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41
Citations
5945
World Ranking
5888
National Ranking
12

Overview

Daiqin Li is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's work covers various subfields including genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and paleontology.

Key research topics explored by Daiqin Li include spider taxonomy and behavior studies, animal behavior and reproduction, lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, neurobiology and insect physiology research, as well as genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Daiqin Li demonstrate a focus on evolutionary biology and ecology, including:

  • The evolution of autotomy in leaf-footed bugs (2020, Evolution)
  • Sexual selection on jumping spider color pattern: investigation with a new quantitative approach (2021, Behavioral Ecology)
  • The complete mitochondrial genome of the intertidal spider (Desis jiaxiangi) provides novel insights into the adaptive evolution of the mitogenome and the evolution of spiders (2021, BMC Ecology and Evolution)
  • Eyeless cave-dwelling Leptonetela spiders still rely on light (2023, Science Advances)
  • Deposition and distribution of myclobutanil and tebuconazole in a semidwarf apple orchard by hand-held gun and air-assisted sprayer application (2020, Pest Management Science)

Daiqin Li has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Xin Xu, Long Yu, Shichang Zhang, Fengxiang Liu, and Matjaž Kuntner.

Their work has been published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent publication platforms being ZooKeys, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Integrative Zoology, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and Functional Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Thermal time – concepts and utility

    D L Trudgill;A Honek;D Li;N M Van Straalen

  • Design of Superior Spider Silk: From Nanostructure to Mechanical Properties

    Ning Du;Xiang Yang Liu;Janaky Narayanan;Lian Li

  • Sex-Specific UV and Fluorescence Signals in Jumping Spiders

    Matthew L. M. Lim;Michael F. Land;Daiqin Li;Daiqin Li

  • HOW TEMPERATURE AFFECTS DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCTION IN SPIDERS : A REVIEW

    Daiqin Li;Robert R. Jackson

  • Assessing biodiversity 'sampling packages': how similar are arthropod assemblages in different tropical rainforests?

    Roger Kitching;Daiqin Li;Nigel E. Stork

  • How Jumping Spiders See the World

    Duane P. Harland;Daiqin Li;Robert R. Jackson

  • Visitor effects on zoo orangutans in two novel, naturalistic enclosures

    Yuanting Choo;Peter Alan Todd;Daiqin Li

  • Hatching responses of subsocial spitting spiders to predation risk.

    Daiqin Li

  • Innate aversion to ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and ant mimics: experimental findings from mantises (Mantodea)

    Ximena J. Nelson;Robert R. Jackson;Daiqin Li;Alberto T. Barrion

  • Behavioural evidence of UV sensitivity in jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)

    Matthew L. M. Lim;Daiqin Li;Daiqin Li

  • Predator personality and prey behavioural predictability jointly determine foraging performance

    Chia-Chen Chang;Huey Yee Teo;Y Norma-Rashid;Daiqin Li

  • Predator-induced plasticity in web-building behaviour

    Daiqin Li;Wan She Lee

  • Prey preferences of Portia fimbriata , an araneophagic, web-building jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from Queensland

    Daiqin Li;Robert R. Jackson

  • One-encounter search-image formation by araneophagic spiders

    Robert R. Jackson;Daiqin Li

  • Effect of UV-reflecting markings on female mate-choice decisions in Cosmophasis umbratica, a jumping spider from Singapore

    Matthew L.M. Lim;Jingjing Li;Daiqin Li;Daiqin Li

  • Stabilimenta attract unwelcome predators to orb-webs.

    Wee Khee Seah;Daiqin Li

  • The deep phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae)

    Wayne P Maddison;Daiqin Li;Melissa Bodner;Junxia Zhang

  • INFLUENCE OF DIET ON SURVIVORSHIP AND GROWTH IN PORTIA FIMBRIATA, AN ARANEOPHAGIC JUMPING SPIDER (ARANEAE: SALTICIDAE)

    Daiqin Li;Robert R. Jackson

  • Importance of reservoirs for the conservation of freshwater molluscs in a tropical urban landscape.

    Reuben Clements;Lian Pin Koh;Tien Ming Lee;Rudolf Meier

  • Prey preferences of Portia labiata, P. africana, and P. schultzi, araneophagic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Kenya, and Uganda

    Daiqin Li;Robert R. Jackson;Alberto Barrion

  • Salticid predation as one potential driving force of ant mimicry in jumping spiders

    Jin-Nan Huang;Ren-Chung Cheng;Daiqin Li;I-Min Tso

  • UVB-based mate-choice cues used by females of the jumping spider Phintella vittata.

    Jingjing Li;Zengtao Zhang;Fengxiang Liu;Qingqing Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Matjaž Kuntner
Matjaž Kuntner National Institute of Biology
Robert R. Jackson
Robert R. Jackson University of Canterbury
Ingi Agnarsson
Ingi Agnarsson University of Iceland
Simon Y. W. Ho
Simon Y. W. Ho University of Sydney
Peter A. Todd
Peter A. Todd National University of Singapore
I-Min Tso
I-Min Tso Tunghai University
Rudolf Meier
Rudolf Meier Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Philip W. Bateman
Philip W. Bateman Curtin University
Wei Huang
Wei Huang Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xiang-Yang Liu
Xiang-Yang Liu Xiamen University

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