Publications

2022

Aceves-Aparicio, A., Narendra, A., McLean, D.J., Lowe, E.C., Christian, M., Wolff, J.O., Schneider, J.M. & Herberstein, M.E. (2022) Fast acrobatic maneuvers enable arboreal spiders to hunt dangerous prey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2205942119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205942119

Aceves-Aparicio, A., McLean, D. J., Wild, Z., Schneider, J. M., & Herberstein, M. E. (2022). Novel decorating behaviour of silk retreats in a challenging habitat. PeerJ, 10, e12839. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12839

Cadavid-Florez, L., Laborde, J. & McLean, D.J. (2020) Isolated trees and small woody patches greatly contribute to connectivity in highly fragmented tropical landscapes. Landscape and Urban Planning, 196, 103745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103745

Wolff, J. O., Wierucka, K., Paterno, G. B., Coddington, J. A., Hormiga, G., Kelly, M. B. J., Herberstein, M. E., & Ramírez, M. J. (2022). Stabilized Morphological Evolution of Spiders Despite Mosaic Changes in Foraging Ecology. Systematic Biology, syac023. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac023

Kikuchi, D. W., Barfield, M., Herberstein, M. E., Mappes, J., & Holt, R. D. (2022). The Effect of Predator Population Dynamics on Batesian Mimicry Complexes. The American Naturalist, 199(3), 406–419. https://doi.org/10.1086/718162

Wignall, A. E., & Herberstein, M. E. (2022). Male courtship reduces the risk of female aggression in web-building spiders but varies in structure. Behavioral Ecology, 33(1), 280–287. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab140

2021

Hannan, M.A., Rahman, M.A., Sohag, M.A.M., Uddin, M.J., Dash, R., Sikder, M.H., Rahman, M.S., Timalsina, B., Munni, Y.A., Sarker, P.P., Alam, M., Mohibbullah, M., Haque, M.N., Jahan, I., Hossain, M.T., Afrin, T., Rahman, M.M., Tahjib-Ul-Arif, M., Mitra, S., Oktaviani, D.F., Khan, M.K., Choi, H.J., Moon, S.I.* and Kim B*. (2021) Black Cumin (Nigella sativa L.): A Comprehensive Review on Phytochemistry, Health Benefits, Molecular Pharmacology, and Safety. 13, 1784. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13061784

Kelly, M. B. J., McLean, D. J., Wild, Z. K., & Herberstein, M. E. (2021). Measuring mimicry: Methods for quantifying visual similarity. Animal Behaviour, 178, 115–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.011

Khan, M.K.* (2021) Gyncantha chaplini sp. nov., a new dragonfly (Odonata: Aeshnidae) species from Bangladesh. Odonatologica, 50, 95-105. doi-10.5281/zenodo.4746248

Khan, M.K.*, Hämäläinen, M. (2021) The rare and beautiful damselfly Rhinocypha trimaculata rediscovered in Bangladesh: With notes on earlier records, redescription of male and distinguishing characters from R. ignipennis (Odonata: Chlorocyphidae). Notulae odonatologica 9(6), 308-323.

Khan, M. K., & Herberstein, M. E. (2021). Male–male interactions select for conspicuous male coloration in damselflies. Animal Behaviour, 176, 157–166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.04.006

Kikuchi, D. W., Herberstein, M. E., Barfield, M., Holt, R. D., & Mappes, J. (2021). Why aren’t warning signals everywhere? On the prevalence of aposematism and mimicry in communities. Biological Reviews, 96(6), 2446–2460. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12760

McLean, D. J., & Herberstein, M. E. (2021). Mimicry in motion and morphology: Do information limitation, trade-offs or compensation relax selection for mimetic accuracy? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1952), 20210815. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0815

Pekár, S., Wolff, J. O., Černecká, Ľ., Birkhofer, K., Mammola, S., Lowe, E. C., Fukushima, C. S., Herberstein, M. E., Kučera, A., Buzatto, B. A., Djoudi, E. A., Domenech, M., Enciso, A. V., Piñanez Espejo, Y. M. G., Febles, S., García, L. F., Gonçalves-Souza, T., Isaia, M., Lafage, D., … Cardoso, P. (2021). The World Spider Trait database: A centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits. Database, 2021, baab064. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab064

