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Nikolaj Scharff
Researcher at University of Copenhagen
Publications - 62
Citations - 3571
Nikolaj Scharff is an academic researcher from University of Copenhagen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genus & Linyphiidae. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 60 publications receiving 3142 citations. Previous affiliations of Nikolaj Scharff include American Museum of Natural History & National Museum of Natural History.
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The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling
Ward C. Wheeler,Jonathan A. Coddington,Louise M. Crowley,Dimitar Dimitrov,Dimitar Dimitrov,Pablo A. Goloboff,Charles E. Griswold,Gustavo Hormiga,Lorenzo Prendini,Martín J. Ramírez,Petra Sierwald,Lina M. Almeida-Silva,Lina M. Almeida-Silva,Fernando Álvarez-Padilla,Fernando Álvarez-Padilla,Fernando Álvarez-Padilla,Miquel A. Arnedo,Ligia R. Benavides Silva,Suresh P. Benjamin,Suresh P. Benjamin,Jason E. Bond,Cristian J. Grismado,Emile Hasan,Marshal Hedin,Matías A. Izquierdo,Facundo M. Labarque,Facundo M. Labarque,Facundo M. Labarque,Joel Ledford,Joel Ledford,Lara Lopardo,Wayne P. Maddison,Jeremy A. Miller,Jeremy A. Miller,Luis N. Piacentini,Norman I. Platnick,Daniele Polotow,Daniele Polotow,Diana Silva-Dávila,Diana Silva-Dávila,Nikolaj Scharff,Tamás Szűts,Tamás Szűts,Darrell Ubick,Cor J. Vink,Cor J. Vink,Hannah M. Wood,Hannah M. Wood,Jun-Xia Zhang +48 more
TL;DR: A phylogenetic analysis of spiders using a dataset of 932 spider species, representing 115 families (only the family Synaphridae is unrepresented), 700 known genera, and additional representatives of 26 unidentified or undescribed genera is presented.
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Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era.
Todd A. Blackledge,Nikolaj Scharff,Jonathan A. Coddington,Tamas Szüts,John W. Wenzel,Cheryl Y. Hayashi,Ingi Agnarsson +6 more
TL;DR: A broad higher-level phylogeny of spiders is constructed combining molecular data with traditional morphological and behavioral characters to test the hypothesis that the spider orb web evolved only once, and finds strong support for a single origin of orb webs.
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Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea)
TL;DR: While the spinning complement of single pairs of glands does not change much over the evolution of the group, multiple sets of glands are dramatically reduced in number, implying that derived araneoids are incapable of spinning many silk fibers at the same time.
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A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae)
TL;DR: The first cladistic analysis focused at the tribal and subfamily level of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae shows behavioral and spinneret features are most consistent on the phylogeny, while sexual size dimorphism evolved once in nephilines, twice in araneids, and reverted to monomorphism five times.