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Jonathan Coddington
Lead: Global Genome Initiative, Senior Research Entomologist and Curator of Arachnida and MyriapodaDepartment / Division
Education
- M.A., Harvard University
- B.A., Yale University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests
Systematics and behavior of spiders; species richness estimation; theory and design of biological inventories; global biodiversity genomics
Publications
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- Scharff, Nikolaj, Coddington, Jonathan A., Blackledge, Todd A., Agnarsson, Ingi, Framenau, Volker W., Szűts, Tamás, Hayashi, Cheryl Y., and Dimitrov, Dimitar. 2020. "Phylogeny of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Araneae: Araneoidea)." Cladistics 36 (1):1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12382
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Agnarsson, Ingi, Hamilton, Chris A., and Bond, Jason E. 2019. "Spiders did not repeatedly gain, but repeatedly lost, foraging webs." Peerj 7 (e6703):https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6703
- Kuntner, Matjaž and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2019. "Sexual Size Dimorphism: Evolution and Perils of Extreme Phenotypes in Spiders." Annual Review of Entomology 65 (1):https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-011019-025032
- Kuntner, Matjaz, Hamilton, Chris A., Cheng, Ren-Chung, Gregoric, Matjaz, Lupse, Nik, Lokovsek, Tjasa, Lemmon, Emily Moriarty, Lemmon, Alan R., Agnarsson, Ingi, Coddington, Jonathan A., and Bond, Jason E. 2019. "Golden Orbweavers Ignore Biological Rules: Phylogenomic and Comparative Analyses Unravel a Complex Evolution of Sexual Size Dimorphism." Systematic Biology 68 (4):555–572. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syy082
- Chamberland, Lisa, McHugh, Anne, Kechejian, Sarah, Binford, Greta J., Bond, Jason E., Coddington, Jonathan, Dolman, Gaynor, Hamilton, Chris A., Harvey, Mark S., Kuntner, Matjaz, and Agnarsson, Ingi. 2018. "From Gondwana to GAARlandia: Evolutionary history and biogeography of ogre-faced spiders (Deinopis)." Journal of Biogeography 45 (11):2442–2457. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13431
- González, Vanessa L., Devine, Amanda M., Trizna, Mike, Mulcahy, Daniel G., Barker, Katherine, and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2018. "Open access genomic resources for terrestrial arthropods." Current Opinion in Insect Science 25:91–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2017.12.003
- Lewin, Harris A., Robinson, Gene E., Kress, W. John, Baker, William J., Coddington, Jonathan, Crandall, Keith A., Durbin, Richard, Edwards, Scott V., Forest, Felix, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Goldstein, Melissa M., Grigoriev, Igor V., Hackett, Kevin J., Haussler, David, Jarvis, Erich D., Johnson, Warren E., Patrinos, Aristides, Richards, Stephen, Castilla-Rubio, Juan Carlos, van Sluys, Marie-Anne, Soltis, Pamela S., Xu, Xun, Yang, Huanming, and Zhang, Guojie. 2018. "Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (17):4325–4333. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720115115
- Wood, Hannah M., González, Vanessa L., Lloyd, Michael, Coddington, Jonathan, and Scharff, Nikolaj. 2018. "Next-Generation museum genomics: phylogenetic relationships among palpimanoid spiders using sequence capture techniques (Araneae: Palpimanoidea)." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 127:907–918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.038
- Funk, Vicki A., Gostel, Morgan, Devine, Amanda, Kelloff, Carol L., Wurdack, Kenneth J., Tuccinardi, Chris, Radosavljevic, Aleks, Peters, Melinda, and Coddington, Jonathan. 2017. "Guidelines for collecting vouchers and tissues intended for genomic work (Smithsonian Institution): Botany Best Practices." Biodiversity Data Journal (5): e11625. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e11625
- Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba, Scharff, Nikolaj, Pape, Thomas, Coddington, Jonathan A., and Cardoso, Pedro. 2017. "Gauging megadiversity with optimized and standardized sampling protocols: A case for tropical forest spiders." Ecology and Evolution 7 (2):494–506. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2626
