered-species-11-05-25, various media worldwide.
November 2011: New Scientists http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21124-zoologger-the-biggest-spider-web-in-the-world.html
November 2011: Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7372/full/479152e.html
July 2012: International Innovation http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/ENVIRONMENT/2012-12/index.html
August 2014: NBC News: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/eek-eyeless-spiders-come-
light-dominican-cave-n174471
August 2014: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk_aZILtBS8
June 2015: various news outlets, e.g.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150622124640.htm
February 2016: various outlets including Science http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/ground-
hunting-led-spider-explosion http://www.newswise.com/articles/untangling-the-spider-tree-of-life,
https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing-technology/team-tweaks-spider-phylogeny-genomic-
transcriptomic-data
Taxonomic service. Identification of theridiid spiders for public and scientists.
Contributions to Wikipedia
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION (selection, total of over 100 coauthors)
Dr. Matjaz Kuntner (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts): spider biology, taxonomy, and
phylogenetic theory.
Dr. Jonathan A. Coddington (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution): spider
biology, phylogenetic theory, and biodiversity estimation.
Dr. Todd A. Blackledge (University of Akron); silk biomechanics and phylogenetics of spiders.
Dr. Jason Bond (Auburn University); spider phylogenomics.
Dr. Ben Voight (University of Pennsylvania); spider genomics and transscriptomics.
Dr. Laura J. May-Collado (University of Vermont): Mammalian phylogenetics and acoustic evolution.
Dr. Leticia Avilés (University of British Columbia): spider sociality and inbreeding.
Dr. Wayne P. Maddison (University of British Columbia): phylo- and population genetics of spiders.
Dr. Ali Dhinojwala (University of Akron): silk biomechanics, humidity regulated fibers.
Dr. Miquel Arnedo (University of Barcelona): theridiid phylogeny.
Dr. Rosemary G. Gillespie (University of California, Berkeley): spider phylogenetics.
Dr. William G. Eberhard (University of Costa Rica): spider webs.
GRADUATE STUDENTS PRIMARY ADVISOR [*GRADUATED]
Laura Caicedo – biogeography of Caribbean arachnids
Mohammad Kala – biogeography of spiders in the Western Indian Ocean
Lisa Chamberland (PhD) – biogeography of Caribbean arachnids
Sohath Zamira Yusseff Vanegas (PhD) – systematics and biogeography of Calliphoridae dipterans
*Federico Lopez-Osorio (PhD, 2016, UVM) – systematics and transcriptomics of Vespidae wasps
*Anne McHugh (Ms, 2014, UVM) – biogeography of spiders
*Ximena Velez-Zuazo (PhD, 2012, UPR) – shark phylogeny and conservation
COMMITTEE MEMBER
Hana Aronowitz (Msc – UVM) – cryptic speciation
Nikisha Patel (PhD – UVM) – evolution of apomixes in ferns
Nelish Pradhan (PhD – UVM) – systematics of Eurasian rodents
Weston Testo (PhD – UVM) – systematics of Neotropical plants
Sean Kelly (Ms - UPR) – ecology of riverine spiders
Oscar Ospina (PhD – UPR) – systematics of Caribbean lizards
Pablo Gutie (PhD – UPR) – Impact of pH on aquatic insect communities
Victor Jose Vega Lopez (PhD – UPR) – Fungal endophytes in Caribbean plants
Fabiola Areces (PhD – UPR) – Systematics of Thespesia
Jenny Acevedo (PhD – UPR) – Changes in defenses in introduced africanized honey bees
Yadira Ortiz-Ruiz (PhD – UPR) – Genetic variation in feral goats and pigs on Mona Island
*Luisa Otero (PhD, 2015 – UPR) – Reproductive phenology, fecundity, survival and growth of Puerto
Rican Anolis lizards in the context of climate warming
*Arian Avalos (PhD, 2015 – UPR) – learning in social bees
*Julio César Lazcano (PhD, 2015 – UPR) – Reproductive biology of Cycads in Puerto Rico
*Wilfredo Falcon Linero (Ms, 2013 – UPR) – Population genomics of orchid invasions
*Seth Rifkin (Ms, 2012, UPR) – Floral morphology and pollination syndromes
*Isis Lopez (Ms, 2012, UPR) – Spatial distribution of Potyvirus in Puerto Rico
*Branko Hije (Ms, 2011, UPR) – Recovery of amphibian species in secondary forests in Costa Rica
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Organization for Tropical Studies – co-designer and co-instructor of “Ecology and Evolution of
Arachnids” specialty course, La Selva, January 3-17, 2014, 2017.
University of Vermont, VT, 2012-present. Redesigned and taught upper level course in Biology: Field
Zoology (undergraduate).
University of Vermont, VT, 2014, Developed and taught graduate colloquia: Biogeography (graduate)
University of Vermont, VT, 2013, 2016. Developed and taught: Phylogenetic Systematics (graduate)
University of Vermont, VT, 2012. Developed and taught graduate colloquia: Phylogenetic methods and
applications (graduate).
University of Puerto Rico, PR, 2010 and 2011. Participated in group-taught core graduate courses in
UPR Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity track: Advanced Evolution and Advanced Ecology
(graduate)
University of Puerto Rico, PR, 2011. Designed, coordinated, and co-taught a new core course in UPR
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity track: Conservation Biology (graduate).
University of Puerto Rico, PR, 2010 and 2011. Participated in group-taught core graduate courses in
UPR Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity track: Advanced Evolution and Advanced Ecology
(graduate)
University of Puerto Rico, PR, 2010, 2011. Developed and taught Evolution (undergraduate).
University of Puerto Rico, PR, 2009. Designed and taught Phylogenetic Systematics (graduate).
George Washington University, Washington DC, 2003-04. Graduate Teaching Assistant. Introductory
Biology labs for science majors (undergraduate).
George Washington University, Washington DC, 2001. Teaching Assistant. Graduate level course:
Phylogenetic Systematics (graduate).
Field course resource person, Universidad de Costa Rica and Organization for Tropical Studies, San
Jose. OTS 2002-3.
Supervision of undergraduate students assisting with research (University of Akron).
FIELD EXPERIENCE
Spiders: Costa Rica, 2016; Mexico, July 2014; Seychelles, March 2013; Mozambique, March 2013;
Dominican Republic, June 2012; Cuba, March 2012; Puerto Rico and Mona, 2010-12; Madagascar,
May 2001, March-April 2008, February-March 2010; Panama, April 2010; Papua New Guinea,
September 2009, PNG - New Britain, March 2009; USA, 2007; French Guiana, November 2005;
Singapore, Malaysia, May-June 2005; Ecuador, July 2004; Costa Rica, January-March 2001, June
2002, July 2004, September 2005; Mayotte, Mauritius, Rodriguez, Reunion, March-April 2008; South
Africa, March-April 2001; Chile, November-December 2000; Hawaii, April 2000; Guyana, July 1999;
Uganda, May 1997; Iceland, 1995-1998.
