Caitlin’s a star!

Check out Catlin talk about Science at UNSW, crickets and a whole lot more here. Very lucky to have her joinng the lab in the new...

New DECRA Fellow Dr. Sean Blamnires!

Congratulations to Sean Blamires for winning a DECRA in what was a very brutal round! We very lucky to have him coming to the lab to do some amazing work on the evolution of spider silk...

How female spiders choose where to settle

Our first paper in American Naturalist was just accepted today – Exciting! Kasumovic, M.M. & Jordan, L. A. 2013. The social factors driving settlement and relocation decisions in a solitary and aggregative spider. This paper examined the factors – from...

What’s an integrated phenotype?

Our first review published for the year in Animal Behaviour! My paper is a pert of a special issue in Animal Behaviour on Behavioural Plasticity and Evolution. Kasumovic, M. M. 2013. The multidimensional consequences of the juvenile environment: towards an integrative...

Males, mitochondria and metabolic rates.

Our first paper published by the lab in 2013! Kasumovic MM, Seebacher F. 2013 The active metabolic rate predicts a male spider’s proximity to females and expected fitness. Biol Lett 9: 2012.1164. Download the PDF here. Here’s a pop sci summary in The...