A plea for standardized nuclear markers in metazoan DNA taxonomy

J Eberle, D Ahrens, C Mayer, O Niehuis… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
The ease of sequencing DNA barcodes promoted a species identification system universally
applicable across animal phyla. However, relying on a single mitochondrial DNA fragment …

Maternal care and subsocial behaviour in spiders

EC Yip, LS Rayor - Biological Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
While most spiders are solitary and opportunistically cannibalistic, a variety of social
organisations has evolved in a minority of spider species. One form of social organisation is …

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] Sex, size and gender roles: evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism

DJ Fairbairn, WU Blanckenhorn, T Székely - 2007 - books.google.com
Why do males and females frequently differ so markedly in body size and morphology? Sex,
Size, and Gender Roles is the first book to investigate the genetic, developmental, and …

Hunting the wolf: a molecular phylogeny of the wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae)

LN Piacentini, MJ Ramírez - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2019 - Elsevier
Lycosids are a diverse family of spiders distributed worldwide. Previous studies recovered
some of the deeper splits of the family, but with little support. We present a broad …

[HTML][HTML] Microhabitat change drives diversification in pholcid spiders

J Eberle, D Dimitrov, A Valdez-Mondragón… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2018 - Springer
Background Microhabitat changes are thought to be among the main drivers of
diversification. However, this conclusion is mostly based on studies on vertebrates. Here, we …

Mitonuclear discordance in wolf spiders: Genomic evidence for species integrity and introgression

V Ivanov, KM Lee, M Mutanen - Molecular Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Systematists and taxonomists have benefited greatly from the emergence of molecular
methods. Species identification has become straightforward through DNA barcoding and the …

Warming reverses top-down effects of predators on belowground ecosystem function in Arctic tundra

AM Koltz, AT Classen, JP Wright - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Predators can disproportionately impact the structure and function of ecosystems relative to
their biomass. These effects may be exacerbated under warming in ecosystems like the …

Phylogeny and taxonomy of European funnel-web spiders of the Tegenaria–Malthonica complex (Araneae: Agelenidae) based upon morphological and molecular …

A Bolzern, D Burckhardt, A Hänggi - Zoological Journal of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The taxonomy and systematics of European house spiders, currently constituting the ill-
defined Tegenaria–Malthonica complex (including Aterigena) in the family Agelenidae, are …

A new primer for metabarcoding of spider gut contents

D Lafage, V Elbrecht, JP Cuff, D Steinke… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As a key predator group, spiders have received a lot of attention by food web ecologists. The
difficulty involved in studying their diet has led to the use of new technologies such as …