Useful links

• McGregor Lab, Oxford Brookes University We use spiders as models to study genomics and the evolution of developmental regulation among arthropods and other metazoans. Our focal species is the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum (formerly Achaearanea tepidariorum). (Item)
• Oxford University, Oxford Silk Group; Fritz Vollrath Studies the biology of silks aiming to unravel their evolution, ecology, physics and chemistry; spider web engineering and behaviour; metabolic costs of natural silk production and the ecological costs (and benefits) of the commercial silk industry. (Item)
• University of Manchester; David Penney Research interests include extant and fossil spider taxonomy and systematics; evolutionary history of spiders; reconstruction of fossil ecosystems; the timing of the radiations of the major extant spider families. (Item)
• University of Nottingham, Spider Lab; Sara Goodacre A range of evolutionary, population and conservation genetic studies, including dispersal-strategy and the persistence of population differentiation in money spider meta-populations; mating behaviour and sex ratio bias in tree dwelling spiders; genetic tools to study and manage endangered raft spider populations. (Item)