Extended spider cognition

HF Japyassú, KN Laland - Animal Cognition, 2017‏ - Springer
There is a tension between the conception of cognition as a central nervous system (CNS)
process and a view of cognition as extending towards the body or the contiguous …

Plant-eating by spiders

M Nyffeler, EJ Olson, WOC Symondson - Journal of Arachnology, 2016‏ - JSTOR
Spiders, a group of predominantly insectivorous predators, occasionally use plant food to
supplement their insect prey. In the current review, we tracked down 95 reported incidents of …

[کتاب][B] Biology of spiders

R Foelix - 2010‏ - books.google.com
One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its
neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in …

The form and function of spider orb webs: evolution from silk to ecosystems

TA Blackledge, M Kuntner, I Agnarsson - Advances in insect physiology, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Spiders are the preeminent silk craftsmen among arthropods and are best known for
producing aerial orb webs that snare flying insects. Orb web spiders are ubiquitous …

Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling

D Dimitrov, L Lopardo, G Giribet… - … of the Royal …, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In order to study the tempo and the mode of spider orb web evolution and diversification, we
conducted a phylogenetic analysis using six genetic markers along with a comprehensive …

Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea)

F Alvarez-Padilla, G Hormiga - Zoological Journal of the …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
The present atlas documents the morphology of representative species of 22 tetragnathid
genera, with emphasis on nontetragnathines. It includes approximately 960 scanning …

Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of orb-weaving spiders

G Hormiga, CE Griswold - Annual Review of Entomology, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
The orb-weaving spiders (Orbiculariae) comprise more than 25% of the approximately
44,000 known living spider species and produce a remarkable variety of webs. The wheel …

A revision of the New World eximius lineage of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae) and a phylogenetic analysis using worldwide exemplars

I Agnarsson - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2006‏ - academic.oup.com
The overwhelming majority of spiders are solitary and territorial. Of the handful of web-
sharing social species, most belong to the cobweb genus Anelosimus (Theridiidae) …

[PDF][PDF] Web forms and the phylogeny of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae): chaos from order

WG Eberhard, I Agnarsson, HW Levi - Systematics and biodiversity, 2008‏ - theridiidae.com
We trace the evolution of the web designs of spiders in the large family Theridiidae using
two recent, largely concordant phylogenies that are based on morphology and molecules …

Higher‐level phylogenetics of linyphiid spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence

MA Arnedo, G Hormiga, N Scharff - Cladistics, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
This study infers the higher‐level cladistic relationships of linyphiid spiders from five genes
(mitochondrial CO1, 16S; nuclear 28S, 18S, histone H3) and morphological data. In total, the …