Leticia Aviles - Publications

Affiliations: 
1992 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 
 2003- Zoology University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada 

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Year Citation  Score
2022 Tong C, Avilés L, Rayor LS, Mikheyev AS, Linksvayer TA. Genomic signatures of recent convergent transitions to social life in spiders. Nature Communications. 13: 6967. PMID 36414623 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34446-8  0.481
2022 Vásárhelyi Z, Scheuring I, Avilés L. The Ecology of Spider Sociality: A Spatial Model. The American Naturalist. 199: 776-788. PMID 35580222 DOI: 10.1086/719182  0.599
2021 Straus S, González AL, Matthews P, Avilés L. Economies of scale shape energetics of solitary and group living spiders and their webs. The Journal of Animal Ecology. PMID 34758114 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13628  0.337
2019 Camacho LF, Avilés L. Decreasing Predator Density and Activity Explains Declining Predation of Insect Prey along Elevational Gradients. The American Naturalist. 194: 334-343. PMID 31553213 DOI: 10.1086/704279  0.36
2019 Fernandez‐Fournier P, Straus S, Sharpe R, Avilés L. Behavioural modification of a social spider by a parasitoid wasp Ecological Entomology. 44: 157-162. DOI: 10.1111/Een.12698  0.63
2018 Lichtenstein JLL, Kamath A, Bengston S, Avilés L, Pruitt JN. Female-Biased Sex Ratios Increase Colony Survival and Reproductive Output in the Spider Anelosimus studiosus. The American Naturalist. 192: 552-563. PMID 30332581 DOI: 10.1086/699838  0.364
2018 Ludwig L, Barbour MA, Guevara J, Avilés L, González AL. Caught in the web: Spider web architecture affects prey specialization and spider-prey stoichiometric relationships. Ecology and Evolution. 8: 6449-6462. PMID 30038747 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.4028  0.332
2018 Fernandez-Fournier P, Guevara J, Hoffman C, Avilés L. Trait overdispersion and the role of sociality in the assembly of social spider communities across the Americas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29784785 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1721464115  0.617
2018 Straus S, Avilés L. Estimating consumable biomass from body length and order in insects and spiders Ecological Entomology. 43: 69-75. DOI: 10.1111/Een.12471  0.353
2018 Straus S, Avilés L. Effects of host colony size and hygiene behaviours on social spider kleptoparasite loads along an elevation gradient Functional Ecology. 32: 2707-2716. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13225  0.533
2018 Harwood G, Avilés L. The shortfall of sociality: group-living affects hunting performance of individual social spiders Behavioral Ecology. 29: 1487-1493. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Ary099  0.632
2017 Hoffman CR, Avilés L. Rain, predators, and spider sociality: a manipulative experiment Behavioral Ecology. 28: 589-596. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arx010  0.535
2017 Pruitt JN, Avilés L. Social spiders: mildly successful social animals with much untapped research potential Animal Behaviour. 143: 155-165. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2017.08.015  0.601
2016 Sharpe RV, Avilés L. Prey size and scramble vs. contest competition in a social spider: implications for population dynamics. The Journal of Animal Ecology. PMID 27300160 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12559  0.547
2015 Guevara J, Avilés L. Ecological predictors of spider sociality in the Americas Global Ecology and Biogeography. 24: 1181-1191. DOI: 10.1111/Geb.12342  0.571
2014 Hart EM, Avilés L. Reconstructing local population dynamics in noisy metapopulations - The role of random catastrophes and Allee effects Plos One. 9. PMID 25360620 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0110049  0.329
2013 Guevara J, Avilés L. Community-wide body size differences between nocturnal and diurnal insects. Ecology. 94: 537-43. PMID 23691672 DOI: 10.1890/12-0030.1  0.445
2013 Agnarsson I, Avilés L, Maddison WP. Loss of genetic variability in social spiders: genetic and phylogenetic consequences of population subdivision and inbreeding. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26: 27-37. PMID 23145542 DOI: 10.1111/Jeb.12022  0.752
2013 Samuk K, Avilés L. Indiscriminate care of offspring predates the evolution of sociality in alloparenting social spiders Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 67: 1275-1284. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-013-1555-0  0.806
2012 Avilés L, Harwood G, Koenig W. A Quantitative Index of Sociality and Its Application to Group-Living Spiders and Other Social Organisms. Ethology : Formerly Zeitschrift Fur Tierpsychologie. 118: 1219-1229. PMID 23335829 DOI: 10.1111/Eth.12028  0.687
