Study of Developmental Genes in Opisthosomal Limb Development in the Spider Parasteatoda Tepidariorum
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Zoologischer Anzeiger 273 (2018) 33–55 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Zoologischer Anzeiger jou rnal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jcz Review of Trichodamon Mello-Leitão 1935 and phylogenetic ଝ placement of the genus in Phrynichidae (Arachnida, Amblypygi) a,b,c,∗ a Gustavo Silva de Miranda , Adriano Brilhante Kury , a,d Alessandro Ponce de Leão Giupponi a Laboratório de Aracnologia, Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista s/n, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, CEP 20940-040, Brazil b Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th St. & Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20560, USA c Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark d Servic¸ o de Referência Nacional em Vetores das Riquetsioses (LIRN), Colec¸ ão de Artrópodes Vetores Ápteros de Importância em Saúde das Comunidades (CAVAISC), IOC-FIOCRUZ, Manguinhos, 21040360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Amblypygi Thorell, 1883 has five families, of which Phrynichidae is one of the most diverse and with a Received 18 October 2017 wide geographic distribution. The genera of this family inhabit mostly Africa, India and Southeast Asia, Received in revised form 27 February 2018 with one genus known from the Neotropics, Trichodamon Mello-Leitão, 1935. Trichodamon has two valid Accepted 28 February 2018 species, T. princeps Mello-Leitão, 1935 and T. froesi Mello-Leitão, 1940 which are found in Brazil, in the Available online 10 March 2018 states of Bahia, Goiás, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Norte. -
A Protocol for Online Documentation of Spider Biodiversity Inventories Applied to a Mexican Tropical Wet Forest (Araneae, Araneomorphae)
Zootaxa 4722 (3): 241–269 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2020 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4722.3.2 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6AC6E70B-6E6A-4D46-9C8A-2260B929E471 A protocol for online documentation of spider biodiversity inventories applied to a Mexican tropical wet forest (Araneae, Araneomorphae) FERNANDO ÁLVAREZ-PADILLA1, 2, M. ANTONIO GALÁN-SÁNCHEZ1 & F. JAVIER SALGUEIRO- SEPÚLVEDA1 1Laboratorio de Aracnología, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior s/n, Colonia Copilco el Bajo. C. P. 04510. Del. Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, México. E-mail: [email protected] 2Corresponding author Abstract Spider community inventories have relatively well-established standardized collecting protocols. Such protocols set rules for the orderly acquisition of samples to estimate community parameters and to establish comparisons between areas. These methods have been tested worldwide, providing useful data for inventory planning and optimal sampling allocation efforts. The taxonomic counterpart of biodiversity inventories has received considerably less attention. Species lists and their relative abundances are the only link between the community parameters resulting from a biotic inventory and the biology of the species that live there. However, this connection is lost or speculative at best for species only partially identified (e. g., to genus but not to species). This link is particularly important for diverse tropical regions were many taxa are undescribed or little known such as spiders. One approach to this problem has been the development of biodiversity inventory websites that document the morphology of the species with digital images organized as standard views. -
Araneae, Theridiidae)
Phelsuma 14; 49-89 Theridiid or cobweb spiders of the granitic Seychelles islands (Araneae, Theridiidae) MICHAEL I. SAARISTO Zoological Museum, Centre for Biodiversity University of Turku,FIN-20014 Turku FINLAND [micsaa@utu.fi ] Abstract. - This paper describes 8 new genera, namely Argyrodella (type species Argyrodes pusillus Saaristo, 1978), Bardala (type species Achearanea labarda Roberts, 1982), Nanume (type species Theridion naneum Roberts, 1983), Robertia (type species Theridion braueri (Simon, 1898), Selimus (type species Theridion placens Blackwall, 1877), Sesato (type species Sesato setosa n. sp.), Spinembolia (type species Theridion clabnum Roberts, 1978), and Stoda (type species Theridion libudum Roberts, 1978) and one new species (Sesato setosa n. sp.). The following new combinations