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Jonathan A. Coddington's Degrees

PhD Entomology University of Maryland, College Park
Masters Entomology University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelors Biology University of Maryland, College Park

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According to Wikipedia, Jonathan A. Coddington is an American museum scientist and biologist. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Associate Director for Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History , located in Washington, D.C., United States. , he is the Director of the Global Genome Initiative and Senior Scientist and Curator of Arachnids and Myriapods at the NMNH.

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Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. (1994) (4294)
Systematics and Evolution of Spiders (Araneae) (1991) (779)
THE ANT FAUNA OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST: ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS THREE DIFFERENT WAYS (2002) (628)
Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life (2018) (492)
CLADISTIC TESTS OF ADAPTATIONAL HYPOTHESES (1988) (407)
Global Patterns of Guild Composition and Functional Diversity of Spiders (2011) (359)
Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era (2009) (328)
The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling (2017) (305)
Undersampling bias: the null hypothesis for singleton species in tropical arthropod surveys. (2009) (300)
Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea) (1998) (300)
ON MISSING ENTRIES IN CLADISTIC ANALYSIS (1991) (290)
A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae) (1997) (280)
The i5K Initiative: advancing arthropod genomics for knowledge, human health, agriculture, and the environment. (2013) (279)
Estimating Spider Species Richness in a Southern Appalachian Cove Hardwood Forest (1996) (246)
The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution (2017) (244)
Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life (2016) (231)
PROBLEMS WITH ZERO‐LENGTH BRANCHES (1994) (223)
Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny (2005) (221)
Designing and Testing Sampling Protocols to Estimate Biodiversity in Tropical Ecosystems (1991) (212)
Ontogeny and Homology in the Male Palpus of Orb Weaving Spiders and their Relatives, with Comments on Phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea) (1990) (193)
Inventorying and Estimating Subcanopy Spider Diversity Using Semiquantitative Sampling Methods in an Afromontane Forest (2002) (187)
Spinneret Morphology and the Phylogeny of Haplogyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae) (1991) (186)
The phylogenetic basis of sexual size dimorphism in orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae). (2000) (173)
The Monophyletic Origin of the Orb Web (1986) (173)
SOCIALITY IN THERIDIID SPIDERS: REPEATED ORIGINS OF AN EVOLUTIONARY DEAD END (2006) (170)
Spinneret Silk Spigot Morphology: Evidence for the Monophyly of Orbweaving Spiders, Cyrtophorinae (Araneidae), and the Group Theridiidae Plus Nesticidae (1989) (166)
The functional significance of silk decorations of orb‐web spiders: a critical review of the empirical evidence (2000) (165)
WHEN TO QUIT? ESTIMATING SPIDER SPECIES RICHNESS IN A NORTHERN EUROPEAN DECIDUOUS FOREST (2003) (152)
Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb‐weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies (2008) (147)
From a comb to a tree: phylogenetic relationships of the comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes. (2004) (145)
Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae) (1999) (129)
Are three-dimensional spider webs defensive adaptations? (2002) (122)
Web-construction Behaviour in Australian Phonognatha and the Phylogeny of Nephiline and Tetragnathid Spiders (Araneae : Tetragnathidae) (1995) (117)
Amazonian biodiversity: assessing conservation priorities with taxonomic data (1998) (115)
The Genera of the Spider Family Theridiosomatidae (1986) (114)
