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Colin M. Wright, James L. L. Lichtenstein, Grant N. Doering, Justin Pretorius, Joel Meunier, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. "Collective personalities: present knowledge and new frontiers." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

James L. L. Lichtenstein, Karis A. Daniel, Joanna B. Wong, Colin M. Wright, Grant N. Doering, Raul Costa-Pereira, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. "Habitat structure changes the relationships between predator behavior, prey behavior, and prey survival rates." Oecologia

Ambika A. Kamath, Skylar D. Primavera, Colin M. Wright, Grant N. Doering, Kirsten A. Sheehy, Noa Pinter-Wollman, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. "Collective behavior and colony persistence of social spiders depends on their physical environment." Behavioral Ecology

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Sara E. Miller, Sarah E. Bluher, Emily Bell, Alessandro Cini, Rafael Carvalho da Silva, André Rodrigues de Souza, Kristine M. Gandia et al. "WASP nest: a worldwide assessment of social Polistine nesting behavior." Ecology

Carl N. Keiser, James LL Lichtenstein, Colin M. Wright, Gregory T. Chism, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. "Personality and behavioral syndromes in insects and spiders." Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences

Grant N. Doering, Ambika Kamath, Colin M. Wright, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. "Evidence for contrasting size-frequency distributions of workers patrolling vegetation vs. the ground in the polymorphic African ant Anoplolepis custodiens." Insectes Sociaux

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Jonathan N. Pruitt*, Colin M. Wright*, James L.L. Lichtenstein*, Gregory T. Chism, Brendan L. McEwen, Ambika Kamath, Noa Pinter-Wollman. "Selection for collective aggressiveness favors social susceptibility in social spiders." Current Biology

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James L.L. Lichtenstein, Colin M. Wright, Brendan McEwen, Noa Pinter-Wollman, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. “The multidimensional behavioral hypervolumes of two interacting species predict their space use and survival." Animal Behaviour

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Colin M. Wright, James L. L. Lichtenstein, Graham A. Montgomery, Lauren P. Luscuskie, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. “Ant presence erases the effect of colony personality and diminishes overall collective foraging in a social spider.” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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Colin M. Wright, Trevor D. Hyland, Amanda S. Izzo, Donna R. McDermott, Elizabeth A. Tibbetts, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. “Polistes metricus queens exhibit personality variation and behavioral syndromes.” Current Zoology

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Colin M. Wright, Vaughan E. Skinker, Amanda S. Izzo, Elizabeth A. Tibbetts, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. “Queen personality type predicts nest guarding behavior, colony size, and the subsequent collective aggressiveness of the colony.” Animal Behaviour

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James L. L. Lichtenstein, Colin M. Wright, Lauren P. Luscuskie, Graham A. Montgomery, Noa Pinter-Wollman, Jonathan N. Pruitt. “Participation in cooperative prey capture and the benefits gained from it are associated with individual personality.” Current Zoology

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Carl N. Keiser, Colin M. Wright, Jonathan N. Pruitt (2016). “Increased bacterial load can reduce or negate the effects of keystone individuals on group collective behavior.” Animal Behaviour

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Jonathan N. Pruitt, Colin M. Wright, Carl N. Keiser, Alex E. DeMarco, Matthew M. Grobis, and Noa Pinter-Wollman. "The Achilles' heel hypothesis: misinformed keystone individuals impair collective learning and reduce group success." Proceedings of the Royal Society B

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Carl N. Keiser*, Colin M. Wright*, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. “Warring arthropod societies: social spider colonies can delay annihilation by predatory ants via reduced apparency and increased group size.” Behavioural Processes

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Colin M. Wright*, Carl N. Keiser*, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. “Personality and morphology shape task participation, collective foraging and escape behavior in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola.” Animal Behaviour

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Andreas P. Modlmeier, Carl N. Keiser, Colin M. Wright, James L. L. Lichtenstein, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. “Integrating animal personality into insect population ecology.” Current Opinion in Insect Science

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Carl N. Keiser, Colin M. Wright, Nishant Singh, Joseph A. Deshane, Andreas P. Modlmeier and Jonathan N. Pruitt. “Cross-fostering by foreign conspecific queens and slavemaking workers influences individual and colony-level personality.” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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Colin M. Wright, C. Tate Holbrook, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. "Animal personality aligns task specialization and task proficiency in a spider society." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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C. Tate Holbrook, Colin M. Wright, and Jonathan N. Pruitt. “Individual variation in personality and behavioural plasticity facilitates division of labour in social spider colonies.” Animal Behaviour

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Colin M. Wright. “The Impact of Traditional and Folk Medicine on Biodiversity.” The Science in Society Review