Ingi Agnarsson

Research interests

Publications

• Golden Orbweavers Ignore Biological Rules: Phylogenomic and Comparative Analyses Unravel a Complex Evolution of Sexual Size Dimorphism

  Systematic Biology · 2018 · 10.1093/sysbio/syy082

• The Nephila clavipes genome highlights the diversity of spider silk genes and their complex expression

  Nature Genetics · 2017 · 10.1038/ng.3852

• Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

  PeerJ · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1719

• A trade-off between precopulatory and postcopulatory trait investment in male cetaceans

  Evolution · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12676

• Phylogenomics Resolves a Spider Backbone Phylogeny and Rejects a Prevailing Paradigm for Orb Web Evolution

  Current Biology · 2014 · 10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.034

• A time-calibrated species-level phylogeny of bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia)

  PLoS Currents · 2011 · 10.1371/currents.rrn1212

• The Form and Function of Spider Orb Webs

  Advances in insect physiology · 2011 · 10.1016/b978-0-12-415919-8.00004-5

• Evolutionary breakdown of pollination specialization in a Caribbean plant radiation

  New Phytologist · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03330.x

• Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

  PLoS ONE · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011234

• Shark tales: A molecular species-level phylogeny of sharks (Selachimorpha, Chondrichthyes)

  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2010 · 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.018

• Behavioural and biomaterial coevolution in spider orb webs

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 2010 · 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02048.x

• Undersampling bias: the null hypothesis for singleton species in tropical arthropod surveys

  Journal of Animal Ecology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01525.x

• Dogs, cats, and kin: A molecular species-level phylogeny of Carnivora

  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2009 · 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.10.033

• Spider silk as a novel high performance biomimetic muscle driven by humidity

  Journal of Experimental Biology · 2009 · 10.1242/jeb.028282

• How super is supercontraction? Persistent versus cyclic responses to humidity in spider dragline silk

  Journal of Experimental Biology · 2009 · 10.1242/jeb.028944

• Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901377106

• Is ACCTRAN better than DELTRAN?

  Cladistics · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00229.x

• The phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla: The importance of dense taxon sampling, missing data, and the remarkable promise of cytochrome b to provide reliable species-level phylogenies

  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2008 · 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.046

• Phylogenetic review of tonal sound production in whales in relation to sociality

  BMC Evolutionary Biology · 2007 · 10.1186/1471-2148-7-136

• Taxonomy in a Changing World: Seeking Solutions for a Science in Crisis

  Systematic Biology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150701424546

• SOCIALITY IN THERIDIID SPIDERS: REPEATED ORIGINS OF AN EVOLUTIONARY DEAD END

  Evolution · 2006 · 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2006.tb01869.x

• A revision of the New World eximius lineage of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae) and a phylogenetic analysis using worldwide exemplars

  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2006 · 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00213.x

• Cytochrome b and Bayesian inference of whale phylogeny

  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2005 · 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.09.019

• Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)

  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2004 · 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x

• From a comb to a tree: phylogenetic relationships of the comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes

  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2003 · 10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00261-6

Current projects

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