Advances in the reconstruction of the spider tree of life: A roadmap for spider systematics and comparative studies

Correlation with a limited set of behavioral niches explains the convergence of somatic morphology in mygalomorph spiders

(2023) Jeremy D. Wilson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Phylogenomics illuminates the evolution of orb webs, respiratory systems and the biogeographic history of the world’s smallest orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneoidea, Symphytognathoids)

(2023) Siddharth Kulkarni et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Increasing Information Content and Diagnosability in Family-Level Classifications

(2023) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Molecular systematics and phylogenetics of the spider genus Mastigusa Menge, 1854 (Araneae, Cybaeidae)

(2023) Filippo Castellucci et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Huntsman spider phylogeny informs evolution of life history, egg sacs, and morphology

(2022) Jacob A. Gorneau et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

High-Density Three-Dimensional Morphometric Analyses Reveal Predation-Based Disparity and Evolutionary Modularity in Spider ‘Jaws’

(2022) Robert J. Kallal et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Revision of recluse spiders (Araneae: Sicariidae: Loxosceles) preserved in Dominican amber and a total-evidence phylogeny of Scytodoidea reveal the first fossil Drymusidae

(2022) Ivan L. F. Magalhaes et al.   Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny

Molecular phylogeny of the tropical wandering spiders (Araneae, Ctenidae) and the evolution of eye conformation in the RTA clade

(2022) Nicolas A. Hazzi et al.   CLADISTICS

Is phenotypic evolution affected by spiders’ construction behaviors?

(2022) Lili Shao et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A new species of the spider genus Tekellina Levi, 1957 from Chile, with a broadened definition of the family Synotaxidae (Arachnida, Araneae)

(2022) Martín J. Ramírez et al.   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

1000 spider silkomes: Linking sequences to silk physical properties

(2022) Kazuharu Arakawa et al.   Science Advances

Genomic signatures of recent convergent transitions to social life in spiders

(2022) Chao Tong et al.   Nature Communications

The camouflaged silken retreat of Viridasius sp. (Araneae: Viridasiidae)

(2021) Tobias Bauer   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Intraspecific niche partition without speciation: individual level web polymorphism within a single island spider population

(2021) Darko D. Cotoras et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The biology and evolution of spider venoms

(2021) Tim Lüddecke et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Molecular phylogeny of pimoid spiders and the limits of Linyphiidae, with a reassessment of male palpal homologies (Araneae, Pimoidae)

(2021) GUSTAVO HORMIGA et al.   ZOOTAXA

Evolution and dispersal of snakes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction

(2021) Catherine G. Klein et al.   Nature Communications

Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi)

(2021) Gustavo Silva de Miranda et al.   European Journal of Taxonomy

Combining genomic, phenotypic and Sanger sequencing data to elucidate the phylogeny of the two-clawed spiders (Dionycha)

(2021) Guilherme H.F. Azevedo et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits

(2021) Stano Pekár et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

Taxonomy and Phylogenetics of Nanometinae and Other Australasian Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)

(2020) Fernando Álvarez-Padilla et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily Prodidominae (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae)

(2020) Bruno V B Rodrigues et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum

(2020) Hiroki Oda et al.   EvoDevo

Sequence Capture Phylogenomics of True Spiders Reveals Convergent Evolution of Respiratory Systems

(2020) Martín J Ramírez et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Taxonomic studies on the genus Ectatosticta (Araneae, Hypochilidae) from China, with descriptions of two new species

(2020) Yejie Lin et al.   ZooKeys

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

Phylogenomic resolution of sea spider diversification through integration of multiple data classes

(2020) Jesús A Ballesteros et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A phylogenetic and taxonomic review of baviine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Baviini)

(2020) Wayne P. Maddison et al.   ZooKeys

Phylogenomic Analysis of Ultraconserved Elements Resolves the Evolutionary and Biogeographic History of Segmented Trapdoor Spiders

(2020) Xin Xu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Comparative morphology of cheliceral muscles using high-resolution X-ray microcomputed-tomography in palpimanoid spiders (Araneae, Palpimanoidea)