are also presented: Phycosoma spundana (Roberts, 1978) n. comb., Argyrodella pusillus (Saaristo, 1978) n. comb., Rhomphaea recurvatus (Saaristo, 1978) n. comb., Rhomphaea barycephalus (Roberts, 1983) n. comb., Bardala labarda (Roberts, 1982) n. comb., Moneta coercervus (Roberts, 1978) n. comb., Nanume naneum (Roberts, 1983) n. comb., Parasteatoda mundula (L. Koch, 1872) n. comb., Robertia braueri (Simon, 1898). n. comb., Selimus placens (Blackwall, 1877) n. comb., Sesato setosa n. gen, n. sp., Spinembolia clabnum (Roberts, 1978) n. comb., and Stoda libudum (Roberts, 1978) n. comb.. Also the opposite sex of four species are described for the fi rst time, namely females of Phycosoma spundana (Roberts, 1978) and P. menustya (Roberts, 1983) and males of Spinembolia clabnum (Roberts, 1978) and Stoda libudum (Roberts, 1978). Finally the morphology and terminology of the male and female secondary genital organs are discussed. Key words. - copulatory organs, morphology, Seychelles, spiders, Theridiidae. INTRODUCTION Theridiids or comb-footed spiders are very variable in general apperance often with considerable sexual dimorphism. -
Spiders on Rapa Nui
G C A T T A C G G C A T genes Article Ancient DNA Resolves the History of Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) Spiders on Rapa Nui Darko D. Cotoras 1,2,3,* ID , Gemma G. R. Murray 1, Joshua Kapp 1, Rosemary G. Gillespie 4, Charles Griswold 2, W. Brian Simison 3, Richard E. Green 5 and Beth Shapiro 1 ID 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA; [email protected] (G.G.R.M.); [email protected] (J.K.); [email protected] (B.S.) 2 Entomology Department, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; [email protected] 3 Center for Comparative Genomics, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; [email protected] 4 Department of Environmental Science, University of California, 137 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA; [email protected] 5 Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: + 1-831-459-3009 Received: 11 October 2017; Accepted: 13 December 2017; Published: 21 December 2017 Abstract: Rapa Nui is one of the most remote islands in the world. As a young island, its biota is a consequence of both natural dispersals over the last ~1 million years and recent human introductions. It therefore provides an opportunity to study a unique community assemblage. Here, we extract DNA from museum-preserved and newly field-collected spiders from the genus Tetragnatha to explore their history on Rapa Nui. -
The Spider Parasteatoda Tepidariorum
PRIMER SERIES PRIMER 2655 Development 139, 2655-2662 (2012) doi:10.1242/dev.078204 © 2012. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum Maarten Hilbrant1, Wim G. M. Damen2 and Alistair P. McGregor1,* Summary Stollewerk et al., 2003; Telford and Thomas, 1998) and are likely Spiders belong to the chelicerates, which is an arthropod group to continue to do so. However, Parasteatoda is now the most that branches basally from myriapods, crustaceans and insects. commonly used chelicerate model for developmental studies, Spiders are thus useful models with which to investigate particularly with respect to embryogenesis (McGregor et al., 2008a; whether aspects of development are ancestral or derived with Oda and Akiyama-Oda, 2008). This is in part owing to the platform respect to the arthropod common ancestor. Moreover, they serve provided by classical embryological studies of spider development as an important reference point for comparison with the (reviewed in Anderson, 1973), the ease of culturing Parasteatoda, development of other metazoans. Therefore, studies of spider its short life cycle, year-round access to all embryonic stages, and development have made a major contribution to advancing our an expanding range of genetic resources and functional tools understanding of the evolution of development. Much of this (McGregor et al., 2008a). knowledge has come from studies of the common house spider, We reasoned previously that further studies of the spiders Parasteatoda tepidariorum. Here, we describe how the growing Parasteatoda and Cupiennius could provide new insights into number of experimental tools and resources available to study developmental mechanisms and their evolution (McGregor et al., Parasteatoda development have provided novel insights into the 2008a). -
Biodiversity from Caves and Other Subterranean Habitats of Georgia, USA
