Wayne Maddison

Professor
  • Office phone
    604-822-1545
  • Website
    http://waynemaddisonlab.wordpress.com
  • Research area
    Ecology, Evolution
  • Lab members
    K. Marathe
  • History

    David and Lucile Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering (1993-1998); Associate and Assistant Professor, University of Arizona (1990-2003); NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, U. C. Berkeley (1988-1990); PhD, Harvard University (1988); BSc Zoology, University of Toronto (1980)

My research arose from a fascination with the diversity of forms and behaviours of jumping spiders, which led to systematics, which led to phylogenetic theory and computer programming. My work continues to be both empirical, on spiders, and theoretical, on the use of phylogeny in evolutionary inference.

Loss of genetic variability in social spiders: genetic and phylogenetic consequences of population subdivision and inbreeding
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26:27-37
Agnarsson, I., L. Avilés, and W.P. Maddison
2013
The phylogeny of the social Anelosimus spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) inferred from six molecular loci and morphology
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Agnarsson, I., Maddison, W.P., and L. Avilés
2007
A new independently derived social spider with explosive colony proliferation and a female size dimorphism
Biotropica 38:743-753
Aviles, L., Maddison, W.P., Agnarsson, I
2006
Comment on "Ongoing Adaptive Evolution of ASPM, a Brain Size Determinant in Homo sapiens" and "Microcephalin, a Gene Regulating Brain Size, Continues to Evolve Adaptively in Humans"
Science Vol. 313, Issue 5784, pp. 172
Currat, M., Excoffier, L., Maddison, W., Otto, S.P., Ray, N., Whitlock, M.C., Yeaman, S.
2006
Statistical phylogeography
Molecular Ecology. 11:2623-2635
Knowles, L.L. and W.P. Maddison
2002
Biodiversidad y lecciones de la historia
Enfoques contemporáneos para el estudio de la biodiversidad 201-220
Maddison, W. and T.M. Pérez
2001
Testing character correlation using pairwise comparisons on a phylogeny
Journal of Theoretical Biology. 202: 195-204
Maddison, W.P
2000
Gene trees in species trees
Systematic Biology 46:523-536
Maddison, W.P
1997
Molecular approaches and the growth of phylogenetic biology
Molecular zoology: Advances, strategies, and protocols pp. 47­63
Maddison, W.P
1996
Calculating the probability distributions of ancestral states reconstructed by parsimony on phylogenetic trees
Systematic Biology. 44:474-481
Maddison, W.P
1995