- McCluskey, Kevin, Barker, Katharine B., Barton, Hazel A., Boundy-Mills, Kyria, Brown, Daniel R., Coddington, Jonathan A., Cook, Kevin, Desmeth, Philippe, Geiser, David, Glaeser, Jessie A., Greene, Stephanie, Kang, Seogchan, Lomas, Michael W., Melcher, Ulrich, Miller, Scott E., Nobles, David R., Owens, Kristina J., Reichman, Jerome H., da Silva, Manuela, Wertz, John, Whitworth, Cale, and Smith, David. 2017. "The U.S. Culture Collection Network Responding to the Requirements of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing." mBio 8 (4):https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00982-17
- Neumann, D., Borisenko, A. V., Coddington, Jonathan A., Häuser, C. L., Butler, Carol R., Casino, A., Vogel, J. C., Haszprunar, G., and Giere, P. 2017. "Global biodiversity research tied up by juridical interpretations of access and benefit sharing." Organisms Diversity & Evolution 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-017-0347-1
- Schwager, Evelyn E., Sharma, Prashant P., Clarke, Thomas, Leite, Daniel J., Wierschin, Torsten, Pechmann, Matthias, Akiyama-Oda, Yasuko, Esposito, Lauren, Bechsgaard, Jesper, Bilde, Trine, Buffry, Alexandra D., Chao, Hsu, Dinh, Huyen, Doddapaneni, HarshaVardhan, Dugan, Shannon, Eibner, Cornelius, Extavour, Cassandra G., Funch, Peter, Garb, Jessica, Gonzalez, Luis B., Gonzalez, Vanessa L., Griffiths-Jones, Sam, Han, Yi, Hayashi, Cheryl, Hilbrant, Maarten et al. 2017. "The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution." BMC biology 15 (1):62. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0399-x
- Voolstra, Christian R., GIGA Community, of Scientists, Wörheide, Gert, Lopez, Jose V., and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2017. "Advancing genomics through the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA)." Invertebrate Systematics 31 (1):1–7. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS16059
- Wheeler, Ward C., Coddington, Jonathan A., Crowley, Louise M., Dimitrov, Dimitar, Goloboff, Pablo A., Griswold, Charles E., Hormiga, Gustavo, Prendini, Lorenzo, Ramírez, Martín J., Sierwald, Petra, Almeida-Silva, Lina, Alvarez-Padilla, Fernando, Arnedo, Miquel A., Benavides Silva, Ligia R., Benjamin, Suresh P., Bond, Jason E., Grismado, Cristian J., Hasan, Emile, Hedin, Marshal, Izquierdo, Matías A., Labarque, Facundo M., Ledford, Joel, Lopardo, Lara, Maddison, Wayne P., Miller, Jeremy A. et al. 2017. "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling." Cladistics 33 (6):574–616. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12182
- Zúñiga, Jose D., Gostel, Morgan R., Mulcahy, Daniel G., Barker, Katharine, Hill, Asia, Sedaghatpour, Maryam, Vo, Samantha Q., Funk, Vicki Ann, and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2017. "Data Release: DNA barcodes of plant species collected for the Global Genome Initiative for Gardens Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." PhytoKeys 88:119–122. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.88.14607
- Agnarsson, Ingi, LeQuier, Stephanie M., Kuntner, Matjaz, Cheng, Ren-Chung, Coddington, Jonathan A., and Binford, Greta. 2016. "Phylogeography of a good Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae, Araneidae) and a new 'cryptic' species from Cuba." ZooKeys (625): 25–44. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.625.8729
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Agnarsson, Ingi, Cheng, Ren-Chung, Čandek, Klemen, Driskell, Amy, Frick, Holger, Gregorič, Matjaž, Kostanjšek, Rok, Kropf, Christian, Kweskin, Matthew, Lokovšek, Tjaša, Pipan, Miha, Vidergar, Nina, and Kuntner, Matjaž. 2016. "DNA barcode data accurately assign higher spider taxa." PeerJ 4:e2201. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2201
- Droege, G., Barker, K., Seberg, O., Coddington, Jonathan A., Benson, E., Berendsohn, W. G., Bunk, B., Butler, C., Cawsey, E. M., Deck, J., Döring, M., Flemons, P., Gemeinholzer, B., Güntsch, A., Hollowell, Thomas H., Kelbert, P., Kostadinov, I., Kottmann, R., Lawlor, R. T., Lyal, Christopher H. C., Mackenzie-Dodds, J., Meyer, C., Mulcahy, D., Nussbeck, S. Y., O'Tuama, é. et al. 2016. "The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Standard specification." Database 2016:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baw125
