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A Color-Mediated Mutualism between Two Arthropod Predators

scientific article published on December 20, 2012

A New Independently Derived Social Spider with Explosive Colony Proliferation and a Female Size Dimorphism

article published in 2006

A New Six-Eyed Sand SpiderSicariusWalckenaer, 1847 (Araneae: Haplogynae: Sicariidae) from Colombia, with Information on Its Natural History

scholarly article by Franklyn Cala-Riquelme et al published March 2017 in Arachnology

A New Species ofOtiothopsMacLeay (Araneae: Palpimanidae: Otiothiopinae) from Cuba

scholarly article by Franklyn Cala-Riquelme & Ingi Agnarsson published November 2014 in Arachnology

A REDESCRIPTION OF CHRYSSO NIGRICEPS (ARANEAE, THERIDIIDAE) WITH EVIDENCE FOR MATERNAL CARE

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A molecular phylogeny of bark spiders reveals new species from Africa and Madagascar (Araneae: Araneidae:Caerostris)

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A molecular phylogeny of nephilid spiders: evolutionary history of a model lineage

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A molecular phylogeny of the Australian huntsman spiders (Sparassidae, Deleninae): implications for taxonomy and social behaviour

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A molecular phylogeny of the Chinese Sinopoda spiders (Sparassidae, Heteropodinae): implications for taxonomy

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A multi-clade test supports the intermediate dispersal model of biogeography

scientific article published on 21 January 2014

A new phylogeny of Anelosimus and the placement and behavior of Anelosimus vierae n. sp. from Uruguay (Araneae: Theridiidae)

scholarly article by Ingi Agnarsson published April 2012 in Journal of Arachnology

A radiation of the ornate Caribbean ‘smiley-faced spiders’, with descriptions of 15 new species (Araneae: Theridiidae, Spintharus)

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A revised and dated phylogeny of cobweb spiders (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae): A predatory Cretaceous lineage diversifying in the era of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).

scientific article published on 7 October 2015

A time-calibrated species-level phylogeny of bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia)

scientific article (publication date: 4 February 2011)

A trade-off between precopulatory and postcopulatory trait investment in male cetaceans

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ADANSONIA IS A BAOBAB TREE, NOT A THERIDIID SPIDER

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ARGYRODES: PHYLOGENY, SOCIALITY AND INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTIONS—A REPORT ON THE ARGYRODES SYMPOSIUM, BADPLAAS 2001

scholarly article by Mary Whitehouse et al published August 2002 in Journal of Arachnology

Altitudinal patterns of spider sociality and the biology of a new midelevation social Anelosimus species in Ecuador

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Are the linnean and phylogenetic nomenclatural systems combinable? Recommendations for biological nomenclature

scientific article published on October 2006

Biogeography and diversification of hermit spiders on Indian Ocean islands (Nephilidae: Nephilengys)

scientific article published on February 21, 2011

Biogeography and eye size evolution of the ogre-faced spiders

scientific article published in 2022

Biogeography of Long-Jawed Spiders Reveals Multiple Colonization of the Caribbean

scientific article published in 2021

Biogeography of the Caribbean Cyrtognatha spiders

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Biomaterial evolution parallels behavioral innovation in the origin of orb-like spider webs

scientific article published on November 12, 2012

Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

scientific article published on September 16, 2010

Caribbean golden orbweaving spiders maintain gene flow with North America

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Characterization of the genome and silk-gland transcriptomes of Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini)

scientific article published on 06 June 2022

Cytochrome b and Bayesian inference of whale phylogeny

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DNA barcode data accurately assign higher spider taxa

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DNA-barcoding of forensically important blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the Caribbean Region

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Darwin's bark spider: giant prey in giant orb webs (Caerostris darwini, Araneae: Araneidae)?

scholarly article by Matjaž Gregorič et al published August 2011 in Journal of Arachnology

Deep mtDNA Sequence Divergences and Possible Species Radiation of Whip Spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi, Phrynidae, Phrynus/Paraphrynus) among Caribbean Oceanic and Cave Islands

scientific article published in 2023

Description of the male of Yabisi guaba (Araneae: Eresoidea: Hersiliidae)

scientific article published in 2014

Discovery of two new species of eyeless spiders within a single Hispaniola cave

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Dogs, cats, and kin: a molecular species-level phylogeny of Carnivora

scientific article published on 10 November 2009

Eight cobweb spider species from China building detritus-based, bell-shaped retreats (Araneae, Theridiidae)

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Elongated Pedicillate Setae: A Putative Sensory System And Synapomorphy Of Spiders

scientific article published in 2007

Erratum: FRANKLYN CALA-RIQUELME, LUIS QUIJANO-CUERVO, ALEXANDER SABOGAL-GONZÁLEZ INGI AGNARSSON (2018) New species of Otiothopinae (Araneae: Palpimanidae) from Colombia. Zootaxa, 4442: 413-426

scientific article published on 15 August 2018

Evolutionary breakdown of pollination specialization in a Caribbean plant radiation

