Evolution of Spiders and Silk Spinning: Mini Review of the Morphology, Evolution, and Development of Spiders’ Spinnerets

Decoding the locational information in the orb web vibrations of Araneus diadematus and Zygiella x-notata

(2019) B. Mortimer et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

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

(2018) Rosa Fernández et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cooption of an appendage-patterning gene cassette in the head segmentation of arachnids

(2018) Emily V. W. Setton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Chelicerates and the Conquest of Land: A View of Arachnid Origins Through an Evo-Devo Spyglass

(2017) Prashant P. Sharma   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

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

(2017) Paul L Babb et al.   NATURE GENETICS

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

Almost a spider: a 305-million-year-old fossil arachnid and spider origins

(2016) Russell J. Garwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spider Transcriptomes Identify Ancient Large-Scale Gene Duplication Event Potentially Important in Silk Gland Evolution

(2015) Thomas H. Clarke et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Toward spinning artificial spider silk

(2015) Anna Rising et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

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

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

The function of Hox and appendage-patterning genes in the development of an evolutionary novelty, the Photuris firefly lantern

(2014) M. S. Stansbury et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Arachnids from the Carboniferous of Russia and Ukraine, and the Permian of Kazakhstan

(2013) Paul A. Selden et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Patterning mechanisms and morphological diversity of spider appendages and their importance for spider evolution

(2010) Matthias Pechmann et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Appendage patterning in the South American bird spider Acanthoscurria geniculata (Araneae: Mygalomorphae)

(2009) Matthias Pechmann et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Notch-mediated segmentation of the appendages is a molecular phylotypic trait of the arthropods

(2008) Nikola-Michael Prpic et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

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