The biogeography and age of salticid spider radiations with the introduction of a new African group (Araneae: Salticidae).

Globally dispersed, jumping spiders (Salticidae) are species-rich and morphologically diverse. I use both penalized likelihood (PL) and Bayesian methods to create the first dated phylogeny for Salticidae generated with a broad geographic sampling and including fauna from the Afrotropics. The most...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bodner, Melissa R.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11078