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

Chelicerata constitutes an ancient, biodiverse, and ecologically significant group of
Arthropoda. The study of chelicerate evolution has undergone a renaissance in the past …

Long-branch attraction is a systematic artifact that results in erroneous groupings of fast-
evolving taxa. The combination of short, deep internodes in tandem with long-branch …

Fossil spiders have not been fully cataloged since Bonnet's Bibliographia Araneorum and
are not included in the current Catalog. Since Bonnet's time there has been considerable …

Regenerative abilities and their evolution in the different animal lineages have fascinated
generations of biologists. While some taxa are capable of restoring entire individuals from …

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) …

Benthic operation plays a vital role in underwater applications, where crawling robots have
advantages compared with turbine-based underwater vehicles, in locomotion accuracy …

The basal phylogeny of Chelicerata is one of the opaquest parts of the animal Tree of Life,
defying resolution despite application of thousands of loci and millions of sites. At the …

Chelicerate arthropods exhibit dynamic genome evolution, with ancient whole-genome
duplication (WGD) events affecting several orders. Yet, genomes remain unavailable for a …

The phylogeny of sea spiders has been debated for more than a century. Despite several
molecular studies in the last twenty years, interfamilial relationships remain uncertain. In the …