Wolff, J. O., Wierucka, K., Uhl, G., & Herberstein, M. E. (2021). Building behavior does not drive rates of phenotypic evolution in spiders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(33), e2102693118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102693118

2020

Ameri, M., Kemp, D. J., Barry, K. L., & Herberstein, M. E. (2020). Is resting metabolic rate related to reproductive output in an orb-web spider, Argiope radon? Ecological Entomology, 45(5), 1044–1052. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12882

Haque, M.T., Shah, M.N.A., Paul, S., Khan, M.K. & Barua, P.* (2020) Zika viral proteome analysis reveals an epitope cluster within NS3 helicase as a potential vaccine candidate: an in silico study. Informatics in medicine unlocked, 21, 100434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2020.100434

Harvey, J. A., Heinen, R., Armbrecht, I., Basset, Y., Baxter-Gilbert, J. H., Bezemer, T. M., Böhm, M., Bommarco, R., Borges, P. A. V., Cardoso, P., Clausnitzer, V., Cornelisse, T., Crone, E. E., Dicke, M., Dijkstra, K.-D. B., Dyer, L., Ellers, J., Fartmann, T., Forister, M. L., … de Kroon, H. (2020). International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4(2), 174–176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1079-8

Kalkman, V.J.*, Babu, R., Bedjanič, M., Conniff, K., Gyeltshen, T., Khan, M.K., Subramanian, K.A., Zia, A. and Orr, A. (2020) Checklist of the dragonflies and damselflies of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zootaxa, 4849 (1), 1-84.

Khan, M.K.* (2020) Bagworm decorations are an anti-predatory structure. Ecological Entomology, 45 (5), 924-928. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12876.

Khan, M.K.* (2020) Female pre-reproductive colouration reduces mating harassment in damselflies. Evolution, 74(10),2293-2303. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14048

Khan, M. K., & Herberstein, M. E. (2020a). Ontogenetic colour change signals sexual maturity in a non-territorial damselfly. Ethology, 126(1), 51–58. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12959

Khan, M. K., & Herberstein, M. E. (2020b). Ontogenetic habitat shifts reduce costly male–male interactions. Evolutionary Ecology, 34(5), 735–743. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-020-10064-y

Lowe, E. C., Wolff, J. O., Aceves-Aparicio, A., Birkhofer, K., Branco, V. V., Cardoso, P., Chichorro, F., Fukushima, C. S., Gonçalves-Souza, T., Haddad, C. R., Isaia, M., Krehenwinkel, H., Audisio, T. L., Macías-Hernández, N., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Mammola, S., McLean, D. J., Michalko, R., Nentwig, W., … Herberstein, M. E. (2020). Towards establishment of a centralized spider traits database. The Journal of Arachnology, 48(2), 103–109. https://doi.org/10.1636/0161-8202-48.2.103

Magris, M., Wignall, A. E., & Herberstein, M. E. (2020). Courtship and copula duration influence paternity success in a spider. Animal Behaviour, 165, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.04.017

Shah, M.N.A. & Khan, M.K.* (2020) OdoBD: An online database for the dragonflies and damselflies of Bangladesh. PloS ONE, 15(4): e0231727. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231727.

Sohag, A.A.M.*, Hannan, M. A.*, Rahman, S., Hossain, M., Hasan, M., Khan, M. K.,Khatun, A., Dash, R., Uddin, M. J. (2020) Revisiting potential druggable targets against SARS-CoV-2 and repurposing therapeutics under preclinical study and Clinical Trials: A Comprehensive Review. Drug Development Research.81, 919-941. https://doi.org/10.1002/ddr.21709

Sohag, A.A.M., Tahjib-Ul-Arif, M.*, Afrin, S., Khan, M.K., Hannan, M.A.*, Skalicky, M., Mortuza, M.G., Brestic, M., Hossain, M. A., and Murata, Y. (2020) Insights into nitric oxide-mediated water balance, antioxidant defence and mineral homeostasis in rice (Oryza sativa L.) under chilling stress. Nitric Oxide, 100–101, 7–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.niox.2020.04.001.

