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Biogeography and eye size evolution of the ogre-faced spiders.
In: Scientific Reports, Jg. 12 (2022-10-22), Heft 1, S. 1-15
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Net-casting spiders (Deinopidae) comprise a charismatic family with an enigmatic evolutionary history. There are 67 described species of deinopids, placed among three genera, Deinopis, Menneus, and Asianopis, that are distributed globally throughout the tropics and subtropics. Deinopis and Asianopis, the ogre-faced spiders, are best known for their giant light-capturing posterior median eyes (PME), whereas Menneus does not have enlarged PMEs. Molecular phylogenetic studies have revealed discordance between morphology and molecular data. We employed a character-rich ultra-conserved element (UCE) dataset and a taxon-rich cytochrome-oxidase I (COI) dataset to reconstruct a genus-level phylogeny of Deinopidae, aiming to investigate the group's historical biogeography, and examine PME size evolution. Although the phylogenetic results support the monophyly of Menneus and the single reduction of PME size in deinopids, these data also show that Deinopis is not monophyletic. Consequently, we formally transfer 24 Deinopis species to Asianopis; the transfers comprise all of the African, Australian, South Pacific, and a subset of Central American and Mexican species. Following the divergence of Eastern and Western deinopids in the Cretaceous, Deinopis/Asianopis dispersed from Africa, through Asia and into Australia with its biogeographic history reflecting separation of Western Gondwana as well as long-distance dispersal events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Biogeography and eye size evolution of the ogre-faced spiders.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Chamberland, Lisa ; Agnarsson, Ingi ; Quayle, Iris L. ; Ruddy, Tess ; Starrett, James ; Bond, Jason E. |
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Zeitschrift: | Scientific Reports, Jg. 12 (2022-10-22), Heft 1, S. 1-15 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-022-22157-5 |
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