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Journal of Heredity 2003:94(4)
© 2003 The American Genetic Association 94:285-290

Genome Sizes of Spiders

T. R. Gregory, and D. P. Shorthouse

From the Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1 Canada (Gregory) and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9 Canada.

Address correspondence to T. Ryan Gregory at Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, or e-mail: rgregory{at}genomesize.com.

Spiders represent a diverse and familiar group of animals, but to date no information has been made available regarding their genome sizes. Arachnids in general have been almost entirely overlooked, and are currently represented by a single tick in the animal genome size data set. The present study provides new genome size estimates for 115 species of spiders from 19 families (all from the infraorder Araneomorphae), thereby adding considerably to the coverage of these arthropods. No clear-cut patterns of variation were detectable even with this relatively large data set, but some interesting avenues for future research have been illuminated by this preliminary survey.


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