CURRICULUM VITAE



Ingi Agnarsson Ph.D.

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Associate Professor and Curator of Invertebrate Collections, Department of Biology, University of Vermont, 109 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405-0086 E-mail: iagnarsson@; Web: and ; Phone: (+1) 802-656-0460

CURRICULUM VITAE

Summary

PhD: 2004. Publications: 119. G-Scholar-H: 36; i10: 74; citations: 3973. New species: 54. Grants: >$2,000,000.

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 .

• Press coverage and interviews (selection):

August 2006: New Scientist , Science 360 .

December 2006: Science (314: 1516).

April 2009: Journal of Zoology “podcast” .

May 2009: BBC , Inside JEB (J. Exp. Biol. 2009, 212: ii), Teheran Times.

June 2009: weirdscience.ca, New Scientist , Science News ScienceShots .

July 2009: Cosmos Magazine .

November 2009: “Inspirations” interview in The Systematics 29, online: , BBC .

December 2009: YouTube on Nakanai spiders, .

September 2010: BBC , Science News , National Geographic , Wikipedia: 's_bark_spider, EoL, The Sun, Time Magazine, Live Science, various media worldwide.

October 2010: Science (330: 21), Science News , New Scientist: , BBC , Conservation International , Live Science, Reuters, Time Magazine, AFP, Scientific American, various media worldwide.

May 2011: BBC , The Wall Street Journal , MSNBC ,

Cosmos magazine , Scientific American , various media worldwide.

November 2011: New Scientists

November 2011: Nature

July 2012: International Innovation

August 2014: NBC News:

August 2014: Youtube:

June 2015: various news outlets, e.g.

February 2016: various outlets including Science ,

May 2017: various outlets including

• 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 (PhD) – biogeography of Caribbean arachnids

• Mohammad Kala (PhD)– 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

• 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

• *Patricia Caligari (Msc, 2017 – UPR) – The pathogenic fungus B. dendrobatidis in Puerto Rico

• *Hana Aronowitz (Msc, 2017 – UVM) – Species limits in Adelgids

• *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

117. 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 49: 895–903 [31.62; 2/108 (Genetics & Heredity)].

116. *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)].

115. Yusseff-Vanegas S, Agnarsson I. 2017. DNA-barcoding of forensically important blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the Caribbean Region. PeerJ, provisionally accepted.

114. 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.

113. Smith HM, Harvey MS, Agnarsson I, Anderson GJ. 2017. Notes on the ant-mimic genus Anatea Berland (Araneae: Theridiidae) and two new species from tropical Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, in press.

112. 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.

111. Viera C, Agnarsson I. Parental care and sociality. 2017. In Viera C, Gonzaga MO (eds), Behavioral and Ecology of Neotropical Spiders - Contributions of studies from the Neotropical region, Springer, p. xxx-xxx.

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: .

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:

Online resources (Non Peer-reviewed)

Agnarsson I, **Veve G. 2015. Cobgen 0.1. World genera of theridiid spiders

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.

Agnarsson I, **Van Patten C, **Sargeant L, **Chomitz B, **Dziki A, Binford G. A radiation of the ornate Caribbean ‘smiley faced spiders’ – with a description of 15 new species (Araneae, Theridiidae, Spintharus). Submitted to Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Luo Y, Agnarsson I. Global genetic structure and invasion history of a major pest of citrus, Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae). Submitted to Ecology and Evolution.

*Chamberland L, *McHugh A, **Kechejian S, Binford GJ, Bond J, Coddington JA, Dolman G, Hamilton C, Harvey MS, Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. From Gondwana to GAARlandia: global biogeography of ogre-faced spiders (Deinopidae) mirrors geologic history. Submitted to Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Manuscripts in preparation

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.

*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.

Tong Y, Binford G, Agnarsson I. In prep for Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Biogeography of huntsman spiders (Neostacina: Sparassidae) in the Caribbean.

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.

Membership

• American Arachnological Society, International Society of Arachnology, Sigma Xi, Society for the Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists

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