A Devonian Spinneret: Early Evidence of Spiders and Silk Use (1989) (109)
Phylogeny and Classification of Spiders (2005) (109)
Vulnerability and Resilience of Tropical Forest Species to Land‐Use Change (2009) (105)
Giant female or dwarf male spiders? (1997) (101)
EVOLUTION OF STENOPHAGY IN SPIDERS (ARANEAE): EVIDENCE BASED ON THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SPIDER DIETS (2012) (101)
Intersexual Arms Race? Genital Coevolution in Nephilid Spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae) (2009) (99)
The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Portal (2013) (87)
The Roles of Homology and Convergence in Studies of Adaptation (1994) (87)
Vouchering DNA-barcoded specimens: test of a nondestructive extraction protocol for terrestrial arthropods (2007) (86)
Spider (Araneae) Community Structure in an Intertidal Salt Marsh: Effects of Vegetation Structure and Tidal Flooding (1990) (80)
Linking of digital images to phylogenetic data matrices using a morphological ontology. (2007) (71)
Golden Orbweavers Ignore Biological Rules: Phylogenomic and Comparative Analyses Unravel a Complex Evolution of Sexual Size Dimorphism (2018) (71)
EVOLUTIONARY SHIFTS IN THE SPECTRAL PROPERTIES OF SPIDER SILKS (1994) (71)
A Temporary Slide-mount Allowing Precise Manipulation of Small Structures (1983) (70)
ORB WEBS IN “NON‐ORB WEAVING” OGRE‐FACED SPIDERS (ARANEAE: DINOPIDAE): A QUESTION OF GENEALOGY (1986) (70)
Cladistics and Spider Classification: Araneomorph Phylogeny and the Monophyly of Orbweavers (Araneae: Araneomorphae, Orbiculariae) (1991) (69)
Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila (2009) (69)
Spiders of Pakitza (Madre de Dios, Perú): species richness and notes on community structure (1996) (69)
Systematics: progress in the study of spider diversity and evolution (2013) (69)
The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Standard specification (2016) (64)
Next-generation museum genomics: Phylogenetic relationships among palpimanoid spiders using sequence capture techniques (Araneae: Palpimanoidea). (2018) (58)
The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock (2022) (58)
A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) : with notes on theridiid interrelationships. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 193 (1990) (57)
BRIDGES BETWEEN EVOLUTIONARY PATTERN AND PROCESS (1990) (54)
Phylogeny of the orb‐weaving spider family Araneidae (Araneae: Araneoidea) (2020) (54)
Sexual Size Dimorphism: Evolution and Perils of Extreme Phenotypes in Spiders. (2020) (40)
The founding charter of the Genomic Observatories Network (2014) (40)
MORPHOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF COBWEB SPIDER MALEGENITALIA (ARANEAE, THERIDIIDAE) (2007) (38)
From Gondwana to GAARlandia: Evolutionary history and biogeography of ogre‐faced spiders (Deinopis) (2018) (37)
PROBLEMS WITH “SOFT” POLYTOMIES (1996) (37)
The Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating (1985) (35)
Phylogeography of a good Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae, Araneidae) and a new ‘cryptic’ species from Cuba (2016) (31)
Web Manipulation and Two Stereotyped Attack Behaviors in the Ogre-Faced Spider Deinopis Spinosus Marx (Araneae, Deinopidae) (1987) (31)
Spiders did not repeatedly gain, but repeatedly lost, foraging webs (2018) (30)
Ontogenetic Changes in the Spinning Fields of Nuctenea Cornuta and Neoscona Theisi (Araneae, Araneidae) (1990) (29)
Quantitative tests of primary homology (2008) (26)
Systematics of the Spider Family Deinopidae with a Revision of the Genus Menneus (2012) (26)
Spintharus flavidus in the Caribbean—a 30 million year biogeographical history and radiation of a ‘widespread species’ (2015) (26)
DNA barcode data accurately assign higher spider taxa (2016) (26)
Gauging megadiversity with optimized and standardized sampling protocols: A case for tropical forest spiders (2016) (25)
The U.S. Culture Collection Network Responding to the Requirements of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (2017) (25)
Why sequence all eukaryotes? (2022) (25)
