Biological challenges to conclusions from molecular phylogenies: behaviour strongly favours orb web monophyly, contradicting molecular analyses

Sub-units in the webs of Dictyna meditata (Arachnida: Araneae: Dictynidae): implications for studies of spider web evolution

(2021) William G. Eberhard   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Spider Diversification Through Space and Time

(2020) Dimitar Dimitrov et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Interrogating genomic-scale data to resolve recalcitrant nodes in the Spider Tree of Life

(2020) Siddharth Kulkarni et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Spiders did not repeatedly gain, but repeatedly lost, foraging webs

(2019) Jonathan A. Coddington et al.   PeerJ

Evolution of aerial spider webs coincided with repeated structural optimization of silk anchorages

(2019) Jonas O. Wolff et al.   EVOLUTION

Evaluation of manipulative effects by an ichneumonid spider-ectoparasitoid larva upon an orb-weaving spider host (Araneidae: Cyclosa argenteoalba) by means of surgical removal and transplantation

(2019) Keizo Takasuka   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Web-building behavior of the odd-clawed spider Progradungula otwayensis (Araneae: Gradungulidae) and implications for the evolution of combing behavior in spiders

(2019) Martín J. Ramírez et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Modular patterns in behavioural evolution: webs derived from orbs

(2018) William G. Eberhard   BEHAVIOUR

Web building and prey wrapping behavior of Aglaoctenus castaneus (Araneae: Lycosidae: Sosippinae)

(2017) William G. Eberhard et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

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

(2016) Ward C. Wheeler et al.   CLADISTICS

Ancestral Reconstruction

(2016) Jeffrey B. Joy et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

(2016) Nicole L. Garrison et al.   PeerJ

The web repair behaviour of an orb spider

(2015) Eleanor R. Tew et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cues guiding uloborid construction behavior support orb web monophyly

(2015) William G. Eberhard et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Phylogenomic Analysis of Spiders Reveals Nonmonophyly of Orb Weavers

(2014) Rosa Fernández et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics Resolves a Spider Backbone Phylogeny and Rejects a Prevailing Paradigm for Orb Web Evolution

(2014) Jason E. Bond et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Web construction ofLinothele macrothelifera(Araneae: Dipluridae)

(2013) William G. Eberhard et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Extreme Behavioral Adjustments by an Orb-Web Spider to Restricted Spaces

(2012) Gilbert Barrantes et al.   ETHOLOGY

Cues that Spiders (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathidae) Use to Build Orbs: Lapses in Attention to One Set of Cues because of Dissonance with Others?

(2012) William G. Eberhard et al.   ETHOLOGY

The phylogenetic placement of Psechridae within Entelegynae and the convergent origin of orb-like spider webs

(2012) Ingi Agnarsson et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Revision of the pseudo-orbweavers of the genus Fecenia Simon, 1887 (Araneae, Psechridae), with emphasis on their pre-epigyne

(2011) Steffen Bayer   ZooKeys

Morphology to the rescue: molecular data and the signal of morphological characters in combined phylogenetic analyses-a case study from mysmenid spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with comments on the evolution of web architecture

(2010) Lara Lopardo et al.   CLADISTICS

Vestiges of an orb-weaving ancestor? The “biogenetic law” and ontogenetic changes in the webs and building behavior of the black widow spiderLatrodectus geometricus(Araneae Theridiidae)

(2010) W.G. Eberhard et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies

(2007) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   CLADISTICS