In the last decade and a half, advances in genetic sequencing technologies have
revolutionized systematics, transforming the field from studying morphological characters or …

Chelicerata constitutes an ancient, biodiverse, and ecologically significant group of
Arthropoda. The study of chelicerate evolution has undergone a renaissance in the past …

Fossil spiders have not been fully cataloged since Bonnet's Bibliographia Araneorum and
are not included in the current Catalog. Since Bonnet's time there has been considerable …

Long-branch attraction is a systematic artifact that results in erroneous grou**s of fast-
evolving taxa. The combination of short, deep internodes in tandem with long-branch …

Spiders are important models for evolutionary studies of web building, sexual selection and
adaptive radiation. The recent development of probes for UCE (ultra‐conserved element) …

Vestigial organs provide a link between ancient and modern traits and therefore have great
potential to resolve the phylogeny of contentious fossils that bear features not seen in extant …

Regenerative abilities and their evolution in the different animal lineages have fascinated
generations of biologists. While some taxa are capable of restoring entire individuals from …

Despite significant advances in the phylogenomics of bivalves over the past decade, the
higher-level phylogeny of Imparidentia (a superorder of Heterodonta) remains elusive. Here …

The phylogeny of sea spiders has been debated for more than a century. Despite several
molecular studies in the last twenty years, interfamilial relationships remain uncertain. In the …

Benthic operation plays a vital role in underwater applications, where crawling robots have
advantages compared with turbine-based underwater vehicles, in locomotion accuracy …