Sex differences in spiders: from phenotype to genomics

M Cordellier, JM Schneider, G Uhl… - Development Genes and …, 2020‏ - Springer
Sexual reproduction is pervasive in animals and has led to the evolution of sexual
dimorphism. In most animals, males and females show marked differences in primary and …

Why do spiders balloon? a review of recent evidence

M Montes, RM Gleiser - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2025‏ - Springer
Spider aerial dispersal, also known as ballooning, is a behavior that enables spiders to
escape adverse conditions and colonize isolated habitats, making it crucial for species …

Temporal and spatial microbiome dynamics across natural populations of the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola

MM Busck, MB Lund, TL Bird… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Host–symbiont interactions may form obligatory or facultative associations that are context
dependent. Long-term studies on microbiome composition from wild populations should …

Behaviour and Ecology of Spiders

C Viera, MO Gonzaga - Contributions from the Neotropical Region, 2017‏ - Springer
Arachnology in the Neotropical region has been greatly benefited by the relatively recent
development and establishment of research groups in Central and South America and …

Parental care and sociality

C Viera, I Agnarsson - Behaviour and Ecology of Spiders: Contributions …, 2017‏ - Springer
Spiders are famously aggressive and cannibalistic, and nearly all are solitary. Only about 20–
25 out of over 46,000 known species display highly social behavior. Nevertheless, sociality …

When and why do sit-and-wait social spiders disperse?

B Parthasarathy, H Somanathan - Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 2020‏ - brill.com
Dispersal is inherent to all living organisms. Sit-and-wait predators such as social spiders,
with their sedentary lifestyles, present an intriguing and underexplored case to examine the …

An antimicrobial Staphylococcus sciuri with broad temperature and salt spectrum isolated from the surface of the African social spider, Stegodyphus dumicola

S Nazipi, SG Vangkilde-Pedersen, MM Busck… - Antonie Van …, 2021‏ - Springer
Some social arthropods engage in mutualistic symbiosis with antimicrobial compound-
producing microorganisms that provide protection against pathogens. Social spiders live in …

Dual pathways in social evolution: Population genetic structure of group-living and solitary species of kleptoparasitic spiders (Argyrodinae: Theridiidae)

YC Su, P Peng, MA Elgar, DR Smith - Plos one, 2018‏ - journals.plos.org
Group-living behavior is taxonomically widespread but rare in spiders. The conventional
view is that the main pathways to group-living in spiders are either sub-social, where …

Inbreeding produces trade-offs between maternal fecundity and offspring survival in a monandrous spider

Z Chen, EL Preisser, R **ao, J Chen, D Li, X Jiao - Animal Behaviour, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•We explored inbreeding avoidance in a monandrous wolf spider.•Males did not
discriminate between sibling and nonsibling females.•Females preferred mating, and had …

[کتاب][B] Genetic Variation among Natural and Laboratory Breeding Populations of the Haplodiploidy Social Beetle Coccotrypes Dactyliperda

RH Kadosh - 2019‏ - search.proquest.com
Social organisms may derive both direct and indirect benefits from mating with relatives.
Nevertheless, inbreeding is the exception rather than the rule in most social species …