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Gustavo Hormiga is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. They have contributed extensively to research on spider taxonomy and behavior studies, as well as related areas such as Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, genetic diversity and population structure, hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny, genomics and phylogenetic studies, subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, and amphibian and reptile biology.

Hormiga's recent scholarly output includes a number of publications in prominent scientific journals. Notable papers include:

  • Converging on the orb: denser taxon sampling elucidates spider phylogeny and new analytical methods support repeated evolution of the orb web, 2020, Cladistics
  • Comprehensive Species Sampling and Sophisticated Algorithmic Approaches Refute the Monophyly of Arachnida, 2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Interrogating Genomic-Scale Data to Resolve Recalcitrant Nodes in the Spider Tree of Life, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Advances in the reconstruction of the spider tree of life: A roadmap for spider systematics and comparative studies, 2023, Cladistics
  • Spider Diversification Through Space and Time, 2020, Annual Review of Entomology

The scientist collaborates frequently with a group of researchers that includes Gonzalo Giribet, Robert J. Kallal, Siddharth Kulkarni, Nicolás A. Hazzi, and Miquel A. Arnedo. These collaborations have yielded multiple contributions spanning taxonomy, systematics, and evolutionary biology.

Hormiga's work has been published in a range of scientific venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Invertebrate Systematics
  • Zootaxa
  • Cladistics
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution

The researcher has also contributed to the academic book field, with two editions of Spiders of the World published by Princeton University Press in 2020.

Their scientific contributions span various subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Paleontology, and Global and Planetary Change. Main topics of research include spider taxonomy and behavior studies, lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, genetic diversity, and phylogenetic research.

Best Publications

  • 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;Dimitar Dimitrov;Dimitar Dimitrov

  • Undersampling bias: the null hypothesis for singleton species in tropical arthropod surveys

    Jonathan A. Coddington;Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson;Jeremy A. Miller;Matjaž Kuntner;Matjaž Kuntner

  • A Protocol For Digesting Internal Soft Tissues And Mounting Spiders For Scanning Electron Microscopy

    Fernando Álvarez-Padilla;Gustavo Hormiga

  • Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea)

    Charles E. Griswold;Jonathan A. Coddington;Gustavo Hormiga;Nikolaj Scharff

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

    Lara Lopardo;Gustavo Hormiga

  • Phylogenomic Interrogation of Arachnida Reveals Systemic Conflicts in Phylogenetic Signal

    Prashant P. Sharma;Stefan T. Kaluziak;Alicia R. Pérez-Porro;Vanessa L. González

  • Phylogenomics, Diversification Dynamics, and Comparative Transcriptomics across the Spider Tree of Life.

    Rosa Fernández;Robert J. Kallal;Dimitar Dimitrov;Dimitar Dimitrov;Jesús A. Ballesteros

  • The Phylogenetic Basis of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae)

    Gustavo Hormiga;Nikolaj Scharff;Jonathan A. Coddington

  • Higher level phylogenetics of erigonine spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae)

    Gustavo Hormiga

  • WHEN TO QUIT? ESTIMATING SPIDER SPECIES RICHNESS IN A NORTHERN EUROPEAN DECIDUOUS FOREST

    Nikolaj Scharff;Jonathan A. Coddington;Charles E. Griswold;Gustavo

  • Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb‐weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies

    Matjaž Kuntner;Matjaž Kuntner;Jonathan A. Coddington;Gustavo Hormiga

  • Web-construction Behaviour in Australian Phonognatha and the Phylogeny of Nephiline and Tetragnathid Spiders (Araneae : Tetragnathidae)

    G. Hormiga;William G. Eberhard;Jonathan A. Coddington

  • Giant female or dwarf male spiders

    Jonathan A. Coddington;Gustavo Hormiga;Nikolaj Scharff

  • Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)

    Dimitar Dimitrov;Ligia R. Benavides;Ligia R. Benavides;Miquel A. Arnedo;Miquel A. Arnedo;Gonzalo Giribet

  • 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;Miquel A. Arnedo

  • Phylogenomic Analysis of Spiders Reveals Nonmonophyly of Orb Weavers

    Rosa Fernández;Gustavo Hormiga;Gonzalo Giribet

  • Speciation on a conveyor belt: sequential colonization of the hawaiian islands by Orsonwelles spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae).

    Gustavo Hormiga;Miquel Arnedo;Rosemary G. Gillespie

  • A Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Spider Family Pimoidae (Araneoidea: Araneae)

    Gustavo Hormiga

  • Cladistics and the comparative morphology of linyphiid spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Linyphiidae)

    Gustavo Hormiga

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Phylogenetic relationships of the spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) based on morphological and DNA sequence data

    Fernando Álvarez-Padilla;Dimitar Dimitrov;Gonzalo Giribet;Gustavo Hormiga

  • Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea)

    Fernando Álvarez-Padilla;Fernando Álvarez-Padilla;Gustavo Hormiga

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitar Dimitrov
Dimitar Dimitrov University of Bergen
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Jonathan A. Coddington
Jonathan A. Coddington National Museum of Natural History
Charles E. Griswold
Charles E. Griswold California Academy of Sciences
Matjaž Kuntner
Matjaž Kuntner National Institute of Biology
Ward C. Wheeler
Ward C. Wheeler American Museum of Natural History
Jérôme Murienne
Jérôme Murienne Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Norman I. Platnick
Norman I. Platnick American Museum of Natural History
Rosemary G. Gillespie
Rosemary G. Gillespie University of California, Berkeley
Stefano Mammola
Stefano Mammola National Research Council (CNR)

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