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Jonathan N. Pruitt

Jonathan N. Pruitt

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
6861
World Ranking
5581
National Ranking
361

Overview

Jonathan N. Pruitt is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and specializes in research intersecting Agricultural and Biological Sciences, as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work primarily focuses on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, with significant contributions in Genetics and related subfields.

The main research topics covered by Jonathan N. Pruitt include:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Jonathan N. Pruitt has published in a variety of journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Animal Behaviour
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Biology Letters

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Jonathan N. Pruitt include:

  • Imperfect transparency and camouflage in glass frogs, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Reduced lactate dehydrogenase activity in the heart and suppressed sex hormone levels are associated with female-biased mortality during thermal stress in Pacific salmon, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Comparative Genomics Identifies Putative Signatures of Sociality in Spiders, 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Habitat disturbance alters color contrast and the detectability of cryptic and aposematic frogs, 2021, Behavioral Ecology
  • Noise resistant synchronization and collective rhythm switching in a model of animal group locomotion, 2022, Royal Society Open Science

Collaborative work is an important aspect of their research practice, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Carl N. Keiser
  • James B. Barnett
  • Hannah M. Anderson
  • Brendan L. McEwen
  • David N. Fisher

Best Publications

  • Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

    Andrew Sih;Julien Cote;Mara Evans;Sean Fogarty

  • Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels

    Jennifer M. Jandt;Sarah Bengston;Noa Pinter-Wollman;Jonathan N. Pruitt

  • How within-group behavioural variation and task efficiency enhance fitness in a social group

    Jonathan N. Pruitt;Susan E. Riechert

  • The keystone individual concept: an ecological and evolutionary overview

    Andreas P. Modlmeier;Carl N. Keiser;Jason V. Watters;Andy Sih

  • Behavioural syndromes and their fitness consequences in a socially polymorphic spider, Anelosimus studiosus

    Jonathan N. Pruitt;Susan E. Riechert;Thomas C. Jones;Thomas C. Jones

  • Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions

    Jonathan N. Pruitt;Charles J. Goodnight

  • Behavioral types of predator and prey jointly determine prey survival: potential implications for the maintenance of within-species behavioral variation.

    Jonathan N. Pruitt;John J. Stachowicz;Andrew Sih

  • Personality composition is more important than group size in determining collective foraging behaviour in the wild

    Carl N. Keiser;Jonathan N. Pruitt

  • Intraspecific trait variants determine the nature of interspecific interactions in a habitat-forming species

    Jonathan N. Pruitt;Maud C. O. Ferrari

  • Linking levels of personality: personalities of the ‘average’ and ‘most extreme’ group members predict colony-level personality

    Jonathan N. Pruitt;Lena Grinsted;Virginia Settepani

  • Evidence of social niche construction: persistent and repeated social interactions generate stronger personalities in a social spider

    Kate L. Laskowski;Jonathan N. Pruitt

  • Individual personalities shape task differentiation in a social spider.

    Lena Grinsted;Jonathan N. Pruitt;Virginia Settepani;Trine Bilde

  • Sex matters: sexually dimorphic fitness consequences of a behavioural syndrome

    Jonathan N. Pruitt;Susan E. Riechert

  • The personality types of key catalytic individuals shape colonies' collective behaviour and success.

    Jonathan N. Pruitt;Carl N. Keiser

  • Behavioral competence: how host behaviors can interact to influence parasite transmission risk

    DG Barron;SS Gervasi;JN Pruitt;LB Martin

  • Population differences in behaviour are explained by shared within-population trait correlations.

    Jonathan N Pruitt;Susan E Riechert;Gabriel Iturralde;Mauricio Vega

  • Varying predator personalities generates contrasting prey communities in an agroecosystem.

    Raphaël Royauté;Jonathan N. Pruitt

  • Animal personality aligns task specialization and task proficiency in a spider society.

    Colin M. Wright;C. Tate Holbrook;Jonathan N. Pruitt

  • Juvenile exposure to acoustic sexual signals from conspecifics alters growth trajectory and an adult personality trait

    Nicholas DiRienzo;Jonathan N. Pruitt;Ann V. Hedrick

  • Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider

    Jonathan N. Pruitt;Jonathan N. Pruitt;Kyle W. Demes;Dylan R. Dittrich-Reed

  • FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SUCCESS OF CHEATERS DURING FORAGING BOUTS MIGHT LIMIT THEIR SPREAD WITHIN COLONIES OF A SOCIALLY POLYMORPHIC SPIDER

    Jonathan N. Pruitt;Susan E. Riechert

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan E. Riechert
Susan E. Riechert University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Inon Scharf
Inon Scharf Tel Aviv University
Elizabeth A. Tibbetts
Elizabeth A. Tibbetts University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ingi Agnarsson
Ingi Agnarsson University of Iceland
Leticia Avilés
Leticia Avilés University of British Columbia
Andrew Sih
Andrew Sih University of California, Davis
Walter P. Carson
Walter P. Carson University of Pittsburgh
Thomas W. Schoener
Thomas W. Schoener University of California, Davis
Julien Cote
Julien Cote Paul Sabatier University
Andrew J. Brooks
Andrew J. Brooks University of California, Santa Barbara

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