T.J. - Principle Investigator,
Captain of the research vessel

Office:
423-439-6930
Fax:
423-439-5958
email:
jonestc@etsu.edu
Thomas C. Jones
Behavioral Ecology, Neuroethology, Science Education

Publications

Jones, TC, TS Akoury, CK Hauser, & D Moore. Evidence of circadian rhythm in antipredator behaviour in the orb-weaving spider Larinioides cornutus. in press Anim. Behav.

Jones, TC, TS Akoury, CK Hauser, MF Neblett II, BJ Linville, AA Edge, NO Weber.  Octopamine and serotonin have opposite effects on antipredator behavior in the orb-weaving spider, Larinioides cornutus.   J Comp Physiol A 197:819-825.  pdf

Jones, TC, JN Pruitt, & SE Riechert. 2010.  Fecundity and reproductive success in a socially polymorphic spider: social individuals experience depressed fitness when in isolation.  Ecological Entomology 35: 684-690 pdf

Yasukawa, K, DE Enstrom, PG Parker, & TC Jones.  2010. Male Red winged Blackbirds with experimentally dulled epaulets experience no disadvantage in sexual selection.  The Journal of Field Ornithology 81:31-41 pdf

Yasukawa, K, DE Enstrom, PG Parker, & TC Jones.  2009.  Epaulet color and sexual selection in redwing blackbirds: a field experiment.  The Condor 111:740-751 pdf
Jones, TC & TF Laughlin.  2010.  PopGen Fishbowl: a free, online simulation of microevolutionary processes.The American Biology Teacher 72:100-103 pdf
Jones, TC & TF Laughlin.  2009. Learning to measure biodiversity: two agent-based models simulate sampling methods and provide data for calculating diversity indices. The American Biology Teacher 71:406-410  pdf
Jones, TC & SE Riechert.  2008. Patterns of reproductive success associated with social structure and  microclimate in a spider system. Animal Behaviour 76:2011-2019. pdf
Jones, TC & PG Parker.  2008.  First male sperm precedence in multiply-mated females of the cooperative spider Anelosimus studiosus (Araneae, Theridiidae)  J. Arachnology 36:527-532.  pdf

Riechert, SE & TC Jones.  2008. Phenotypic variation in the social behaviour of the spider, Anelosimus studiosus along a latitudinal gradient. Animal Behaviour 75:1893-1902. pdf

Pruitt, J. N.,  S. E.  Riechert. & T. C. Jones 2008 Behavioural correlates and competitive consequences of sociality in a behaviourally polymorphic social spider.  Animal Behaviour 76:871-879. pdf
Jones, TC, SE Riechert SE Dalrymple & PG Parker. 2007. Fostering model explains environmental variation in levels of sociality in a spider system.  Animal Behaviour 73:195-204. pdf

Perkins, TA, SE Riechert, TC Jones. 2007. Interactions between the social spider Anelosimus studiosus (Araneae, Theridiidae) and foreign spiders that frequent its nests.  J. Arachnology 35:143-152. pdf

Jones, TC & PG Parker.  2002.  Delayed dispersal benefits both mother and offspring in the cooperative spider Anelosimus studiosus (Araneae: Theridiidae).  Behavioural Ecology 13:142-148. pdf
Riechert, SE, FD Singer & TC Jones. 2001.  High gene flow levels lead to gamete wastage in a desert spider system.  Genetica 112/113: 297-319. pdf
Jones, TC & PG Parker. 2000.  Costs and benefits of foraging associated with delayed dispersal in the spider Anelosimus studiosus (Araneae: Theridiidae). J. Arachnol. 28:61-69. pdf

Huyvaert, KP, DJ Anderson, TC Jones, W Duan & PG Parker.  2000.  Extra-pair paternity in Waved albatrosses.  Molecular Ecology. 9: 1415-1419 SEP 2000. pdf

Parker, PG, TC Jones, J Haydock, J Dickinson & BD Worden.  2000.  Multilocus minisatellite DNA fingerprinting and cooperative breeding.  Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.  47:108-111. pdf

Jones, TC & MA Gates.  1994.  A morphometric study of euryhalinity in marine populations of the ciliate genus Euplotes.  J. Eukary. Microbiol., 41:303-316. pdf

Jones, TC & MA Gates.  1994.  A morphometric analysis of the Euplotes charon morphotype (Ciliophora: Euplotida). J. Eukary. Microbiol., 41:441-450. pdf