ReviewDevelopment genes and evolution2020
Sex differences in spiders: from phenotype to genomics.
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- Tell Me How Much DNA You Have and I'll Tell You What Your Sex Is: Sex Determination by Flow Cytometry of Spiderlings ofEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Sex-specific but not urbanisation-related behavioural differences in a wolf spider, Pardosa alacris.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Testing for Differences in Consumer-Based Nutrient Cycling Between Male and Female Wolf Spiders (Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The Tree of Sex consortium: a global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2025Article
- Exploring shape diversity and sexual dimorphism in two populations of Nigma conducens through geometric morphometrics.BMC zoology · 2025Article
- Evolution of the Spider Homeobox Gene Repertoire by Tandem and Whole Genome Duplication.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Sex-specific life-history strategies among immature jumping spiders: Differences in body parameters and behavior.Current zoology · 2023Article
- Laboratory breeding and rearing of cellar spider, Crossopriza lyoni Blackwall.Development genes and evolution · 2022Article
- Modest sexual size dimorphism and allometric growth: a study based on growth and gonad development in the wolf spider Pardosa pseudoannulata (Araneae: Lycosidae).Biology open · 2021Article
- Sex-specific developmental trajectories in an extremely sexually size dimorphic spider.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2021Article
- Two sexes respond equally to food restriction in a sexually dimorphic but not body mass dimorphic jumping spider.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Deciphering the diet of a wandering spider (Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Sexual Dimorphism in the Multielemental Stoichiometric Phenotypes and Stoichiometric Niches of Spiders.Insects · 2020Article
- Patterns of Sex Chromosome Differentiation in Spiders: Insights from Comparative Genomic Hybridisation.Genes · 2020Article
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Abstract
Sexual reproduction is pervasive in animals and has led to the evolution of sexual dimorphism. In most animals, males and females show marked differences in primary and secondary sexual traits. The formation of sex-specific organs and eventually sex-specific behaviors is defined during the development of an organism. Sex determination processes have been extensively studied in a few well-established model organisms. While some key molecular regulators are conserved across animals, the initiation of sex determination is highly diverse. To reveal the mechanisms underlying the development of sexual dimorphism and to identify the evolutionary forces driving the evolution of different sexes, sex determination mechanisms must thus be studied in detail in many different animal species beyond the typical model systems. In this perspective article, we argue that spiders represent an excellent group of animals in which to study sex determination mechanisms. We show that spiders are sexually dimorphic in various morphological, behavioral, and life history traits. The availability of an increasing number of genomic and transcriptomic resources and functional tools provides a great starting point to scrutinize the extensive sexual dimorphism present in spiders on a mechanistic level. We provide an overview of the current knowledge of sex determination in spiders and propose approaches to reveal the molecular and genetic underpinnings of sexual dimorphism in these exciting animals.
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