News and Recent Publications

May 2011

Congratulations to Andrade lab researchers for their excellent presentations at the recent OE3C research colloquium:

Undergraduates: Aiswarya Baskaryan, Lucy Lu, Sanjiv Kandiah, Nizanthan Rathitharan, Hosay Said,

Graduate Students: Luciana Baruffaldi, Iara Sandormirsky

 

March 2011

Congratulations to Luciana Baruffaldi and Sheena Fry, who have been accepted as PhD students in EEB and will begin their PhD research in the Andrade lab this year.

 

February 2011

Congratulations to former PhD student Michael Kasumovic, who has been awarded the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Naturalists!

 

The new book “Spider Behaviour: Flexibility & Versatility” (M. Herberstein, ed) is now available from Cambridge University Press.

 

January 2011

Welcome back to Luciana Baruffaldi, joining the lab from Fernando Costa’s group in Uruguay.

Welcome to Iara Sandomirsky, who will be visiting the lab for several months to collaborate on brown widow spiders, Iara is from Yael Lubin’s group in Israel.

 

 

NEWS ARCHIVE

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Recent publications

 

Kasumovic M.M., Andrade, M.C.B., Mason and A.C., Elias, D.O. 2011. The relative

importance of RHP and resource quality in contests with ownership asymmetries.

Behavioral Ecology.22:39-45.

 

Johnson, JC, Kitchen, K, Andrade, MCB. Family Affects Sibling Cannibalism in the Black Widow Spider, Latrodectus hesperusEthology 116: 770-777.

 

Stoltz, JA, Hanna, R & Andrade, MCB. 2010. Longevity cost of remaining unmated under dietary restriction.  Functional Ecology.  Published online

 

Elias, DO, Botero, CA,  Andrade, MCB, Mason, AC & Kasumovic,MM. 2010. High resource valuation fuels "desperado" fighting tactics in female jumping spiders. 21(4):868-875

 

Jerhot, E. Stoltz, JA, Andrade MCB & Schulz, S. 2010. Acylated Serine Derivatives: A Unique Class of Arthropod Pheromones of the Australian Redback Spider, Latrodectus hasselti. Agenwandte Chemie. Published Online: DOI: 10.1002/anie.200906312

     Press summary: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/email/html/8807news4.html

 

M.M. Kasumovic, D.O. Eliasc, S. Sivalinghem, A.C. Masona & M.C.B. Andrade. 2010. Examination of prior contest experience and the retention of winner and loser effects. Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arp204.

 

Stoltz, J. A. & Andrade, M. C. B. 2010. Female‘s courtship threshold allows intruding males to mate with reduced effort. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 277(1681):585-92

 

 

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