- Garrison, Nicole L., Rodriguez, Juanita, Agnarsson, Ingi, Coddington, Jonathan A., Griswold, Charles E., Hamilton, Christopher A., Hedin, Marshal, Kocot, Kevin M., Ledford, Joel M., and Bond, Jason E. 2016. "Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life." PeerJ 4:e1719. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1719
- Mulcahy, Daniel G., Macdonald, Kenneth S., Brady, Seán G., Meyer, Christopher, Barker, Katharine B., and Coddington, Jonathan. 2016. "Greater than X kb: a quantitative assessment of preservation conditions on genomic DNA quality, and a proposed standard for genome-quality DNA." PeerJ 4:e2528. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2528
- Seberg, O., Droege, G., Barker, K., Coddington, Jonathan A., Funk, Vicki Ann, Gostel, Morgan, Petersen, G., and Smith, P. P. 2016. "Global Genome Biodiversity Network: saving a blueprint of the Tree of Life - a botanical perspective." Annals of Botany 118 (3):393–399. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw121
- Dziki, Austin, Binford, Greta J., Coddington, Jonathan A., and Agnarsson, Ingi. 2015. "Spintharus flavidus in the Caribbean-a 30 million year biogeographical history and radiation of a 'widespread species'." PeerJ 3:https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1422
- Davies, Neil, Field, Dawn, Amaral-Zettler, Linda, Bicak, Mesude, Bourlat, Sarah, Coddington, Jonathan A., Deck, John, Drummond, Alexei, Gilbert, Jack A., Glöckner, Frank Oliver, Kottmann, Renzo, Meyer, Christopher P., Morrison, Norman, Obst, Matthias, Robbins, Robert, Schriml, Lynn, Sterk, Peter, and Stones-Havas, Steven. 2014. "Report of the 14th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting, Oxford, UK, September 17-21, 2012." Standards in Genomic Sciences 9 (3):1236–1250. https://doi.org/10.4056/sigs.4319681
- Davies, Neil, Field, Dawn, Amaral-Zettler, Linda, Clark, Melody S., Deck, John, Drummond, Alexei, Faith, Daniel P., Geller, Jonathan, Gilbert, Jack, Glöckner, Frank Oliver, Hirsch, Penny, Leong, Jo-Ann, Meyer, Christopher P., Obst, Matthias, Planes, Serge, Scholin, Chris, Vogler, Alfried P., Gates, Ruth D., Toonen, Robert J., Berteaux-Lecellier, V., Barbier, Michèle, Barker, Katherine, Bertilsson, Stefan, Bicak, Mesude, Bietz, Matthew J. et al. 2014. "The founding charter of the Genomic Observatories Network." GigaScience 3 (1):https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-217X-3-2
- Droege, Gabriele, Barker, Katharine, Astrin, Jonas J., Bartels, Paul, Butler, Carol, Cantrill, David, Coddington, Jonathan A., Forest, Fé, Gemeinholzer, Birgit, Hobern, Donald, Mackenzie-Dodds, Jacqueline, Tuama, Éamonn Ó., Petersen, Gitte, Sanjur, Oris I., Schindel, David, and Seberg, Ole. 2014. "The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Portal." Nucleic acids research 42 (D1):D607–D612. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt928
- Kuntner, Matjaz, Naparus, Magdalena, Li, Daiqin, and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2014. "Phylogeny Predicts Future Habitat Shifts Due to Climate Change." PLoS ONE 9 (6):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098907
- Evans, Jay D., Brown, Susan J., Hackett, Kevin J., Robinson, Gene, Richards, Stephen, Lawson, Daniel, Elsik, Christine, Coddington, Jonathan A., Edwards, Owain, Emrich, Scott, Gabaldon, Toni, Goldsmith, Marian, Hanes, Glenn, Misof, Bernard, Muñoz-Torres, Monica, Niehuis, Oliver, Papanicolaou, Alexie, Pfrender, Michael, Poelchau, Monica, Purcell-Miramontes, Mary, Robertson, Hugh M., Ryder, Oliver, Tagu, Denis, Torres, Tatiana, Zdobnov, Evgeny et al. 2013. "The i5K Initiative: advancing arthropod genomics for knowledge, human health, agriculture, and the environment." The Journal of heredity 104 (5):595–600. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/est050
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Kuntner, Matjaž, and Opell, Brent D. 2012. "Systematics of the Spider Family Deinopidae with a Revision of the Genus Menneus." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (636): 1–61. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.636.1
