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Jutta M. Schneider

Jutta M. Schneider

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
6558
World Ranking
3723
National Ranking
208

Overview

Jutta M. Schneider is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their research spans several subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Insect Science, and Global and Planetary Change. The main topics addressed in their work encompass Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Plant and Animal Studies, Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, and Amphibian and Reptile Biology.

Jutta M. Schneider has published multiple papers in various scientific venues, with frequent publications appearing in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Die Naturwissenschaften, PeerJ, Journal of Arachnology, and Ethology.

  • Sex roles and sex ratios in animals, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Sex differences in spiders: from phenotype to genomics, 2020, Development Genes and Evolution
  • Sperm competition when transfer is dangerous, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The jumping spider Saitis barbipes lacks a red photoreceptor to see its own sexually dimorphic red coloration, 2021, Die Naturwissenschaften
  • Identification of Cuticular and Web Lipids of the Spider Argiope bruennichi, 2022, Journal of Chemical Ecology

The scientist has worked frequently with several co-authors, including Marie E. Herberstein and Katharina Weiß, each with six collaborations, Simona Kralj-Fišer and Bharat Parthasarathy with four collaborations each, and Matjaž Kuntner with three collaborations.

Best Publications

  • Securing paternity in spiders? A review on occurrence and effects of mating plugs and male genital mutilation

    Gabriele Uhl;Æ Stefan H. Nessler;Jutta M. Schneider

  • Female control of paternity in the sexually cannibalistic spider Argiope keyserlingi

    Mark A. Elgar;Jutta M. Schneider;Marie E. Herberstein

  • Evolutionary Significance of Sexual Cannibalism

    Mark A. Elgar;Jutta M. Schneider

  • Costs of courtship and mating in a sexually cannibalistic orb-web spider: female mating strategies and their consequences for males

    M. E. Herberstein;J. M. Schneider;M. A. Elgar

  • Sperm competition and small size advantage for males of the golden orb-web spider Nephila edulis

    J. M. Schneider;M. E. Herberstein;F. C. De Crespigny;S. Ramamurthy

  • Sexual cannibalism and sperm competition in the golden orb-web spider Nephila plumipes (Araneoidea): female and male perspectives

    Jutta M. Schneider;Mark A. Elgar

  • Sexual conflict over copulation duration in a cannibalistic spider

    Jutta M. Schneider;Jutta M. Schneider;Simone Gilberg;Lutz Fromhage;Lutz Fromhage;Gabriele Uhl

  • FAITHFUL WITHOUT CARE: THE EVOLUTION OF MONOGYNY

    Lutz Fromhage;Mark A. Elgar;Jutta M. Schneider

  • INTERSEXUAL ARMS RACE? GENITAL COEVOLUTION IN NEPHILID SPIDERS (ARANEAE, NEPHILIDAE)

    Matjaž Kuntner;Matjaž Kuntner;Jonathan A. Coddington;Jutta M. Schneider

  • Intersexual conflict in spiders

    Jutta M. Schneider;Yael Lubin

  • THE TRANSITION TO SOCIAL INBRED MATING SYSTEMS IN SPIDERS: ROLE OF INBREEDING TOLERANCE IN A SUBSOCIAL PREDECESSOR

    Trine Bilde;Trine Bilde;Yael Lubin;Deborah Smith;Jutta M. Schneider

  • Individual behavioural consistency and plasticity in an urban spider

    Simona Kralj-Fišer;Simona Kralj-Fišer;Jutta M. Schneider

  • Emasculation to plug up females: the significance of pedipalp damage in Nephila fenestrata

    Lutz Fromhage;Jutta M. Schneider

  • Safer sex with feeding females: sexual conflict in a cannibalistic spider

    Lutz Fromhage;Jutta M. Schneider

  • Ectomised conductors in the golden orb-web spider, Nephila plumipes (Araneoidea): a male adaptation to sexual conflict?

    Jutta M. Schneider;Melissa L. Thomas;Mark A. Elgar

  • Genital damage in the orb-web spider Argiope bruennichi (Araneae: Araneidae) increases paternity success

    Stefan H. Nessler;Stefan H. Nessler;Gabriele Uhl;Jutta M. Schneider

  • Fitness consequences of sexual cannibalism in female Argiope bruennichi

    Lutz Fromhage;Gabriele Uhl;Jutta M. Schneider

  • The age and evolution of sociality in Stegodyphus spiders: a molecular phylogenetic perspective

    Jes Johannesen;Yael Lubin;Deborah R Smith;Trine Bilde

  • Infanticide by males in a spider with suicidal maternal care, Stegodyphus lineatus (Eresidae)

    Jutta M Schneider;Yael Lubin

  • Benefits of cooperation with genetic kin in a subsocial spider.

    J. M. Schneider;T. Bilde

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie E. Herberstein
Marie E. Herberstein Macquarie University
Gabriele Uhl
Gabriele Uhl University of Greifswald
Mark A. Elgar
Mark A. Elgar University of Melbourne
Matjaž Kuntner
Matjaž Kuntner National Institute of Biology
Yael Lubin
Yael Lubin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Trine Bilde
Trine Bilde Aarhus University
Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez
Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez Spanish National Research Council
Alexei A. Maklakov
Alexei A. Maklakov University of East Anglia
Deborah R. Smith
Deborah R. Smith University of Kansas
Fritz Vollrath
Fritz Vollrath University of Oxford

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