Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila

The Online Laboratory of Kevin Zelnio referenced this article in "What Ever Happened to PLoS Systematics?" on 02 Nov 2009 at 06:27 GMT

"Taxonomists move 2.718 times faster than ICZN, neither move fast enough. In May of 2008 I enthusiastically lauded PLoS ONE for publishing their first open access paper that described some new species of ants. It has been a year and half since then, hav..."

everyONE - the PLoS ONE community blog referenced this article in "Weekly PLoS ONE News and Blog Round-Up" on 23 Oct 2009 at 16:15 GMT

"In this week’s PLoS ONE media digest: a new species of giant, orb-weaving spider; the grassland habitats of early humans—and of present-day sage-grouse; and much more. Reporting in PLoS ONE on Wednesday, Matjaž Kuntner and Jonathan Coddington, formally..."

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"We must be approaching Halloween because after last week’s news stories about the discovery of an (almost) herbivorous spider, reported in Current Biology, a new species of spider has now woven its way into the headlines. In their PLoS ONE article publ..."