Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-99

  Griswold, Charles E ^a   Coddington, Jonathan A ^b   Hormiga, Gustavo ^c   Scharff, Nikolaj ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Comparative morphology; Evolution; Homology; Systematics; Webs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032219928     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01290.x     Document Type: Article

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