Erratum: Phylogenomics, Diversification Dynamics, and Comparative Transcriptomics across the Spider Tree of Life (Current Biology (2018) 28(9) (1489–1497.e5) (S0960982218304226) (10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.064))

Rosa Fernández, Robert J. Kallal, Dimitar Dimitrov, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Miquel A. Arnedo, Gonzalo Giribet, Gustavo Hormiga

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(Current Biology 28, 1489–1497; May 7, 2018) Upon publication of this article, it was suggested that some of the entries of the two web-type matrices required revision. We have amended the web data and performed the relevant analyses in order to assess whether such changes overturn any of the web evolution inferences of the study. Seventy-nine out of a total of 1,085 entries were revised with new scores (7.28%) as follows: Twenty-nine of the entries were conservatively changed to “?” to reflect absence of published data on their webs; the remaining 50 entries correct errors or provide new web coding interpretations. State 8 in the matrix for the taxa with transcriptomes has been reworded as “non-foraging silk-lined burrows.” After revising the scoring for web building behavior and web architecture, we repeated the relevant comparative analyses using the same methodological approaches described in the original article to reconstruct the evolution of these traits in spiders. Analyses of both the ten- and the three-character-state datasets were carried out with R packages ape [1] and phytools [2], and both revised datasets have been deposited in the Harvard Dataverse repository (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EJOMZP). Re-analyses of the revised data do not alter our previous conclusions in any significant way. Figures 3 and S2 have been corrected in the article online, and the corrected Figures 3 and S2 are also shown below. The authors apologize to the readers for any inconvenience that this revision may have caused and thank the colleagues that kindly suggested changes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2190-2193
Number of pages4
JournalCurrent Biology
Volume28
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Jul 2018

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