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Jeremy Miller

jeremy Miller

I am an advocate for the free and open exchange of scientific data. I take this position not only because (through public financial support) vast quantities of data rightly belong in the public domain, but because scientific power depends on independent verifiability. Evolving technologies, data standards, and norms of scientific practice are encouraging open access publishing practices and the aggregation of primary data formatted according to community standards. These trends have exciting potential benefits for science and society.

Keywords

Biodiversity, Cybertaxonomy, spiders

Dr. Jeremy Miller

Researcher
Understanding evolution

jeremy.miller@naturalis.nl
+31 (0)71 751 7379
Plazi
Google Scholar

Research
interest

My research program studies patterns of biodiversity in spiders and other megadiverse taxa, cybertaxonomy and evolution of spiders, and the mobilization of data from taxonomic literature.

I  use a combination of morphology and DNA sequence data to investigate patterns of biodiversity in spider communities. My work in spider taxonomy follows an open access cybertaxonomic model. In addition to traditional publications, elements of my taxonomic work are distributed online to an assortment of databases and resources. With primary data aggregated according to community standards, it becomes possible to reuse and recombine data without restrictions. I use an XML-based semantic enhancement approach to visualize and aggregate primary data from legacy taxonomic publications, suggesting new possibilities for legacy biodiversity data.

Students and researchers conducting an inventory of the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius.

Current
topics

  • Caribbean Biodiversity. 
  • Mobilizing data from taxonomic literature. 
  • Cybertaxonomy and evolution of spiders. 

Key
publications

  • Egloff W., Agosti D., Kishor P., Patterson D., Miller, J.A. 2017. Copyright and the Use of Images as Biodiversity Data. Research Ideas and Outcomes 3: e12502. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.3.e12502.
  • Miller J.A., Agosti D., Penev L., Sautter G., Georgiev T., Catapano T., Patterson D., King D., Pereira S., Vos R.A., Sierra S. 2015. Integrating and visualizing primary data from prospective and legacy taxonomic literature. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5063. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5063.
  • Miller J.A., MillerJ.H., Pham D-S., Beentjes K.K. 2014. Cyberdiversity: improving the informatic value of diverse tropical arthropod inventories. PLOS ONE 9: e115750. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115750.
  • Miller J.A., Griswold C.E., Scharff N., Rezac M., Szuts T., Marhabaie M. 2012. The velvet spiders: an atlas of the Eresidae (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys195: 1-144. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.195.2342. 
  • Miller J., Dikow T., Agosti D., Sautter G., Catapano T., Penev L., Zhang Z.-Q., Pentcheff D., Pyle R., Blum S., Parr C., Freeland C., Garnett T., Ford L.S., Muller B., Smith L., Strader G., Georgiev T., Benichou L. 2012. From taxonomic literature to cybertaxonomic content. BMC Biology 10: 87. https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-87. 
  • Miller J.A., Carmichael A., Ramirez M.J., Spagna J.C., Haddad C.R., Rezac M., Johannesen J., Kral J., Wang X.-P., Griswold C.E. 2010. Phylogeny of entelegyne spiders: Affinities of the family Penestomidae (NEW RANK), generic phylogeny of Eresidae, and asymmetric rates of change in spinning organ evolution (Araneae, Araneoidea, Entelegynae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 786-804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.02.021.
  • Miller J.A., Griswold C.E., Haddad C.R. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the spider family Penestomidae (Araneae, Entelegynae). Zootaxa 2534: 1-36. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2534.1.1
  • Coddington J.A., Agnarsson I., Miller J.A., Kuntner M., Hormiga G. 2009. Undersampling bias: the null hypothesis for singleton species in tropical arthropod surveys. Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 573-584. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01525.x.
  • Miller J.A., Griswold C.E., Yin C.M. 2009. The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Araneoidea): Systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers. ZooKeys 11: 9-195. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.11.160. 
  • Miller J.A. 2007. Repeated evolution of male sacrifice behavior in spiders correlated with genital mutilation. Evolution 61: 1301-1315. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00115.x. 

