# Giribet Lab ![giribetlogo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5781/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/giribetlab/files/giribetlogo.jpg?itok=TDTes05k) Research in the Giribet Lab is driven by an interest in animal diversity and evolution. To understand how this diversity came to be, we focus on reconstructing the chronicle of animal life. With an array of data and approaches, we investigate relationships of invertebrate phyla and the timing of their diversification. We currently use mostly genomic and transcriptomic data to address these questions. We then use the phylogenies to study different aspects of organismal biology, such as biogeography, phylogeography, evolution of shape, among others. ![Giribet Lab](/sites/g/files/omnuum5781/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2026-04/IMG_5960%5B40%5D.jpeg?itok=4qvlC07j) ![Giribet lab collections](/sites/g/files/omnuum5781/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2026-04/IMG_5951%5B63%5D_0.jpeg?itok=V9oMpdTx) ![Lab Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum5781/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/giribetlab/files/img_4736_01.jpg?h=afca1b03&itok=bi0_K_CT) ## Recent Publications Download 7 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=7&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=1580861&content_filter%5B1%5D=1580851&content_filter%5B2%5D=1580846&content_filter%5B3%5D=1580936&content_filter%5B4%5D=1580926&content_filter%5B5%5D=1580921&content_filter%5B6%5D=1580911&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=7&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=1580861&content_filter%5B1%5D=1580851&content_filter%5B2%5D=1580846&content_filter%5B3%5D=1580936&content_filter%5B4%5D=1580926&content_filter%5B5%5D=1580921&content_filter%5B6%5D=1580911&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=7&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=1580861&content_filter%5B1%5D=1580851&content_filter%5B2%5D=1580846&content_filter%5B3%5D=1580936&content_filter%5B4%5D=1580926&content_filter%5B5%5D=1580921&content_filter%5B6%5D=1580911&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=7&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=1580861&content_filter%5B1%5D=1580851&content_filter%5B2%5D=1580846&content_filter%5B3%5D=1580936&content_filter%5B4%5D=1580926&content_filter%5B5%5D=1580921&content_filter%5B6%5D=1580911&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=7&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=1580861&content_filter%5B1%5D=1580851&content_filter%5B2%5D=1580846&content_filter%5B3%5D=1580936&content_filter%5B4%5D=1580926&content_filter%5B5%5D=1580921&content_filter%5B6%5D=1580911&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=7&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=1580861&content_filter%5B1%5D=1580851&content_filter%5B2%5D=1580846&content_filter%5B3%5D=1580936&content_filter%5B4%5D=1580926&content_filter%5B5%5D=1580921&content_filter%5B6%5D=1580911&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=7&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=1580861&content_filter%5B1%5D=1580851&content_filter%5B2%5D=1580846&content_filter%5B3%5D=1580936&content_filter%5B4%5D=1580926&content_filter%5B5%5D=1580921&content_filter%5B6%5D=1580911&&format=ris) ### 2024 Sato, Shoyo, Shahan Derkarabetian, Alejandra Waldez-Mondragon, Abel Perez-Gonzalez, Ligia Benavides, Savel Daniels, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2024. “[Under the Hood: Phylogenomics of Hooded Tick Spiders (Arachnida, Ricinulei) Uncovers Discordance Between Morphology and Molecules ](/publications/under-hood-phylogenomics-hooded-tick-spiders-arachnida-ricinulei-uncovers)”. *Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution* 193. Sato, Shoyo, Shahan Derkarabetian, Alejandra Waldez-Mondragon, Abel Perez-Gonzalez, Ligia Benavides, Savel Daniels, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2024. “[Under the Hood: Phylogenomics of Hooded Tick Spiders (Arachnida, Ricinulei) Uncovers Discordance Between Morphology and Molecules ](/publications/under-hood-phylogenomics-hooded-tick-spiders-arachnida-ricinulei-uncovers)”. *Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution* 193. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Ricinulei or hooded tick-spiders are a cryptic and ancient group of arachnids. The order consists of around 100 highly endemic extant species restricted to the Afrotropics and the Neotropics along with 22 fossil species. Their antiquity and low vagility... Recuero, Ernesto, Paula Rodríguez-Flores, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2024. “[Surfing in the Eastern Atlantic: A New Bristle Millipede from Iberia and the Canary Islands With Insights into the Phylogeny of Lophoproctus (Diplopoda: Polyxenida: Lophoproctidae)](/publications/surfing-eastern-atlantic-new-bristle-millipede-iberia-and-canary-islands)”. *Journal of Natural History* 58 (9-12): 422-39. Recuero, Ernesto, Paula Rodríguez-Flores, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2024. “[Surfing in the Eastern Atlantic: A New Bristle Millipede from Iberia and the Canary Islands With Insights into the Phylogeny of Lophoproctus (Diplopoda: Polyxenida: Lophoproctidae)](/publications/surfing-eastern-atlantic-new-bristle-millipede-iberia-and-canary-islands)”. *Journal of Natural History* 58 (9-12): 422-39. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract The family Lophoproctidae Silvestri, 1897 includes small, blind millipedes adapted to endogeous environments. The genus *Lophoproctus* has five species with a mostly Mediterranean distribution, with only one species extending eastwards to Central Asia. *Loph*... Porta, Andrés, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2024. “[A New Genus of Scutigerid Centipede from Southern South America With the Description of Two New Species and an Updated Molecular Phylogeny of the Myriapod Order Scutigeromorpha (Myriapoda: Chilopoda)](/publications/research-articleprevious-next-contents-vol-384-new-genus-scutigerid)”. *Invertebrate Systematics* 38 (4). Porta, Andrés, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2024. “[A New Genus of Scutigerid Centipede from Southern South America With the Description of Two New Species and an Updated Molecular Phylogeny of the Myriapod Order Scutigeromorpha (Myriapoda: Chilopoda)](/publications/research-articleprevious-next-contents-vol-384-new-genus-scutigerid)”. *Invertebrate Systematics* 38 (4). - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Scutigeromorph centipedes are conspicuous, yet often ignored myriapods for which little work has been conducted in southern South America. After examining recent and museum collections from Chile and Argentina, two new species of generic uncertainty were... ### 2023 Geburzi, Jonas, Paula Rodriguez-Flores, Shahan Derkarabetian, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2023. “[From the Shallows to the Depths: A New Probe Set to Target Ultraconserved Elements for Malacostraca](/publications/shallows-depths-new-probe-set-target-ultraconserved-elements-malacostraca)”. *BioRxiv*. Geburzi, Jonas, Paula Rodriguez-Flores, Shahan Derkarabetian, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2023. “[From the Shallows to the Depths: A New Probe Set to Target Ultraconserved Elements for Malacostraca](/publications/shallows-depths-new-probe-set-target-ultraconserved-elements-malacostraca)”. *BioRxiv*. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Since its introduction about a decade ago, target enrichment sequencing of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) has proven to be an invaluable tool for studies across evolutionary scales, and thus employed from population genetics, to historical biogeography... Giribet, Gonzalo, Owen Wangensteen, Sandra Garces-Pastor, Peter Moller, and Katrine Worsaae. 2023. “[Using EDNA to Find Micrognathozoa](/publications/using-edna-find-micrognathozoa)”. *Current Biology* 33 (14). Giribet, Gonzalo, Owen Wangensteen, Sandra Garces-Pastor, Peter Moller, and Katrine Worsaae. 2023. “[Using EDNA to Find Micrognathozoa](/publications/using-edna-find-micrognathozoa)”. *Current Biology* 33 (14). - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Over the past decades the sampling of environmental DNA (eDNA) — encompassing the DNA of all organisms present in an environmental sample — has emerged as a technique for biodiversity monitoring and discovery in a diversity of environments. Avoiding the... Cunha, Tauana, Jose Fernandez-Simon, Macy Patrula, Gonzalo Giribet, and Juan Moles. 2023. “[Photographic Checklist, DNA Barcoding, and New Species of Sea Slugs and Snails from the Faafu Atoll, Maldives (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia and Vetigastropoda)](/publications/photographic-checklist-dna-barcoding-and-new-species-sea-slugs-and-snails)”. *Diversity* 15 (2): 219. Cunha, Tauana, Jose Fernandez-Simon, Macy Patrula, Gonzalo Giribet, and Juan Moles. 2023. “[Photographic Checklist, DNA Barcoding, and New Species of Sea Slugs and Snails from the Faafu Atoll, Maldives (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia and Vetigastropoda)](/publications/photographic-checklist-dna-barcoding-and-new-species-sea-slugs-and-snails)”. *Diversity* 15 (2): 219. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Baseline biodiversity data are key for ecological and evolutionary studies and are especially relevant for areas such as the Maldivian Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, which can act as a stepping-stone for the transport of widely distributed marine... Sato, Shoyo, Tauana Cunha, Bruno de Medeiros, Danielle Khost, Timothy Sackton, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2023. “[Sizing Up the Onychophoran Genome: Repeats, Introns, and Gene Family Expansion Contribute to Genome Gigantism in Epiperipatus Broadwayi](/publications/sizing-onychophoran-genome-repeats-introns-and-gene-family-expansion)”. *Genome Biology and Evolution* 15 (3). Sato, Shoyo, Tauana Cunha, Bruno de Medeiros, Danielle Khost, Timothy Sackton, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2023. “[Sizing Up the Onychophoran Genome: Repeats, Introns, and Gene Family Expansion Contribute to Genome Gigantism in Epiperipatus Broadwayi](/publications/sizing-onychophoran-genome-repeats-introns-and-gene-family-expansion)”. *Genome Biology and Evolution* 15 (3). - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Genome assemblies are growing at an exponential rate and have proved indispensable for studying evolution but the effort has been biased toward vertebrates and arthropods with a particular focus on insects. Onychophora or velvet worms are an ancient group... [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/publications) ## News - click for more info & pics! [### Arianna Lord and Shoyo Sato Presenting at the ICIM 2022 ](/news/arianna-lord-and-shoyo-sato-presenting-icim-2022) August 11, 2022 Arianna Lord and Shoyo Sato presenting at the Inrternational Congress on Invertebrate Morphology ![A.L. ICIM](/sites/g/files/omnuum5781/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/giribetlab/files/a.l._icim_.jpeg?itok=PsbTQLGx) [### Summer Lab Lunch ](/news/summer-lab-lunch) July 24, 2019 Great get-together of the lab for a Summer lunch at Olé restaurant! ![SummerLunch2019](/sites/g/files/omnuum5781/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/giribetlab/files/img_4115.jpg?itok=6b3wjgen) [### Spider behavior experiments! ](/news/spider-behavior-experiments) July 24, 2019 Grad student Shoyo Sato setting up the first behavior experiments ever done in the Giribet Lab. On your mark, get set, go spiders! ![ShoyoSato-experiments](/sites/g/files/omnuum5781/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/giribetlab/files/img_4117.jpg?itok=iF2g2m2r) arrow\_back arrow\_forward [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/news)