Terrestrial invertebrate inventories: Iceland, 1988-1998.
Intertidal invertebrate ecology: Iceland, 1988-1994.
Dolphin photo-ID and acoustics: Panama, June 2004; Costa Rica, August 2006.
FIELD COURSES
Organization for Tropical Studies and Universidad de Costa Rica OTS 2001-1: Tropical Biology – An
Ecological Approach, Costa Rica, February-March 2001
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The Biology of Spiders, Highlands, USA. July 1998.
Tropical Biology and Association Makarere University. Darwin course in Tropical Ecology, Kibale
forest, Uganda. June-July 1997.
PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS AND BOOKS) [Impact factor 2014; rank (category)]. *Graduate,
**undergraduate student co-authors
In all cases author order reflects ‘order of importance’ in the order first (lead), last (senior), second, third, etc.
2017
114. Babb PL, Lahensa NF, Correa-Garhwald SM, Nicholson DN, Kima EJ, Hogenesch JB, Kuntner M, Higgins
L, Hayashi C, Agnarsson I, Voight BF. 2017. The Nephila clavipes genome highlights the diversity of
spider silk genes and their complex expression Nature Genetics, accepted [31.62; 2/108 (Genetics &
Heredity)].
113. *Lopez F, Pickett KM, Carpenter JM, Ballif BA, Agnarsson I. 2017. Phylogenomic analysis of
yellowjackets and hornets (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
107: 10-15 [3.92; 10/46 (Evolutionary Biology)].
112. Cala-Riquelme F, Gutiérrez-Estrada M, Florez-Daza AE, Agnarsson I. 2017. A new six-eyed sand spider
Sicarius Keyserling, 1880 (Araneae: Haplogynae: Sicariidae) from Colombia, with information on its
natural history. Arachnology 17: 193-199.
111. Agnarsson I, Levi HW. 2017. Theridiidae. In Ubick D, Cushing PE, Paquin P (eds) Spiders of North
America: an identification manual. American Arachnological Society, chapter 62, p. 258-271.
2016
110. Agnarsson I, **LeQuier S, Kuntner M, Cheng R-C, Binford GJ. 2016. Phylogeography of a good
Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae: Araneidae) and a new ‘cryptic’ species from Cuba.
Zookeys 625: 25-44 [0.93; 86/154 (Zoology)].
109. *Yusseff-Vanegas S, Agnarsson I. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of the forensically important genus
Cochliomyia (Diptera: Calliphoridae). ZooKeys 609: 107-120 [0.93; 86/154 (Zoology)].
108. Coddington JA, Agnarsson I, Cheng R-C, *Čandek K, Driskell A, Frick H, Gregorič M, Kostanjšek R,
Kropf C, Kweskin M, Lokovšek T, Pipan M, Vidergar N, Kuntner M. 2016. DNA barcode data accurately
identify higher taxa. PeerJ 4:e2201; DOI 10.7717/peerj.2201 [2.11; 13/57 (Multidisciplinary sciences)].
107. *Cao XW, Liu J, Chen J, Zheng G, Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2016. Rapid dissemination of taxonomic
discoveries based on DNA barcoding and morphology. Scientific Reports 6:37066 [5.58; 5/57
(Multidiciplinary sciences)]
106. *Garrison N, Rodriguez J, Agnarsson I, Coddington JA, Griswold C, Hamilton CA, Hedin M, Kocot K,
Ledford J, Bond JE. 2016. Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life. PeerJ 4:e1719; DOI
10.7717/peerj.1719 [2.11; 13/57 (Multidisciplinary sciences)].
105. **Cosgrove JG, Agnarsson I, Harvey MS, Binford GJ. 2016. Pseudoscorpion diversity and distribution in
the West Indies: sequence data confirms single island endemism for some clades, but not others. Journal of
Arachnology 44: 257-271 [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)].
104. Liu J, May-Collado LJ, Pekar S, Agnarsson I. 2016. A revised and dated phylogeny of cobweb spiders
(Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae): a predatory Cretaceous lineage diversifying in the era of the ants
(Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94: 658-675 [3.92; 10/46
(Evolutionary Biology)].
103. Agnarsson I, Gotelli NJ, **Agostini D, Kuntner M. 2016. Limited role of character displacement in the
coexistence of congeneric Anelosimus spiders in a Madagascan montane forest. Ecography 39: 743-753
[4.77; 16/145 (Ecology)].
102. *Xu X, Liu F, Chen J, Ono H, Agnarsson I, Li D, Kuntner M. 2016. Pre-Pleistocene geological and climatic
events shaping diversification and distribution of primitively segmented spiders on East Asian Margins.
Journal of Biogeography 43: 1004–1019 [4.59; 19/144 (Ecology)]
101. May-Collado LJ, Zambrana-Torrelio CM, Agnarsson I. 2016. Global spatial analyses of phylogenetic
conservation priorities for aquatic mammals. Pp. 305-318 in Crandcolas P, Pellens R (eds), Biodiversity
Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics – preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction
crisis, Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, volume 14. Springer Open.
2015
100. **Dziki A, Binford GJ, Coddington JA, Agnarsson I. 2015. Spintharus flavidus in the Caribbean – a 30
million year biogeographical history and radiation of a ‘widespread species’. PeerJ 3:e1422; DOI
10.7717/peerj.1422 [2.11; 13/57 (Multidisciplinary sciences)]
99. Lopez-Osorio F, Perrard A, Pickett KM, Carpenter JM, Agnarsson I. 2015. Phylogenetic tests reject Emery’s
rule in the evolution of social parasitism in yellowjackets and hornets (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae).
Royal Society Open Science 2, 150159.
98. Esposito LA, **Bloom T, **Caicedo L, **Alicia-Serrano A, **Sánchez-Ruíz J, Laura J. May-Collado,
Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2015. Islands within islands: diversification of tailless whip spiders (Amblypygi,
Phrynus) in Caribbean caves. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 93: 107-117 [3.92; 10/46
(Evolutionary Biology)].
97. Kuntner M, Agnarsson I, Li D. 2015. The eunuch phenomenon: Adaptive evolution of genital emasculation
in sexually dimorphic spiders. Biological Reviews 90: 279–296 [9.67; 1/85 (Biology)].