Kirk S. Zigler, Matthew L. Niemiller, Charles D.R. Stephen, Breanne N. Ayala, Marc A. Milne, Nicholas S. Gladstone, Annette S. Engel, John B. Jensen, Carlos D. Camp, James C. Ozier, and Alan Cressler. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, v. 82, no. 2, p. 125-167. DOI:10.4311/2019LSC0125 BIODIVERSITY FROM CAVES AND OTHER SUBTERRANEAN HABITATS OF GEORGIA, USA Kirk S. Zigler1C, Matthew L. Niemiller2, Charles D.R. Stephen3, Breanne N. Ayala1, Marc A. Milne4, Nicholas S. Gladstone5, Annette S. Engel6, John B. Jensen7, Carlos D. Camp8, James C. Ozier9, and Alan Cressler10 Abstract We provide an annotated checklist of species recorded from caves and other subterranean habitats in the state of Georgia, USA. We report 281 species (228 invertebrates and 53 vertebrates), including 51 troglobionts (cave-obligate species), from more than 150 sites (caves, springs, and wells). Endemism is high; of the troglobionts, 17 (33 % of those known from the state) are endemic to Georgia and seven (14 %) are known from a single cave. We identified three biogeographic clusters of troglobionts. Two clusters are located in the northwestern part of the state, west of Lookout Mountain in Lookout Valley and east of Lookout Mountain in the Valley and Ridge. In addition, there is a group of tro- globionts found only in the southwestern corner of the state and associated with the Upper Floridan Aquifer. At least two dozen potentially undescribed species have been collected from caves; clarifying the taxonomic status of these organisms would improve our understanding of cave biodiversity in the state. -
Rossi Gf Me Rcla Par.Pdf (1.346Mb)
RESSALVA Atendendo solicitação da autora, o texto completo desta dissertação será disponibilizado somente a partir de 28/02/2021. UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL PAULISTA “JÚLIO DE MESQUITA FILHO” Instituto de Biociências – Rio Claro Departamento de Zoologia Giullia de Freitas Rossi Taxonomia e biogeografia de aranhas cavernícolas da infraordem Mygalomorphae RIO CLARO – SP Abril/2019 Giullia de Freitas Rossi Taxonomia e biogeografia de aranhas cavernícolas da infraordem Mygalomorphae Dissertação apresentada ao Departamento de Zoologia do Instituto de Biociências de Rio Claro, como requisito para conclusão de Mestrado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia. Orientador: Prof. Dr. José Paulo Leite Guadanucci RIO CLARO – SP Abril/2019 Rossi, Giullia de Freitas R832t Taxonomia e biogeografia de aranhas cavernícolas da infraordem Mygalomorphae / Giullia de Freitas Rossi. -- Rio Claro, 2019 348 f. : il., tabs., fotos, mapas Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claro Orientador: José Paulo Leite Guadanucci 1. Aracnídeo. 2. Ordem Araneae. 3. Sistemática. I. Título. Sistema de geração automática de fichas catalográficas da Unesp. Biblioteca do Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claro. Dados fornecidos pelo autor(a). Essa ficha não pode ser modificada. Dedico este trabalho à minha família. AGRADECIMENTOS Agradeço ao meus pais, Érica e José Leandro, ao meu irmão Pedro, minha tia Jerusa e minha avó Beth pelo apoio emocional não só nesses dois anos de mestrado, mas durante toda a minha vida. À José Paulo Leite Guadanucci, que aceitou ser meu orientador, confiou em mim e ensinou tudo o que sei sobre Mygalomorphae. Ao meu grande amigo Roberto Marono, pelos anos de estágio e companheirismo na UNESP Bauru, onde me ensinou sobre aranhas, e ao incentivo em ir adiante. -
Phantom Spiders 2: More Notes on Dubious Spider Species from Europe
© Arachnologische Gesellschaft e.V. Frankfurt/Main; http://arages.de/ Arachnologische Mitteilungen / Arachnology Letters 52: 50-77 Karlsruhe, September 2016 Phantom spiders 2: More notes on dubious spider species from Europe Rainer Breitling, Tobias Bauer, Michael Schäfer, Eduardo Morano, José A. Barrientos & Theo Blick doi: 10.5431/aramit5209 Abstract. A surprisingly large number of European spider species have never been reliably rediscovered since their first description many decades ago. Most of these are probably synonymous with other species or unidentifiable, due to insufficient descriptions or mis- sing type material. In this second part of a series on this topic, we discuss about 100 of these cases, focusing mainly on species described in the early 20th century by Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa and Gabor von Kolosváry, as well as a number of jumping spiders and various miscellaneous species. In most cases, the species turned out to be unidentifiablenomina dubia, but for some of them new synonymies could