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Jonathan Pruitt

Research Interests

My primary research topic concerns how behavioral diversity is maintained within populations, and how that individual variation in behavior might influence population and community level patterns. I use social spiders in genus Anelosimus as the model for my investigations.

Publications

Pruitt JN, Riechert SE, Jones TC (2008) Behavioral syndromes and their fitness consequences in a socially polymorphic spider, Anelosimus studiosus. Animal Behaviour 76: 871-879.

Pruitt JN,  Riechert SE (2009) Male mating preference is associated with risk of pre-copulatory cannibalism in a socially polymorphic spider. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63: 1573-1580

Pruitt JN, Riechert SE (2009) Sex matters: sexually dimorphic fitness consequences of a behavioral syndrome. Animal Behaviour 78: 175-181.

Pruitt JN, Taylor J*, Troupe SE* (2009) Foraging benefits and limited niche overlap promote a mixed species association between two solitary species of spider. Behaviour 149:1153-1170.

Pruitt JN, Riechert SE (2009) Frequency dependent success of cheaters during foraging bouts might limit their spread within colonies of a socially polymorphic spider. Evolution 63: 2966-2973

Robbins TR, Pruitt JN, Straub LE*, McCoy ED, Mushinsky HR. (2010) Transgressive behavioural traits of Sceloporus hybrids confer fitness through advantage in territorial defence. Animal Ecology 79:137-147.

Pruitt JN, Husak JF (2010) Context-dependent running speed in funnel-web spiders from divergent populations. Functional Ecology.

Pruitt JN (2010) Differential selection on sprint speed and ad libitum feeding behaviour in active versus sit-and-wait foraging spiders. Functional Ecology.

Pruitt JN, Troupe JE* (in press) The effect of reproductive status and situation on locomotor performance and anti-predator strategies in a funnel-web spider. Journal of Zoology.

Pruitt JN, Riechert SE, Iturralde G*, Vega M*, Fitzpatrick BM, Avilés L (in revision)
Population differences in behaviour are explained by shared 1 within-population trait correlations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

Pruitt JN (in review) The adaptive value of gluttony: predators mediate the fitness trade-offs of gluttonous behavior.

Jonathan Pruitt

Contact Information

Jonathan Pruitt
PhD Candidate
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
569 Dabney Hall
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-1610

Phone: (865) 974-6158
Fax: (865) 974-3067