Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 5229-5234

  Blackledge, Todd A ^a   Scharff, Nikolaj ^b   Coddington, Jonathan A ^c   Szüts, Tamas ^b   Wenzel, John W ^d   Hayashi, Cheryl Y ^e   Agnarsson, Ingi ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Araneidae; Behavioral evolution; Cribellate silk; Orb web; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILK; SPIDER; SPIDER WEB;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SILK; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; ARANEIDAE; ARANEOIDEA; DEINOPOIDEA; HEXAPODA; RTA CLADE;

EID: 65249141185     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901377106     Document Type: Article

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