(2019) Hannah M. Wood et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

The Crevice Weaver Spider Genus Kukulcania (Araneae: Filistatidae)

(2019) Ivan L. F. Magalhaes et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Phylogeny of the orb‐weaving spider family Araneidae (Araneae: Araneoidea)

(2019) Nikolaj Scharff et al.   CLADISTICS

External power amplification drives prey capture in a spider web

(2019) S. I. Han et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Whole-Genome Analyses Resolve the Phylogeny of Flightless Birds (Palaeognathae) in the Presence of an Empirical Anomaly Zone

(2019) Alison Cloutier et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

(2019) Jonathan A. Coddington et al.   PeerJ

Phylogenomic analysis and revised classification of atypoid mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with notes on arachnid ultraconserved element loci

(2019) Marshal Hedin et al.   PeerJ

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

(2019) Luis N. Piacentini et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomics and genital morphology of cave raptor spiders (Araneae, Trogloraptoridae) reveal an independent origin of a flow‐through female genital system

(2019) Peter Michalik et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic

(2019) Ivan L. F. Magalhaes et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Spider‐specific probe set for ultraconserved elements offers new perspectives on the evolutionary history of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae)

(2019) Siddharth Kulkarni et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Copulatory mechanics in the wolf spider Agalenocosa pirity reveals a hidden diversity of locking systems in Lycosidae (Araneae)

(2019) Dante Poy et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Phylogenetic Systematics and Evolution of the Spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae Using Genomic Scale Data

(2019) Vera Opatova et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The life aquatic with spiders (Araneae): repeated evolution of aquatic habitat association in Dictynidae and allied taxa

(2019) Sarah C Crews et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

MPBoot: fast phylogenetic maximum parsimony tree inference and bootstrap approximation

(2018) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics, Diversification Dynamics, and Comparative Transcriptomics across the Spider Tree of Life

(2018) Rosa Fernández et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics, Diversification Dynamics, and Comparative Transcriptomics across the Spider Tree of Life

(2018) Rosa Fernández et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Notes on the behavior and the pendulous egg-sacs of Viridasius sp. (Araneae: Viridasiidae)

(2018) Tobias Bauer et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

The origins of the Psechridae: Web-building lycosoid spiders

(2018) Dong-Qiang Cheng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A phylotranscriptomic backbone of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae) supported by multiple methodological approaches

(2018) Robert J. Kallal et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Early Cretaceous greenhouse pumped higher taxa diversification in spiders

(2018) Lili Shao et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2018) Hannah M. Wood et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic reclassification of the world’s most venomous spiders (Mygalomorphae, Atracinae), with implications for venom evolution

(2018) Marshal Hedin et al.   Scientific Reports

Origin of spiders and their spinning organs illuminated by mid-Cretaceous amber fossils

(2018) Diying Huang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Cretaceous arachnid Chimerarachne yingi gen. et sp. nov. illuminates spider origins

(2018) Bo Wang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Venom gland size and venom complexity - essential trophic adaptations of venomous predators: a case study using spiders

(2018) Stano Pekár et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Relationships and phylogenetic revision of Filistatinella spiders (Araneae:Filistatidae)

(2017) Ivan L. F. Magalhaes et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Hunting with sticky tape: functional shift in silk glands of araneophagous ground spiders (Gnaphosidae)

(2017) Jonas O. Wolff et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Post-Eocene climate change across continental Australia and the diversification of Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae)

(2017) Michael G. Rix et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Nephila clavipes genome highlights the diversity of spider silk genes and their complex expression

(2017) Paul L Babb et al.   NATURE GENETICS

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

Spiders in caves

(2017) Stefano Mammola et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A genome-wide phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae), using anchored hybrid enrichment

(2017) Wayne P. Maddison et al.   ZooKeys

The discovery of the orb-weaving spider genus Pinkfloydia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in eastern Australia with description of a new species from New South Wales and comments on the phylogeny of Nanometinae

(2017) GUSTAVO HORMIGA   ZOOTAXA

Expanding anchored hybrid enrichment to resolve both deep and shallow relationships within the spider tree of life

(2016) Chris A. Hamilton et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)

