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The role of personality in sexual selection has mostly been investigated on vertebrate species, in which males provide direct benefits to...

2 February 2021 Dear colleagues, We have started a research programme into the phylogeny, systematics, and biogeography of Dolomedes....

Guest Editor: Dr. Matjaž Kuntner Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia...

Sexual size dimorphism is a phenomenon where one sex is considerably larger than the other sex of the same species. Darwin himself...

Why is species richness of taxonomically comparable groups of organisms so different? Can we discover the factors that best predict and...

Biotska raznovrstnost oziroma biodiverziteta opisuje stopnjo raznolikosti oblik življenja v nekem okolju. Čeprav gre za razmeroma nov ...

We investigated the biogeographical structure of the banded garden spider Argiope trifasciata, which occurs on six continents across...

New EZ preprint. Interesting new topic - spider webs as a source of eDNA! Preprint Image: Visualhunt.com

Postdoctoral candidate sought in comparative transcriptomics of spider silks. Full details HERE!

Behavioral innovation is a key process for successful colonization of new habitat types. However, it is costly due to the necessary...

Biogeography is a science that explores the prevalence and abundance of plants and animals in space and time. It attempts to ...

Despite these unusual times, life in arachnology does not stop. On Friday, Shakira Quiñones-Lebrón, a PhD candidate in our lab,...

In a new publication, we assess genetic variances and cross‐sex genetic correlations of two personality traits, aggression and activity,...

Darwin's bark spider builds the largest webs made of the toughest silk. We now highlight a novel silk gene transcript and unusually long...

Spiders with around 48,000 recorded species are major terrestrial predators and thus crucially important for ecosystem functioning. They...

This is an unusual publication for EZ lab - a chapter about biodiversity of Slovenia in general. Link

Our understanding of spider reproductive biology is hampered by the vast anatomical diversity and difficulties associated with its study....

Among terrestrial animals, spiders exhibit the most extreme cases of difference in size between males and females. Female spiders are...

Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism...

From Gondwana to GAARlandia: Evolutionary history and biogeography of ogre‐faced spiders (Deinopis) In our new paper we explore the...