96. *Ruch J, Riehl T, May-Collado LJ, Agnarsson I. 2015. Multiple origins of subsociality in crab spiders
(Thomisidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82: 330-340 [3.92; 10/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]
95. Dines J, Mesnick SL, Ralls K, May-Collado LJ, Agnarsson I, Dean MD. 2015. A tradeoff between
precopulatory and postcopulatory trait investment in male cetaceans. Evolution 69: 1560-1572. [4.61; 8/46
(Evolutionary Biology)]
94. May-Collado LJ, Kilpatrick WC, Agnarsson I. 2015. Mammals from ‘down under’: a multi-gene species-
level phylogeny of marsupial mammals (Mammalia, Metatheria) PeerJ 3:e805; DOI 10.7717/peerj.805.
[2.11; 13/57 (Multidisciplinary Sciences)]
93. Agnarsson I, **Jencik BB, **Veve GM, *Hanitriniaina S, **Agostini D, *Goh SP, Pruitt J, Kuntner M.
2015. A radiation of subsocial Anelosimus spiders on Madagascar: remarkable local richness and
endemism. Zookeys 509: 13-52. [0.93; 86/154 (Zoology)]
92. *Gregorič M, Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA, Kuntner M. 2015. Phylogenetic position and composition of
Zygiellinae and Caerostris with new insight into orb-web evolution and gigantism. Zoological Journal of
the Linnean Society 175: 225-243. [2.72; 14/154 (Zoology)]
91. Marshall SA, Borkent A, Agnarsson I, Otis GW, **Fraser L, **d'Entremont D. 2015. New observations on a
neotropical termite-hunting theridiid spider: opportunistic nest raiding, prey storage, and ceratopogonid
kleptoparasites. Journal of Arachnology 43: 419-421. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)] 90. *Velez-Zuazo X, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Mangel J, Papa R, Agnarsson I. 2015. What barcode sequencing reveals
about the shark fishery in Peru. Fisheries Research 161: 34-41 [1.90; 11/52 (Fisheries)].
89. *Gregorič M, Blackledge TA, Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2015. A molecular phylogeny of bark spiders reveals
new species from Africa and Madagascar (Araneae: Araneidae: Caerostris). Journal of Arachnology 43:
293-312. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
2014
88. Bond JE, *Garrison NL, *Hamilton CA, Godwin RL, Hedin M, Agnarsson I. 2014. Phylogenomics resolves
a spider backbone phylogeny and rejects a prevailing paradigm for orb web evolution. Current Biology 24:
1765–1771. [9.57; 15/290 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)].
87. Agnarsson I, *Cheng R-C, Kuntner M. 2014. A multi-clade test supports the intermediate dispersal model of
biogeography. PLoS One, 9(1) e86780. [3.23; 9/57 (Multidiciplinary sciences)]
86. **Bloom T, Binford G, Alayon G, Esposito L, **Petersen I, **Nishida A, **Loubet-Senear K, Agnarsson I.
2014. Discovery of two new species of eyeless spiders within a single Hispaniola cave. Journal of
Arachnology 42: 148-154. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
85. *Lopez-Osorio F, Pickett KM, Carpenter JM, Ballif BA, Agnarsson I. 2014. Phylogenetic relationships of
yellowjackets inferred from nine loci (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae, Vespula and Dolichovespula).
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 73: 190-201 [3.92; 10/46 (Evolutionary Biology)] 84. *McHugh A, **Yablonsky C, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2014. Molecular phylogenetics of Caribbean
Micrathena (Araneae: Araneidae) suggests multiple colonization events and single island endemism.
Invertebrate Systematics 28: 337-349. [2.26; 25/154 (Zoology)]
83. *Cala-Riquelme F, Agnarsson I. 2014. New species of Otiothops MacLeay (Araneae: Palpimanidae:
Otiothiopinae) from Cuba. Arachnology 16: 193-194.
82. Rheims CA, Agnarsson I, Alayón Garcia G. 2014. Description of the male of Yabisi guaba (Araneae:
Eresoidea: Hersiliidae). Zoologia 31: 405-407. [0.54; 131/154 (Zoology)]
81. Agnarsson I. 2014. Félagslyndar köngulær á þróunarfræðilegum blindgötum. Náttúrufræðingurinn 84: 132-
140. [invited peer-reviewed public science paper, in Icelandic with English abstract: ‘Social spiders on
evolutionary blind alleys’]
2013
80. Agnarsson I, Rayor L. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the Australian huntsman spiders (Sparassidae,
Deleninae): implications for taxonomy and social behaviour. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69:
895-905 [3.92; 10/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]
79. *Majer M, Agnarsson I, Svenning JC, Bilde T. 2013. Social species in the spider genus Anelosimus occur in
wetter, more productive habitats than non-social species. Naturwissenschaften 100:1031-1040 [2.10; 14/57
(Multidiciplinary sciences)]
78. Kuntner M, Arnedo M, Trontelj P, Lokovšek T, Agnarsson I. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of nephilid spiders: Evolutionary history of a model lineage. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 961-979.
[3.92; 10/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]
77. *Gregorič M, *Kiesbüy HC, **Quiñones Lebrón SG, Rozman A, Agnarsson I, Kuntner A. 2013. Optimal
foraging, not biogenetic law, predicts spider orb web allometry. Naturwissenschaften 100: 263-268. [2.10;
14/57 (Multidiciplinary sciences)]
76. Peng P, Blamires SJ, Agnarsson I, Lin HC, Tso I-M. 2013. A colour-mediated mutualism between two arthropod predators. Current Biology 23: 1-5. [9.57; 15/290 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)]
75. Agnarsson I, Coddington JA, Kuntner M. 2013. Systematics – progress in the study of spider diversity and
evolution. In: Spider Research in the 21st Century (Ed. Penney D) chapter 2, pp 58-111.
74. Agnarsson I, Avilés L, Maddison WP. 2013. Loss of genetic variability in social spiders: genetic and
phylogenetic consequences of population subdivision and inbreeding. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26:
27-37 [3.23; 20/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]
73. Agnarsson I, *Gregorič M, Blackledge TA, Kuntner M. 2013. The phylogenetic placement of Psechridae and
the convergent origin of orb-like spider webs. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary
Research 51: 100-106. [1.68; 43/154 (Zoology)]
2012
72. *Grinsted L, Agnarsson I, Bilde T. 2012. Mixed-species colonies of theridiid spiders show extended
maternal care and interspecific brood adoption. Naturwissenschaften 99: 1021-1030 [2.10; 14/57
(Multidiciplinary sciences)]
71. Blackledge TA, Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2012. Biomaterial evolution parallels behavioral innovation in the
origin of orb-like spider webs. Scientific Reports 2: 833 [5.58; 5/57 (Multidiciplinary sciences)]
70. Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2012. The Generation of a Biodiversity Hotspot: Biogeography and
Phylogeography of the Western Indian Ocean Islands. In Kesara Anamthawat-Jonsson (Ed.): Current
Topics in Phylogenetics and Phylogeography of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems. Rijeka: In Tech
Publishers, pp. 33-82. ISBN 978-953-51-0217-5
69. Agnarsson I. 2012. Systematics of new subsocial and solitary Australasian Anelosimus species (Araneae,
Theridiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 26: 1-16. [2.26; 25/154 (Zoology)]
68. Agnarsson I. 2012. A new phylogeny of Anelosimus and the placement and behavior of Anelosimus vierae n.
sp. from Uruguay (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Arachnology 40: 78-84. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
67. Agnarsson I, Kuntner M, Blackledge TA. Darwin’s bark spider. 2012. In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of
Science and Technology. V. 11. New York, McGraw-Hill, pp. 52-54.
