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New Publication: Hybridisation in the Tarantula Hobby

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  New Publication: Hybridisation in the Tarantula Hobby I am pleased to share the publication of my latest paper, “Hybridisation in the Tarantula Hobby: Ethical Boundaries and Biological Consequences,” in the Journal of the British Tarantula Society , Volume 41, No. 1, September 2026. The paper addresses an issue that deserves serious consideration within the tarantula community: hybridisation and its potential long-term effects on the integrity of captive lineages. More Than a Breeding Decision The tarantula hobby has changed considerably over the past several decades. What was once a relatively small community has grown into an international network of keepers, breeders, vendors, researchers, and societies. Captive breeding has contributed enormously to that growth, improving husbandry knowledge and increasing the availability of captive-bred animals. With that success comes responsibility for the lineages we maintain. Hybridisation may seem like an isolated breeding experiment,...

What’s in the box? The establishment of Cheiracanthium furculatum Karsch, 1879 (Araneae, Cheiracanthiidae) in Europe

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Non-Invasive Body Mass Estimation in the Ladybird Spider, Eresus kollari, Using Multi-View Morphometrics and Machine Learning

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Spider (Araneae) Abundance and Diversity Across Land-Use Gradients

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Anti-envenomation potential of Plumbago zeylanica aerial part extract against Naja naja: experimental validation and mechanistic insights

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Harnessing snake venom cardiotoxins for antimicrobial peptide discovery

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Ancient Divergence, Recent Island: Microplate Fragmentation and Dispersal Explain Disjunct Distributions of Western Mediterranean Scorpions

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Multiple origins and complex evolutionary history of Cryptops centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) inhabiting East Asian islands, with systematics of Japanese species

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Computational engineering of the scorpion venom peptide Ttap3 enhances membrane selectivity and antimicrobial potential

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A survey of the Dysdera lata species-group (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Israel

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Role of snake venom proteases and tissue factor in venom induced hemostatic disorders and local hemorrhage in mice

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Enzymatic and non-enzymatic proteins from Bothrops snake venoms, their anticancer activity, and translational challenges in oncovenomics: A review

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Elevational patterns and assembly processes of centipede and spider diversity on Changbai Mountain, China

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Morphological variation in populations of Pinelema elinae Brescovit, Gallão & Cizauskas, 2023 (Araneae, Telemidae): a morphometric analysis with natural history notes

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Genomic signatures associated with convergent funnel‐web building behavior in spiders

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New taxonomic and faunistic data on spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iraqi Kurdistan, with an updated regional checklist

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