- Pekár, Stano, Coddington, Jonathan A., and Blackledge, Todd A. 2012. "Evolution of Stenophagy in Spiders (araneae): Evidence Based on the Comparative Analysis of Spider Diets." Evolution 66 (3):776–806. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01471.x
- Wheeler, Quentin, Bourgoin, Thierry, Coddington, Jonathan A., Gostony, Timothy, Hamilton, Andrew, Larimer, Roy, Polaszek, Andrew, Schauff, Michael, and Solis, M. Alma. 2012. "Nomenclatural benchmarking: the roles of digital typification and telemicroscopy." Zookeys (209): 193–202. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.209.3486
- Cardoso, Pedro, Pekár, Stano, Jocqué, Rudy, and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2011. "Global Patterns of Guild Composition and Functional Diversity of Spiders." PLoS ONE 6 (6):1–10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021710
- Higgins, Linden, Coddington, Jonathan A., Goodnight, Charles, and Kuntner, Matjaž. 2011. "Testing ecological and developmental hypotheses of mean and variation in adult size in nephilid orb-weaving spiders." Evolutionary Ecology 25 (6):1289–1306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-011-9475-9
- Agnarsson, Ingi, Kuntner, Matjaž, Coddington, Jonathan A., and Blackledge, Todd A. 2010. "Shifting continents, not behaviours: independent colonization of solitary and subsocial Anelosimus spider lineages on Madagascar (Araneae, Theridiidae)." Zoologica Scripta 39 (1):75–87. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00406.x
- Ramirez, Martin J., Maddison, Wayne, and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2010. "Use of ontologies to document characters." Cladistics 26 (2):223–223.
- Blackledge, Todd A., Coddington, Jonathan A., and Agnarsson, Ingi. 2009. "Fecundity increase supports adaptive radiation hypothesis in spider web evolution." Communicative & Integrative Biology 2 (6):1–5. https://doi.org/10.4161/cib.2.6.8855
- Blackledge, Todd A., Scharff, Nikolaj, Coddington, Jonathan A., Szüts, Tamas, Wenzel, John,W., Hayashi, Cheryl,Y., and Agnarsson, Ingi. 2009. "Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (13):5229–5234. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901377106
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Agnarsson, Ingi, Miller, Jeremy A., Kuntner, Matjaž, and Hormiga, Gustavo. 2009. "Undersampling bias: the null hypothesis for singleton species in tropical arthropod surveys." Journal of Animal Ecology 78 (3):573–584. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01525.x
- Coscaron, M. C., Melo, M. C., Coddington, Jonathan A., and Corronca, J. 2009. "Estimating biodiversity: a case study on true bugs in argentinian wetlands." Biodiversity and Conservation 18 (6):1491–1507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-008-9515-0
- Kuntner, Matjaž and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2009. "Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila." PLoS ONE 4 (10):e7516.
- Kuntner, Matjaž, Coddington, Jonathan A., and Schneider, Jutta M. 2009. "Intersexual Arms Race? Genital Coevolution in Nephilid Spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae)." Evolution 63 (6):1451–1463. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00634.x
- Stork, Nigel E., Coddington, Jonathan A., Colwell, Robert K., Chazdon, Robin L., Dick, Christopher W., Peres, Carlos A., Sloan, Sean, and Willis, Kathy. 2009. "Vulnerability and Resilience of Tropical Forest Species to Land-Use Change." Conservation Biology 23 (6):1438–1447. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01335.x
- Agnarsson, Ingi and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2008. "Quantitative tests of primary homology." Cladistics 24 (1):51–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00168.x
- Kuntner, Matjaž, Coddington, Jonathan A., and Hormiga, G. 2008. "Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies." Cladistics 24 (2):147–217. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00176.x
- Agnarsson, Ingi, Coddington, Jonathan A., and Knoflach, Barbara. 2007. "Morphology and evolution of cobweb spider male genitalia (Araneae: Theridiidae)." Journal of Arachnology 35:334–395.
