A Holistic Approach to Parasitoid–Host Interaction Along an Elevational Gradient Revealed Coevolution Driven by Host Foraging Strategy [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025.We examined the large‐scale distribution of highly specialised parasitoids associated with spiders along an elevational gradient and tested the hypothesis that distribution and parasitism rates depend on elevation, habitat type and the species and age composition of the host community.
Ľudmila Černecká +7 more
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How dispersal rates depend on the prey capture strategy: A case study of Georgia's spiders [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2024.This article compares genetic differentiation within 124 Eurasian species from eight families of spiders, based on the barcoding data. The conspecific web‐building spiders from the Caucasus and the rest of Eurasia are significantly less differentiated than the actively hinting species, although isolation‐by‐distance pattern presents in at least half of
David Tarkhnishvili +5 more
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Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships Based on Mitogenomes of Spider: Insights Into Evolution and Adaptation to Extreme Environments [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2025.We used the largest dataset of mitogenomes available to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships and ancestral ranges and traits in spiders. ABSTRACT In this study, we performed a comparative analysis based on a total of 255 spider mitogenomes and four outgroups, of which the mitogenomes of 39 species were assembled de novo, to explore the phylogenetic ...
Rongxiang Zhang +5 more
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Caught in the web: Exploring spider predation on bats in Europe [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2024.Despite their diverse predatory tactics, spider predation on bats remains understudied, particularly in temperate regions. This article provides detailed observations of bat predation and mortality by spiders in Europe, including the first record of a spider capturing and consuming a bat pup in Spain, as well as accounts of bats entangled in spider ...
Héctor Ruiz‐Villar +3 more
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Three Novel Spider Genomes Unveil Spidroin Diversification and Hox Cluster Architecture: Ryuthela nishihirai (Liphistiidae), Uloborus plumipes (Uloboridae) and Cheiracanthium punctorium (Cheiracanthiidae) [PDF]
Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2025.ABSTRACT Spiders are a hyperdiverse taxon and among the most abundant predators in nearly all terrestrial habitats. Their success is often attributed to key developments in their evolution such as silk and venom production and major apomorphies such as a whole‐genome duplication.
Yannis Schöneberg +11 more
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Observations on the Biology of Achaearanea Tesselata (Araneae: Theridiidae) [PDF]
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 1972 William G. Eberhard
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Effects of mowing on body size patterns in spider assemblages of mesic meadows [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 2, February 2024.In the submitted paper, we described how mowing, as a strong habitat disturbance, influenced on mean, skewness and kurtosis of the body size in epigeic spider assemblages. We found that mowing had no significant effect on mean body size, skewness and kurtosis of the body size in epigeic spider assemblages.
Tomasz Stański +4 more
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New Data on Latrodectus tredecimguttatus Rossi, 1790, the Medically Important Spider Species (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Iran [PDF]
Archives of Razi Institute, 2021 Spiders are one of the most important orders of Arachnida comprising more than 48,000 species in the world. Except for families Uloboridae and Holarchaeidae, all others are classified as the venomous spider.
M Mohammadi Bavani +10 more
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The Spider Genus Styposis (Araneae, Theridiidae) [PDF]
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 1959 Herbert W. Levi
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A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Hadrotarsinae (Araneae: Theridiidae)
Acta Arachnologica, 2002 Hajime Yoshida
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