Fiona Ruth Cross | |
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| Alma mater | University of Canterbury |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Arachnology |
| Institutions | University of Canterbury |
| Thesis | Attentional processes in mosquito-eating jumping spiders: search images and cross-modality priming (2009) |
| Website | Canterbury University page |
Fiona Ruth Cross is a New Zealand arachnologist. She did both her MSc and PhD theses at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. [1] [2]
Cross is best known for detecting food preference in East African Evarcha culicivora spiders for female Anopheles mosquitos fed recently on mammalian blood. [3] [4] [5]
- Attentional processes in mosquito-eating jumping spiders: search imagesand cross-modality priming PhD thesis. University of Canterbury 2009.
- How mosquito-eating jumping spiders communicate: complex display sequences, selective attention and cross-modality priming MSc thesis. University of Canterbury 2003.
- Natural diet and prey-choice behaviour of Aelurillus muganicus (Araneae: Salticidae), a myrmecophagic jumping spider from Azerbaijan in Journal of Zoology, 2005.
- Male and Female Mate-Choice Decisions by Evarcha culicivora, An East African Jumping Spider in Ethology 2007.
- Complex display behaviour of Evarcha culicivora, an East African mosquito‐eating jumping spider in New Zealand Journal of Zoology 2010.
- How blood-derived odor influences mate-choice decisions by a mosquito-eating predator in PNAS, 2009
- ^ Cross, Fiona (2003). How mosquito-eating jumping spiders communicate: complex display sequences, selective attention and cross-modality priming (Masters thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi: 10.26021/9312. hdl: 10092/1953.
- ^ Cross, Fiona (2009). Attentional processes in mosquito-eating jumping spiders: search imagesand cross-modality priming (Doctoral thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi: 10.26021/7313. hdl: 10092/4441.
- ^ "BBC World Service - News - Why a spider that likes smelly socks could help fight against malaria". bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Fountain, Henry (26 October 2009). "The Alluring Power of Blood in Spiders". The New York Times.
- ^ "Fiona Cross".
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Fiona Ruth Cross | |
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| Alma mater | University of Canterbury |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Arachnology |
| Institutions | University of Canterbury |
| Thesis | Attentional processes in mosquito-eating jumping spiders: search images and cross-modality priming (2009) |
| Website | Canterbury University page |
Fiona Ruth Cross is a New Zealand arachnologist. She did both her MSc and PhD theses at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. [1] [2]
Cross is best known for detecting food preference in East African Evarcha culicivora spiders for female Anopheles mosquitos fed recently on mammalian blood. [3] [4] [5]
- Attentional processes in mosquito-eating jumping spiders: search imagesand cross-modality priming PhD thesis. University of Canterbury 2009.
- How mosquito-eating jumping spiders communicate: complex display sequences, selective attention and cross-modality priming MSc thesis. University of Canterbury 2003.
- Natural diet and prey-choice behaviour of Aelurillus muganicus (Araneae: Salticidae), a myrmecophagic jumping spider from Azerbaijan in Journal of Zoology, 2005.
- Male and Female Mate-Choice Decisions by Evarcha culicivora, An East African Jumping Spider in Ethology 2007.
- Complex display behaviour of Evarcha culicivora, an East African mosquito‐eating jumping spider in New Zealand Journal of Zoology 2010.
- How blood-derived odor influences mate-choice decisions by a mosquito-eating predator in PNAS, 2009
- ^ Cross, Fiona (2003). How mosquito-eating jumping spiders communicate: complex display sequences, selective attention and cross-modality priming (Masters thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi: 10.26021/9312. hdl: 10092/1953.
- ^ Cross, Fiona (2009). Attentional processes in mosquito-eating jumping spiders: search imagesand cross-modality priming (Doctoral thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi: 10.26021/7313. hdl: 10092/4441.
- ^ "BBC World Service - News - Why a spider that likes smelly socks could help fight against malaria". bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Fountain, Henry (26 October 2009). "The Alluring Power of Blood in Spiders". The New York Times.
- ^ "Fiona Cross".
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