2012 Pruitt JN, Oufiero CE, Avilés L, Riechert SE. Iterative evolution of increased behavioral variation characterizes the transition to sociality in spiders and proves advantageous. The American Naturalist. 180: 496-510. PMID 22976012 DOI: 10.1086/667576  0.649
2012 Purcell J, Brelsford A, Avilés L. Co-evolution between sociality and dispersal: the role of synergistic cooperative benefits. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 312: 44-54. PMID 22841740 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jtbi.2012.07.016  0.788
2012 Purcell J, Vasconcellos-Neto J, Gonzaga MO, Fletcher JA, Avilés L. Spatio-temporal differentiation and sociality in spiders. Plos One. 7: e34592. PMID 22545086 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0034592  0.811
2012 Corcobado G, Rodríguez‐Gironés MA, Moya‐Laraño J, Avilés L. Sociality level correlates with dispersal ability in spiders Functional Ecology. 26: 794-803. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2435.2012.01996.X  0.686
2012 Samuk KM, Ledue EE, Avilés L. Sister clade comparisons reveal reduced maternal care behavior in social cobweb spiders Behavioral Ecology. 23: 35-43. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arr146  0.809
2012 Avilés L, Purcell J. The Evolution of Inbred Social Systems in Spiders and Other Organisms. From Short-Term Gains to Long-Term Evolutionary Dead Ends? Advances in the Study of Behavior. 44: 99-133. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394288-3.00003-4  0.764
2011 Avilés L, Purcell J. Anelosimus oritoyacu, a cloud forest social spider with only slightly female-biased primary sex ratios Journal of Arachnology. 39: 178-182. DOI: 10.1636/Hi09-87.1  0.777
2011 Guevara J, Avilés L. Influence of body size and level of cooperation on the prey capture efficiency of two sympatric social spiders exhibiting an included niche pattern Functional Ecology. 25: 859-867. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2435.2011.01843.X  0.584
2011 Guevara J, Gonzaga MO, Vasconcellos-Neto J, Avilés L. Sociality and resource use: insights from a community of social spiders in Brazil Behavioral Ecology. 22: 630-638. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arr022  0.626
2011 Pruitt JN, Iturralde G, Avilés L, Riechert SE. Amazonian social spiders share similar within-colony behavioural variation and behavioural syndromes Animal Behaviour. 82: 1449-1455. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2011.09.030  0.667
2010 Agnarsson I, Maddison WP, Avilés L. Complete separation along matrilines in a social spider metapopulation inferred from hypervariable mitochondrial DNA region. Molecular Ecology. 19: 3052-63. PMID 20598078 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2010.04681.X  0.719
2010 van Veelen M, García J, Avilés L. It takes grouping and cooperation to get sociality. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 264: 1240-53. PMID 20226198 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jtbi.2010.02.043  0.434
2010 Pruitt JN, Riechert SE, Iturralde G, Vega M, Fitzpatrick BM, Avilés L. Population differences in behaviour are explained by shared within-population trait correlations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23: 748-56. PMID 20149021 DOI: 10.1111/J.1420-9101.2010.01940.X  0.359
2009 Guevara J, Avilés L. Elevational changes in the composition of insects and other terrestrial arthropods at tropical latitudes: a comparison of multiple sampling methods and social spider diets Insect Conservation and Diversity. 2: 142-152. DOI: 10.1111/J.1752-4598.2008.00043.X  0.58
2008 Yip EC, Powers KS, Avilés L. Cooperative capture of large prey solves scaling challenge faced by spider societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105: 11818-22. PMID 18689677 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0710603105  0.612
2008 Purcell J, Avilés L. Gradients of precipitation and ant abundance may contribute to the altitudinal range limit of subsocial spiders: insights from a transplant experiment. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 275: 2617-25. PMID 18682370 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2008.0582  0.76
2007 Bilde T, Coates KS, Birkhofer K, Bird T, Maklakov AA, Lubin Y, Avilés L. Survival benefits select for group living in a social spider despite reproductive costs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 20: 2412-26. PMID 17956402 DOI: 10.1111/J.1420-9101.2007.01407.X  0.491
2007 Avilés L, Agnarsson I, Salazar PA, Purcell J, Iturralde G, Yip EC, Powers KS, Bukowski TC. Altitudinal patterns of spider sociality and the biology of a new midelevation social Anelosimus species in Ecuador. The American Naturalist. 170: 783-92. PMID 17926299 DOI: 10.1086/521965  0.822
2007 Guevara J, Avilés L. Multiple techniques confirm elevational differences in insect size that may influence spider sociality. Ecology. 88: 2015-23. PMID 17824433 DOI: 10.1890/06-0995.1  0.554
