The study of tick evolution may be classified into disciplines such as taxonomy and
systematics, biogeography, evolution and development (evo-devo), ecology, and …

Deciphering the evolutionary relationships of Chelicerata (arachnids, horseshoe crabs, and
allied taxa) has proven notoriously difficult, due to their ancient rapid radiation and the …

Chelicerata constitutes an ancient, biodiverse, and ecologically significant group of
Arthropoda. The study of chelicerate evolution has undergone a renaissance in the past …

Spiders are among the most varied terrestrial predators, with highly diverse morphology,
ecology, and behavior. Morphological and molecular data have greatly contributed to …

Arachnida is an exceptionally diverse class in the Arthropoda, consisting of 20 orders and
playing crucial roles in the terrestrial ecosystems. However, their interordinal relationships …

This perspective identifies the grand challenges in arachnid science: 1. Grasp the arachnid
species diversity. There is a need to accelerate taxonomic research to obtain a sense of …

The tropical forests of the Western Ghats (WG) of India are considered 'refugia'harbouring
highly diverse and endemic taxa but these refugia are under immense anthropogenic …

Recent advances in higher‐level invertebrate phylogeny have leveraged shared features of
genomic architecture to resolve contentious nodes across the tree of life. Yet, the interordinal …

Here, we provide the first complete mitochondrial genomes for two higher taxa of
Peracarida, Lophogastrida and Stygiomysida. We examined Lophogaster typicus as a …

The clade Syndermata includes the endoparasitic Acanthocephala, the epibiotic
Seisonidea, and the free-living Bdelloidea and Monogononta. The phylogeny of Syndermata …