Lara Lopardo

The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling

Ward C. Wheeler, Jonathan A. Coddington, Louise M. Crowley et al. · Cladistics · 2016 · 501 citations · Full text

Genetics, Entomology, Genomics +18

Phylogenetic placement of the Tasmanian spider <i>Acrobleps hygrophilus</i> (Araneae, Anapidae) with comments on the evolution of the capture web in Araneoidea

Lara Lopardo, Gustavo Hormiga · Cladistics · 2007 · 325 citations · Full text

Entomology, Zoological Taxonomy, Comparative Anatomy +17

Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling

Dimitar Dimitrov, Lara Lopardo, Gonzalo Giribet et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2011 · 130 citations · Full text

Silk Composition, Genetics, Entomology +19

Morphology to the rescue: molecular data and the signal of morphological characters in combined phylogenetic analyses-a case study from mysmenid spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with comments on the evolution of web architecture

Lara Lopardo, Gonzalo Giribet, Gustavo Hormiga · Cladistics · 2010 · 79 citations

Genetics, Entomology, Morphological Diagnoses +19

Out of the twilight zone: phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of the orb-weaving spider family Mysmenidae, with a focus on spinneret spigot morphology in symphytognathoids (Araneae, Araneoidea)

Lara Lopardo, Gustavo Hormiga · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2015 · 38 citations · Full text