- Agnarsson, Ingi, Coddington, Jonathan A., and May-Collado, L. J. 2007. "Elongated pedicillate setae: A putative sensory system and synapomorphy of spiders." Journal of Arachnology 35 (3):411–426. https://doi.org/10.1636/SH07-01.1
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2007. "Subsociality in Helvibis thorelli Keyserling, 1884 (Theridiinae, Theridiidae, Araneae) from French Guiana." Journal of Arachnology 34 (3):642–645. https://doi.org/10.1636/05-84.1
- Ramirez, Martin J., Coddington, Jonathan A., Maddison, Wayne P., Midford, Peter E., Prendini, Lorenzo, Miller, Jeremy, Griswold, Charles E., Hormiga, Gustavo, Sierwald, Petra, and Scharff, Nikolaj. 2007. "Linking of Digital Images to Phylogenetic Data Matrices Using a Morphological Ontology." Systematic Biology 56 (2):283–294. https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150701313848
- Rowley, D. L., Coddington, Jonathan A., Gates, Michael W., Norrbom, R. A., Ochoa, Ronald, Vandenberg, Natalia J., and Greenstone, M. H. 2007. "Vouchering DNA-barcoded specimens: test of a nondestructive extraction protocol for terrestrial arthropods." Molecular Ecology Notes 7:915–924.
- Agnarsson, Ingi, Avil‚Leticia S., Coddington, Jonathan A., and Maddison, Wayne P. 2006. "Sociality in theridiid spiders: repeated origins of an evolutionary dead end." Evolution 60 (11):2342–51.
- Agnarsson, Ingi and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2006. "Notes on web and web plasticity and description of the male of Achaearanea heiroglyphica (Mello-LeitÆo)(Theridiidae, Araneae)." Journal of Arachnology 34:638–641.
- Ramos, Margarita, Coddington, Jonathan A., Christenson, Terry E., and Irschick, Duncan J. 2005. "Have Male and Female Genitalia Coevolved? a Phylogenetic Analysis of Genitalic Morphology and Sexual Size Dimorphism in Web-Building Spiders (araneae: Araneoidea)." Evolution 59 (9):1989–1999.
- Arnedo, M. A., Coddington, Jonathan A., Agnarsson, Ingi, and Gillespie, R. G. 2004. "From a Comb to a Tree: Phylogenetic Relationships of the Comb-footed Spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) Inferred from Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genes." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31:225–245.
- Blackledge, Todd A., Coddington, Jonathan A., and Gillespie, Rosemary G. 2003. "Are Three-Dimensional Spider Webs Defensive Adaptations?." Ecology Letters 6 (1):13–18.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2003. [Book review] "Joachim Adis, ed., Amazonian Arachnida and Myriapoda." Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 38 (3):251–252.
- Scharff, Nikolaj, Coddington, Jonathan A., Griswold, C. E., Hormiga, G., and Place Bjorn, P. de. 2003. "When to Quit? Esitmating Spider Species Richness in a Northern European Deciduous Forest." Journal of Arachnology 31:210–246.
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Chanzy, H. D., Jackson, C. L., Ray, G., and Gardner, K. H. 2002. "The Unique Ribbon Morphology of the Major Ampullate Silk of Spiders from the Genus Loxosceles (recluse spiders)." Biomacromolecules 3 (1-2):5–8.
- Longino, J. I., Coddington, Jonathan A., and Colwell, Robert K. 2002. "The Ant Fauna of a Tropical Rainforest: Estimating Species Richness Three Different Ways." Ecology 83 (3):689–702.
- Sorensen, L. L., Coddington, Jonathan A., Griswold, C. E., Hormiga, G., and Place Bjorn, P. de. 2002. "Inventorying and Estimating Sub-Canopy Spider Diversity using Semi-Quantitative Sampling Methods in an Afromontane Forest." Environmental Entomology 31 (2):319–330.
- Herberstein, M. E., Craig, Catherine L., Coddington, Jonathan A., and Elgar, M. A. 2000. "The Functional Significance of Silk Decorations of Orb-Web Spiders: A Critical Review of the Empirical Evidence." Biological Reviews 75:649–669.
- Hormiga, G., Scharff, Nikolaj, and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2000. "The Phylogenic Basis of Sexual Size Dimporphism in Orb Weaving Spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae)." Systematic Biology 49:435–462.
- Griswold, C. E., Coddington, Jonathan A., Platnick, N. I., and Forster, R. R. 1999. "Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae)." The Journal of Arachnology 27:53–63.
- Heyer, W. Ronald, Coddington, Jonathan A., Kress, W. John, Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro, Cole, Daniel G., Erwin, Terry L., Meggers, Betty J., Pogue, Michael G., Thorington, Richard W., Jr., Vari, Richard P., Weitzman, Marilyn J., and Weitzman, Stanley H. 1999. "Amazonian biotic data and conservation decisions." Ciência e Cultura Sao Paulo 51 (5-6):372–385.