All publications on Google Scholar

PhD
supervision

Naturalis aims to be a breeding ground for international scientific talent. Therefore, PhD's have a special position in our organisation.

  • F. Andres Rivera Quiroz
  • Hector Ortega Salas 
PhD student F. Andrés Rivera Quiroz hard at work on his research.

Teaching
activities

  • Tropical Biodiversity and Field Methods. Leiden University with field practice in Borneo. 
  • Integrative Taxonomy, unit on Cybertaxonomy. Leiden University. 
  • Methods in Biodiversity Analysis, unit on Functional Traits. Leiden University. 

Publications

2023

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Szuts T., Szabó K., Zamani A., Forman M., Miller J., Oger P., Fabregat M., Kovács G., Gál J. 2023. A Study in Scarlet: Integrative Taxonomy of the Spider Genus Loureedia (Araneae: Eresidae).. Diversity 15 (2) : 26 p. 1-26. DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020238
Groom Q., Dillen M., Addink W., Ariño A.H.H., Bölling C., Bonnet P., Cecchi L., Ellwood E.R., Figueira R., Gagnier P.Y., Grace O.M., Güntsch A., Hardy H., Huybrechts P., Hyam R., Joly A.A.J., Kommineni V.K., Larridon I., Livermore L., Lopes R.J., Meeus S., Miller J.A., Milleville K., Panda R., Pignal M., Poelen J., Ristevski B., Robertson T., Rufino A.C., Santos J., Schermer M., Scott B., Seltmann K.C., Teieira H., Trekels M., Gaikwad J. 2023. Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections.. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: 29 p. e109439. DOI https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e109439
https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/109439/
2022

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Rivera Quiroz F.A., Miller J.A. 2022. Micro‐CT visualization of the CNS: Performance of different contrast‐enhancing techniques for documenting the spider brain.. Journal of Comparative Neurology 530 (14) : 2474-2485. Wiley. DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.25343
Rivera-Quiroz F.A., Miller J.A. 2022. Micro-CT visualization of the CNS: Performance of different contrast-enhancing techniques for documenting the spider brain.. Journal of Comparative Neurology 530 (14) : 11 p. 2474-2485. DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.25343
2021

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Rivera Quiroz F.A., Miller J. 2021. Old Brains in Alcohol: The Usability of Legacy Collection Material to Study the Spider Neuroarchitecture.. Diversity 13 (11) : 601. DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/d13110601
Deeleman-Reinhold C.L., Miller J.A. 2021. Description of a new species of Leuserattus Proszynski et Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012, with comments on the type species L. gunung Proszynski et Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012 and associated genera (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1) : 8 p. 105-112. DOI https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.09
Rivera-Quiroz F.A., Petcharad| B., Miller J.A. 2021. First records and three new species of the family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Thailand, and the circumscription of the genus Crassignatha Wunderlich, 1995. New Symphytognathidae from Thailand. ZooKeys 1012: 32 p. 21-53. DOI https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1012.57047
2020

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Colijn E.O., Beentjes K.K., Butôt R., Miller J.A., Smit J.T., Winter A.J. de, Hoorn B. van der 2020. A catalogue of the Coleoptera of the Dutch Antilles. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 162 (23) : 67-186. brill. DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/22119434-bja10006

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Rivera-Quiroz F.A., Schilthuizen M., Booppa P., Miller J.A. 2020. Imperfect and askew: A review of asymmetric genitalia in araneomorph spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). PLoS ONE 15 (6) : 26 p. e022035. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220354
Rivera‑Quiroz F.A., Petcharad B., Miller J.A. 2020. Mining data from legacy taxonomic literature and application for sampling spiders of the Teutamus group (Araneae; Liocranidae) in Southeast Asia. Scientific Reports 10: 13 p. 15787. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72549-8
2019

