2025 Correa-Garhwal SM, Stafstrom J, Baker RH, Hayashi CY, Hoy R, Reeve HK, JE Garb. Silk gland morphology of the net-casting spider Deinopis spinosa. Journal of Arachnology. 53 (1), 20-25. [full text]
2025 Gregorič M, Yu K-P, Rojas Velez W1, JE Garb. Caerostris (Araneidae, Araneae) cryptic diversity shows the need for taxonomic expertise in the genomic era. European Journal of Taxonomy. 989(1), 1–23. [full text]
2024 Wolff JO, Ashley LJ, Schmitt C, Heu C, Denkova D, Jani M, Řezáčová V, Blamires SJ, Gorb SN, Garb JE, Goodacre SL, M Řezáč. From fibres to adhesives: evolution of spider capture threads from web anchors by radical changes in silk gland function. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 21: 20240123. [full text]
2024 Miles L, Waterman H, Ayoub NA, Garb JE, Haney RA3, Rosenberg MS, Krabbenhoft TJ, BC Verrelli. Insight into the adaptive role of arachnid genome-wide duplication through chromosome-level genome assembly of the Western black widow spider. Journal of Heredity 115(3):241-252. [full text]
2021 Htut KZ, Alicea-Serrano AM, Singla S, Agnarsson I, Garb JE, Kuntner M, Gregorič M, Haney RA, Marhabaie M, Blackledge TA, A Dhinojwala. Correlation between protein secondary structure and mechanical performance for the ultra-tough dragline silk of Darwin's bark spider. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18, 20210320. [full text]
2020 Dunaj SJ, Bettencourt BR, Garb JE, Brucker RM. Spider phylosymbiosis: divergence of widow spider species and their tissues' microbiomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1):1-17. [full text]
2020 Thomas GWC et al. Gene content evolution in the arthropods. Genome Biology. 21(1):1-14. [full text]
2020 Rivera-de-Torre E, Palacios-Ortega J, Garb JE, Slotte JP, Garvilanes JG, Martinez-del-Pozo A. Structural and functional characterization of sticholysin III: A newly discovered actinoporin within the venom of the sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 108435. [link]
2020 Jaleel Z, Zhou S, Martin-Moldes Z, Baugh LM, Yeh J, Dinjaski N, Brown LT, Garb JE, Kaplan DL. Expanding canonical spider silk properties through a DNA combinatorial approach. Materials. 13(16):3596. [full text]
2020 Miles LS, Ayoub NA, Garb JE, Haney RA, Verrelli BC. Ovarian Transcriptomic Analyses in the Urban Human Health Pest, the Wester Black Widow Spider. Genes. 11(1):87. [full text]
2019 Garb JE, Haney RA, Schwager EE, Gregoric M, Kuntner M, Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA. The transcriptome of Darwin’s bark spider silk glands predicts proteins contributing to dragline silk toughness. Communications Biology. 2: 275. [full text]
2019 Haney RA, Matte T, Forsyth F, Garb JE. Alternative transcription at venom genes and its role as a complementary mechanism for the generation of venom complexity in the common house spider. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7:85. [full text]
2018 Rivera-de-Torre E, Martínez-Del-Pozo Á, Garb JE. Stichodactyla helianthus‘ de novo transcriptome assembly: Discovery of a new actinoporin isoform. Toxicon 150:105-114.