- Griswold, C. E., Coddington, Jonathan A., Hormiga, G., and Scharff, Nikolaj. 1998. "Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea)." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 123:1–99.
- Kress, W. John, Heyer, W. Ronald, Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro, Coddington, Jonathan A., Cole, Daniel G., Erwin, Terry L., Meggers, Betty J., Pogue, Michael G., Thorington, Richard W., Jr., Vari, Richard P., Weitzman, Marilyn J., and Weitzman, Stanley H. 1998. "Amazonian biodiversity: Assessing conservation priorities with taxonomic data." Biodiversity and Conservation 7 (12):1577–1587. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008889803319
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Hormiga, Gustavo, and Scharff, Nikolaj. 1997. "Giant female or dwarf male spiders?." Nature 385 (6618):687–688.
- Scharff, Nikolaj and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1997. "A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae)." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120:355–434.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. and Scharff, Nikolaj. 1996. "Problems with "Soft" Polytomies." Cladistics 12:139–145.
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Young, Laurel H., and Coyle, Frederick A. 1996. "Estimating Spider Species Richness in a Southern Appalachian Cove Hardwood Forest." Journal of Arachnology 24 (2):111–128.
- Brooks, Daniel R., McLennan, Deobrah A., Carpenter, James M., Weller, Stephen G., and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1995. "Systematics, ecology and behavior: integrating phylogenetic patterns and evolutionary mechanisms." Bioscience 45 (10):687–695.
- Hormiga, G., Eberhard, William G., and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1995. "Web-construction Behaviour in Australian Phonognatha and Phylogeny of Nephiline and Tetragnathid Spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)." Australian Journal of Zoology 43:313–364.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. and Scharff, Nikolaj. 1994. "Problems with Zero-Length Branches." Cladistics 10:415–423.
- Colwell, Robert K. and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1994. "Estimating Terrestrial Biodiversity Through Extrapolation." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 345:101–118.
- Craig, Catherine L., Bernard, G. D., and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1994. "Evolutionary Shifts in the Spectral Properties of Spider Silks." Evolution 48 (2):287–296.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1992. [Book review] "The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology, by P. H. Harvey and M. D. Pagel." Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 7 (2):68–69.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1991. "Spider Literature: A Computer Bibliography, ver. 3. [About 24,000 keyworded bibliographic citations (3.8 megabytes), available on diskette]." Smithsonian Institution, Washington 1–1307.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1991. "Cladistics and Spider Classification: Araneomorph Phylogeny and the Monophyly of Orbweavers (Araneae: Araneomorphae, Orbiculariae)." Acta Zoologica Fennica 190:75–87.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. and Levi, H. W. 1991. "Systematics and Evolution of Spiders (Araneae)." Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 22:565–592.
- Platnick, N. I., Coddington, Jonathan A., Forster, R. R., and Griswold, C. E. 1991. "Spinneret Morphology and the Phylogeny of Haplogyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae)." American Museum Novitates 3016:1–73.
- Platnick, N. I., Griswold, C. E., and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1991. "On Missing Entries in Cladistic Analysis." Cladistics 7 (4):337–343.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1990. "Ontogeny and Homology in the Male Palpus of Orb Weaving Spiders and their Relatives, with Comments on Phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (496): 1–52. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.496
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1990. [Book review] "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." Journal of Arachnology. 18:245–248.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1990. "Bridges Between Evolutionary Pattern and Process." Cladistics 6 (4):379–386.
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Horner, M., and Soderstrom, E. A. 1990. "Mass Aggregations in Tropical Harvestment (Opiliones, Gragrellidae: Prionostemma sp.)." Revue Arachnologique 8 (13):213–219.
- Döbel, H. G., Denno, R. F., and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1990. "Spider (Araneae) Community Structure in an Intertidal Salt Marsh: Effects of Vegetation Structure and Tidal Flooding." Environmental Entomology 19 (5):1356–1370.
- Forster, R. R., Platnick, N. I., and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1990. "A Proposal and Review of the Spider Family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on Theridiid Interrelationships." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 193:1–116.
