Colonial spider community in Sulfur Cave sustained by chemoautotrophy

• Article title

• Abstract

• Keywords

• Introduction

• Materials and methods

  • Morphological identification of spiders from Sulfur Cave

  • Molecular identification of spiders from Sulfur Cave and haplotype analysis

  • 16S metabarcoding analyses

  • Population density estimation of colony forming spiders and associated species

  • Reproductive biology of Tegenaria domestica - egg number and size analysis

  • Stable isotope analyses

  • Statistical analyses

• Results

  • The spatial distribution of T. domestica in Sulfur Cave

  • Population density estimation of T. domestica and P. vagans

  • Reproductive biology (egg number and size) of T. domestica

  • Food-web analysis

  • Microbiomes of cave- and surface-dwelling T. domestica

• Discussion

  • The spider colony

  • Other spider species in Sulfur Cave

  • Genetic and geographic patterns of spider species in Sulfur Cave

  • Reproductive biology of T. domestica

  • Microbiomes of cave- and surface-dwelling T. domestica

  • Alternate food web in Sulfur Cave

• Conclusions

• Acknowledgements

• References

• Supplementary material

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