2011 66. Blackledge TA, Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2011. The form and function of spider orb webs: evolution from
silk to ecosystems. In Jérôme Casas, editor: Advances in Insect Physiology 41: 175-262, Burlington:
Academic Press. [2.71; 6/92 (Entomology)]
65. *Gregorič M, Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA, Kuntner M. 2011. How did the spider cross the river? Behavioral
adaptations for river-bridging webs in Caerostris darwini (Araneae: Araneidae). PLoS One 6(10): e26847.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026847 [3.23; 9/57 (Multidiciplinary sciences)]
64. Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2011. Phylogeography of a successful aerial disperser: the golden orb spider
Nephila on Indian Ocean islands. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 119. [3.37; 17/46 (Evolutionary
Biology)]
63. May-Collado LJ, Agnarsson I. 2011. Phylogenetic analysis of conservation priorities for aquatic mammals
and their terrestrial relatives. PLoS One 6(7): 1-10, e22562. [3.23; 9/57 (Multidiciplinary sciences)]
62. Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2011. Biogeography and diversification of hermit spiders on Indian Ocean islands
(Nephilidae: Nephilengys). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 477-488 [3.92; 10/46
(Evolutionary Biology)]
61. Agnarsson I, Zambrana-Torrelio CM, Flores Saldaña NP, May-Collado LJ. 2011. A time-calibrated species-
level phylogeny of bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia). PLoS Currents: Tree of Life. Version 44. 2011 Jan 4
[revised 2011 Feb 4]. Available from: http://knol.google.com/k/ingi-agnarsson/a-time-calibrated-species-
level/3chrbtx927cxs/5.
60. *Sobrero R, May-Collado LJ, Agnarsson I, Hernández CE. 2011. Expensive brains: ‘brainy’ rodents have
higher metabolic rate. Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience 3(2): 1-12
59. Agnarsson I. 2011. Habitat patch size and isolation as predictors of occupancy and number of Argyrodine
spider kleptoparasites in Nephila webs. Naturwissenschaften 98: 163-167. [2.10; 14/57 (Multidiciplinary
sciences)]
58. *Gregorič M, Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA, Kuntner M. 2011. Darwin's bark spider: giant prey in giant orb
webs (Araneidae: Caerostris darwini)? Journal of Arachnology 39: 287-295. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
Featured in Nature 479: 152-153
57. Kuntner M, May-Collado L, Agnarsson I. 2011. Phylogeny and conservation priorities of afrotherian
mammals (Afrotheria, Mammalia). Zoologica Scripta 40: 1-15. [3.22; 6/154 (Zoology)]
56. Sensenig A, Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA. 2011. Adult spiders use tougher silk: Ontogenetic changes in web
architecture and silk biomechanics in the orb-weaver spider. Journal of Zoology 284: 28-38 DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00809.x [1.88; 37/154 (Zoology)]
55. *Vélez-Zuazo X, Agnarsson I. 2011. Shark tales: A molecular species level phylogeny of sharks
(Selachimorpha, Chondrichthyes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 207-217 [3.92; 10/46
(Evolutionary Biology)]
2010
54. Agnarsson I, Avilés L, Maddison WP. 2010. Complete separation along matrilines in a social spider
metapopulation inferred from hypervariable mitochondrial DNA region. Molecular Ecology 19: 3052-3063 [6.49; 11/145 (Ecology)]
53. Agnarsson I, Kuntner M, May-Collado LJ. 2010. Dogs, cats, and kin: a molecular species-level phylogeny of
Carnivora. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54: 726–745 [3.92; 10/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]
52. Agnarsson I, Kuntner M, Coddington J, Blackledge TA. 2010. Shifting continents, not behaviours:
independent colonization of solitary and subsocial Anelosimus spider lineages on Madagascar (Araneae,
Theridiidae) Zoologica Scripta 39: 75-87 [2.61; 10/127 (Zoology)]
51. Agnarsson I, Kuntner M, Blackledge TA. 2010. Bioprospecting finds the toughest biological material:
extraordinary silk from a giant riverine orb. PLoS One 5(9): 1-9. [4.35; 9/73 (Biology)] *Covered in
Science 330: 21.
50. Agnarsson I. 2010. The utility of ITS2 in spider phylogenetics: notes on prior work and an example from
Anelosimus. Journal of Arachnology 38: 377-382 [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
49. Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2010. Web gigantism in Darwin's bark spider, a new species from Madagascar
(Araneidae: Caerostris). Journal of Arachnology 38: 346-356 [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
48. *Martén-Rodríguez S, Fenster CB, Agnarsson I, Skog LE, Zimmer EA. 2010. Evolutionary breakdown of
pollination specialization in a Caribbean plant radiation. New Phytologist 188: 403-417 [7.67; 6/204 (Plant
Science)]
47. Sensenig A, Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA. 2010. Behavioral and biomaterial coevolution in spider orb webs
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 1839-1856 [3.23; 20/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]*Cover
46. Sensenig A, Agnarsson I, **Gondek T, Blackledge TA. 2010. Webs in vitro and in vivo: Spiders alter their
orb web spinning behavior in the laboratory. Journal of Arachnology 38: 183-191 [0.62; 62/92
(Entomology)]
2009
45. Agnarsson I, Blackledge T. 2009. Can a spider web be too sticky? Tensile mechanics constrain the evolution
of capture spiral stickiness in orb weaving spiders. Journal of Zoology 277: 134-140 [1.88; 37/154
(Zoology)]
44. Agnarsson I, *Boutry C, Wong S-C, *Baji A, Dhinojwala A, Sensenig AT, Blackledge TA. 2009.
Supercontraction forces in spider dragline silk depend on hydration rate. Zoology 112: 325-331 [1.67;
44/154 (Zoology)] *Cover
43. Agnarsson I, Dhinojwala A, *Sahni V, Blackledge TA. 2009. Spider silk as a novel high performance
biomimetic muscle driven by humidity. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 1990-1994 [2.90; 18/85
(Biology)] *Cover
42. Blackledge TA, *Boutry C, Wong S-C, *Baji A, Dhinojwala A, *Sahni V, Agnarsson I. 2009. How super is
supercontraction? Permanent versus cyclic responses to humidity in spider dragline silk. Journal of
Experimental Biology 212: 1981-1989 [2.90; 18/85 (Biology)] *Cover
41. Blackledge T, Coddington JA, Agnarsson I. 2009. Fecundity increase supports adaptive radiation hypothesis
in spider web evolution. Communicative & Integrative Biology 2(6): 1-5. *Cover
40. Blackledge TA, Coddington J, Scharff N, Szuts T, Wenzel J, Hayashi C, Agnarsson I. 2009. Reconstructing
web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America 106: 5229-5234 [9.67; 4/57 (Multidisciplinary Sciences)].
