Negative allometry of orb web size in spiders and the implications for the evolution of giant webs

Testing traditional hypotheses about prey capture efficiency in orb-web spiders

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The welfare and ethics of research involving wild animals: A primer

(2020) Carl Soulsbury et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

(2019) Jonathan A. Coddington et al.   PeerJ

Analysis of Body Size, Web Size, and Diet in Two Congeneric Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) Syntopic in Florida Scrub

(2019) James E. Carrel et al.   FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST

Reeling in the prey: fishing behaviour in an orb web spider

(2019) Dinesh Rao et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

(2018) Rosa Fernández et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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(2018) Maxime Dahirel et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Making the invisible visible: methods to enhance features of tiny spider webs

(2018) Diego Solano-Brenes et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

A study of web structure ofNeoscona theisi(Araneae: Araneidae) under field conditions

(2016) Imtiaz Alam et al.   ORIENTAL INSECTS

Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

(2016) Nicole L. Garrison et al.   PeerJ

Does body size predict foraging effort? Patterns of material investment in spider orb webs

(2015) M. Gregorič et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Phylogenetic position and composition of Zygiellinae andCaerostris, with new insight into orb-web evolution and gigantism

(2015) Matjaž Gregorič et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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(2015) Aaron M. T. Harmer et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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

Systematics, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Orb-Weaving Spiders

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

The rare large prey hypothesis for orb web evolution: a critique

(2013) William G. Eberhard   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Darwin's bark spider: giant prey in giant orb webs (Caerostris darwini, Araneae: Araneidae)?

(2011) Matjaž Gregorič et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

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

Web gigantism in Darwin's bark spider, a new species from Madagascar (Araneidae: Caerostris)

(2010) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Behavioural and biomaterial coevolution in spider orb webs

(2010) A. SENSENIG et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Citizen Science: A Developing Tool for Expanding Science Knowledge and Scientific Literacy

(2009) Rick Bonney et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Ecology and web allometry of Clitaetra irenae, an arboricolous African orb-weaving spider (Araneae, Araneoidea, Nephilidae)

(2008) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY