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

A golden orb-weaver spider (Araneae: Nephilidae: Nephila) from the Middle Jurassic of China

(2011) P. A. Selden et al.   Biology Letters

An extraordinary new genus of spiders from Western Australia with an expanded hypothesis on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae (Araneae)

(2011) DIMITAR DIMITROV et al.   ZOOLOGICAL 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

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

A high-resolution three-dimensional reconstruction of a fossil forest (Upper Jurassic Shishugou Formation, Junggar Basin, Northwest China)

(2010) Juliane K Hinz et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Fossil spiders

(2009) Paul A. Selden et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Phylogenetic relationships of the spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) based on morphological and DNA sequence data

(2009) Fernando Álvarez-Padilla et al.   CLADISTICS

Phylogenetic analysis of 73 060 taxa corroborates major eukaryotic groups

(2009) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

POY version 4: phylogenetic analysis using dynamic homologies

(2009) Andrés Varón et al.   CLADISTICS

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

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

(2009) A. Hejnol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phyutility: a phyloinformatics tool for trees, alignments and molecular data

(2008) S. A. Smith et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

The contribution of axial fiber extensibility to the adhesion of viscous capture threads spun by orb-weaving spiders

(2008) B. D. Opell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Actin 5C, a promising nuclear gene for spider phylogenetics

(2008) Cor J. Vink et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

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

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

(2007) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   CLADISTICS

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

Molecular phylogenetics of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae) using nuclear rRNA genes (18S and 28S)

(2007) Michael G. Rix et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION