Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot

MG Rix, DL Edwards, M Byrne, MS Harvey… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The south‐western land division of Western Australia (SWWA), bordering the temperate
Southern and Indian Oceans, is the only global biodiversity hotspot recognised in Australia …

Spider cognition

RR Jackson, FR Cross - Advances in insect physiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Spiders, having minute brains, were once considered simple, instinct-driven automatons, but
research on spider biology is revealing increasing evidence of their cognitive abilities. In this …

Treating fossils as terminal taxa in divergence time estimation reveals ancient vicariance patterns in the palpimanoid spiders

HM Wood, NJ Matzke, RG Gillespie… - Systematic …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Incorporation of fossils into biogeographic studies can have a profound effect on the
conclusions that result, particularly when fossil ranges are nonoverlapping with extant …

Next-generation museum genomics: Phylogenetic relationships among palpimanoid spiders using sequence capture techniques (Araneae: Palpimanoidea)

HM Wood, VL González, M Lloyd, J Coddington… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Historical museum specimens are invaluable for morphological and taxonomic research, but
typically the DNA is degraded making traditional sequencing techniques difficult to …

Phylogeny and historical biogeography of ancient assassin spiders (Araneae: Archaeidae) in the Australian mesic zone: evidence for Miocene speciation within …

MG Rix, MS Harvey - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2012 - Elsevier
The rainforests, wet sclerophyll forests and temperate heathlands of the Australian mesic
zone are home to a diverse and highly endemic biota, including numerous old endemic …

The generation of a biodiversity hotspot: biogeography and phylogeography of the western Indian Ocean islands

I Agnarsson, M Kuntner - Current topics in phylogenetics and …, 2012 - books.google.com
The importance of islands in revealing evolutionary processes was highlighted already at
the birth of evolutionary biology as a science (Darwin 1859; Darwin and Wallace 1858) …

Phylogenetic placement of pelican spiders (Archaeidae, Araneae), with insight into evolution of the “neck” and predatory behaviours of the superfamily Palpimanoidea

HM Wood, CE Griswold, RG Gillespie - Cladistics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic relationships among archaeid spider lineages, as well as the placement of
archaeids within the Araneomorphae, present a problem in the systematics of spiders. We …

Evidence for E urogondwana: the roles of dispersal, extinction and vicariance in the evolution and biogeography of I ndo‐P acific H ormuridae (S corpiones: S …

L Monod, L Prendini - Cladistics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Scorpions previously assigned to the genus L iocheles Sundevall, 1883, of the family H
ormuridae L aurie, 1896, are widely distributed in the tropical forests of the Indo‐Pacific …

Palpimanoid spiders from the Jurassic of China

PA Selden, H Diying, R Dong - The Journal of Arachnology, 2008 - BioOne
Only two specimens of spiders have been described from Jurassic strata, so the recovery of
some 400 new specimens from rocks of middle Jurassic age from China signals a dramatic …

Maternal care in Mid-Cretaceous lagonomegopid spiders

X Guo, PA Selden, D Ren - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Maternal care benefits the survival and fitness of offspring, often at a cost to the mother's
future reproduction, and has evolved repeatedly throughout the animal kingdom. In extant …