Publications

14 total papers = 10 published (6 first author, 1 shared first author, 1 shared senior author) + 4 submitted + = shared senior author; § = shared first author; * = undergraduate mentee

Adams, S.A., Tanikawa, A., Baba, Y., Chiba, S. and Gillespie, R.G. (2026). Tetragnatha spiders of the Bonin Islands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (in review).

Adams, S.A., *Moy, T., Roberts, K.T. and Gillespie, R.G. (2026). Desiccation resistance and the role of cuticular lipids in the adaptive radiation of Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiders. The Journal of Evolutionary Biology (in review).

Adams, S.A., Nagel, K., Meyer, C. and Gillespie, R.G. (2026). Olfactory and gustatory mate recognition in a Tetragnatha spider. The Journal of Arachnology (accepted).

Adams, S.A., *Wilkinson, M., Dawson, T.E. and Gillespie, R.G. (2026). Impacts of an invasive plant on the community composition of native and non-native Hawaiian spiders as reflected by isotopes. Biological Invasions (accepted).

Adams, S.A., *Lee, J., Gutierrez, F., Schulz, S., Gillespie, R.G. and Ramirez, S.R. (2026). Sexual signal divergence and reproductive isolation in an adaptive radiation of a Hawaiian spider. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, 5(1), doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/kzag010.

Adams, S.A., Gurajapu, A., Qiang, A., Gerbaulet, M., Schulz, S., Tsutsui, N.D., Ramirez, S.R. and Gillespie, R.G. (2024). Chemical species recognition in an adaptive radiation of Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiders (Aradeae: Tetragnathidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291: 20232340, doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2340.

Adams, S.A., Graham, N.R., Holmquist, A.J., Sheffer, M.M., Steigerwald, E.C., Sahasrabudhe, R., Nguyen, O., Beraut, E., Fairbairn, C., Sacco, S., Seligmass, W., Escalona, M., Shaffer, H.B., Toffelmier, El, and Gillespie, R.G. (2023). Reference genome of the long-jawed orb-weaver, Tetragnatha versicolor (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Journal of Heredity, 114(1), doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad013.

§Holmquist, A.J., §Adams, S.A., and Gillespie, R.G. (2023). Invasion by an ecosystem engineer changes biotic interactions between native and non-native taxa. Ecology and Evolution, 13(2), doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9820.

Kennedy, S.R., Lim, J.Y., Adams, S.A., Krehenwinkel, H., and Gillespie, R.G. (2022). What is adaptive radiation? Many manifestations of the phenomenon in an iconic lineage of Hawaiian spiders. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 175, 107564, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107564.

*Berger, C. A., Brewer, M. S., Kono, N., Nakamura, H., Arakawa, K., Kennedy, S.R., Wood, H.M., +Adams, S.A. and +Gillespie, R.G. (2021). Shifts in morphology, gene expression, and selection underlie web loss in Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiders. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21(1), doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01779-9.

Adams, S.A., Gerbaulet, M., Schulz, S., Gillespie, R.G., & Uhl, G. (2021). Chemical species recognition in a Tetragnatha spider (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41(1), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-020-01237-8.

Adams, S.A. and Tsutsui, N.D. (2020). The evolution of species recognition labels in insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375: 20190476, doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0476.

Krehenwinkel, H., Kennedy, S.R., Adams, S.A., *Stephenson, G.T., Roy, K., and Gillespie, R. (2019). Multiplex PCR targeting lineage specific SNPs – A highly efficient and simple approach to block out predator sequences in molecular gut content analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13183.

Adams, S.A. and Morse, D.H. (2014). Condition-dependent mate choice of a parasitoid wasp in the field. Animal Behaviour. 88: 225-232, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.12.004.