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Gregory I. Holwell

Gregory I. Holwell

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
25
Citations
2133
World Ranking
2974
National Ranking
50

Overview

Gregory I. Holwell is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand and specializes primarily in Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, Sociology, and Political Science.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Hemiptera Insect Studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • New Zealand Journal of Zoology
  • Austral Entomology
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Gregory I. Holwell has coauthored numerous papers with several collaborators, most frequently with Gonzalo Avila, Thomas E. Saunders, Christina J. Painting, Nathan W. Burke, and Lee-Anne Manning.

Among recent papers, the following are notable for their diverse contributions to animal behavior and ecology:

  • Male coercion and female injury in a sexually cannibalistic mantis, 2021, published in Biology Letters
  • Defining an intrasexual male weapon polymorphism in a New Zealand harvestman (Opiliones: Neopilionidae) using traditional and geometric morphometrics, 2020, published in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Diet, predators, and defensive behaviors of New Zealand harvestmen (Opiliones: Neopilionidae), 2021, published in Journal of Arachnology
  • Integrating sterile insect technique with the release of sterile classical biocontrol agents for eradication: is the Kamikaze Wasp Technique feasible?, 2020, published in BioControl
  • Relatedness modulates density-dependent cannibalism rates in Drosophila, 2021, published in Functional Ecology

Holwell's research includes extensive interdisciplinary work involving evolutionary biology, insect and arachnid ecology, and behavioral studies. The publication record demonstrates engagement with both fundamental biology and applied aspects such as biocontrol methods.

Best Publications

  • Female praying mantids use sexual cannibalism as a foraging strategy to increase fecundity

    Katherine L. Barry;Gregory I. Holwell;Marie E. Herberstein

  • Intraspecific evidence from guppies for correlated patterns of male and female genital trait diversification

    Jonathan P. Evans;Clelia Gasparini;Gregory I. Holwell;Indar W. Ramnarine

  • Multimodal mate assessment by male praying mantids in a sexually cannibalistic mating system

    Katherine L. Barry;Gregory I. Holwell;Gregory I. Holwell;Marie E. Herberstein

  • Exaggerated Trait Allometry, Compensation and Trade-Offs in the New Zealand Giraffe Weevil (Lasiorhynchus barbicornis)

    Christina. J. Painting;Gregory I. Holwell

  • Genital shape correlates with sperm transfer success in the praying mantis Ciulfina klassi (Insecta: Mantodea)

    Gregory I. Holwell;Gregory I. Holwell;Claire Winnick;Tom Tregenza;Marie E. Herberstein

  • Muscle mass drives cost in sexually selected arthropod weapons.

    Devin M. O'Brien;Romain P. Boisseau;Meghan Duell;Erin McCullough

  • Male mating behaviour reduces the risk of sexual cannibalism in an Australian praying mantid

    Katherine L. Barry;Gregory I. Holwell;Gregory I. Holwell;Marie E. Herberstein

  • Multiple exaggerated weapon morphs: a novel form of male polymorphism in harvestmen.

    Christina J. Painting;Anna F. Probert;Daniel J. Townsend;Gregory I. Holwell

  • Chapter Seven - Scramble Competition Polygyny in Terrestrial Arthropods

    Marie E. Herberstein;Christina J. Painting;Gregory I. Holwell

  • Male coercion and female injury in a sexually cannibalistic mantis.

    Nathan W Burke;Gregory I Holwell

  • Exaggerated rostra as weapons and the competitive assessment strategy of male giraffe weevils

    Christina J. Painting;Gregory I. Holwell

  • Predatory pollinator deception: Does the orchid mantis resemble a model species?

    J.C. O’Hanlon;G. I. Holwell;M.E. Herberstein

  • Fatal attraction: sexually cannibalistic invaders attract naive native mantids

    Murray P. Fea;Margaret C. Stanley;Gregory I. Holwell

  • Internal reproductive anatomy of the praying mantid Ciulfina klassi (Mantodea: Liturgusidae).

    Claire G. Winnick;Gregory I. Holwell;Gregory I. Holwell;Marie E. Herberstein

  • A paternity advantage for speedy males? Sperm precedence patterns and female re-mating frequencies in a sexually cannibalistic praying mantid

    Katherine L. Barry;Gregory I. Holwell;Gregory I. Holwell;Marie E. Herberstein

  • Ferocious Fighting between Male Grasshoppers

    Kate D. L. Umbers;Kate D. L. Umbers;Nikolai J. Tatarnic;Nikolai J. Tatarnic;Gregory I. Holwell;Marie E. Herberstein

  • Geographic variation in genital morphology of Ciulfina praying mantids

    G. I. Holwell

  • Preference for habitats with low structural complexity in the praying mantid Ciulfina sp. (Mantidae)

    Phoebe J.B Hill;Greg I Holwell;Ann Göth;Marie E Herberstein

  • Chirally dimorphic male genitalia in praying mantids (Ciulfina: Liturgusidae)

    Gregory I. Holwell;Gregory I. Holwell;Marie E. Herberstein

  • Courtship and mating behaviour in the parasitoid wasp Cotesia urabae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): mate location and the influence of competition and body size on male mating success.

    G A Avila;T M Withers;G I Holwell

  • First releases and monitoring of the biological control agent Cotesia urabae Austin and Allen (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

    G. A. Avila;L. A. Berndt;G. I. Holwell

  • The Functional Significance of Chiral Genitalia: Patterns of Asymmetry, Functional Morphology and Mating Success in the Praying Mantis Ciulfina baldersoni.

    Gregory I. Holwell;Gregory I. Holwell;Olga Kazakova;Felicity Evans;James C. O’Hanlon

  • Male density influences mate searching speed and copulation duration in millipedes (Polydesmida: Gigantowales chisholmi )

    Gregory Holwell;Pjd Allen;F Goudie;PE Duckett

  • Perceived risk of sperm competition affects juvenile development and ejaculate expenditure in male praying mantids

    Louise E. Allen;Katherine L. Barry;Gregory I. Holwell;Marie E. Herberstein

  • Combat in a cave-dwelling wētā (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae) with exaggerated weaponry

    Murray Fea;Gregory Holwell

  • Olfactory cues used in host‐habitat location and host location by the parasitoid Cotesia urabae

    G.A. Avila;T.M. Withers;G.I. Holwell

  • Spermatophore feeding and mating behaviour in praying mantids (Mantodea: Liturgusidae)

    G. I. Holwell

  • Flexible alternative mating tactics by New Zealand giraffe weevils

    Christina. J. Painting;Gregory I. Holwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie E. Herberstein
Marie E. Herberstein Macquarie University
Thomas R. Buckley
Thomas R. Buckley Landcare Research
Douglas J. Emlen
Douglas J. Emlen University of Montana
Norman Maclean
Norman Maclean University of Southampton
Arvind Varsani
Arvind Varsani Arizona State University
Glauco Machado
Glauco Machado Universidade de São Paulo
Philip J. Lester
Philip J. Lester Victoria University of Wellington
Trevor E. Pitcher
Trevor E. Pitcher University of Windsor
Indar W. Ramnarine
Indar W. Ramnarine University of the West Indies
Mark A. Elgar
Mark A. Elgar University of Melbourne

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