Jason E. Bond is a Professor of Entomology and the Schlinger Chair in Insect Systematics at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The inst ...

. He was previously Professor of Biology, Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences and Director of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History at Auburn University. When he was an associate

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with the Department of

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East Carolina University East Carolina University (ECU) is a public research university in Greenville, North Carolina. It is the fourth largest university in North Carolina. Founded on March 8, 1907, as a teacher training school, East Carolina has grown from its origi ...

, he discovered the

spider Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species d ...

'' Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi'' and numerous other species in the genus '' Aptostichus''. He went to undergraduate school at

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, majoring in biology in 1993. He then went to receive his M.S. in Biology (1995) and Ph.D. in Evolutionary Systematics and Genetics (1999) from

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. On August 6, 2008, Bond appeared on ''

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'', where he named the spider ''

Aptostichus stephencolberti ''Aptostichus stephencolberti'' is a species of spider in the family Euctenizidae, named after the American satirist Stephen Colbert. The spider was discovered on the California coastline in 2007. Spider ''Aptostichus stephencolberti'' is fou ...

'' after host

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Jason Bond Faculty page
* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American zoologists East Carolina University faculty Virginia Tech alumni Western Carolina University alumni Auburn University faculty Arachnologists American arachnologists Myriapodologists {{US-biologist-stub

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