Phylogeny of entelegyne spiders: Affinities of the family Penestomidae (NEW RANK), generic phylogeny of Eresidae, and asymmetric rates of change in spinning organ evolution (Araneae, Araneoidea, Entelegynae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 786-804

  Miller, Jeremy A ^a,b   Carmichael, Anthea ^a   Ramírez, Martín J ^c   Spagna, Joseph C ^d   Haddad, Charles R ^e   Řezáč, Milan ^f   Johannesen, Jes ^g   Král, Jiří ^h   Wang, Xin Ping ⁱ   Griswold, Charles E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^d WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^f CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^g JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetric rates; Coelotinae; Cribellum; Dollo's law; Eresidae; Likelihood sensitivity analysis; Median apophysis; Retrolateral tibial apophysis; RTA clade; Sankoff matrix; Tarsal trichobothria; Zanomyinae

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S; RNA 28S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPIDER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIDERS;

EID: 77953217810     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.02.021     Document Type: Article

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