Parasitoid wasps are important components of insect food chains and have played a central
role in biological control programs for over a century. Although the vast majority of …

Spiders are diverse, predatory arthropods that have inhabited Earth for around 400 million
years. They are well known for their complex venom systems that are used to overpower …

High throughput sequencing and phylogenomic analyses focusing on relationships among
spiders have both reinforced and upturned long‐standing hypotheses. Likewise, the …

Genome-scale data sets are converging on robust, stable phylogenetic hypotheses for many
lineages; however, some nodes have shown disagreement across classes of data. We use …

In the last decade and a half, advances in genetic sequencing technologies have
revolutionized systematics, transforming the field from studying morphological characters or …

Spiders are a highly diversified group of arthropods and play an important role in terrestrial
ecosystems as ubiquitous predators, which makes them a suitable group to test a variety of …

Spiders are among the most varied terrestrial predators, with highly diverse morphology,
ecology, and behavior. Morphological and molecular data have greatly contributed to …

A prominent question in animal research is how the evolution of morphology and ecology
interacts in the generation of phenotypic diversity. Spiders are some of the most abundant …

Spiders are important models for evolutionary studies of web building, sexual selection and
adaptive radiation. The recent development of probes for UCE (ultra‐conserved element) …

What happens when organisms actively modify their environment? Clarifying the role of
construction behavior on a macroevolutionary scale is crucial to interpreting phenotypic …