39. Coddington JA, Agnarsson I, Miller J, Kuntner M, Hormiga G. 2009. Undersampling bias: the null
hypothesis for singleton species in tropical arthropod biodiversity surveys. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:
573–584 [4.40; 2/154 (Zoology)]
38. Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2009. Phylogeny accurately predicts behavior in Indian Ocean Clitaetra spiders
(Araneae: Nephilidae) Invertebrate Systematics 23: 193-204 [2.26; 25/154 (Zoology)]
37. Kuntner M, *Gregorič M, Agnarsson I. 2009. Nephilid spider eunuch phenomenon induced by
aggressiveness from rival male or mated female. Journal of Arachnology 37: 266-271 [0.62; 62/92
(Entomology)]
2008
36. Agnarsson I, *Boutry C, Blackledge T. 2008. Spider silk aging: initial improvement in a high performance
material followed by slow degradation. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics
and Physiology 309A: 494-504 [1.44; 55/154 (Zoology)] *Cover
35. Agnarsson I, Coddington JA. 2008. Quantitative tests of primary homology. Cladistics 24: 51-61. [6.22; 6/46
(Evolutionary Biology)]
34. Agnarsson I, May-Collado L. 2008. The phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla: the importance of dense taxon
sampling, missing data, and the remarkable promise of Cytochrome b to provide reliable species-level
phylogenies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 964–985 [3.92; 10/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]
33. Agnarsson I, Miller J. 2008. Is ACCTRAN better than DELTRAN? Cladistics 24: 1032-1038 [6.22; 6/46
(Evolutionary Biology)]
32. Eberhard WG, Agnarsson I, Levi HW. 2008. Web forms and phylogeny of theridiid spiders (Araneae:
Theridiidae): chaos from order? Systematics and Biodiversity 6: 415-475 [2.19; 15/44 (Biodiversity
Conservation)] *Cover
2007
31. Agnarsson I, Coddington JA, Knoflach B. 2007. Morphology and evolution of cobweb spider male genitalia
(Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Arachnology 35: 334-395. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
30. Agnarsson I, Coddington JA, May-Collado LJ. 2007. Elongated pedicillate setae – a putative sensory system
and synapomorphy of spiders. Journal of Arachnology 35: 411-426. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
29. Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2007. Taxonomy in a changing world: seeking solutions for a science in crisis.
Systematic Biology 56: 531-539. [14.39; 2/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]
28. Agnarsson I, Maddison WP, Avilés L. 2007. The phylogeny of the social Anelosimus spiders (Araneae:
Theridiidae) inferred from six molecular loci and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43:
833-851. [3.92; 10/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]
27. Arnedo MA, Agnarsson I, Gillespie RG. 2007. Molecular insights into the phylogenetic structure of the
spider genus Theridion (Araneae, Theridiidae) and the origin of the Hawaiian Theridion-like fauna.
Zoologica Scripta 36: 337–352. [3.22; 6/154 (Zoology)]
26. Avilés L, Agnarsson I, *Salazar P, *Purcell J, *Iturralde G, *Yip E, *Powers KS, Bukowski T. 2007.
Altitudinal pattern of sociality in the spider genus Anelosimus and the biology of a new mid-elevation
social species in Ecuador. American Naturalist 170: 783-792. [3.83; 27/145 (Ecology)]
25. May-Collado LJ, Agnarsson I, Wartzok D. 2007a. Reexamining the relationship between body size and tonal
signal frequency in whales: a comparative approach using a novel phylogeny. Marine Mammal Science
121: 1203-1212. [1.94; 34/154 (Zoology)]
24. May-Collado LJ, Agnarsson I, Wartzok D. 2007b. A phylogenetic review of tonal sound production in
whales. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 136. [3.37; 17/46 (Evolutionary Biology)] *Highly accessed
2006
23. Agnarsson I. 2006a. A revision of the New World eximius lineage of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae) and
a phylogenetic analysis using worldwide exemplars. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146: 453-
593. [2.72; 14/154 (Zoology)]
22. Agnarsson I. 2006b. Asymmetric female genitalia and other remarkable morphology in a new genus of
cobweb spiders (Theridiidae, Araneae) from Madagascar. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 87:
211-232. [2.03; 28/44 (Evolutionary Biology)]
21. Agnarsson I. 2006c. Phylogenetic placement of Echinotheridion (Araneae: Theridiidae) - do male sexual
organ removal, emasculation, and sexual cannibalism in Echinotheridion and Tidarren represent
evolutionary replicas? Invertebrate Systematics 20: 415-429. [2.26; 25/154 (Zoology)]
20. Agnarsson I, Avilés L, Coddington JA, Maddison WP. 2006. Social theridiid spiders – repeated origins of an
evolutionary dead-end. Evolution 60: 2342-2351 [4.61; 8/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]
19. Agnarsson I, Barrantes G, *May-Collado LJ. 2006. Notes on the biology of Anelosimus pacificus Levi, 1963
(Theridiidae, Araneae) - evidence for an evolutionary reversal to a less social state. Journal of Natural
History 40: 2681-2687. [0.88; 115/145 (Ecology)]
18. Agnarsson I, Coddington JA. 2006. Notes on web and web plasticity and description of the male of
Achaearanea heiroglyphica (Mello-Leitão) (Theridiidae, Araneae). Journal of Arachnology 34: 638-641.
[0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
17. Agnarsson I, *Zhang JX. 2006. New species of Anelosimus (Theridiidae, Araneae) from Africa and
Southeast Asia, with notes on sociality and color polymorphism. Zootaxa 1147: 1-34. [0.89; 78/127
(Zoology)]
16. Avilés L, Maddison WP, Agnarsson I. 2006. A new independently derived social spider with explosive
colony proliferation and a female size dimorphism. Biotropica 38: 743-753. [2.08; 65/145 (Ecology)]
*Featured in Science 314: 1516.
15. Coddington JA, Agnarsson I. 2006. Subsociality in Helvibis thorelli (Theridiinae, Theridiidae, Araneae)
from French Guiana. Journal of Arachnology 34: 642-645. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
14. Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2006. Are the Linnean and phylogenetic nomenclatural systems combinable?