2018 Garb JE, Sharma PP, Ayoub NA. Recent progress and prospects for advancing arachnid genomics. Current Opinions in Insect Science. 25:51-57. [link]
2017 Schwager E. et al. The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution. BMC Biology 15:62 [pdf]
2017 Clarke, T., Garb, JE, Haney RA, Chaw RC, Hayashi CY, NA Ayoub. Evolutionary shifts in gene expression decoupled from gene duplication across functionally distinct spider silk glands. Scientific Reports.7: 8393 [pdf]
2017 Vienneau-Hathaway, J; Brassfield, E.; Lane, A.; Collin, M.; Correa-Garhwal, S.; Clarke, T.; Schwager, E.; Garb, JE.; Hayashi, C.; Ayoub, N. Duplication and concerted evolution of MiSp-encoding genes underlie the material properties of minor ampullate silks of cobweb weaving spiders. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17:78. [pdf]
2017 Gendreau, K.L., Haney, R.A., Schwager, E.E., Wierschin, T., Stanke, M. Richards, S. and J.E. Garb. House spider genome uncovers evolutionary shifts in the diversity and expression of black widow venom proteins associated with extreme toxicity. BMC Genomics. 18(1):178 [pdf]
2016 Haney, R.A., Clarke, T.H., Fitzpatrick, R., Gadgil, R., Hayashi, C.Y., Ayoub,N.A. and J.E. Garb. Gene duplication, positive selection and shifts in gene expression during the evolution of the venom gland transcriptome in widow spiders. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8 (1): 228-242. [pdf]
2015 Clarke, T.H., Garb, J.E., Hayashi, C.Y., Arensburger, P. and N.A. Ayoub.* Spider transcriptomes identify ancient large-scale gene duplication event potentially important in silk gland evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7 (7):1856-1870.
2014 Correa-Garhwal S.M. and J.E. Garb. Diverse formulas for spider dragline fibers demonstrated by molecular and mechanical characterization of spitting spider silk. Biomacromolecules.15(12):4598-605.
2014 Garb, J.E. Extraction of venom and venom gland microdissections from spiders for proteomic and transcriptomic analyses. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (93), e51618, doi:10.3791/51618
2014 Bhere, K.V., Haney, R.A. , Ayoub, N.A., and J.E. Garb. Gene structure, regulatory control and evolution of black widow venom latrotoxins. FEBS Letters. 588: 3891-3897.
2014 Haney, R.A., Ayoub, N.A., Clarke, T.H., Hayashi, C.Y., and Garb, J.E. Dramatic expansion of the black widow toxin arsenal uncovered by multi-tissue transcriptomics and venom proteomics. BMC Genomics. 15:366. [pdf]
2014 Clarke, T., Garb, J.E., Hayashi, C.Y., Haney, R., Lancaster, A.K., Corbett, S., and Ayoub, N. Multi-tissue transcriptomics of the black widow spider reveals expansions, co-options, and functional processes of the silk gland gene toolkit. BMC Genomics. 15:365. [pdf]
2014 McCowan, C. & J.E. Garb. Recruitment and diversification of an ecdysozoan family of neuropeptide hormones for black widow spider venom expression. Gene. 536(2): 366-375.
2014 Zobel-Thropp, P.A., Correa, S. , Garb, J.E. & G.J. Binford. Spit and venom from Scytodes spiders: a diverse and distinct cocktail. Journal of Proteome Research. 13 (2): 817–835.
2013 Garb, J.E. Spider Silk: an ancient biomaterial for 21st century research. In Spider Research in the 21st Century. (ed.) David Penney. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester
2013 Garb, J.E. & C.Y. Hayashi. Molecular evolution of α-latrotoxin, the exceptionally potent vertebrate neurotoxin in black widow spider venom. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(5): 999-1014.
2013 Ayoub, N.A., Garb, J.E., Kuelbs A., & C.Y. Hayashi. Ancient properties of spider silks revealed by the complete gene sequence of the prey-wrapping silk protein AcSp1. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(3): 589-601.
2012 Starrett, J., Garb, J.E., Kuelbs A., Ogogua, U., & C.Y. Hayashi. Early events in the evolution of spider silk genes. PLoS ONE. 7(6): e38084
2010 Garb, J.E., Ayoub, N.A. & C.Y. Hayashi. Untangling spider silk evolution with spidroin terminal domains. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10:243. [full text]
2009 Garb, J.E. & R.G. Gillespie. Diversity despite dispersal: Colonization history and phylogeography of Hawaiian crab spiders inferred from multilocus genetic data. Molecular Ecology. 18:1746-1764.
