Advances in the reconstruction of the Spider Tree of Life: a roadmap for spider systematics and comparative studies

S Kulkarni, HM Wood, G Hormiga - Cladistics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade and a half, advances in genetic sequencing technologies have
revolutionized systematics, transforming the field from studying morphological characters or …

Dangerous arachnids—Fake news or reality?

TJ Hauke, V Herzig - Toxicon, 2017 - Elsevier
The public perception of spiders and scorpions is skewed towards the potential harm they
can inflict in humans, despite recent scientific evidence that arachnid venom components …

The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling

WC Wheeler, JA Coddington, LM Crowley… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[图书][B] Biology of spiders

R Foelix - 2010 - books.google.com
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 …

Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

NL Garrison, J Rodriguez, I Agnarsson, JA Coddington… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
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 …

Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data

V Opatova, CA Hamilton, M Hedin… - Systematic …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The infraorder Mygalomorphae is one of the three main lineages of spiders comprising over
3000 nominal species. This ancient group has a worldwide distribution that includes among …

Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era

TA Blackledge, N Scharff… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The evolutionary diversification of spiders is attributed to spectacular innovations in silk.
Spiders are unique in synthesizing many different kinds of silk, and using silk for a variety of …

Multilocus Species Delimitation in a Complex of Morphologically Conserved Trapdoor Spiders (Mygalomorphae, Antrodiaetidae, Aliatypus)

JD Satler, BC Carstens, M Hedin - Systematic biology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Species are a fundamental unit for biological studies, yet no uniform guidelines exist for
determining species limits in an objective manner. Given the large number of species …

An evaluation of sampling effects on multiple DNA barcoding methods leads to an integrative approach for delimiting species: a case study of the North American …

CA Hamilton, BE Hendrixson, MS Brewer… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The North American tarantula genus Aphonopelma provides one of the greatest
challenges to species delimitation and downstream identification in spiders because …

A reconsideration of the classification of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Arachnida: Araneae) based on three nuclear genes and morphology

JE Bond, BE Hendrixson, CA Hamilton, M Hedin - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background The infraorder Mygalomorphae (ie, trapdoor spiders, tarantulas, funnel web
spiders, etc.) is one of three main lineages of spiders. Comprising 15 families, 325 genera …