Recommendations for Biological Nomenclature. Systematic Biology 55: 774-784. [14.39; 2/46
(Evolutionary Biology)]
13. *May-Collado L, Agnarsson I. 2006. Cytochrome b and Bayesian inference of whale phylogeny. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 344–354. [3.56; 14/44 (Evolutionary Biology)] *Highly accessed
2005
12. Agnarsson I. 2005. A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the American ethicus and rupununi groups of
Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae). Zoologica Scripta 34: 389-413. [3.22; 6/154 (Zoology)]
11. Agnarsson I, *Kuntner M. 2005. Madagascar: an unexpected hotspot of social Anelosimus spider diversity
(Araneae: Theridiidae). Systematic Entomology 30: 575-592. [2.78; 5/92 (Entomology)]
10. *Miller JA, Agnarsson I. 2005. A redescription of Chrysso nigriceps (Araneae, Theridiidae) with
evidence for maternal care. Journal of Arachnology 33: 711-717. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
2004
9. Agnarsson I. 2004. Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae,
Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 447-626. [2.72; 14/154
(Zoology)]
8. Arnedo MA, Coddington J, Agnarsson I, Gillespie RG. 2004. From a comb to a tree: Phylogenetic
relationships of the comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial
genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 225-245. [3.92; 10/46 (Evolutionary Biology)]
2003
7. Agnarsson I. 2003b. Spider webs as habitat patches - The distribution of kleptoparasites (Argyrodes,
Theridiidae) among host webs (Nephila, Tetragnathidae). Journal of Arachnology 31: 344-349. [0.62;
62/92 (Entomology)]
6. Agnarsson I. 2003c. The phylogenetic placement and circumscription of the genus Synotaxus (Araneae:
Synotaxidae) with a description of a new species from Guyana, and notes on theridioid phylogeny.
Invertebrate Systematics 17: 719-734. [1.61; 30/127 (Zoology)]
5. Ingólfsson A, Agnarsson I. 2003. Amphipods and isopods in the rocky intertidal: Dispersal and movements
during high tide. Marine Biology 143: 859-866. [2.39; 22/103 (Marine and Freshwater Biology)]
2002
4. Agnarsson I. 2002. Sharing a web - on the relation of sociality and kleptoparasitism in theridiid spiders
(Theridiidae, Araneae). Journal of Arachnology 30: 181-188. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
3. Whitehouse M, Agnarsson I, Miyashita T, Smith D, Cangialosi K, Masumoto T, Li D, *Henaut Y. 2002.
Argyrodes: Phylogeny, sociality and interspecific interactions - a report on the Argyrodes symposium,
Badplaas 2001. Journal of Arachnology 30: 238-245. [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
1996-2000
2. Agnarsson I. 2000. Adansonia is a Baobab tree, not a theridiid spider. Journal of Arachnology 28: 351-
352 [0.62; 62/92 (Entomology)]
1. Ingólfsson A, Agnarsson I. 1999. Anonyx sarsi: a major unrecognized scavenger and predator in the
intertidal zone. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 79: 1127-1128.
[1.06; 68/103 (Marine and Freshwater Biology)]
MONOGRAPHS (NON PEER-REVIEWED)
2. Agnarsson I. 1998. Icelandic harvestmen and pseudoscorpions. Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 35, 36 pages,
19 figures.
1. Agnarsson I. 1996. Icelandic spiders. Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31, 175 pages, 169 figures.
REPORTS (NON PEER-REVIEWED)
Agnarsson I. 2011. Spiders of the Nakanai Mountains, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. In: Rapid
biological assessments of the Nakanai Mountains and the upper Strickland Basin: surveying the biodiversity
of Papua New Guinea’s sublime karst environments (Richards J and Gamui BK, eds.). RAP Bulletin of
Biological Assessment 60: 182-185.
Agnarsson I. 2011. Spiders of the Muller Range, Papua New Guinea. In: Rapid biological assessments of the
Nakanai Mountains and the upper Strickland Basin: surveying the biodiversity of Papua New Guinea’s
sublime karst environments (Richards J and Gamui BK, eds.). RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 60:
70-74.
May-Collado LJ, Agnarsson I, Palacios JD, Taubitz E, Wartzok D. 2007. The status of the bottlenose dolphin
(Tursiops truncatus) population of Bocas del Toro, Panama: Preliminary results based on a three year
ongoing study. Online at: http://www.fundacionketo.org/PDF/IRLJMC-KETOBocas.pdf
ONLINE RESOURCES (NON PEER-REVIEWED)
Agnarsson I, **Veve G. 2015. Cobgen 0.1 World genera of theridiid spiders
http://www.theridiidae.com/theridiidae-genera.html
MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW
Cheng RC, Agnarsson I, Tso I-M, Kuntner M. Global phylogeny and biogeography of silver-faced spiders
(Argiope, Araneidae). Submitted to Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Yang T, Liu J, Yuan L, Zhang Y, Li D, Agnarsson I, Chen J. Identification of potential biological control species
through RQ-PCR of tea plantation spider communities. Submitted to Agronomy for Sustainable
Development.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Agnarsson I, **Van Patten C, **Sargeant L, **Chomitz B, **Dziki A, Binford G. In preparation for Zoological
Journal of the Linnean Society. A radiation of the ornate Caribbean ‘smiley faced spiders’ – with a
description of 15 new species (Araneae, Theridiidae, Spintharus)
May-Collado LJ, Lopez-Osorio F, Agnarsson I. In prep for PeerJ. Body size and habitat openness predict group
size in aquatic and terrestrial Cetartiodactyla mammals.
Vélez-Zuazo X, Agnarsson I. In preparation for Zoological Scripta. Phylogenetic conservation priorities for
sharks with emphasis on commercially important and deep-sea species.
*Chamberland L, McHugh A, **Yablonsky A, Coddington JA, Bond J, Hamilton C, Binford GJ, Agnarsson I.
In preparation for Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Molecular phylogenetics of Deinopis (Araneae:
Araneidae).
*Chamberland L, Binford GJ, Agnarsson I. In preparation for PeerJ. Phylogeography of Gasteracantha
cancriformis in the Caribbean and evidence for a new species.
**Petersen I, Agnarsson I, Coddington JA, Binford GJ. In prep for Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Biogeography of recluse spiders (Loxosceles) from Caribbean caves to continents
Dupérré N, Binford G, Agnarsson I. In preparation for Zookeys. The spider genus Heteroonops (Araneae:
Oonopidae) from Dominican Republic, the discovery of eight new species.
INVITED TALKS
Agnarsson I. 2016. Invited seminar. Caribbean biogeography: multiple arachnid lineages reveal the role of
dispersal and geology in forming a biodiversity hotspot. University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica.
Agnarsson I. 2016. Invited seminar. Caribbean biogeography: multiple arachnid lineages reveal the role of
dispersal and geology in forming a biodiversity hotspot. Shenyang University, Shenyang, China.
