In the last 15 years understanding of the higher systematics of Araneae has changed
greatly. Large classical superfamilies and families have turned out to be poly-or …

▪ Abstract Silks belong to the class of molecules called structural proteins. The ability to
produce silk proteins has evolved multiple times in the arthropods, and silk secreting glands …

We present a phylogenetic analysis of spiders using a dataset of 932 spider species,
representing 115 families (only the family Synaphridae is unrepresented), 700 known …

One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its
neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in …

ABSTRACT Spiders (Order Araneae) are massively abundant generalist arthropod
predators that are found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet and have persisted for over …

A new method for weighting characters according to their homoplasy is proposed; the
method is non‐iterative and does not require independent estimations of weights. It is based …

ABSTRACT A phylogenetic analysis of the two-clawed spiders grouped in Dionycha is
presented, with 166 representative species of 49 araneomorph families, scored for 393 …

Cladistics aims to reconstruct genealogies based on common ancestry, thus revealing the
phylogenetic relationships between taxa. Its applications vary from linguistic analysis to the …

El libro tiene una estructura tan simple como su título. Tras unos capítulos iniciales
introductorios, siguen los de claves de identificación y 107 subcapítulos dedicados cada …

Rensch's rule states that sexual size dimorphism (SSD) increases with body size
(hyperallometry) in taxa in which males are the larger sex and decreases with body size …