Alpha taxonomy, and specifically the delimitation of species, is becoming increasingly
objective and integrative. The use of coalescent-based methods applied to genetic data is …

Background Many cave-dwelling animal species display similar morphologies (troglomorphism)
that have evolved convergent within and among lineages under the similar selective …

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

One major challenge to delimiting species with genetic data is successfully differentiating
population structure from species-level divergence, an issue exacerbated in taxa inhabiting …

The integration of ecological niche modelling into phylogeographic analyses has allowed
for the identification and testing of potential refugia under a hypothesis‐based framework, …

Arachnida is an ancient, diverse and ecologically important animal group that contains a
number of species of interest for medical, agricultural and engineering applications. Despite …

Genomic-scale data for non-model taxa are providing new insights into landscape genomic
structuring and species limits, leading to more informed conservation decisions, particularly …

Here we show that the most venomous spiders in the world are phylogenetically misplaced.
Australian atracine spiders (family Hexathelidae), including the notorious Sydney funnel-…

The atypoid mygalomorphs include spiders from three described families that build a diverse
array of entrance web constructs, including funnel-and-sheet webs, purse webs, trapdoors, …

The common ancestor of spiders likely used silk to line burrows or make simple webs, with
specialized spinning organs and aerial webs originating with the evolution of the …