Agnarsson I. 2016. Invited seminar. Caribbean biogeography: multiple arachnid lineages reveal the role of
dispersal and geology in forming a biodiversity hotspot. Institute of Entomology, Beijing, China.
Agnarsson I. 2016. Invited seminar. From gardens to genomics: inspecting spider silks through multiple lenses
offers new insights into Nature’s supermaterials. Hubei University, Wuhan, China.
Agnarsson I. 2016. Invited seminar. From gardens to genomics: inspecting spider silks through multiple lenses
offers new insights into Nature’s supermaterials. UVM EEEB.
Agnarsson I. 2016. Invited seminar. From gardens to genomics: inspecting spider silks through multiple lenses
offers new insights into Nature’s supermaterials. University of Akron.
Agnarsson I. 2015. Invited seminar. CarBio: an eight-legged science journey. UVM Biology.
Agnarsson I. 2015. Invited seminar. Madagascar: an eight-legged science journey. Swedish Museum of Natural
History.
Agnarsson I. 2015. Invited seminar. Caribbean biogeography: multiple arachnid lineages reveal the role of
dispersal and geology in forming a biodiversity hotspot. California Academy of Sciences.
Agnarsson I. 2015. Invited public seminar. Eeek! An eight-legged science journey. California Academy of
Sciences.
Agnarsson I. 2015. Invited seminar. Caribbean biogeography: multiple arachnid lineages reveal the role of
dispersal and geology in forming a biodiversity hotspot. UVM Plant Biology
Agnarsson I. 2014. Plenary talk, Caribbean biogeography: multiple arachnid lineages reveal the role of dispersal
and geology in forming a biodiversity hotspot, Columbian Congress of Zoology.
Agnarsson I. 2014. Invited seminar. Caribbean biogeography: multiple arachnid lineages reveal the role of
dispersal and geology in forming a biodiversity hotspot. Cornell University.
Agnarsson I. 2014. Invited seminar. Caribbean biogeography: multiple arachnid lineages reveal the role of
dispersal and geology in forming a biodiversity hotspot. Auburn University.
Agnarsson I. 2014. Plenary talk, Caribbean biogeography: multiple arachnid lineages reveal the role of dispersal
and geology in forming a biodiversity hotspot. Latin American Congress of Archnology, Mexico.
Agnarsson I. 2011. Invited seminar. Sociality, silks, and systematics: interdiciplinary research on spiders.
University of Vermont, USA. Agnarsson I. 2011. Invited seminar. Some spidery things we study in my lab. University of Costa Rica, Costa
Rica.
Agnarsson I. 2011. Invited seminar. Sociality, silks, and systematics: interdiciplinary research on spiders.
University of Denver, USA
Agnarsson I. 2011. Invited seminar. Silk safari: exploring the world of spider silks. Sigma Xi, Medical Campus,
University of Puerto Rica, USA
Agnarsson I. 2010. Silk safari: exploring the world of spider silks. University of Puerto Rica, USA
Agnarsson I. 2008. Sociality in spiders – the good, the bad, and the ugly. University of Akron, USA.
Agnarsson I. 2008. Invited seminar. Sociality in spiders – the good, the bad, and the ugly. University of Puerto
Rica, USA.
Agnarsson I. 2008. Invited seminar. Sociality in spiders – the good, the bad, and the ugly. Naturalis, Leiden,
Netherlands.
Agnarsson I. 2008. Invited seminar. Inbreeding and evolutionary dead-ends: from population-level processes to
macroevolutionary patterns. Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts.
Agnarsson I. 2007. Invited seminar. Social spiders – repeated origins of an evolutionary dead-end. Ohio State
University, USA.
Agnarsson I. 2006. Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity – from social spiders to whistling whales. CNRS,
Paris, France.
Agnarsson I. 2006. Social spiders – repeated origins of an evolutionary dead-end. University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Agnarsson I. 2005. Sociality in cobweb spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae)—repeated evolution of a dead-end
strategy? Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Fort Lauderdale, USA.
Agnarsson I. 2004. Systematics of Anelosimus and Theridiidae spiders (Araneae), and the evolution of social and
kleptoparasitic web sharing. George Washington University.
Agnarsson I. 2002. Measuring Biodiversity. OTS course, Costa Rica.
CONFERENCE TALKS, POSTERS AND PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS [conferences I attend are ‘open’ – speakers register, they are not selected]
Agnarsson I. 2016. De novo genomes of orb-weaving spiders reveal the diversity and complexity of spidroins.
Presented at the 2016 International Congress of Arachnology.
Agnarsson I, Dziki A, LeQuier S, Kuntner M, Binford G. 2015. Comparative biogeography of two ‘widespread
species’ in the Caribbean. Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society.
McHugh A, Chamberland L, Howard AE, Binford G, Harvey MS, Kuntner M, Coddington JA, Agnarsson I.
2014. A global biogeographic history of the Ogre-faced spider Deinopis. Presented at the 2014
Entomological Society of America meetings.
Bond JE, Garrison NL, Hamilton CA, Godwin RL, Hedin M, Agnarsson I. 2014. Spider Phylogenomics:
Reevaluating the History of Earth’s Most Diverse Predator Lineage and the Origin of the Orb Web.
Presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society.
Lopez-Osorio F, Pickett KM, Carpenter JM, Ballif BA, Agnarsson I. 2014. Phylogenomic analysis of
yellowjackets and hornets (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Presented at the 2014 Entomological Society of
America meetings.
Agnarsson I, Agostini D, Hanitriniaina S, Kuntner M. 2013. Multi-species coexistence, habitat filtering, and
speciation patterns in a radiation of Malagasy social spiders. Presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the
American Arachnological Society.
Kiesbuy H, Agnarsson I. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the sub-family Argyrodinae (Theridiidae):
Systematics and tentative biogeographical patterns of kleptoparasites relying of islands (web) within islands
(habitat patches) on islands. Presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological
Society.
Agnarsson I, Agostini D, Hanitriniaina S, Kuntner M. 2013. Multi-species coexistence, habitat filtering, and
speciation patterns in a radiation of Malagasy social spiders. Presented at the 2013 International Congress
of Arachnologicy, Taiwan.
Gregorič M, Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2013. Phylogeny and web evolution of enigmatic orbicularians: the new
family Zygiellidae and bark spiders of the genus Caerostris. Presented at the 2013 International Congress of
Arachnologicy, Taiwan.
McHugh AK, Agnarsson I. 2013. A first look at the Caribbean biogeography of Micrathena and Deinopis.
Presented at the 2013 International Congress of Arachnologicy, Taiwan.
