REPEATED EVOLUTIONARY LOSSES. “Within the “RTA clade,” which is the sister group to orb-weaving spiders and contains half of all spider diversity, >90% of species richness is associated with repeated loss of cribellate silk and abandonment of prey capture webs.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/13/5229.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022