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Expensive Brains: “Brainy” Rodents have Higher Metabolic Rate

scientific article published on July 18, 2011

Fecundity increase supports adaptive radiation hypothesis in spider web evolution

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From Gondwana to GAARlandia: Evolutionary history and biogeography of ogre-faced spiders (Deinopis )

scholarly article by Lisa Chamberland et al published 25 September 2018 in Journal of Biogeography

From a comb to a tree: phylogenetic relationships of the comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes

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Global Diversification of Anelosimus Spiders Driven by Long Distance Overwater Dispersal and Neogene Climate Oscillations

scientific article published on 14 March 2020

Global mtDNA genetic structure and hypothesized invasion history of a major pest of citrus, Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae).

scientific article published on 26 November 2017

Golden Orbweavers Ignore Biological Rules: Phylogenomic and Comparative Analyses Unravel a Complex Evolution of Sexual Size Dimorphism.

scientific article published in July 2019

Habitat patch size and isolation as predictors of occupancy and number of argyrodine spider kleptoparasites in Nephila webs

scientific article published on December 7, 2010

Heteroonops (Araneae, Oonopidae) spiders from Hispaniola: the discovery of ten new species

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

How Did the Spider Cross the River? Behavioral Adaptations for River-Bridging Webs in Caerostris darwini (Araneae: Araneidae)

scientific article published on October 26, 2011

How super is supercontraction? Persistent versus cyclic responses to humidity in spider dragline silk

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Huntsmen of the Caribbean: Multiple tests of the GAARlandia hypothesis

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In a relationship: sister species in mixed colonies, with a description of new Chikunia species (Theridiidae)

scientific article published in 2019

Increasing Information Content and Diagnosability in Family-Level Classifications

scientific article published in 2023

Is ACCTRAN better than DELTRAN?

scientific article published in 2008

Island biogeography and ecological modeling of the amblypygid in the Florida Keys archipelago

scholarly article by Kenneth Chapin et al published September 2018 in Ecology and Evolution

Islands within islands: Diversification of tailless whip spiders (Amblypygi, Phrynus) in Caribbean caves

scientific article published on 26 July 2015

MORPHOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF COBWEB SPIDER MALEGENITALIA (ARANEAE, THERIDIIDAE)

scholarly article by Ingi Agnarsson et al published August 2007 in Journal of Arachnology

Madagascar: an unexpected hotspot of social Anelosimus spider diversity (Araneae: Theridiidae)

scholarly article by Ingi Agnarsson & Matjaž Kuntner published 1 April 2005 in Systematic Entomology

Mammals from 'down under': a multi-gene species-level phylogeny of marsupial mammals (Mammalia, Metatheria)

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Molecular identification of spiders preying on Empoasca vitis in a tea plantation

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Molecular insights into the phylogenetic structure of the spider genus Theridion (Araneae, Theridiidae) and the origin of the Hawaiian Theridion-like fauna

scholarly article by Mquel A. Arnedo et al published July 2007 in Zoologica Scripta

Molecular phylogenetics of Caribbean Micrathena (Araneae : Araneidae) suggests multiple colonisation events and single island endemism

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Molecular phylogeny of the forensically important genus Cochliomyia (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

scientific article (publication date: 8 August 2016)

Multiple origins of subsociality in crab spiders (Thomisidae).

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NOTES ON WEB AND WEB PLASTICITY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE MALE OF ACHAEARANEA HIEROGLYPHICA (MELLO-LEITÃO) (ARANEAE, THERIDIIDAE)

scholarly article by Ingi Agnarsson & Jonathan A. Coddington published December 2006 in Journal of Arachnology

Nephilid spider eunuch phenomenon induced by female or rival male aggressiveness

scientific article published in 2009

New observations on a neotropical termite-hunting theridiid spider: opportunistic nest raiding, prey storage, and ceratopogonid kleptoparasites

scientific article published in 2015

New species of Otiothopinae (Araneae: Palpimanidae) from Colombia

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New species of smiley-faced spider Spintharus (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Brazil, and comments on unobserved diversity in South America

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Notes on the ant-mimic genus Anatea Berland (Araneae: Theridiidae) and two new species from tropical Australia

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Optimal foraging, not biogenetic law, predicts spider orb web allometry

scientific article published on January 25, 2013

Phylogenetic analysis of conservation priorities for aquatic mammals and their terrestrial relatives, with a comparison of methods

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Phylogenetic position and composition of Zygiellinae and Caerostris, with new insight into orb-web evolution and gigantism

scientific article published in 2015

Phylogenetic relationships of yellowjackets inferred from nine loci (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae, Vespula and Dolichovespula).

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Phylogenetic review of tonal sound production in whales in relation to sociality

scientific article published on 10 August 2007

Phylogenetic tests reject Emery's rule in the evolution of social parasitism in yellowjackets and hornets (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae)

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Phylogenomic analysis of yellowjackets and hornets (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae).

