| Causes and consequences of cooperation and permanent sociality in spiders L Avilés The evolution of social behaviour in insects and arachnids, 1997 | 493 | 1997 |
| Colony size and individual fitness in the social spider Anelosimus eximius L Avilés, P Tufino The American Naturalist 152 (3), 403-418, 1998 | 216 | 1998 |
| Sociality in theridiid spiders: repeated origins of an evolutionary dead end I Agnarsson, L Avilés, JA Coddington, WP Maddison Evolution 60 (11), 2342-2351, 2006 | 209 | 2006 |
| Sex-ratio bias and possible group selection in the social spider Anelosimus eximius L Aviles The American Naturalist 128 (1), 1-12, 1986 | 191 | 1986 |
| Cooperative capture of large prey solves scaling challenge faced by spider societies EC Yip, KS Powers, L Avilés Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (33), 11818-11822, 2008 | 190 | 2008 |
| Cooperation and non-linear dynamics: an ecological perspective on the evolution of sociality L Avilés Evolutionary Ecology Research 1 (4), 459-477, 1999 | 181 | 1999 |
| Interdemic selection and the sex ratio: a social spider perspective L Aviles The American Naturalist 142 (2), 320-345, 1993 | 170 | 1993 |
| Survival benefits select for group living in a social spider despite reproductive costs T Bilde, KS Coates, K Birkhofer, T Bird, AA Maklakov, Y Lubin, L Aviles Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20 (6), 2412-2426, 2007 | 130 | 2007 |
| Solving the freeloaders paradox: genetic associations and frequency-dependent selection in the evolution of cooperation among nonrelatives L Avilés Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (22), 14268-14273, 2002 | 119 | 2002 |
| The phylogeny of the social Anelosimus spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) inferred from six molecular loci and morphology I Agnarsson, WP Maddison, L Avilés Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43 (3), 833-851, 2007 | 98 | 2007 |
| The role of prey size and abundance in the geographical distribution of spider sociality KS Powers, L Avilés Journal of Animal Ecology, 995-1003, 2007 | 95 | 2007 |
| When is the sex ratio biased in social spiders?: Chromosome studies of embryos and male meiosis in Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae) L Avilés, W Maddison Journal of Arachnology, 126-135, 1991 | 88 | 1991 |
| Population differences in behaviour are explained by shared within‐population trait correlations JN Pruitt, SE Riechert, G Iturralde, M Vega, BM Fitzpatrick, L Avilés Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23 (4), 748-756, 2010 | 87 | 2010 |
| Altitudinal Patterns of Spider Sociality and the Biology of a New Midelevation Social Anelosimus Species in Ecuador L Avilés, I Agnarsson, PA Salazar, J Purcell, G Iturralde, EC Yip, ... The American Naturalist 170 (5), 783-792, 2007 | 82 | 2007 |
| Natal dispersal and demography of a subsocial Anelosimus species and its implications for the evolution of sociality in spiders L Avilés, G Gelsey Canadian Journal of Zoology 76 (12), 2137-2147, 1998 | 77 | 1998 |
| Smaller colonies and more solitary living mark higher elevation populations of a social spider J Purcell, L Avilés Journal of Animal Ecology, 590-597, 2007 | 70 | 2007 |
| Precise, highly female–biased sex ratios in a social spider L Aviles, J Mc Cormack, A Cutter, T Bukowski Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2000 | 70 | 2000 |
| Group living and inbreeding depression in a subsocial spider L Avilés, TC Bukowski Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 (1583), 157-163, 2006 | 68 | 2006 |
| Sociality in spiders L Avilés, J Guevara, DR Rubenstein Comparative social evolution, 188-223, 2017 | 67 | 2017 |
| Gradients of precipitation and ant abundance may contribute to the altitudinal range limit of subsocial spiders: insights from a transplant experiment J Purcell, L Avilés Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1651), 2617-2625, 2008 | 66 | 2008 |
Wayne P. MaddisonProfessor, Zoology and Botany, University of British ColumbiaVerified email at mail.ubc.ca