2009 Collin, M.A., Garb, J.E., Edgerly, J.S., & C.Y. Hayashi. Characterization of silk spun by the embiopteran,Antipaluria urichi. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 39: 75-82.
2008 Vink, C.J., Hedin, M.C., Bodner, M.R., Maddison, W.P., Hayashi, C.Y. & J.E. Garb. Actin 5C, a promising nuclear gene for spider phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48: 377-382.
2007 Garb, J.E, DiMauro, T., Lewis, R.V. & C.Y. Hayashi. Expansion and intragenic homogenization of spider silk genes since the Triassic: evidence from Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their kin) spidroins. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(11): 2454–2464.
2007 Ayoub, N. A., Garb, J. E., Tinghitella, R., Collins, M. & C. Y. Hayashi. Blueprint for a high performance biomaterial: full length spider dragline silk genes. PLoS ONE 2(6): e514.
2007 Ayoub, N.A., Garb, J.E., Hedin, M.C. & C.Y. Hayashi. Utility of the nuclear protein-coding gene, elongation factor-1 gamma (EF-1g), for spider systematics, emphasizing family level relationships of tarantulas and their kin (Araneae: Mygalomorphae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42:394-409.
2006 Garb, J.E., DiMauro, T., Vo, V. & C. Y. Hayashi. Silk genes support the single origin of orb-webs. Science 312:1762.
2006 Garb, J.E. & R.G. Gillespie. Island hopping across the central Pacific: mitochondrial DNA detects sequential colonization of the Austral Islands by crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae). Journal of Biogeography 33:201–220.
2006 Garb, J.E. A new species of thomisid spider from the Society Islands with a description of the male of Misumenops melloleitaoi (Araneae, Thomisidae). Journal of Arachnology 34:357-367.
2005 Garb, J.E. & C.Y. Hayashi. Modular evolution of egg case silk genes across orb-weaving spider superfamilies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102(32): 11379–11384.
2004 Garb, J.E., Gonzalez, A. & R.G. Gillespie. The black widow spider genus Latrodectus: phylogeny, biogeography and invasion history. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(3):1127-1142.
2000 Garb, J., Kotler, B.P. & J.S. Brown. Foraging and community consequences of seed size selection for coexisting Negev Desert grainivores. Oikos 88(2): 291-300.
1999 Garb, J.E. Unusual phenotype suggests role for homeotic genes in arachnid development. Journal of Arachnology 27(2): 539-541.
1999 Garb, J.E. An adaptive radiation of Hawaiian Thomisidae: biogeographic and genetic evidence. Journal of Arachnology 27(1): 71-78.
1999 Blaustein, L., Garb, J., Shebitz, D. & E. Nevo. Microclimate and community structure in artificial temporary pools. Hydrobiologia 392: 187-196.
1998 Gillespie, R.G, Rivera, M.J., & J.E. Garb. Sun, surf and spiders: taxonomy and phylogeography of Hawaiian Araneae. In Proceeding of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edingburgh 1997. (ed.) P.A. Selden. British Arachnological Society:Burnham Beeches, Bucks. pp 41-50.
