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• Nelson, X. J., Aguilar-Argüello, S., Jackson, R. R. 2020. Widespread army ant aversion among East African jumping spiders (Salticidae). Journal of Ethology, 38, 185-194. doi:10.1007/s10164-020-00639-1. Editor's choice 2020 award.
• ​Nelson, X. J. 2017. Spiders that would be ants. Scientific American, special collector's edition, 26(2): 4-7.
• Nelson, X. J., Card, A. 2016. Locomotory mimicry in ant-like spiders. Behavioral Ecology 27: 700-707. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv218. 
• Nelson, X. J. 2014. The spider's charade. Scientific American 311: 86-89.
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2014. Timid spider uses odor and visual cues  to actively select protected nesting sites near ants. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 68: 773-780. doi:10.1007/s00265-014-1690-2
• Nelson, X. J. 2014. Evolutionary implications of deception in mimicry and masquerade. Current Zoology 60: 6-15.    
• Jackson, R. R., Nelson, X. J.  2012. Specialized predation of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by spiders (Araneae). Myrmecological News 17: 33-49.
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2012. How spiders practice aggressive and Batesian mimicry. Current Zoology 58: 619-628.
• Nelson, X. J.  2012. A predator’s perspective of the accuracy of ant mimicry in spiders. Psyche article ID 168549. doi:10.1155/2012/168549
• Nelson, X. J. 2010. Polymorphism in an ant mimicking jumping spider. Journal of Arachnology 38: 139-141. doi:10.1636/Hi09-36.1
• Nelson, X. J. 2010. Visual cues used by ant-like jumping spiders to distinguish conspecifics from their models. Journal of Arachnology 38: 27-34. doi:10.1636/Hi09-35.1
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2009. Aggressive use of Batesian mimicry by an ant-like jumping spider. Biology Letters 5: 755-757. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0355                           
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2009. Prey classification by an araneophagic ant-like jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Zoology 279: 173-179. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00602.x
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2009. Collective Batesian mimicry of ant groups by aggregating spiders. Animal Behaviour 78: 123-129. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.005 
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2009. The influence of ants on the mating strategy of a myrmecophilic jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 43: 713-735. doi:10.1080/00222930802610469
• Jackson, R. R., Nelson, X. J., Salm, K. 2008. The natural history of Myrmarachne melanotarsa, a social ant-mimicking jumping spider. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 35: 225-235. doi:0301-4223/08/3503-0225
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2008. Anti-predator crèches and aggregations of ant-mimicking jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94: 475-481. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01006.x
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2007. Complex display behaviour during the intraspecific interactions of myrmecomorphic jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 41: 1659-1678. doi:10.1080/00222930701450504
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2007. Vision-based ability of an ant-mimicking jumping spider to discriminate between models, conspecific individuals and prey. Insectes Sociaux 54: 1-4. doi:10.1007/s00040-006-0901-x
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R., Li, D. 2006. Conditional use of honest signaling by a Batesian mimic. Behavioral Ecology 17: 575-580. doi:10.1093/beheco/arj068
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2006. Vision-based innate aversion to ants and ant mimics. Behavioral Ecology 17: 676-681. doi:10.1093/beheco/ark017
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R., Li, D., Barrion, A. T., Edwards, G. B. 2006. Innate aversion to ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and ant mimics: experimental findings from mantises. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88: 23-32. doi:1095-8312.2006.00598.x
• Nelson, X. J., Li, D., Jackson, R. R. 2006. Out of the frying pan and into the fire: a novel trade-off for Batesian mimics. Ethology 112: 270-277. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01155.x
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2006. Compound mimicry and trading predators by the males of sexually dimorphic Batesian mimics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 273: 367-372.  doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3340 
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R., Edwards, G. B., Barrion, A. T. 2005. Living with the enemy: jumping spiders that mimic weaver ants. Journal of Arachnology 33: 813-819. doi:10.1636/S04-12.1
• Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R., Pollard, S. D., Edwards, G. B., Barrion, A. T. 2004. Predation by ants on jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Philippines. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 31: 45-56.  doi:0301-4223/04/3101-0045