- Yu, L. M. and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1990. "Ontogenetic Changes in the Spinning Fields of Nuctenea cornuta and Neoscona theisi (Araneae, Araneidae)." Journal of Arachnology 18:331–345.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1989. "Spinneret Silk Spigot Morphology: Evidence for the Monophyly of Orbweaving Spiders, Cyrtophorinae (Araneidae), and the Group Theridiidae plus Nesticidae." Journal of Arachnology 17:71–95.
- Shear, W. A., Palmer, J. M., Coddington, Jonathan A., and Bonamo, P. M. 1989. "A Devonian Spinneret: Early Evidence of Spiders and Silk Use." Science 246:479–481.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1988. "Graduate Training in Systematics at the Maryland Center for Systematic Entomology." American Arachnology 37:5.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1988. "A Computerized Bibliography of Spider Literature Since 1940." American Arachnology 37:4.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1988. "Cladistic Tests of Adaptational Hypotheses." Cladistics 4 (1):3–20.
- Sierwald, P. and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1988. "Functional Aspects of the Male Palpal Organs in Dolomedes tenebrosus, with notes on the Mating Behavior (Araneae, Pisauridae)." Journal of Arachnology 16 (2):262–265.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1987. "The Shape of Things that Come: Review of Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia." Cladistics 3 (2):196–198.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1987. "The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society." Cladistics 3 (2):178–185.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1987. "Notes on Spider Natural History: the Webs and Habits of Araneus niveus and A. cingulatus (Araneae, Araneidae)." Journal of Arachnology 15 (2):268–270.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. and Sobrevila, C. 1987. "Web Manipulation and Two Stereotyped Attack Behaviors in the Ogre-faced Spider Deinopis spinosus Marx (Araneae, Deinopidae)." Journal of Arachnology 15 (2):213–225.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1986. "Orb Webs in "Non-orb Weaving" Ogre-faced Spiders (Araneae: Dinopidae): a Question of Genealogy." Cladistics 2 (1):53–67.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1986. "The Genera of the Spider Family Theridiosomatidae." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (422): 1–96. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.422
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1985. "Field Trip Report." American Arachnology 32:8.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1985. [Book review] "The Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating." Cladistics. 1 (1):102–107.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1984. "Current Research." American Arachnology 29:9–10.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1984. "Systematics and Behavior of Orb Weaving Spiders." Dissertation Abstracts International B Sciences and Engineering 45 (2):429.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1983. "The Weavers." Discover 4:48–53.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1983. "Biology of Spiders by R. F. Foelix, and Spider Communication: Mechanisms and Ecological Significance, P. N. Witt & J. S. Rovner, (Eds.)." Bioscience 208.
- Levi, H. W. and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1983. "Progress Report on the Phylogeny of the Orb-weaving Family Araneidae and the Superfamily Araneoidea (Arachnida: Araneae)." Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen der naturwissen-schaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 26:151–154.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. and Valerio, C. E. 1980. "Observations on the Web and Behavior of Wendilgarda Spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae)." Psyche 87 (1-2):93–105.
- Field, K. G. and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1980. "Rare Plant Species in Massachusetts." Rhodora 82:151–162.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. and Field, K. G. 1978. "Rare and Endangered Vascular Plant Species in Massachusetts." Office of Endangered Species: U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service Newton Center, MA MA:1–52.
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- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2017. "Deinopidae." in Spiders of North America: an identification manual, edited by Ubick, D., Paquin, P., Cushing, P. E., and Roth, V., 102–103. Denver: American Arachnological Society.
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- Lopardo, Lara and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2017. "Mysmenidae." in Spiders of North America: an identification manual, edited by Ubick, D., Paquin, P., Cushing, P. E., and Roth, V., 187–188. Denver: American Arachnological Society.
- Lopardo, Lara and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2017. "Anapidae." in Spiders of North America: an identification manual, edited by Ubick, D., Paquin, P., Cushing, P. E., and Roth, V., 73–74. Denver: American Arachnological Society.
- Lopardo, Lara, Coddington, Jonathan A., and Paquin, P. 2017. "Symphytognathidae." in Spiders of North America: an identification manual, edited by D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P. E. Cushing,and V.Roth., 248–249. Denver: American Arachnological Society.
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Barker, Katharine, Droege, Gabriele, Astrin, Jonas J., Bartels, Paul, Butler, Carol, Cantrill, David, Forest, Felix, Gemeinholzer, Birgit, Hobern, Donald, Mackenzie-Dodds, Jackie, Tuama, Éamonn Ó., Petersen, Gitte, Sanjur, Oris I., Schindel, David E., and Seberg, Ole. 2014. "GGBN: Making Genomic Collections Discoverable for Research through a Networked Community of Biodiversity Repositories." in DNA Banking for the 21st Century, edited by Applequist, W. A. and Campbell, L. M., 165–168.