2025 Gregorič M, Yu K-P, Rojas Velez W1, JE Garb. Caerostris (Araneidae, Araneae) cryptic diversity shows the need for taxonomic expertise in the genomic era. European Journal of Taxonomy. 989(1), 1–23. [full text]
2024 Wolff JO, Ashley LJ, Schmitt C, Heu C, Denkova D, Jani M, Řezáčová V, Blamires SJ, Gorb SN, Garb JE, Goodacre SL, M Řezáč. From fibres to adhesives: evolution of spider capture threads from web anchors by radical changes in silk gland function. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 21: 20240123. [full text]
2024 Miles L, Waterman H, Ayoub NA, Garb JE, Haney RA3, Rosenberg MS, Krabbenhoft TJ, BC Verrelli. Insight into the adaptive role of arachnid genome-wide duplication through chromosome-level genome assembly of the Western black widow spider. Journal of Heredity 115(3):241-252. [full text]
2021 Htut KZ, Alicea-Serrano AM, Singla S, Agnarsson I, Garb JE, Kuntner M, Gregorič M, Haney RA, Marhabaie M, Blackledge TA, A Dhinojwala. Correlation between protein secondary structure and mechanical performance for the ultra-tough dragline silk of Darwin's bark spider. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18, 20210320. [full text]
2020 Dunaj SJ, Bettencourt BR, Garb JE, Brucker RM. Spider phylosymbiosis: divergence of widow spider species and their tissues' microbiomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1):1-17. [full text]
2020 Thomas GWC et al. Gene content evolution in the arthropods. Genome Biology. 21(1):1-14. [full text]
2020 Rivera-de-Torre E, Palacios-Ortega J, Garb JE, Slotte JP, Garvilanes JG, Martinez-del-Pozo A. Structural and functional characterization of sticholysin III: A newly discovered actinoporin within the venom of the sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 108435. [link]
2020 Jaleel Z, Zhou S, Martin-Moldes Z, Baugh LM, Yeh J, Dinjaski N, Brown LT, Garb JE, Kaplan DL. Expanding canonical spider silk properties through a DNA combinatorial approach. Materials. 13(16):3596. [full text]
2020 Miles LS, Ayoub NA, Garb JE, Haney RA, Verrelli BC. Ovarian Transcriptomic Analyses in the Urban Human Health Pest, the Wester Black Widow Spider. Genes. 11(1):87. [full text]
2019 Garb JE, Haney RA, Schwager EE, Gregoric M, Kuntner M, Agnarsson I, Blackledge TA. The transcriptome of Darwin’s bark spider silk glands predicts proteins contributing to dragline silk toughness. Communications Biology. 2: 275. [full text]
2019 Haney RA, Matte T, Forsyth F, Garb JE. Alternative transcription at venom genes and its role as a complementary mechanism for the generation of venom complexity in the common house spider. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7:85. [full text]
2018 Rivera-de-Torre E, Martínez-Del-Pozo Á, Garb JE. Stichodactyla helianthus‘ de novo transcriptome assembly: Discovery of a new actinoporin isoform. Toxicon 150:105-114.
2018 Garb JE, Sharma PP, Ayoub NA. Recent progress and prospects for advancing arachnid genomics. Current Opinions in Insect Science. 25:51-57. [link]
2017 Schwager E. et al. The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution. BMC Biology 15:62 [pdf]
2017 Clarke, T., Garb, JE, Haney RA, Chaw RC, Hayashi CY, NA Ayoub. Evolutionary shifts in gene expression decoupled from gene duplication across functionally distinct spider silk glands. Scientific Reports.7: 8393 [pdf]
2017 Vienneau-Hathaway, J; Brassfield, E.; Lane, A.; Collin, M.; Correa-Garhwal, S.; Clarke, T.; Schwager, E.; Garb, JE.; Hayashi, C.; Ayoub, N. Duplication and concerted evolution of MiSp-encoding genes underlie the material properties of minor ampullate silks of cobweb weaving spiders. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17:78. [pdf]
2017 Gendreau, K.L., Haney, R.A., Schwager, E.E., Wierschin, T., Stanke, M. Richards, S. and J.E. Garb. House spider genome uncovers evolutionary shifts in the diversity and expression of black widow venom proteins associated with extreme toxicity. BMC Genomics. 18(1):178 [pdf]
2016 Haney, R.A., Clarke, T.H., Fitzpatrick, R., Gadgil, R., Hayashi, C.Y., Ayoub,N.A. and J.E. Garb. Gene duplication, positive selection and shifts in gene expression during the evolution of the venom gland transcriptome in widow spiders. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8 (1): 228-242. [pdf]
2015 Clarke, T.H., Garb, J.E., Hayashi, C.Y., Arensburger, P. and N.A. Ayoub.* Spider transcriptomes identify ancient large-scale gene duplication event potentially important in silk gland evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7 (7):1856-1870.