(2016) Dimitar Dimitrov et al.   CLADISTICS

TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics

(2016) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of “pirate spiders” (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of a new African genus and the first report of maternal care in the family

(2016) Ligia R. Benavides et al.   CLADISTICS

High phylogenetic utility of an ultraconserved element probe set designed for Arachnida

(2016) James Starrett et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A revised and dated phylogeny of cobweb spiders (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae): A predatory Cretaceous lineage diversifying in the era of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

(2016) Jie Liu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

(2016) Nicole L. Garrison et al.   PeerJ

Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae)

(2015) Daniele Polotow et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)

(2015) Wayne P. Maddison   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Mosquito-terminator spiders and the meaning of predatory specialization

(2015) Robert R. Jackson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Resolving the phylogeny of a speciose spider group, the family Linyphiidae (Araneae)

(2015) Fang Wang et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Extant primitively segmented spiders have recently diversified from an ancient lineage

(2015) X. Xu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Out of the twilight zone: phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of the orb-weaving spider family Mysmenidae, with a focus on spinneret spigot morphology in symphytognathoids (Araneae, Araneoidea)

(2015) Lara Lopardo et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Rcorrector: efficient and accurate error correction for Illumina RNA-seq reads

(2015) Li Song et al.   GigaScience

Taxonomic revision of the spider family Penestomidae (Araneae, Entelegynae)

(2015) J. A. Miller et al.   ZOOTAXA

Evolutionary morphology of the male reproductive system, spermatozoa and seminal fluid of spiders (Araneae, Arachnida) – Current knowledge and future directions

(2014) Peter Michalik et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Trophic specialisation in a predatory group: the case of prey-specialised spiders (Araneae)

(2014) Stano Pekár et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Multi-tissue transcriptomics of the black widow spider reveals expansions, co-options, and functional processes of the silk gland gene toolkit

(2014) Thomas H Clarke et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Morphology And Phylogeny Of Dionychan Spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)

(2014) Martín J. Ramírez   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

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

Phylogenomic Interrogation of Arachnida Reveals Systemic Conflicts in Phylogenetic Signal

(2014) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Target enrichment of ultraconserved elements from arthropods provides a genomic perspective on relationships among Hymenoptera

(2014) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Molecular phylogeny of the spider family Sparassidae with focus on the genus Eusparassus and notes on the RTA-clade and ‘Laterigradae’

(2014) Majid Moradmand et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Dubious resolution and support from published sparse supermatrices: The importance of thorough tree searches

(2014) Mark P. Simmons et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The deep phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae)

(2014) Wayne Maddison et al.   ZooKeys

Phylogenetic analysis of the tropical wolf spider subfamily Cteninae (Arachnida, Araneae, Ctenidae)

(2014) Daniele Polotow et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Systematics, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Orb-Weaving Spiders

(2013) Gustavo Hormiga et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Mate with the young, kill the old: reversed sexual cannibalism and male mate choice in the spider Micaria sociabilis (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)

(2013) Lenka Sentenská et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Analysis of transcriptomes of three orb-web spider species reveals gene profiles involved in silk and toxin

(2013) Ying-Jun Zhao et al.   Insect Science

The i5K Initiative: Advancing Arthropod Genomics for Knowledge, Human Health, Agriculture, and the Environment

(2013)   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Great Silk Alternative: Multiple Co-Evolution of Web Loss and Sticky Hairs in Spiders

(2013) Jonas O. Wolff et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeny of Aphantochilinae and StrophiinaesensuSimon (Araneae; Thomisidae)

(2013) Renato A. Teixeira et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

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

(2012) Hannah Marie Wood et al.   CLADISTICS

Summarizing and correcting the GC content bias in high-throughput sequencing

(2012) Yuval Benjamini et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A Reconsideration of the Classification of the Spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Arachnida: Araneae) Based on Three Nuclear Genes and Morphology

(2012) Jason E. Bond et al.   PLoS One

Not All Sequence Tags Are Created Equal: Designing and Validating Sequence Identification Tags Robust to Indels

(2012) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   PLoS One

Treating Fossils as Terminal Taxa in Divergence Time Estimation Reveals Ancient Vicariance Patterns in the Palpimanoid Spiders