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Madden H., Andel T.R. van, Miller J., Stech M., Verdel K., Eggermont E. 2019. Vegetation associations and relative abundance of rodents on St. Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands. Global Ecology and Conservation 20: e00743. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00743
Smit J.T., Miller J.A. 2019. Bat ectoparasites from Sint Eustatius, Lesser Antilles (Diptera: Hippoboscidae: Streblinae; Hemiptera: Polyctenidae). Journal of Parasitology 105 (1) : 7 p. 45-51. DOI https://doi.org/10.1645/18-106
2018

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Smit J.T., Dijkstra K.D.B., Beentjes K., Miller J., Madden H., Hoorn B. van der 2018. First records of Odonata from Sint Eustatius, Dutch Lesser Antilles. Notulae Odonatologicae 9 (2) : 5 p. 78-82. DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1481087
2017

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Wheeler W.C., Coddington J.A., Crowley L.M., Dimitrov D., Goloboff P.A., Griswold C.E., Hormiga G., Prendini L., Ramírez M.J., Sierwald P., Almeida-Silva L., Alvarez-Padilla F., Arnedo M.A., Benavides Silva L.R., Benjamin S.P., Bond J.E., Grismado C.J., Hasan E., Hedin M., Izquierdo M.A., Labarque F.M., Ledford J., Lopardo L., Maddison W.P., Miller J.A., Piacentini L.N., Platnick N.I., Polotow D., Silva-Dávila D., Scharff N., Szűts T., Ubick D., Vink C.J., Wood H.M., Zhang J. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics 33 (6) : 43 p. 574-616. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12182
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12182/full
2016

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

2015

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Claessens J., Beentjes K.K., Heijerman T., Miller J., Gravendeel, B. 2015. Beobachtungen von Miarus campanulae als Bestäuber von Cephalanthera rubra. Journal Europaischer Orchideen 47: 11 p. 77-87.

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Schilthuizen M., Vairappan C.S., Slade E.M., Mann D.J., Miller J.A. 2015. Specimens as primary data: museums and ‘open science’. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30 (5) : 237-238. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.03.002
2014

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Miller J.A., Schilthuizen M., Lilliendahl Burmester J., Graaf L. van der, Merckx V., Jocqué M., Kessler P.J.A., Fayle T.M., Breeschoten T., Broeren R., Bouman R., Chua W.-J., Feijen F., Fermont T., Groen K., Groen M., Kil N.J.C., Laat H.A. de, Moerland M.S., Moncoquet C., Panjang E., Philip A.J., Roca-Eriksen R., Rooduijn B., Santen M. van, Swakman V., Evans M.N., Evans L.J., Love K., Joscelyne S.H., Tober A.V., Wilson H.F., Ambu L.N., Goossens B. 2014. Dispatch from the field: ecology of ground-web-building spiders with description of a new species (Araneae, Symphytognathidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 2: 13 p. 1-13. Pensoft. DOI https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1076
http://biodiversitydatajournal.com/articles.php?id=1076
Vos R.A., Biserkov J.V., Balech B., Beard N., Blissett M., Brenninkmeijer C., Dooren T. van, Eades D., Gosline G., Groom Q.J., Hamann T.D., Hettling H., Hoehndorf R., Holleman A., Hovenkamp P., Kelbert P., King D., Kirkup D., Lammers Y., DeMeulemeester T., Mietchen D., Miller J.A., Mounce R., Nicolson N., Page R., Pawlik A., Pereira S., Penev L., Richards K., Sautter G., Shorthouse D.P., Tähtinen M., Weiland C., Williams A.R., Sierra S. 2014. Enriched biodiversity data as a resource and service. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: 15 p. 1-15. Pensoft. DOI https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1125
http://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=1125