Tuni, C., Schneider, J., Uhl, G., & Herberstein, M. E. (2020). Sperm competition when transfer is dangerous. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1813), 20200073. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0073

Wolff, J. O., Little, D., & Herberstein, M. E. (2020). Limits of piriform silk adhesion—Similar effects of substrate surface polarity on silk anchor performance in two spider species with disparate microhabitat use. The Science of Nature, 107(4), 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-020-01687-w

2019

Ameri, M., Kemp, D. J., Barry, K. L., & Herberstein, M. E. (2019a). Age-Specific Reproductive Investment and Offspring Performance in an Orb-web Spider, Argiope radon. Evolutionary Biology, 46(2), 207–215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-019-09476-8

Ameri, M., Kemp, D. J., Barry, K. L., & Herberstein, M. E. (2019b). Predator chemical cues decrease attack time and increase metabolic rate in an orb-web spider. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(22), jeb212738. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.212738

Blamires, S. J., Cerexhe, G., White, T. E., Herberstein, M. E., & Kasumovic, M. M. (2019). Spider silk colour covaries with thermal properties but not protein structure. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 16(156), 20190199. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0199

Grannemann, C. C. F., Meyer, M., Reinhardt, M., Ramírez, M. J., Herberstein, M. E., & Joel, A.-C. (2019). Small behavioral adaptations enable more effective prey capture by producing 3D-structured spider threads. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 17273. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53764-4

Khan, M. K., & Herberstein, M. E. (2019). Sexually dimorphic blue bands are intrasexual aposematic signals in nonterritorial damselflies. Animal Behaviour, 156, 21–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.07.011

McLean, D. J., Cassis, G., Kikuchi, D. W., Giribet, G., & Herberstein, M. E. (2019). Insincere Flattery? Understanding the Evolution of Imperfect Deceptive Mimicry. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 94(4), 395-415. https://doi.org/10.1086/706769

Rathnayake, D. N., Lowe, E. C., Rempoulakis, P., & Herberstein, M. E. (2019). Effect of natural predators on Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) (Diptera: Tephritidae) control by sterile insect technique (SIT). Pest Management Science, 75(12), 3356–3362. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5477

Wolff, J. O., Paterno, G. B., Liprandi, D., Ramírez, M. J., Bosia, F., van der Meijden, A., Michalik, P., Smith, H. M., Jones, B. R., Ravelo, A. M., Pugno, N., & Herberstein, M. E. (2019). Evolution of aerial spider webs coincided with repeated structural optimization of silk anchorages. Evolution, 73(10), 2122–2134. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13834

2018

Dumke, M., Herberstein, M. E., & Schneider, J. M. (2018). Advantages of social foraging in crab spiders: Groups capture more and larger prey despite the absence of a web. Ethology, 124(10), 695–705. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12774

Fabricant, S. A., Burdfield-Steel, E. R., Umbers, K., Lowe, E. C., & Herberstein, M. E. (2018). Warning signal plasticity in hibiscus harlequin bugs. Evolutionary Ecology, 32(5), 489–507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-018-9946-3

McLean, D. J., & Skowron Volponi, M. A. (2018). trajr: An R package for characterisation of animal trajectories. Ethology, 124(6), 440-448. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12739

Muschett, G., Umbers, K. D. L., & Herberstein, M. E. (2018). Male mate choice in the chameleon grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis). Ethology, 124(10), 751–759. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12809

Skowron Volponi, M. A., McLean, D. J., Volponi, P., & Dudley, R. (2018). Moving like a model: mimicry of hymenopteran flight trajectories by clearwing moths of Southeast Asian rainforests. Biology Letters, 14(5), 20180152. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0152

Wolff, J. O., Jones, B., & Herberstein, M. E. (2018). Plastic material investment in load-bearing silk attachments in spiders. Zoology, 131, 45–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2018.05.002

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