| 23† Causes and consequences of cooperation and permanent-sociality in spiders L Avilés The evolution of social behavior in insects and arachnids, 476-498, 1997 | 407 | 1997 |
| Sex-ratio bias and possible group selection in the social spider Anelosimus eximius L Aviles The American Naturalist 128 (1), 1-12, 1986 | 174 | 1986 |
| Colony size and individual fitness in the social spider Anelosimus eximius L Avilés, P Tufino The American Naturalist 152 (3), 403-418, 1998 | 165 | 1998 |
| Interdemic selection and the sex ratio: a social spider perspective L Aviles The American Naturalist 142 (2), 320-345, 1993 | 157 | 1993 |
| 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 | 156 | 2006 |
| Cooperation and non-linear dynamics: an ecological perspective on the evolution of sociality L Avilés Evolutionary Ecology Research 1 (4), 459-477, 1999 | 149 | 1999 |
| 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 | 131 | 2008 |
| 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 | 96 | 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 | 90 | 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 | 81 | 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 | 79 | 1991 |
| Population differences in behaviour are explained by shared within‐population trait correlations JN Pruitt, SE Riechert, G Iturralde, M Vega, BM Fitzpatrick, L Aviles Journal of evolutionary biology 23 (4), 748-756, 2010 | 75 | 2010 |
| The role of prey size and abundance in the geographical distribution of spider sociality KS Powers, L Avilés Journal of Animal Ecology 76 (5), 995-1003, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| 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 | 64 | 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 | 64 | 1998 |
| 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 | 62 | 2000 |
| Smaller colonies and more solitary living mark higher elevation populations of a social spider J Purcell, L Aviles Journal of Animal Ecology 76 (3), 590-597, 2007 | 59 | 2007 |
| 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, 2005 | 54 | 2005 |
| Natal Dispersal Patterns of a Subsocial Spider Anelosimus cf. jucundus (Theridiidae) KS Powers, L Aviles Ethology 109 (9), 725-737, 2003 | 53 | 2003 |
| The kin composition of social groups: trading group size for degree of altruism L Avilés, JA Fletcher, AD Cutter The American Naturalist 164 (2), 132-144, 2004 | 51 | 2004 |
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