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Publications
Publications
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Purcell J, Chapuisat M, In Press. Bidirectional shifts in colony queen number in a socially polymorphic ant population.
Evolution
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Avilés L., Purcell J., 2012. The evolution of inbred social systems in spiders and other organisms: from short-term gains to long-term evolutionary dead-ends? pp. 99-133 in Brockmann H.J., Roper T.J., Naguib M., Mitani J.C., Simmons L.W. (eds.) Advances in the Study of Behavior. Elsevier. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Purcell J., Brelsford A., Avilés L., 2012. Co-evolution between sociality and dispersal: The role of synergistic cooperative benefits.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
312C pp. 44-54. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Purcell J., Brütsch T., Chapuisat M., 2012. Effects of the social environment on the survival and fungal resistance of ant brood.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
66(3) pp. 467-474. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Purcell J., Chapuisat M., 2012. The influence of social structure on brood survival and development in a socially polymorphic ant: insights from a cross-fostering experiment.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
25(11) pp. 2288-2297. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Purcell J., Vasconcellos-Neto J., Gonzaga M.O., Fletcher J.A., Avilés L., 2012. Spatio-temporal differentiation and sociality in spiders.
PLoS One
7(4) pp. e34592. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Avilés L, Purcell J, 2011. Anelosimus oritoyacu, a cloud forest social spider with only slightly female-biased primary sex ratios.
Journal of Arachnology
39 pp. 178-182. [DOI]
Purcell J., 2011. Geographic patterns in the distribution of social systems in terrestrial arthropods.
Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
86(2) pp. 475-491. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Reber A., Purcell J., Buechel S.D., Buri P., Chapuisat M., 2011. The expression and impact of antifungal grooming in ants.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
24(5) pp. 954-964. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Purcell J, Avilés L, 2008. Gradients of precipitation and ant abundance may contribute to the altitudinal range limit of subsocial spiders: Insights from a transplant experiment.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
275 pp. 2617-2625.
Avilés L., Agnarsson I., Salazar P., Purcell J., Iturralde G., Yip E., Powers K.S., 2007. Altitudinal patterns of spider sociality and the biology of a new mid-elevation social Anelosimus species in Ecuador.
American Naturalist
170 pp. 783-792.
Purcell J, Brodin A, 2007. Factors influencing route choice by avian migrants: A dynamic programming model of Pacific brant migration.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
249 pp. 804-816.
Purcell J., Avilés L., 2007. Smaller colonies and more solitary living mark higher elevation populations of a social spider.
Journal of Animal Ecology
76 pp. 783-792.
Purcell J., Brelsford A., 2004. Reassessing the causes of decline of Polylepis, a tropical subalpine woodland.
Ecotropica
10 pp. 155-158.
Purcell J., Brelsford A., Kessler M., 2004. The world's highest forest.
American Scientist
92 pp. 454-464.
