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Ecology and Evolution
Iceland
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
10013
World Ranking
3642
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Iceland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Iceland Leader Award

Overview

Ingi Agnarsson is affiliated with the University of Iceland in Iceland. Their research encompasses several fields primarily within the biological sciences, with a strong emphasis on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. They have contributed extensively to Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology, Molecular Biology, and Insect Science.

Their main research topics include Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies, Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Subterranean Biodiversity and Taxonomy, Silk-based Biomaterials and Applications, Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography, and Hymenoptera Taxonomy and Phylogeny.

Ingi Agnarsson has published work in several notable scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • ZooKeys
  • Diversity
  • Science Advances
  • Systematic Biology
  • PeerJ

Significant recent publications by Ingi Agnarsson include:

  • "Improving Taxonomic Practices and Enhancing Its Extensibility-An Example from Araneology" (2021, Diversity)
  • "Correlation between protein secondary structure and mechanical performance for the ultra-tough dragline silk of Darwin's bark spider" (2021, Journal of The Royal Society Interface)
  • "Eyeless cave-dwelling Leptonetela spiders still rely on light" (2023, Science Advances)
  • "Increasing Information Content and Diagnosability in Family-Level Classifications" (2023, Systematic Biology)
  • "Global Diversification of Anelosimus Spiders Driven by Long-Distance Overwater Dispersal and Neogene Climate Oscillations" (2020, Systematic Biology)

Collaborations span multiple scientists with frequent co-authors including:

  • Matjaž Kuntner
  • Matjaž Gregorič
  • Jie Liu
  • Greta J. Binford
  • Yu Peng

Best Publications

  • Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era.

    Todd A. Blackledge;Nikolaj Scharff;Jonathan A. Coddington;Tamas Szüts

  • Undersampling bias: the null hypothesis for singleton species in tropical arthropod surveys

    Jonathan A. Coddington;Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson;Jeremy A. Miller;Matjaž Kuntner;Matjaž Kuntner

  • Taxonomy in a changing world: seeking solutions for a science in crisis.

    Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson;Matjaž Kuntner;Matjaž Kuntner

  • Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)

    Ingi Agnarsson

  • Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

    Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson;Matjaž Kuntner;Todd A. Blackledge

  • Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

    Nicole L. Garrison;Juanita Rodriguez;Ingi Agnarsson;Jonathan A. Coddington

  • 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.

    Ingi Agnarsson;Laura J. May-Collado

  • A time-calibrated species-level phylogeny of bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia).

    Ingi Agnarsson;Carlos M. Zambrana-Torrelio;Nadia Paola Flores-Saldana;Laura J. May-Collado

  • Phylogenomics Resolves a Spider Backbone Phylogeny and Rejects a Prevailing Paradigm for Orb Web Evolution

    Jason E. Bond;Nicole L. Garrison;Chris A. Hamilton;Rebecca L. Godwin

  • The Nephila clavipes genome highlights the diversity of spider silk genes and their complex expression

    Paul L Babb;Nicholas F Lahens;Sandra M Correa-Garhwal;David N Nicholson

  • Dogs, cats, and kin: a molecular species-level phylogeny of Carnivora.

    Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson;Matjaž Kuntner;Laura J. May-Collado;Laura J. May-Collado

  • Shark tales: a molecular species-level phylogeny of sharks (Selachimorpha, Chondrichthyes).

    Ximena Vélez-Zuazo;Ingi Agnarsson

  • SOCIALITY IN THERIDIID SPIDERS: REPEATED ORIGINS OF AN EVOLUTIONARY DEAD END

    Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson;Leticia Avilés;Jonathan A. Coddington;Wayne P. Maddison

  • The Form and Function of Spider Orb Webs: Evolution from Silk to Ecosystems

    Todd A. Blackledge;Matjaž Kuntner;Ingi Agnarsson

  • Spider silk as a novel high performance biomimetic muscle driven by humidity

    Ingi Agnarsson;Ali Dhinojwala;Vasav Sahni;Todd A. Blackledge

  • From a comb to a tree: phylogenetic relationships of the comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes

    Miquel A Arnedo;Jonathan Coddington;Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson;Rosemary G Gillespie

  • Cytochrome b and Bayesian inference of whale phylogeny.

    Laura May-Collado;Laura May-Collado;Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson

  • Is ACCTRAN better than DELTRAN

    Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson;Jeremy A. Miller

  • Phylogenetic review of tonal sound production in whales in relation to sociality.

    Laura Johanna May-Collado;Laura Johanna May-Collado;Ingi Agnarsson;Douglas Wartzok

  • A revision of the New World eximius lineage of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae) and a phylogenetic analysis using worldwide exemplars

    Ingi Agnarsson

  • Behavioural and biomaterial coevolution in spider orb webs

    A. Sensenig;I. Agnarsson;I. Agnarsson;T. A. Blackledge

Frequent Co-Authors

Matjaž Kuntner
Matjaž Kuntner National Institute of Biology
Jonathan A. Coddington
Jonathan A. Coddington National Museum of Natural History
Daiqin Li
Daiqin Li National University of Singapore
Jonathan N. Pruitt
Jonathan N. Pruitt McMaster University
Leticia Avilés
Leticia Avilés University of British Columbia
Wayne P. Maddison
Wayne P. Maddison University of British Columbia
Mark S. Harvey
Mark S. Harvey Australian Museum
Ali Dhinojwala
Ali Dhinojwala University of Akron
Cheryl Y. Hayashi
Cheryl Y. Hayashi American Museum of Natural History
Dimitar Dimitrov
Dimitar Dimitrov University of Bergen

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