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Fiona Cross

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Fiona Ruth Cross
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury
ThesisAttentional processes in mosquito-eating jumping spiders: search images and cross-modality priming (2009)
WebsiteCanterbury University page

Fiona Ruth Cross is a New Zealand arachnologist. She did both her MSc and PhD theses at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.[1][2]

Cross is best known for detecting food preference in East African Evarcha culicivora spiders for female Anopheles mosquitos fed recently on mammalian blood.[3][4][5]

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References

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  1. ^ Cross, Fiona (2003). How mosquito-eating jumping spiders communicate: complex display sequences, selective attention and cross-modality priming (Masters thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/9312. hdl:10092/1953.
  2. ^ Cross, Fiona (2009). Attentional processes in mosquito-eating jumping spiders: search imagesand cross-modality priming (Doctoral thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/7313. hdl:10092/4441.
  3. ^ "BBC World Service - News - Why a spider that likes smelly socks could help fight against malaria". bbc.co.uk.
  4. ^ Fountain, Henry (26 October 2009). "The Alluring Power of Blood in Spiders". The New York Times.
  5. ^ "Fiona Cross".
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