Aim To test the hypothesis that continental drift drives diversification of organisms through
vicariance, we selected a group of primitive arachnids which originated before the break‐up of …

We test the limits of the spider superfamily Araneoidea and reconstruct its interfamilial
relationships using standard molecular markers. The taxon sample (363 terminals) comprises for …

High throughput sequencing and phylogenomic analyses focusing on relationships among
spiders have both reinforced and upturned long‐standing hypotheses. Likewise, the …

Deciphering the evolutionary relationships of Chelicerata (arachnids, horseshoe crabs, and
allied taxa) has proven notoriously difficult, due to their ancient rapid radiation and the …

We investigate the phylogeny, biogeography, time of origin and diversification, ancestral area
reconstruction and large-scale distributional patterns of an ancient group of arachnids, the …

Natural history collections play a crucial role in biodiversity research, and museum specimens
are increasingly being incorporated into modern genetics‐based studies. Sequence …

Pseudoscorpiones, with nearly 3700 described species, are an ancient and globally distributed
group of arachnids with a fossil record dating back to the Middle Devonian. Previous …

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

Recent transcriptomic studies of myriapod phylogeny have been based on relatively small
datasets with <40 myriapod terminals and variably supported or contradicted the traditional …

Gonyleptoidea, largely restricted to the Neotropics, constitutes the most diverse superfamily
of Opiliones and includes the largest and flashiest representatives of this arachnid order. …