Estimating biodiversity: a case study on true bugs in argentinian wetlands (2009) (25)
Guidelines for collecting vouchers and tissues intended for genomic work (Smithsonian Institution): Botany Best Practices (2017) (24)
Global Genome Biodiversity Network: saving a blueprint of the Tree of Life – a botanical perspective (2016) (24)
HAVE MALE AND FEMALE GENITALIA COEVOLVED? A PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF GENITALIC MORPHOLOGY AND SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN WEB-BUILDING SPIDERS (ARANEAE: ARANEOIDEA) (2005) (24)
Greater than X kb: a quantitative assessment of preservation conditions on genomic DNA quality, and a proposed standard for genome-quality DNA (2016) (22)
Observations on the Web and Behavior of Wendilgarda Spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) (1980) (22)
Shifting continents, not behaviours: independent colonization of solitary and subsocial Anelosimus spider lineages on Madagascar (Araneae, Theridiidae) (2010) (21)
Progress Report on the Phylogeny of the Orb-weaving Family Araneidae and the Superfamily Araneoidea (Arachnida: Araneae) (1983) (20)
Testing ecological and developmental hypotheses of mean and variation in adult size in nephilid orb-weaving spiders (2011) (19)
Systematics, Ecology, and Behavior: Integrating Phylogenetic Patterns and Evolutionary Mechanisms (1995) (18)
Fecundity increase supports adaptive radiation hypothesis in spider web evolution (2009) (18)
The Systematic Status of Arachnida, Exclusive of Acari, in North America North of Mexico (1990) (17)
The unique ribbon morphology of the major ampullate silk of spiders from the genus Loxosceles (recluse spiders). (2002) (17)
Standards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project (2022) (16)
Nomenclatural benchmarking: the roles of digital typification and telemicroscopy (2012) (15)
Open access genomic resources for terrestrial arthropods. (2018) (14)
Multilateral benefit-sharing from digital sequence information will support both science and biodiversity conservation (2022) (14)
ForumProblems With Zero-length Branches (1994) (13)
Functional Aspects of the Male Palpal Organs in Dolomedes tenebrosus, with notes on the Mating Behavior (Araneae, Pisauridae) (1988) (12)
Phylogeny Predicts Future Habitat Shifts Due to Climate Change (2014) (12)
Mass Aggregations in Tropical Harvestment (Opiliones, Gragrellidae: Prionostemma sp.) (1990) (12)
Data Release: DNA barcodes of plant species collected for the Global Genome Initiative for Gardens Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (2017) (10)
Biodiversity from a taxonomic and evolutionary perspective (1995) (9)
The Earth Biogenome Project (2019) (9)
SUBSOCIALITY IN HELVIBIS THORELLI KEYSERLING 1884 (ARANEAE, THERIDIIDAE, THERIDIINAE) FROM FRENCH GUIANA (2006) (9)
Monophyletic origin of orb webs (1982) (8)
NOTES ON WEB AND WEB PLASTICITY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE MALE OF ACHAEARANEA HIEROGLYPHICA (MELLO-LEITÃO) (ARANEAE, THERIDIIDAE) (2006) (8)
B-HIT - A Tool for Harvesting and Indexing Biodiversity Data (2015) (8)
Monitoring and Inventorying Biodiversity from Genes to Ecosystems (1991) (7)
An Immense Concentration of Orb-Weaving Spiders With Communal Webbing in a Man-Made Structural Habitat (Arachnida: Araneae: Tetragnathidae, Araneidae) (2010) (7)
Notes on Spider Natural History: the Webs and Habits of Araneus niveus and A. cingulatus (Araneae, Araneidae) (1987) (6)
The critical role of natural history museums in advancing eDNA for biodiversity studies: a case study with Amazonian fishes (2021) (6)
The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the evolution of arachnid appendages (2021) (5)
Stabilized morphological evolution of spiders despite mosaic changes in foraging ecology. (2022) (5)
Rare and Endangered Vascular Plant Species in Massachusetts (1978) (4)
Towards Linked Open Molecular Data: Recommendations for researchers, collections, infrastructures and publishers (2019) (4)
Rare Plant Species in Massachusetts (1980) (4)
Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: a Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalog of the Araneae Described Between 1940 and 1981, by Norman I. Platnick, 1989. (Edited by P. Merrett). Manchester University Press (1990) (4)
The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the evolution of arachnid appendages and chelicerate genome architecture (2021) (3)
Report of the 14th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting, Oxford, UK, September 17-21, 2012. (2014) (3)
Elongated Pedicillate Setae: A Putative Sensory System And Synapomorphy Of Spiders (2007) (3)
Notes on Web and Web Plasticity and Description of the Male of Achaearanea Heiroglyphica (Mello-LeitFo)(Theridiidae, Araneae) (2006) (3)
FORUM: PROBLEMS WITH “SOFT” POLYTOMIES (1996) (2)
DNA barcode data accurately identify higher taxa (2016) (2)
Slingshot spiders build tensed, underdamped webs for ultrafast launches and speedy halts (2021) (2)
THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WILLI HENNIG SOCIETY (1987) (2)
GGBN: Making Genomic Collections Discoverable for Research through a Networked Community of Biodiversity Repositories (2014) (1)
Data Release: DNA Barcodes of Plant Species Collected for the Global Genome Initiative for Gardens (GGI-Gardens) II (2022) (1)
Taxonomic Gap Analysis: A method of evaluating the taxa represented in biodiversity databases (2019) (1)
Joachim Adis, ed., Amazonian Arachnida and Myriapoda (2003) (0)
OadisHa (1994) 10:415-423 PROBLEMS WITH ZERO-LENGTH BRANCHES (2007) (0)
Tree file: RAxML partitioned analysis, combined data, 25% taxon coverage (2018) (0)
The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution (2017) (0)
Partition file for RAxML analysis of exon data at 50% taxon coverage (2018) (0)
Big Data Knowledge of Major Lineages of Life and Priorities for Genomic Research (2019) (0)
Spiders Biology of Spiders Rainer F. Foelix Spider Communication: Mechanisms and Ecological Significance Peter N. Witt Jerome S. Rovner (1983) (0)
Book review: Joachim Adis, ed., Amazonian Arachnida and Myriapoda (2003) (0)
Avoiding Phylogenetic Bias (2007) (0)
DNA barcode data accurately identify higher taxa 1 2 (2017) (0)
AmpliTaq Gold DNA Polymerase The Most Referenced Brand of DNA Polymerase in the World Date : 2005-05 (2005) (0)
Miturgidae : Cheiracanthium inclusum Clubionidae : Clubiona abboti Thomisidae : Misumenops oblongus Salticidae : Phidippus audax (2005) (0)
Global Genomic Resources for Biodiversity Research (2018) (0)
Furthering Genomic Research Infrastructures: The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (2019) (0)
Accession 95-114 Chairmen's Records, 1958-1993 (1958) (0)
Argiope butchko Agnarsson, LeQuier, Kuntner, Cheng, Coddington & Binford, 2016, sp. n. (2016) (0)
AAS 1999 Annual Meeting Abstracts (2021) (0)
The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology, by P. H. Harvey and M. D. Pagel (1992) (0)
ROWLEY ET AL VOUCHERING DNA-BARCODED SPECIMENS Page 1 Molecular EcologyNotes (2007) (0)
PHYLOGENY OF HAPLOGYNE SPIDERS A . Shear of Hampden-Sydney College , and (2004) (0)
The Shape of Things that Come: Review of Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia (1987) (0)
SYNTHESYS+ Molecular Collections in the Age of Genomics: Standards and processes (2019) (0)
An Evolving Business Model for a Biodiversity Biobank Network: GGBN (2019) (0)
The Genomics of Past and Future Natural History Collections (2015) (0)
Enhancing DNA barcode reference libraries by harvesting terrestrial arthropods at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (2023) (0)
Exon data at 70% taxon coverage (2018) (0)
Chapter 2 PHYLOGENY AND CLASSIFICATION OF SPIDERS (2007) (0)
Deep mtDNA Sequence Divergences and Possible Species Radiation of Whip Spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi, Phrynidae, Phrynus/Paraphrynus) among Caribbean Oceanic and Cave Islands (2023) (0)
Tree file: RAxML partitioned analysis, combined data, 70% taxon coverage (2018) (0)
Tree file: RAxML partitioned analysis, combined data, 50% taxon coverage (2018) (0)

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