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Ramírez M.J., Grismado C.J., Labarque F.M., Izquierdo M.A., Ledford J.M., Miller J.A., Haddad C.R., Griswold C.E. 2014. The morphology and relationships of the walking mud spiders of the genus Cryptothele (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 253: 12 p. 382-393. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2014.03.002
Kuntner M., Pristovšek U., Cheng R-C., Li D., Zhang S., Tso I-M., Liao C-P., Miller J.A., Kralj-Fišer S. 2014. Eunuch supremacy: evolution of post-mating spider emasculation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69 (1) : 10 p. 117-126. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1824-6
2013

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Smith V., Georgiev T., Stoev P., Biserkov J., Miller J., Livermore L., Baker E., Mietchen D., Couvreur T., Mueller G., Dikow T., Helgen K., Frank J., Agosti D., Roberts D., Penev L. 2013. Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal. Biodiversity Data Journal 1: 8 p. e995. DOI https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e995

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

2012

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Miller J., Dikow T., Agosti D., Sautter G., Catapano T., Penev L., Zhang Z.-Q., Pentcheff D., Pyle R., Blum S., Parr C., Freeland C., Garnett T., Ford L.S., Muller B., Smith L., Strader G., Georgiev T., Benichou L. 2012. From taxonomic literature to cybertaxonomic content. BMC Biology 10: 87. DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-87
2011

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Miller J., Pham D.S. 2011. Landscape biodiversity of tropical forest spider communities in Vietnam (Arachnida: Araneae). Treubia 38: 18 p. 53-70.
2010

Chapters in book

Dick C.W., Miller J.A. 2010. Streblidae (Bat Flies). 2: 12 p. NRC Research Press, Ottawa. ISBN 9780660199580.

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Miller J.A., Carmichael A., Ramirez M.J., Spagna J.C., Haddad C.R., Rezac M., Johannesen J., Kral J., Wang X.-P., Griswold C.E. 2010. Phylogeny of entelegyne spiders: Affinities of the family Penestomidae (NEW RANK), generic phylogeny of Eresidae, and asymmetric rates of change in spinning organ evolution (Araneae, Araneoidea, Entelegynae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55 (3) : 19 p. 786-804. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.02.021
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790310000898
Penev L., Agosti D., Georgiev T., Catapano T., Miller J., Blagoderov V., Roberts D., Smith V.S., Brake I., Ryrcroft S., Scott B., Johnson N.F., Morris R.A., Sautter G., Chavan V., Robertson T., Remsen D., Stoev P., Parr C., Knapp S., Kress W.J., Thompson F.C., Erwin T. 2010. Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples. ZooKeys 50: 16 p. 1-16. DOI https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.50.538
2009

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Helsdingen P.J. van, Miller J., IJland S. 2009. Snelle inventarisatie van het Noordoostpolder (Kuinderbos) in Flevoland (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief Spined 27: 2 p. 16-17.

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

2008

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Penev L., Erwin T., Thompson F.C., Sues H.-D., Engel M.S., Agosti D., Pyle R., Ivie M., Assmann T., Henry T., Miller J., Ananjeva N.B., Casale A., Lourenço W., Golovatch S., Fagerholm H.-P., Taiti S., Alonso-Zarazaga M., Nieukerken E. van 2008. ZooKeys, unlocking earth’s incredible biodiversity and building a sustainable bridge into the public domain: From “print-based” to “web-based” taxonomy, systematic, and natural history. ZooKeys 1: 18 p. 1-17. DOI https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1.1
http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/11/zookeys-unlocking-earth%E2%8…
2007

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

2006

Journals non-SCI, peer-reviewed

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

Simmons M.P., Zhang L.B., Webb C.T., Reeves A., Miller J.A. 2006. The relative performance of Bayesian and parsimony approaches when sampling characters evolving under homogeneous and heterogeneous sets of parameters. Cladistics 22 (2) : 15 p. 171-185.
2005

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

2004

Chapters in book

Miller J.A., Ubick D. 2004. Spiders.: 24 p. 105-128. ISBN 0030968356.

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

2003

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

2000

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

1999

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed

1996

Journals SCI, peer-reviewed