(2012) Hannah Marie Wood et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

On the identity of the type species of the genus Telema (Araneae, Telemidae)

(2012) Shuqiang Li et al.   ZooKeys

Systematics, conservation and morphology of the spider genus Tayshaneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) in Central Texas Caves

(2012) Joel Ledford et al.   ZooKeys

An extraordinary new family of spiders from caves in the Pacific Northwest (Araneae, Trogloraptoridae, new family)

(2012) Joel Ledford et al.   ZooKeys

The lace web spiders (Araneae, Phyxelididae) of Madagascar: phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomy

(2012) CHARLES E. GRISWOLD et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Genital morphology of female goblin spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Oonopidae) with functional implications

(2011) Matthias Burger   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Patterns of habitat affinity and Austral/Holarctic parallelism in dictynoid spiders (Araneae�:�Entelegynae)

(2011) Joseph C. Spagna et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Systematics of the spider genus Neoleptoneta Brignoli, 1972 (Araneae�:�Leptonetidae) with a discussion of the morphology and relationships for the North American Leptonetidae

(2011) Joel Ledford et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

MACSE: Multiple Alignment of Coding SEquences Accounting for Frameshifts and Stop Codons

(2011) Vincent Ranwez et al.   PLoS One

Multi-Modal Courtship in the Peacock Spider, Maratus volans (O.P.-Cambridge, 1874)

(2011) Madeline B. Girard et al.   PLoS One

Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling

(2011) D. Dimitrov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea)

(2011) FERNANDO ÁLVAREZ-PADILLA et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Ultrastructure of the Spermatozoa in the Spider Genus Pimoa: New Evidence for the Monophyly of Pimoidae plus Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Araneae)

(2010) Peter Michalik et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Molecular systematics of Selenops spiders (Araneae: Selenopidae) from North and Central America: implications for Caribbean biogeography

(2010) SARAH C. CREWS et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

Systematics of the Australian orb-weaving spider genusDemadianawith comments on the generic classification of the Arkyinae (Araneae�:�Araneidae)

(2010) Volker W. Framenau et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Phylogeny of entelegyne spiders: Affinities of the family Penestomidae (NEW RANK), generic phylogeny of Eresidae, and asymmetric rates of change in spinning organ evolution (Araneae, Araneoidea, Entelegynae)

(2010) Jeremy A. Miller et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level

(2010) Michael Rix et al.   ZooKeys

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Higher-level phylogenetics of linyphiid spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence

(2009) Miquel A. Arnedo et al.   CLADISTICS

Phylogenetic relationships within Philodromidae, with a taxonomic revision ofPhilodromussubgenusArtanesin the western Palearctic (Arachnida�:�Araneae)

(2009) Christoph Muster   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

A contribution to the knowledge of liphistiid spiders

(2009) W. S. Bristowe   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era

(2009) T. A. Blackledge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Family ties: molecular phylogeny of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae)

(2008) Suresh P. Benjamin et al.   CLADISTICS

Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Enna (Araneae, Lycosoidea, Trechaleidae)

(2008) Estevam Luís Cruz da Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Comb-hairs on the fourth tarsi in pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae)

(2008) Bernhard A. Huber et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Life history of the spiderSelenops occultusMello‐Leitão (Araneae, Selenopidae) from Brazil with notes on the natural history of the genus

(2008) Sarah C. Crews et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Nuptial gifts and sexual behavior in two species of spider (Araneae, Trechaleidae, Paratrechalea)

(2008) Luiz Ernesto Costa-Schmidt et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Fossil evidence for the origin of spider spinnerets, and a proposed arachnid order

(2008) P. A. Selden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Web forms and the phylogeny of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae): Chaos from order

(2008) William G. Eberhard et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Phylogenetic placement of the Tasmanian spider Acrobleps hygrophilus (Araneae, Anapidae) with comments on the evolution of the capture web in Araneoidea

(2007) Lara Lopardo et al.   CLADISTICS

More data, fewer shifts: Molecular insights into the evolution of the spinning apparatus in non-orb-weaving spiders

(2007) Joseph C. Spagna et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION