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Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism...

From Gondwana to GAARlandia: Evolutionary history and biogeography of ogre‐faced spiders (Deinopis) In our new paper we explore the...

Geological events such as the formation of rivers and mountains can drive diversification. We here test vicariant hypotheses using the...

A new stenasellid isopod is described from Tashan Cave, Khuzestan Province, south-west Iran, belonging to the genus Stenasellus Dollfus,...

Males and females are often subjected to different selection pressures for homologous traits, resulting in sex-specific optima. Because...

The laboratories of Todd Blackledge and Ali Dhinojwala, two of our collaborators on the evolution of silk material properties in bark...

The primitively segmented spiders were underexplored until recently. Here, we describe 4 new species from the trapdoor spider genus...

Here, we provide a taxonomic revision of the liphistiid genus Ryuthela Haupt, 1983, endemic to Ryukyu archipelago, Japan, through a...

Karst areas are among the world’s most vulnerable landscapes to environmental impacts. Most of pollution in karst areas is due to...

Urbanization has drastically changed biodiversity patterns. While the majority of species cope poorly with urban habitats, some species...

Researchers from USA and Slovenia have made a major advance with the largest-ever study of spider silk genes! As they report today in an...

An international group of scientists has used a novel highly sensitive method for detection of environmental DNA in groundwater to extend...

In the last EZ publication of 2016, we investigated how classical DNA barcoding (using the COI locus) compares to rapid DNA barcoding...

Pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism (Pre-SC), where females attack and consume courting males, is considered an extreme case of sexual ...

Researchers from Slovenia and South Africa have discovered heterospecific mating in Nephila spiders, and have published their findings on...

Genital diversity may arise through sexual conflict over polyandry, where male genital features function to manipulate female mating...

Leaf masquerade is a phenomenon where an animal resembles leaves that are inedible for predators or innocuous for prey. It is well known...

The Caribbean islands harbor rich biodiversity with high levels of single island endemism. Stretches of ocean between islands represent...

We study the expansion of the yellow sac spider Cheiracanthium punctorium, a medically important species in Central Europe....

EZ lab published new research about genital size differences in sexually size dimorphic spiders. In most animal groups, it is unclear how...