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Biogeography and diversification of hermit spiders on Indian Ocean islands (Nephilidae: Nephilengys).
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The results suggest an African origin of Madagascar Nephilengys via Cenozoic dispersal, and subsequent colonization of the Mascarene islands from Madagascar, which falsify the existing taxonomic hypothesis of a single widespread species, NephilENGys borbonica, throughout the archipelago.About:
This article is published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 53 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nephilengys & Nephilengys dodo.read more
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DNA barcoding gap: reliable species identification over morphological and geographical scales.
TL;DR: The results support models of independent patterns of morphological and molecular evolution by showing that DNA barcodes are effective in species identification regardless of their morphological diagnosibility and that the size of the barcoding gap strongly depends on taxonomic groups and practices.
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An evaluation of sampling effects on multiple DNA barcoding methods leads to an integrative approach for delimiting species: a case study of the North American tarantula genus Aphonopelma (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae).
TL;DR: This investigation allowed us to integrate methodologies into an efficient, consistent, and more effective general methodological workflow for estimating species boundaries within the mygalomorph spider genus Aphonopelma.
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A molecular phylogeny of nephilid spiders: evolutionary history of a model lineage.
TL;DR: A reinterpretation of web architecture evolution suggests that a partially arboricolous, asymmetric orb web with a retreat, as exemplified by both groups of "Nephilengys", is plesiomorphic in Nephilidae, that this architecture was modified into specialized arbor Nicolous webs in Herennia and independently in Clitaetra, and that the web became aerial, gigantic, and golden independently in both "nephila" groups.
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Golden Orbweavers Ignore Biological Rules: Phylogenomic and Comparative Analyses Unravel a Complex Evolution of Sexual Size Dimorphism.
Matjaž Kuntner,Chris A. Hamilton,Ren-Chung Cheng,Matjaž Gregorič,Nik Lupše,Tjaša Lokovšek,Emily Moriarty Lemmon,Alan R. Lemmon,Ingi Agnarsson,Jonathan A. Coddington,Jason E. Bond +10 more
TL;DR: The backbone phylogeny of Nephilidae was established using 367 anchored hybrid enrichment markers, then combined these data with classical markers for a reference species-level phylogeny, which used Cope and Rensch’s rules, sex specific size optima, and the coevolution of web size, type, and features with female and male body size and their ratio, SSD.
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The Generation of a Biodiversity Hotspot: Biogeography and Phylogeography of the Western Indian Ocean Islands
Ingi Agnarsson,Matjaž Kuntner +1 more
TL;DR: The importance of islands in revealing evolutionary processes was highlighted already at the birth of evolutionary biology as a science (Darwin 1859; Darwin and Wallace 1858), since the thrilling discoveries revealed by Darwin’s work on the Galapagos and Wallace's work in the Malay (Indonesian) archipelago (Wallace 1876) has experienced an explosive growth.
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