Chris A. Hamilton

Chris A. Hamilton, U.S. arachnologist.

Department of Biological Sciences & Auburn University Museum of Natural History, Auburn, United States of America

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Bond, J.E., Hendrixson, B.E., Hamilton, C.A., Hedin, M. 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 Reference page.

Hamilton, C.A., Hendrixson, B.E. & Bond, J.E. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) within the United States. ZooKeys 560: 1–340. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.560.6264 Reference page.

Maddison, W.P., Evans, S.C., Hamilton, C.A., Bond, J.E., Lemmon, A.R. & Lemmon, E.M. 2017. A genome-wide phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae), using anchored hybrid enrichment. ZooKeys 695: 89—101. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.695.13852. Reference page.

Kitching, I.J., Rougerie, R., Zwick, A., Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Naumann, S., Mejia, L.B. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236. Reference page.
St Laurent, R.A., Hamilton, C.A. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. Museum specimens provide phylogenomic data to resolve relationships of sack‐bearer moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae). Systematic Entomology 43(4): 729–761. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12301 Reference page.
Turner, S.P., Longhorn, S.J., Hamilton, C.A., Gabriel, R., Pérez-Miles, F. & Vogler, A.P. 2018a1. Re-evaluating conservation priorities of New World tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae) in a molecular framework indicates nonmonophyly of the genera, Aphonopelma and Brachypelma. Systematics and Biodiversity 16(1): 89-107. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2017.1346719. . Reference page.

Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Dexter, Kitching, Breinholt, J.W., Zwick, A., Timmermans, Barber & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. Phylogenomics resolves major relationships and reveals significant diversification rate shifts in the evolution of silk moths and relatives. BMC evolutionary biology. [[1]] Reference page.
Kuntner, M., Hamilton, C.A., Cheng, R.C., Gregorič, M., Lupše, N., Lokovšek, T., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R., Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J.A. & Bond, J.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. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syy082. . Reference page.

Opatova, V., Hamilton, C.A., Hedin, M., Montes de Oca, L., Král, J. & Bond, J.E. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology 69(4): 671–707. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syz064 Reference page.

Hamilton, C.A., Hendrixson, B.E. & Bringas, K.S. 2024. Discovery of a new tarantula species from the Madrean Sky Islands and the first documented instance of syntopy between two montane endemics (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aphonopelma): a case of prior mistaken identity. ZooKeys 1210: 61–98. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1210.125318 Reference page.