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Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Spiders (Order Araneae) are massively abundant generalist arthropod predators that are found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet and have persisted for over 380 million years. Spiders have long served as evolutionary models for studying complex mating and web spinning behaviors, key innovation and adaptive radiation hypotheses, and have been ...
Nicole L Garrison +9 more
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Neuroscience: This Is Not a Spider [PDF]
Current Biology, 2016 Long-term memories of fear have been notoriously difficult to alter. A new study finds access through the window of reconsolidation.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017 World experts of different disciplines, from molecular biology to macro-ecology, recognize the value of cave ecosystems as ideal ecological and evolutionary laboratories. Among other subterranean taxa, spiders stand out as intriguing model organisms for their ecological role of top predators, their unique adaptations to the hypogean medium
Stefano Mammola +2 more
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The Canadian Entomologist, 1873 “The American Naturalist” for May, 1871, contains an interesting article on “Flying Spiders,” by J. H. Emerton. The species noticed by him are, no doubt, allied to the gossamer of Europe, and the phenomenon occurs early in autumn on the Islands of the St.
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