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  • Leggett M, Vink C, Nelson XJ 2024. Adaptation and survival of marine-associated spiders (Araneae). Annual Review of Entomology 69, 481-501. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-062923-102457
  • Nelson XJ, Taylor AH, Cartmill EA, Lynn H, Robinson LM, Janik V, Allen C 2023. Joyful by nature: Approaches to investigate the evolution and function of joy in non-human animals. Biological Reviews 98, 1548-1563 doi:10.1111/brv.12965
  • Nelson, X. J. 2014. Animal behavior can inform conservation policy, we just need to get on with the job – or can it? Current Zoology 60: 479-485. 
  • Nelson, X. J., Fijn, N. 2013. The use of visual media as a tool for investigating animal behaviour. Animal Behaviour 85: 525–536. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.009 
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2013. Hunger-driven response by a nectar-eating jumping spider to specific phytochemicals. Chemoecology 23: 149-153. doi:10.1007/s00049-013-0130-5
  • Nelson, X. J., Pratt, A. J., Cheseto, X., Torto, B., Jackson, R. R. 2012. Mediation of a plant-spider association by specific volatile compounds. Journal of Chemical Ecology 38: 1081-1092. doi:10.1007/s10886-012-0175-x
  • Nelson, X. J., Warui, C. M., Jackson, R. R. 2012. Widespread reliance on olfactory sex and species identification by Lyssomanine and Spartaeine jumping spiders. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107: 664-677. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01965.x
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2011. Evidence that olfaction-based affinity for particular plant species is a special characteristic of Evarcha culicivora, a mosquito-specialist jumping spider. Journal of Arachnology 39: 378-383. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000132
  • Nelson, X. J., Garnett, D. T., Evans, C. S. 2010. Receiver psychology and the design of the deceptive caudal luring signal of the death adder. Animal Behaviour 79: 555-561. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.20 09.12.011  'In focus' summary of article in Animal Behaviour
  • Jackson, R. R., Salm, K., Nelson, X. J. 2010. Specialized predatory behaviour of two East African assassin bugs, Scipinnia repax and Nagusta sp. that prey on social jumping spiders. Journal of Insect Science 10: 82.
  • Jackson, R. R., Pollard, S. D., Nelson, X. J., Edwards, G. B., Barrion, A. T. 2001. Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) that feed on nectar.  Journal of Zoology 255: 25-29. doi:10.1017/S095283690100108X
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