- Agnarsson, Ingi, Coddington, Jonathan A., and Kuntner, Matjaz. 2013. "Systematics: progress in the study of spider diversity and evolution." in Spider Research in the 21st Century: Trends and Perspectives, edited by Penney, David., 58–111. Siri Scientific Press.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2006. "Tick." in World Book Encyclopedia, World Book.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2006. "Centipede." in World Book Encyclopedia, World Book.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2006. "Black Widow." in World Book Encyclopedia, World Book.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2006. "Spider." in World Book Encyclopedia, World Book.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2005. "Deinopidae." in Spiders of North America: an Identification Manual, edited by Ubick, D., Cushing, P. E., and Paquin, P., 64–65. American Arachnology Society.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2005. "Phylogeny and Classification of Spiders." in Spiders of North America: an Identification Manual, edited by Ubick, D., Cushing, P. E., and Paquin, P., 18–24. American Arachnology Society.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2005. "Symphytognathidae." in Spiders of North America: an Identification Manual, edited by Ubick, D., Cushing, P. E., and Paquin, P., 226–227. American Arachnology Society.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2005. "Theridiosomatidae." in Spiders of North America: an Identification Manual, edited by Ubick, D., Cushing, P. E., and Paquin, P., 244–245. American Arachnology Society.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 2005. "Anapidae." in Spiders of North America: an Identification Manual, edited by Ubick, D., Cushing, P. E., and Paquin, P., 64–65. American Arachnology Society.
- Lopardo, L. and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2005. "Mysmenidae." in Spiders of North America: an Identification Manual, edited by Ubick, D., Cushing, P. E., and Paquin, P., 175–177. American Arachnology Society.
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Giribet, G., Harvey, M. S., Prendini, L., and Walter, D. E. 2004. "Arachnida." in Assembling the Tree of Life, edited by Cracraft, J. and Donoghue, M. J., 296–318. Oxford University Press.
- Hormiga, G. and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2001. "Patrones Filogeneticos de Dimorfismo Sexual de Tamano en Las Aranas Tejedoras de Telas Orbiculares (Araneae, Orbiculariae)." in Enfoques Contimporaneos para el Studio de la Biodiversidad, 149–168.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. and Colwell, Robert K. 2000. "Arachnids." in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 1, 199–218.
- Silva, Diana and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1996. "Spiders of Pakitza (Madre de Dios, Perú): species richness and notes on community structure." in Manu: The Biodiversity of Southeastern Peru, 253–311.
- Bisby, F. A. and Coddington, Jonathan A. 1995. "Biodiversity from a taxonomic and evolutionary perspective." in Global Biodiversity Assessment, 27–57.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1994. "The Roles of Homology and Convergence in Studies of Adaptation." in Phylogenetics and Ecology, 53–78.
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Griswold, C. E., Silva, D., Peñaranda, E., and Larcher, S. F. 1991. "Designing and Testing Sampling Protocols to Estimate Biodiversity in Tropical Ecosystems." in The Unity of Evolutionary Biology: Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 2 vols, 44–60.
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Hammond, P., Olivieri, S., Robertson, J., Sokolov, V., Stork, N., and Taylor, E. 1991. "Monitoring and Inventorying Biodiversity from Genes to Ecosystems." in From Genes to Ecosystems: a Research Agenda for Biodiversity, 83–109.
- Coddington, Jonathan A., Larcher, S. F., and Cokendolpher, J. C. 1990. "The Systematic Status of Arachnida, Exclusive of Acari, in North America North of Mexico." in Systematics of the North American insects and arachnids: Status and needs, edited by Kosztarab, M. and Schaefer, C. W., 5–20. Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Information Series. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1986. "The Monophyletic Origin of the Orb Web." in Spiders: Webs, Behavior, and Evolution, 319–363.
- Coddington, Jonathan A. 1983. "A Temporary Slide-mount Allowing Precise Manipulation of Small Structures." in Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology of the Araneae, 26.
Conference
- Griswold, Charles E., Ramirez, Martin J., Coddington, Jonathan A., and Platnick, Norman I. 2005. "Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny." In , 1–324. California Academy of Sciences.