Body Size, Not Personality, Explains Male Mating Success in a Widow Spider
The role of personality in sexual selection has mostly been investigated on vertebrate species, in which males provide direct benefits to...
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Feb 2, 2021
Call for Dolomedes material and collaboration
2 February 2021 Dear colleagues, We have started a research programme into the phylogeny, systematics, and biogeography of Dolomedes....
Feb 2, 2021
Phylogenomic, Biogeographic, and Evolutionary Research Trends in Arachnology
Guest Editor: Dr. Matjaž Kuntner Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia...
Oct 28, 2020
SSD-Media coverage
Sexual size dimorphism is a phenomenon where one sex is considerably larger than the other sex of the same species. Darwin himself...
Aug 30, 2020
Machine learning predicts species richness
Why is species richness of taxonomically comparable groups of organisms so different? Can we discover the factors that best predict and...
Aug 27, 2020
Novi pogledi na razlike v biodiverziteti
Biotska raznovrstnost oziroma biodiverziteta opisuje stopnjo raznolikosti oblik življenja v nekem okolju. Čeprav gre za razmeroma nov ...
Aug 10, 2020
Biogeography of the globally distributed Argiope trifasciata
We investigated the biogeographical structure of the banded garden spider Argiope trifasciata, which occurs on six continents across...
Jul 19, 2020
Spider webs as a source of eDNA
New EZ preprint. Interesting new topic - spider webs as a source of eDNA! Preprint Image: Visualhunt.com
Jul 12, 2020
Matjaž Kuntner is looking for a postdoc!
Postdoctoral candidate sought in comparative transcriptomics of spider silks. Full details HERE!
May 7, 2020
Is foraging innovation lost following colonization of a less variable environment?
Behavioral innovation is a key process for successful colonization of new habitat types. However, it is costly due to the necessary...
Apr 18, 2020
A new approach to organismal biogeography
Biogeography is a science that explores the prevalence and abundance of plants and animals in space and time. It attempts to ...
Apr 18, 2020
Congratulations dr. Quiñones-Lebrón!
Despite these unusual times, life in arachnology does not stop. On Friday, Shakira Quiñones-Lebrón, a PhD candidate in our lab,...
Aug 22, 2019
Genetic variances and cross‐sex genetic correlations in spider personalities
In a new publication, we assess genetic variances and cross‐sex genetic correlations of two personality traits, aggression and activity,...
Jul 24, 2019
Transcriptome of Darwin’s bark spider silk glands predicts tougher silk
Darwin's bark spider builds the largest webs made of the toughest silk. We now highlight a novel silk gene transcript and unusually long...
Jul 7, 2019
Spider Welfare
Spiders with around 48,000 recorded species are major terrestrial predators and thus crucially important for ecosystem functioning. They...
Jul 7, 2019
The Geography of Slovenia
This is an unusual publication for EZ lab - a chapter about biodiversity of Slovenia in general. Link
Jul 6, 2019
Entelegyne spider reproduction system needs redefinition
Our understanding of spider reproductive biology is hampered by the vast anatomical diversity and difficulties associated with its study....
May 27, 2019
Smaller male spiders are not faster climbers
Among terrestrial animals, spiders exhibit the most extreme cases of difference in size between males and females. Female spiders are...
Dec 4, 2018
Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules
Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism...
Oct 1, 2018
Evolutionary history and biogeography of Deinopis
From Gondwana to GAARlandia: Evolutionary history and biogeography of ogre‐faced spiders (Deinopis) In our new paper we explore the...
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