Education

Ph.D. - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) (1999)
M.S. - Virginia Tech (1995)
B.Sc. - Western Carolina University (1993)

Research & Teaching Interests

Systematics, taxonomy, and evolution of terrestrial arthropods with an emphasis on arachnids and myriapods (specifically spiders and millipedes).  We employ molecular, morphological, and ecological approaches to study questions related to evolutionary diversification at multiple hierarchical levels (populations – higher taxa).

Selected Publications

Schultheis AS, JY Booth, LR Perlmutter, JE Bond, AL Sheldon.  2012.  Phylogeography and species biogeography of montane Great Basin stoneflies. Molecular Ecology 21:3325–3340 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05599.x

Bond JE, BE Hendrixson, CA Hamilton, M Hedin. 2012. A Reconsideration of the Classification of the Spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Arachnida: Araneae) Based on Three Nuclear Genes and Morphology. PLoS ONE 7(6):e38753. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038753.

Brewer MS, P Sierwald, JE Bond. 2012. Millipede Taxonomy after 250 Years: Classification and Taxonomic Practices in a Mega-Diverse yet Understudied Arthropod Group. PLoS ONE 7(5):e37240. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037240.

Bond, JE, CA Hamilton, NL Garrison, CH Ray.  2012. Phylogenetic reconsideration of Myrmekiaphila systematics with a description of the new trapdoor spider species Myrmekiaphila tigris (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Euctenizinae) from Auburn, Alabama. ZooKeys 190:95–109. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.190.3011.

Brewer MS, CL Spruill, NS Rao, JE Bond. 2012.  Phylogenetics of the millipede genus Brachycybe Wood, 1864 (Diplopoda: Platydesmida: Andrognathidae): patterns of deep evolutionary history and recent speciation.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64:232-242.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.04.003

Hamilton CA, DR Formanowicz, JE Bond. 2011. Species delimitation and phylogeography of Aphonopelma hentzi (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae): cryptic diversity in North American tarantulas. PLoS ONE 6(10):e26207.

Brewer MS, P Sierwald, & JE Bond. 2011. A generic homonym concerning chordeumatid millipedes (Arthropoda: Diplopoda) and ophellid worms (Annelida: Polycheata). Zootaxa 2744:65-68.

Swafford AL & JE Bond. 2010. Failure to cospeciate: an unsorted tale of millipedes and mites.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 101:272-287.

Bailey, AL, M.S. Brewer, B.E. Hendrixson, and JE Bond. 2010. Phylogeny and classification of the Trapdoor Spider genus Myrmekiaphila: an integrative approach to evaluating taxonomic hypotheses. PLoS ONE 5(9):12744 (1-15). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012744.

Hendrixson, BE and JE Bond. 2009. Evaluating the efficacy of continuous quantitative characters for phylogenetic reconstruction: an empirical example using a group of morphologically homogeneous spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Antrodiaetidae, Antrodiaetus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53:300-313, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.001.

Marek, PE and JE Bond. 2009. A Müllerian mimicry ring in Appalachian millipedes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106:9755-9760, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0810408106.

Bond JE and AK Stockman. 2008. An integrative method for delimiting cohesion species: finding the population-species interface in a group of Californian Trapdoor Spiders with extreme genetic divergence and geographic structuring. Systematic Biology 57:628-646, doi: 10.1080/10635150802302443.

Dicko C, D Porter, JE Bond, J Kenney, F Vollrath. 2008. Structural disorder in silk proteins reveals the emergence of elastomericity. Biomacromolecules 9:216-221, doi:10.1021/bm701069y.

Bond JE and N.I. Platnick. 2007. Taxonomic review of the trapdoor spider genus Myrmekiaphila (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Cyrtaucheniidae). American Museum Novitates 3596:1-30.

Sierwald, P and JE Bond. 2007. Current status of the myriapod class Diplopoda (millipedes): taxonomic diversity and phylogeny. Annual Review of Entomology 52:401-420, doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.52.111805.090210.

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