This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0236871 to Gonzalo Giribet. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
Laniatores Research
Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution of Opiliones
Opiliones constitute the third largest arachnid order and their study has flourished in recent times, leading to a recent book on Opiliones biology co-edited by Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Glauco Machado & Gonzalo Giribet. Research in the laboratory focuses on several aspects of the phylogeny and biogeography of Opiliones, emphasizing on Cyphophthalmi (see Cyphophthalmi Research) and different groups of Laniatores.
Graduate
student
Sebastián
Vélez
is conducting
research
on the New
Zealand
triaenonychids,
especially
on the
widespread
and
diverse
genus Nuncia.
Graduate
student
Prashant
Sharma is
concentrating
on the
diversity
and
patterns
of dispersal
of the
family
Zalmoxidae,
and
its
phylogenetic
position
on the
Laniatores
tree.
He is
also interested
in the
SE Asian
endemic
family Sandokanidae (formerly
Oncopodidae).
