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  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jonathan A. Coddington is affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific domains, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a considerable portion of their work also related to environmental science.

Their specific subfields of study include molecular biology, ecology, genetics, paleontology, and ecological modeling. The research topics they have contributed to cover a range of areas such as genomics and phylogenetic studies, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, identification and quantification in food, species distribution and climate change, spider taxonomy and behavior studies, subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, and chromosomal and genetic variations.

Jonathan A. Coddington has contributed to the following recent papers:

  • The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Why sequence all eukaryotes?, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Standards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Multilateral benefit-sharing from digital sequence information will support both science and biodiversity conservation, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Stabilized Morphological Evolution of Spiders Despite Mosaic Changes in Foraging Ecology, 2022, Systematic Biology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anna K. Childers
  • Mara Lawniczak
  • Mark Blaxter
  • Bernardo F. Santos
  • Harris A. Lewin

They have published extensively in the following venues:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Systematic Biology
  • Biodiversity Data Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications

Jonathan A. Coddington has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2003.

Best Publications

  • Estimating Terrestrial Biodiversity through Extrapolation

    Robert K. Colwell;Jonathan A. Coddington

  • Systematics and Evolution of Spiders (Araneae)

    Jonathan A. Coddington;Herbert W. Levi

  • Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life.

    Harris A. Lewin;Gene E. Robinson;W. John Kress;William J. Baker

  • THE ANT FAUNA OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST: ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS THREE DIFFERENT WAYS

    John T. Longino;Jonathan Coddington;Robert K. Colwell

  • CLADISTIC TESTS OF ADAPTATIONAL HYPOTHESES

    Jonathan A. Coddington

  • Global Patterns of Guild Composition and Functional Diversity of Spiders

    Pedro Cardoso;Stanislav Pekár;Rudy Jocqué;Jonathan A. Coddington

  • The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling

    Ward C. Wheeler;Jonathan A. Coddington;Louise M. Crowley;Dimitar Dimitrov;Dimitar Dimitrov

  • The i5K initiative: Advancing arthropod genomics for knowledge, human health, agriculture, and the environment

    Jay D Evans;Susan J Brown;Kevin J Hackett;Gene Robinson

  • The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution

    Evelyn E. Schwager;Evelyn E. Schwager;Prashant P. Sharma;Thomas Clarke;Thomas Clarke;Thomas Clarke;Daniel J. Leite

  • 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

  • Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea)

    Charles E. Griswold;Jonathan A. Coddington;Gustavo Hormiga;Nikolaj Scharff

  • Estimating Spider Species Richness in a Southern Appalachian Cove Hardwood Forest

    Jonathan A. Coddington;Laurel H. Young;Frederick A. Coyle

  • Designing and Testing Sampling Protocols to Estimate Biodiversity in Tropical Ecosystems

    Jonathan A. Coddington;C. E. Griswold;D. Silva;E. Peñaranda

  • A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae)

    Nikolaj Scharff;Jonathan A. Coddington

  • ON MISSING ENTRIES IN CLADISTIC ANALYSIS

    Norman I. Platnick;Charles E. Griswold;Jonathan A. Coddington

  • Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

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

  • Ontogeny and Homology in the Male Palpus of Orb Weaving Spiders and their Relatives, with Comments on Phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea)

    Jonathan A. Coddington

  • PROBLEMS WITH ZERO‐LENGTH BRANCHES

    Jonathan A. Coddington;Nikolaj Scharff

  • Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny

    Charles E. Griswold;Martin J. Ramirez;Jonathan A. Coddington;Norman I. Platnick

  • Spinneret Morphology and the Phylogeny of Haplogyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae)

    N. I. Platnick;Jonathan A. Coddington;R. R. Forster;C. E. Griswold

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingi Agnarsson
Ingi Agnarsson University of Iceland
Matjaž Kuntner
Matjaž Kuntner National Institute of Biology
Charles E. Griswold
Charles E. Griswold California Academy of Sciences
Gustavo Hormiga
Gustavo Hormiga George Washington University
Norman I. Platnick
Norman I. Platnick American Museum of Natural History
Cheryl Y. Hayashi
Cheryl Y. Hayashi American Museum of Natural History
Dimitar Dimitrov
Dimitar Dimitrov University of Bergen
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards South Australian Museum
Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
Guojie Zhang
Guojie Zhang Zhejiang University

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