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Alissa Anderson

Arachtober in Nebraska: A roundup of spider-themed research, outreach

October 29, 2020

Science & Technology

How do sexual restraints help male spiders produce more offspring?

October 6, 2017

Science & Technology

Biologists (left to right) Eileen Hebets and Alissa Anderson have shown that the male nursery-web spider improves his odds of surviving a sexual encounter with a cannibalistic female by wrapping his mate's forelegs with silk prior to copulation.

Study finds sexual restraints protect male spiders from cannibalism

March 1, 2016

Science & Technology

Alissa Anderson, a UNL doctoral candidate in biological sciences, is the first researcher to quantitatively measure the rate of color change in a species of crab spider.

Doctoral student first to quantify color change in spiders

January 19, 2015