2007 Powers KS, Avilés L. The role of prey size and abundance in the geographical distribution of spider sociality. The Journal of Animal Ecology. 76: 995-1003. PMID 17714278 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2656.2007.01267.X  0.679
2007 Purcell J, Avilés L. Smaller colonies and more solitary living mark higher elevation populations of a social spider. The Journal of Animal Ecology. 76: 590-7. PMID 17439475 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2656.2007.01228.X  0.776
2007 Agnarsson I, Maddison WP, Avilés L. The phylogeny of the social Anelosimus spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) inferred from six molecular loci and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 43: 833-51. PMID 17081775 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2006.09.011  0.731
2006 Agnarsson I, Avilés L, Coddington JA, Maddison WP. Sociality in theridiid spiders: repeated origins of an evolutionary dead end. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 60: 2342-51. PMID 17236425 DOI: 10.1554/06-078.1  0.829
2006 Avilés L, Bukowski TC. Group living and inbreeding depression in a subsocial spider. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 273: 157-63. PMID 16555782 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2005.3308  0.642
2006 Avilés L, Maddison WP, Agnarsson I. A new independently derived social spider with explosive colony proliferation and a female size dimorphism Biotropica. 38: 743-753. DOI: 10.1111/J.1744-7429.2006.00202.X  0.783
2005 Klein BA, Bukowski TC, Avilés L. Male residency and mating patterns in a subsocial spider Journal of Arachnology. 33: 703-710. DOI: 10.1636/S03-62.1  0.32
2004 Avilés L, Fletcher JA, Cutter AD. The kin composition of social groups: trading group size for degree of altruism. The American Naturalist. 164: 132-44. PMID 15278839 DOI: 10.1086/422263  0.477
2003 Cutter AD, Avilés L, Ward S. The proximate determinants of sex ratio in C. elegans populations. Genetical Research. 81: 91-102. PMID 12872911 DOI: 10.1017/S001667230300613X  0.378
2003 Powers KS, Avilés L. Natal dispersal patterns of a subsocial spider Anelosimus cf. jucundus (Theridiidae) Ethology. 109: 725-737. DOI: 10.1046/J.1439-0310.2003.00918.X  0.596
2002 Avilés L, Abbot P, Cutter AD. Population ecology, nonlinear dynamics, and social evolution. I. Associations among nonrelatives. The American Naturalist. 159: 115-27. PMID 18707408 DOI: 10.1086/324792  0.511
2002 Avilés L. Solving the freeloaders paradox: Genetic associations and frequency-dependent selection in the evolution of cooperation among nonrelatives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99: 14268-73. PMID 12381790 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.212408299  0.461
2002 Bukowski TC, Avilés L. Asynchronous maturation of the sexes may limit close inbreeding in a subsocial spider Canadian Journal of Zoology. 80: 193-198. DOI: 10.1139/Z01-220  0.349
2001 AVILÉS L, MADDISON WP, SALAZAR PA, ESTÉVEZ G, TUFIÑO P, CAÑAS G. Arañas sociales de la Amazonía ecuatoriana, con notas sobre seis especies sociales no descritas previamente Revista Chilena De Historia Natural. 74. DOI: 10.4067/S0716-078X2001000300009  0.68
2000 Aviles L, McCormack J, Cutter A, Bukowski T. Precise, highly female-biased sex ratios in a social spider Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 267: 1445-1449. PMID 10983829 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2000.1162  0.479
2000 Avilés L. Nomadic behaviour and colony fission in a cooperative spider: life history evolution at the level of the colony? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 70: 325-339. DOI: 10.1111/J.1095-8312.2000.Tb00213.X  0.416
1999 Avilés L, Varas C, Dyreson E. Does the African social spider Stegodypbus dumicola control the sex of individual offspring? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 46: 237-243. DOI: 10.1007/S002650050615  0.416
1998 Avilés L, Tufiño P. Colony size and individual fitness in the social spider Anelosimus eximius. The American Naturalist. 152: 403-18. PMID 18811448 DOI: 10.1086/286178  0.502
1998 Avilés L, Gelsey G. Natal dispersal and demography of a subsocial Anelosimus species and its implications for the evolution of sociality in spiders Canadian Journal of Zoology. 76: 2137-2147. DOI: 10.1139/Z98-177  0.668
1995 Rowell DM, Avilés L. Sociality in a bark-dwelling huntsman spider from Australia, Delena cancerides Walckenaer (Araneae: Sparassidae) Insectes Sociaux. 42: 287-302. DOI: 10.1007/BF01240423  0.607
1993 Aviles L. Interdemic Selection and the Sex Ratio: A Social Spider Perspective The American Naturalist. 142: 320-345. DOI: 10.1086/285540  0.501
1986 Aviles L. Sex-Ratio Bias and Possible Group Selection in the Social Spider Anelosimus eximius The American Naturalist. 128: 1-12. DOI: 10.1086/284535  0.531
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