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Through field efforts and morphological examination, we describe two new Duvalius species from caves of Zagros Mts., Iran: the...

Reconstructing biogeographic history is challenging when dispersal biology of studied species is poorly understood and they have...

In a new paper, we examined sex-specific developmental trajectories and life history trade-offs in an extremely sexually dimorphic spider...

Sex allocation theory predicts that the proportion of daughters to sons will evolve in response to ecological conditions that determine...

The spider major ampullate (MA) silk exhibits high tensile strength and extensibility and is typically a blend of MaSp1 and MaSp2...

Variation in life-history traits within a population is caused by genetic, maternal and environmental factors. We explored the high ...

We explored macroevolutionary trends and factors influencing heterogeneity in species diversity within golden orbweaver spiders....

The existence of consistent individual differences in behavior has been shown in a number of species, and several studies have found...

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,...