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

Much genomic-scale, especially transcriptomic, data on spider phylogeny has accumulated in the last few years. These data have recently been used to investigate the diverse architectures and the origin of spider webs, concluding that the ancestral spider spun no foraging web, that spider webs evolve...

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Main Authors: Jonathan A. Coddington, Ingi Agnarsson, Chris A. Hamilton, Jason E. Bond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-04-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/6703.pdf