Rayor LS, Yip EC, Agnarsson I, Harvey MS. 2013. New social species and a molecular phylogeny elucidate the
evolution of sociality in huntsman spiders. Presented at the 2013 International Congress of Arachnologicy,
Taiwan.
Esposito LA, Bloom T, Caicedo L, Alicia A, Rivera J, Gillespie R, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2013.
Phylogeography of the Tailless Whip Scorpion genus Phrynus Lamarck, 1809 in Puerto Rico. Presented at
the 6th International Conference of the International Biogeography Society, Miami 2013.
Agnarsson I, Binford G. 2012. Biogeographic Studies of Caribbean Arachnids, facilitated by DNA Barcoding
Presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the European Arachnological Society.
Gregorič M, Kiesbüy HC, Quinones Lebrón SG, Rozman A, Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. Optimal foraging, not
biogenetic law, predicts spider orb web allometry. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the European
Arachnological Society.
Majer M, Agnarsson I, Svenning JC, Bilde T. The social spider environment: Anelosimus vs Stegodyphus habitat
niche in relation to convergent evolution of sociality. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the
European Arachnological Society.
Kuntner M, Čandek K, Gregorič M, Cheng RC, Vidergar N, Kostanjšek R, Coddington JA, Driskell A, Frick A,
Agnarsson I, Kropf C. Towards permanent preservation of a fauna: deeply frozen and barcoded Central
European spiders. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the European Arachnological Society.
Kiesbüy HC, Agnarsson I. 2011. A molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Argyrodinae (Theridiidae) – host
choice and biogeographical patterns of kleptoparasitic argyrodine spiders on the Major Antilles. Presented
at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the European Arachnological Society.
Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2011. The generation of a biodiversity hotspot: paleobiogeography of the Caribbean.
inferred from multiple arachnid lineages with differing dispersal abilities. Presented at the 2011 Annual
Meeting of the American Arachnological Society.
Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2011. The generation of a biodiversity hotspot: paleobiogeography of the Caribbean
inferred from multiple arachnid lineages with differing dispersal abilities. Presented at the 2011 Annual
Meeting of the European Arachnological Society.
Agnarsson I, Piorkowski D, Gregorič M, Kuntner M, Blackledge TA. 2011. Molecular and biomechanical
insights into the parallel origin of orb-like webs in spiders. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the
American Arachnological Society.
Agnarsson I, Sensenig A, Blackledge TA. 2010. Behavioral and biomaterial coevolution in spider orb webs. Oral
presentation, 18th International Congress of Arachnology, Sedlice, Poland.
Agnarsson I. 2010. Phylogeny and sociogeography of Anelosimus spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae). Poster, 18th
International Congress of Arachnology, Sedlice, Poland.
Blackledge TA, Sensenig A, Scharff N, Coddington JA, Agnarsson I. 2010. Darwin’s dilemma: natural selection
on orb web performance opposes fecundity selection for extreme female gigantism. Oral presentation, 18th
International Congress of Arachnology, Sedlice, Poland.
Gregorič M, Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA, Kuntner M. 2010. Phylogeny and behavior of enigmatic
orbicularians: Zygiellidae and the giant orbweaver Caerostris. Oral presentation, 18th International
Congress of Arachnology, Sedlice, Poland.
May-Collado LJ, Agnarsson I. 2009. Phylogenetic analyses of conservation priorities for cetaceans and
pinnipeds. 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Quebec. Oral Presentation.
Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2009. Phylogeographic patterns in Indian Ocean nephilid spiders. 25th European
Congress of Arachnology, Alexandropolis, Greece.
Blackledge TA, Sensenig A, Scharff N, Coddington J, Agnarsson I. Darwin’s dilemma: natural selection on orb
web performance opposes fecundity selection for extreme female gigantism in spiders. Presented at the
2009 Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society.
Sensenig AT, Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA. 2009. Co-evolution of silk material properties with spider webs.
Integrative and Comparative Biology 49: E154-E154.
Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA, Sahni V, Dhinojwala A. 2008. Spider silk as a novel humidity-driven biomimetic
muscle. Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the European Arachnological Society.
Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA, Sahni V, Dhinojwala A. 2008. Spider silk as a novel humidity-driven biomimetic
muscle. Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society.
Agnarsson I. 2007. Molecular insights into the structure and evolution of sociality in Anelosimus (Theridiidae).
Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society.
Agnarsson I. 2004. Social theridiids - phylogenetic patterns, processes and predictions. Presented at the
2004 Ecology and Evolution Retreat in Canada.
Huber BA, Agnarsson I. 2004. Handedness in spiders: genital asymmetry in Pholcidae (Metagonia
mariguitarensis) and in Theridiidae (gen. nov.). Poster, XVI International Congress of Arachnology, Ghent,
Belgium.
Agnarsson I. 2003. Social theridiids - phylogenetic patterns, processes and predictions. Oral presentation, 2003
Annual Meeting of The American Arachnological Society. Newsletter of the American Arachnological
Society 66: 2.
Agnarsson I. 2002. A phylogenetic view of sociality in cobweb spiders (Theridiidae). Presented at the 2002
Annual Meeting of The American Arachnological Society and at PEET IV Conference.
Ingólfsson A, Agnarsson I. 2002. Mobile animals in the intertidal zone: Dispersal and movements during
high tide (talk). Presented at the 37th European Marine Biology Symposium, Iceland
Agnarsson I. Arnedo MA, Gillespie R, Coddington JA, Hormiga G. 2001. Sharing a web: a phylogenetic
view of sociality and kleptoparasitism in cobweb spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) (talk). Presented at the XV
International Congress of Arachnology, Baadplas, S. Africa
Arnedo MA, Agnarsson I, Coddington J, Hormiga G, Gillespie R. 2001. From a comb to a tree:
phylogenetic analysis of the comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) based on multiple data sets
(poster). Presented at the XV International Congress of Arachnology, Baadplas, S. Africa
Coddington JA, Hormiga G, Agnarsson I, Kuntner M, Miller J. 2001. Spiders in Guyana: Extraordinary
diversity in a one hectare plot (poster). The Biodiversity of Guyana - A Global Perspective for the Future.
Georgetown, Guyana
Agnarsson I. 2000. Towards a phylogeny of cobweb spiders and the relimitation of the genus Anelosimus
(Araneae, Theridiidae) (talk). Presented at the Evolution 2000 meetings in Bloominton and the 2000
Annual Meeting of The American Arachnological Society
Agnarsson I. 2000. Anelosimus and theridiid systematics: preliminary morphological phylogenetic analyses
(poster). Presented at the PEET III Conference
Agnarsson I, Arnedo MA, Gillespie R, Coddington JA. 1999. Theridiid systematics, a preliminary
molecular and morphological phylogenetic analysis. Proceedings of 23rd Annual Meeting of the American
Arachnological Society, Trinidad & Tobago.
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