Thursday, 30 November 2023

Marronoids: The (Mostly) Little Brown Spiders With a Big Story to Tell

Three-part image: Left image shows a lime-green-colored spider on a green background, with webbing surrounding it, feeding on a fly. Middle image shows a brown spider with shimmery silver coloration around its abdomen, hanging upside down under water. Right image shows a spider perched on a green leaf, with wisps of webbing around it; the spider is light brown on its head and black on its abdomen, with thin white V-shaped markings. Its grayish legs are spread out wide.

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A new study uncovers a clearer evolutionary tree for a broad group of spiders that previously proved difficult to classify—and illustrates the growing potential to extract useful genetic information from even the smallest of specimens in museum arthropod collections.

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