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Phylogenomics resolves a spider backbone phylogeny and rejects a prevailing paradigm for orb web evolution

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Phylogeny accurately predicts behaviour in Indian Ocean Clitaetra spiders (Araneae:Nephilidae)

scientific article published on 21 July 2009

Phylogeny of the orb‐weaving spider family Araneidae (Araneae: Araneoidea)

scientific article published in 2019

Phylogeography of a good Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae, Araneidae) and a new 'cryptic' species from Cuba

scientific article (publication date: 19 October 2016)

Phylogeography of a successful aerial disperser: the golden orb spider Nephila on Indian Ocean islands

scientific article (publication date: 9 May 2011)

Phylogeography of the widespread Caribbean spiny orb weaver Gasteracantha cancriformis

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Pseudoscorpion diversity and distribution in the West Indies: sequence data confirm single island endemism for some clades, but not others

scientific article published in 2016

Quantitative tests of primary homology

scientific article published in 2008

Rapid dissemination of taxonomic discoveries based on DNA barcoding and morphology

scientific article (publication date: 19 December 2016)

Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era

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Revision and phylogenetic analysis of American ethicus and rupununi groups of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae)

scientific article published in July 2005

SHARING A WEB—ON THE RELATION OF SOCIALITY AND KLEPTOPARASITISM IN THERIDIID SPIDERS (THERIDIIDAE, ARANEAE)

scholarly article by Ingi Agnarsson published August 2002 in Journal of Arachnology

SPIDER WEBS AS HABITAT PATCHES—THE DISTRIBUTION OF KLEPTOPARASITES (ARGYRODES, THERIDIIDAE) AMONG HOST WEBS (NEPHILA, TETRAGNATHIDAE)

scientific article published in 2003

SUBSOCIALITY IN HELVIBIS THORELLI KEYSERLING 1884 (ARANEAE, THERIDIIDAE, THERIDIINAE) FROM FRENCH GUIANA

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Shark tales: A molecular species-level phylogeny of sharks (Selachimorpha, Chondrichthyes)

scientific article published on November 30, 2010

Shifting continents, not behaviours: independent colonization of solitary and subsocialAnelosimusspider lineages on Madagascar (Araneae, Theridiidae)

scientific article published in 2010

Single-Island Endemism despite Repeated Dispersal in Caribbean Micrathena (Araneae: Araneidae): An Updated Phylogeographic Analysis

scientific article published on 11 February 2022

Social spiders of the genus Anelosimus occur in wetter, more productive environments than non-social species

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Sociality in theridiid spiders: repeated origins of an evolutionary dead end

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Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

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Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

Spider silk aging: initial improvement in a high performance material followed by slow degradation

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Spider silk as a novel high performance biomimetic muscle driven by humidity

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

scholarly article by Jonathan A Coddington et al published 2019 in PeerJ

Spintharus flavidus in the Caribbean-a 30 million year biogeographical history and radiation of a 'widespread species'

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Subsocial behaviour and brood adoption in mixed-species colonies of two theridiid spiders

scientific article published on 24 October 2012

Supercontraction forces in spider dragline silk depend on hydration rate

scientific article published on 23 May 2009

Systematics of new subsocial and solitary Australasian Anelosimus species (Araneae�:�Theridiidae)

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Systematics of the Madagascar Anelosimus spiders: remarkable local richness and endemism, and dual colonization from the Americas

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Taxonomy in a changing world: seeking solutions for a science in crisis

scientific article published on June 2007

The Form and Function of Spider Orb Webs

The Nephila clavipes genome highlights the diversity of spider silk genes and their complex expression

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The eunuch phenomenon: adaptive evolution of genital emasculation in sexually dimorphic spiders

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The phylogenetic placement and circumscription of the genus Synotaxus (Araneae : Synotaxidae), a new species from Guyana, and notes on theridioid phylogeny

scientific article published in 2003

The phylogenetic placement of Psechridae within Entelegynae and the convergent origin of orb-like spider webs

scientific article published on 07 November 2012

The phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla: the importance of dense taxon sampling, missing data, and the remarkable promise of cytochrome b to provide reliable species-level phylogenies

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The phylogeny of the social Anelosimus spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) inferred from six molecular loci and morphology

scientific article published on 27 September 2006

The transcriptome of Darwin's bark spider silk glands predicts proteins contributing to dragline silk toughness

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

The utility of ITS2 in spider phylogenetics: notes on prior work and an example from Anelosimus

scholarly article by Ingi Agnarsson published August 2010 in Journal of Arachnology

Undersampling bias: the null hypothesis for singleton species in tropical arthropod surveys

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Web forms and the phylogeny of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae): Chaos from order

scientific article published on 17 November 2008

Web gigantism in Darwin's bark spider, a new species from Madagascar (Araneidae: Caerostris)

scientific article published in August 2010

Webs in vitro and in vivo: spiders alter their orb-web spinning behavior in the laboratory

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Description and phylogenetic analysis of two new Episinus (Araneae, Theridiidae) species from China

scientific article published on 19 October 2022

Elevation gradient affects the distribution and host utilisation of Zatypota anomala (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) associated with mesh web weaving spiders (Araneae, Dictynidae)

scientific article published on 31 October 2022

Meotipa species (Araneae, Theridiidae) from China

scholarly article published in 2022