#  New paper from the lab shows that orb webs originated not once, but multiple times in the spider tree of life! 

 





April 27, 2018

 

 

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New paper published on [Current Biology](https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30422-6) by Giribet Lab members and colaborators uses trancriptomes of over 150 species to resolve the spider tree of life, and shows that the orb web evolved not once, but multiple times. Check out the press coverage by [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/science/spider-web-evolution.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Spiders&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection)!

 

 

 



 

 

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