be established as follows: Alopecosa accentuata auct., nec (Latreille, 1817) = Alopecosa farinosa (Herman, 1879) syn. nov., comb. nov.; Alopecosa barbipes oreophila Simon, 1937 = Alopecosa farinosa (Herman, 1879) syn. nov., comb. nov.; Alopecosa mariae orientalis (Kolosváry, 1934) = Alopecosa mariae (Dahl, 1908) syn. nov.; Araneus angulatus afolius (Franganillo, 1909) and Araneus angulatus atricolor Simon, 1929 = Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757 syn. nov.; Araneus angulatus castaneus (Franganillo, 1909) = Araneus pallidus (Olivier, 1789) syn. nov.; Araneus angulatus levifolius (Franganillo, 1909), Araneus angulatus niger (Franganillo, 1918) and Araneus angulatus nitidifolius (Franganillo, 1909) = Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757 syn. nov.; Araneus angulatus pallidus (Franganillo, 1909), Araneus angulatus cru- cinceptus (Franganillo, 1909), Araneus angulatus fuscus (Franganillo, 1909) and Araneus angulatus iberoi (Franganillo, 1909) = Araneus pal- lidus (Olivier, 1789) syn. -
Towards a Biologically Meaningful Classification of Subterranean Organisms: a Critical Analysis of the Schiffner-Racovitza System Frpm a Historical Perspective, Difficulties of Its Application And
A peer-reviewed open-access journal Subterranean BiologyTowards 22: 1–26 a biologically (2017) meaningful classification of subterranean organisms ... 1 doi: 10.3897/subtbiol.22.9759 RESEARCH ARTICLE Subterranean Published by http://subtbiol.pensoft.net The International Society Biology for Subterranean Biology Towards a biologically meaningful classification of subterranean organisms: a critical analysis of the Schiner-Racovitza system from a historical perspective, difficulties of its application and implications for conservation Eleonora Trajano1, Marcelo R. de Carvalho2 1 Laboratório de Estudos Subterrâneos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Rodovia Washington Luis, Km 235, 13565-905, São Carlos, Brasil 2 Departamento de Zoo- logia, Instituto de Biociências da Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Trav. 14, no. 101, CEP 05508- 090, São Paulo, Brasil Corresponding author: Eleonora Trajano ([email protected]) Academic editor: Oana Moldovan | Received 4 July 2016 | Accepted 14 December 2016 | Published 28 February 2017 http://zoobank.org/7E5B7E74-2702-4A86-8ACB-3307E5AF3C38 Citation: Trajano E, Carvalho MR (2017) Towards a biologically meaningful classification of subterranean organisms: a critical analysis of the Schiner-Racovitza system frpm a historical perspective, difficulties of its application and implications for conservation. Subterranean Biology 22: 1–26. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.22.9759 Abstract Subterranean organisms always attracted the attention of humans using caves with various purposes, due to the strange appearance of several among them and life in an environment considered extreme. Accord- ing to a classification based on the evolutionary and ecological relationships of these organisms with sub- terranean habitats, first proposed by Schiner in 1854 and emended by Racovitza in 1907, three categories have been recognized: troglobites, troglophles and trogloxenes. -
The Diversity and Ecology of the Spider Communities of European Beech Canopy
The diversity and ecology of the spider communities of European beech canopy Dissertation zur Erlangung des naturwissenschaftlichen Doktorgrades der Bayerischen Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg vorgelegt von Yu-Lung Hsieh geboren in Taipeh, Taiwan Würzburg 2011 In the vegetable as well as in the animal kingdom, the causes of the distribution of species are among the number of mysteries, which natural philosophy cannot reach… —Alexander von Humboldt Table of Contents I. General Introduction……………………………...………………………...…1 II. Effects of tree age on diversity and community structure of arboreal spider: implications for old-growth forest conservation…………………………….11 III. Underestimated spider diversity in a temperate beech forest……………33 IV. Seasonal dynamics of arboreal spider diversity in a temperate forest…….51 V. Neutral and niche theory jointly explain spider diversity within temperate forest canopies…………………………………………………………………69 VI. Biodiversity prediction by applying Verhulst Grey Model (GM 1,1)…....…85 VII. Summary and Outlook………………………………………………………93 VIII. Zusammenfassung und Ausblick……………………………………………99 IX. Acknowledgements………………………………………………………….105 X. Curriculum Vitae and Appendix…………………………………………..107 XI. Ehrenwörtliche Erklärung……………………………………….