Hoefler, C. and E. Jakob. 2006. The potential of a jumping spider (Phidippus clarus) as a biocontrol agent. Journal of Economic Entomology. PDF

Hoefler, C. and E. Jakob. 2006. Jumping spiders in space: movement patterns, nest site fidelity and the use of beacons. Animal Behaviour 71:109-116. PDF

Skow, C. and E. Jakob. 2006. Jumping spiders attend to context during learned avoidance of aposematic prey. Behavioral Ecology 17:34-40. PDF

Houser, J., D. Jennings, and E. Jakob. 2005. Predation by Argyrodes trigonum on Linyphia triangularis, an invasive sheet-web weaver in coastal Maine. Journal of Arachnology 33:193-195.

Jakob, E. M. 2004. Individual decisions and group dynamics: why pholcid spiders join and leave groups. Animal Behaviour 68:9-20 PDF

Skow, C. and E. Jakob. 2003. Effects of maternal body size on clutch size and egg weight in a pholcid spider (Holocnemus pluchei). Journal of Arachnology 31:305-308. PDF

Jakob, E. and C. Hoefler. 2003. Learning to be winners and losers: agonistic behavior in crayfish. In B. Ploger and K. Yasukawa (ed.), Laboratory Exercises in Animal Behavior. Academic Press. Also article in accompanying Instructor's Manual.

Hoefler, C., M. Taylor and E. M. Jakob. 2002. Chemosensory response to prey in Phidippus audax (Araneae, Salticidae) and Pardosa milvina (Araneae, Lycosidae). Journal of Arachnology 30:155-158. PDF

Jakob, E. M., A. H. Porter, and G. W. Uetz. 2001. Site fidelity and the costs of movement among territories: An example from colonial web-building spiders. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79:2094-2100. PDF

Carducci, J. and E. Jakob. 2000. The effect of rearing environments on the behavior of a jumping spider. Animal Behaviour 59(1):39-46. PDF

Jakob, E.,J. Blanchong, M. Popson, K. Sedey, and M. Summerfield. 2000. Ontogenetic shifts in the cost of living in large groups: focal observations of a pholcid spider (Holocnemus pluchei). American Midland Naturalist 143:405-413. PDF

Marshall, S., E. M. Jakob, and G. W. Uetz. 1999. Re-estimating fitness: Can scaling issues confound condition indices? Oikos 87:2. PDF

Johnson, S. and E. Jakob. 1999. Leg autotomy in a spider has minimal costs in competitive ability and development. Animal Behaviour 57:957-965. PDF

Sedey, K. and E. Jakob. 1998. A unique “web-dome” built by egg-guarding pholcids. Journal of Arachnology 26:385-388. PDF

Jakob, E., A. Porter, and G. Uetz. 1998. The effect of conspecifics on the timing of orb construction in a colonial spider. Journal of Arachnology 26:335-341. PDF

Kaster, J. and E. Jakob. 1997. Last-male sperm priority in a haplogyne spider: correlations between female morphology and patterns of sperm usage. Annals of the American Entomological Society 90:254-259.

Jakob, E., S. Marshall, and G. Uetz. 1996. Estimating fitness: a comparison of body condition indices. Oikos 77:61-67. PDF (big ugly one)

Blanchong, J., M. Summerfield, M. Popson, and E. Jakob. 1995. Chivalry in pholcid spiders revisited. Journal of Arachnology 23:165-170. PDF

Jakob, E. M. 1994. Contests over prey by group-living pholcids (Holocnemus pluchei). Journal of Arachnology 22:39-45. PDF

Uetz, G.W., C.S. Hieber, E. M. Jakob, R.S. Wilcox, D. Kroeger, A. McCrate, and A. Mostrum. 1994. Behaviour of orb-weaving spiders during a solar eclipse. Ethology 96:24-32.

Jackson, R.R., E.M. Jakob, M. B. Willey, and G.E. Campbell. 1993. Anti-predator defences of a web-building spider, Holocnemus pluchei (Araneae, Pholcidae). Journal of Zoology 229:347-352.

Jakob, E.M. 1991. Costs and benefits of group living for pholcid spiders: losing food, saving silk. Animal Behaviour 41:711-722. PDF

Jakob, E.M. and H. Dingle. 1990. Food level and life history characteristics in a pholcid spider. Psyche 97: 95-110. PDF

Porter, A.H. and E.M. Jakob. 1990. Allozyme variation in the introduced pholcid spider Holocnemus pluchei (Araneae: Pholcidae) in California. Journal of Arachnology 18:313-319. PDF

Rieger, J. and E.M. Jakob. 1988. The use of olfaction in food location by frugivorous bats. Biotropica 20(2): 161-164.