…………114 Declaration This dissertation is the result of my own work and includes nothing that is the outcome of work done in collaboration. Chapter I General Introduction Canopy research and temperate forests Forests, coral reefs and soil contain the majority of the world’s known biodiversity (Connell 1978; Ozanne et al. 2003; Floren and Schmidl 2008), and as much as half of all the macroscopic life forms are believed to dwell in forest canopies, where they remain insufficiently investigated, or undiscovered entirely (Floren and Schmidl 2008). The study of canopy arthropod communities is a relatively young subfield of ecology, and it can be traced back to the study of the extremely diverse flora and fauna of tropical tree canopies in the late 1970s (Perry 1978; Erwin and Scott 1980; Stork and Hammond 1997). -
Taxonomy of the Genus Brachyteles Spix, 1823 and Its Phylogenetic
MUSEU DE ZOOLOGIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO Taxonomy of the genus Brachyteles Spix, 1823 and its phylogenetic position within the subfamily Atelinae Gray, 1825 José Eduardo Serrano Villavicencio São Paulo 2016 MUSEU DE ZOOLOGIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO MASTOZOOLOGIA JOSÉ EDUARDO SERRANO VILLAVICENCIO Taxonomy of the genus Brachyteles Spix, 1823 and its phylogenetic position within the subfamily Atelinae Gray, 1825 Dissertação apresentada ao programa de Pós-Graduação do Museu de Zoologia da universidade de São Paulo para o obtenção de titulo de Mestre em Sistemática, Taxonomia Animal e Biodiversidade Orientador: Prof. Dr. Mario de Vivo São Paulo 2016 Ficha catalográfica Serrano-Villavicencio, José Eduardo Taxonomy of the genus Brachyteles Spix, 1823 and its phylogenetic position within the subfamily Atelinae Gray, 1825; orientador Mario de Vivo. – São Paulo, SP: 2016. 198 p.; 56 figs; 10 tabs. Dissertação (Mestrado) – Programa de Pós-graduação em Sistemática, Taxonomia Animal e Biodiversidade, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. 1. Brachyteles, 2. Filogenia - Brachyteles, 3. Atelinae I. Vivo, Mario de. II. Título. Banca Examinadora _______________________________ ___________________________ Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Instituição: Instituição: Julgamento Julgamento: _______________________________ Prof. Dr. Mario de Vivo (Orientador) Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo ©Stephen Nash Con todo mi amor para Elisa y Juan que son mi razón para jamás desistir. Nunca terminaré de agradecer cada uno de sus sacrificios. Agradecimentos Aunque la gran mayoría del presente trabajo se encuentra redactado en inglés, quise tomarme la libertad de expresar mis agradecimientos más sinceros en mi lengua materna para no dejar ningún sentimiento al aire. En primer lugar, me gustaría agradecer a mi orientador Mario de Vivo quien se arriesgó a aceptar un desconocido biólogo peruano sin mayor experiencia. -
Chromosome-Level Reference Genome of the European Wasp Spider As a Tool
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.21.103564; this version posted May 22, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Chromosome-level reference genome of the European wasp spider Argiope bruennichi: a resource for studies on range expansion and evolutionary adaptation Monica M. Sheffer1†, Anica Hoppe2,3, Henrik Krehenwinkel4, Gabriele Uhl1, Andreas W. Kuss5, Lars Jensen5, Corinna Jensen5, Rosemary G. Gillespie6, Katharina J. Hoff2,3* & Stefan Prost7,8* †indicates corresponding author *indicates equal contribution 1 Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald, Germany 2 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Greifswald, Germany 3 Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes, University of Greifswald, Germany 4 Department of Biogeography, University of Trier, Germany 5 Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Germany 6 Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, USA 7 LOEWE-Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, Germany 8 South African National Biodiversity Institute, National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, South Africa 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.21.103564; this version posted May 22, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Abstract Background: Argiope bruennichi, the European wasp spider, has been studied intensively as to sexual selection, chemical communication, and the dynamics of rapid range expansion at a behavioral and genetic level.