2014 Correa-Garhwal S.M. and J.E. Garb. Diverse formulas for spider dragline fibers demonstrated by molecular and mechanical characterization of spitting spider silk. Biomacromolecules.15(12):4598-605.
2014 Garb, J.E. Extraction of venom and venom gland microdissections from spiders for proteomic and transcriptomic analyses. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (93), e51618, doi:10.3791/51618
2014 Bhere, K.V., Haney, R.A. , Ayoub, N.A., and J.E. Garb. Gene structure, regulatory control and evolution of black widow venom latrotoxins. FEBS Letters. 588: 3891-3897.
2014 Haney, R.A., Ayoub, N.A., Clarke, T.H., Hayashi, C.Y., and Garb, J.E. Dramatic expansion of the black widow toxin arsenal uncovered by multi-tissue transcriptomics and venom proteomics. BMC Genomics. 15:366. [pdf]
2014 Clarke, T., Garb, J.E., Hayashi, C.Y., Haney, R., Lancaster, A.K., Corbett, S., and Ayoub, N. Multi-tissue transcriptomics of the black widow spider reveals expansions, co-options, and functional processes of the silk gland gene toolkit. BMC Genomics. 15:365. [pdf]
2014 McCowan, C. & J.E. Garb. Recruitment and diversification of an ecdysozoan family of neuropeptide hormones for black widow spider venom expression. Gene. 536(2): 366-375.
2014 Zobel-Thropp, P.A., Correa, S. , Garb, J.E. & G.J. Binford. Spit and venom from Scytodes spiders: a diverse and distinct cocktail. Journal of Proteome Research. 13 (2): 817–835.
2013 Garb, J.E. Spider Silk: an ancient biomaterial for 21st century research. In Spider Research in the 21st Century. (ed.) David Penney. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester
2013 Garb, J.E. & C.Y. Hayashi. Molecular evolution of α-latrotoxin, the exceptionally potent vertebrate neurotoxin in black widow spider venom. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(5): 999-1014.
2013 Ayoub, N.A., Garb, J.E., Kuelbs A., & C.Y. Hayashi. Ancient properties of spider silks revealed by the complete gene sequence of the prey-wrapping silk protein AcSp1. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(3): 589-601.
2012 Starrett, J., Garb, J.E., Kuelbs A., Ogogua, U., & C.Y. Hayashi. Early events in the evolution of spider silk genes. PLoS ONE. 7(6): e38084
2010 Garb, J.E., Ayoub, N.A. & C.Y. Hayashi. Untangling spider silk evolution with spidroin terminal domains. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10:243. [full text]
2009 Garb, J.E. & R.G. Gillespie. Diversity despite dispersal: Colonization history and phylogeography of Hawaiian crab spiders inferred from multilocus genetic data. Molecular Ecology. 18:1746-1764.
2009 Collin, M.A., Garb, J.E., Edgerly, J.S., & C.Y. Hayashi. Characterization of silk spun by the embiopteran,Antipaluria urichi. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 39: 75-82.
2008 Vink, C.J., Hedin, M.C., Bodner, M.R., Maddison, W.P., Hayashi, C.Y. & J.E. Garb. Actin 5C, a promising nuclear gene for spider phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48: 377-382.
2007 Garb, J.E, DiMauro, T., Lewis, R.V. & C.Y. Hayashi. Expansion and intragenic homogenization of spider silk genes since the Triassic: evidence from Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their kin) spidroins. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(11): 2454–2464.
2007 Ayoub, N. A., Garb, J. E., Tinghitella, R., Collins, M. & C. Y. Hayashi. Blueprint for a high performance biomaterial: full length spider dragline silk genes. PLoS ONE 2(6): e514.
2007 Ayoub, N.A., Garb, J.E., Hedin, M.C. & C.Y. Hayashi. Utility of the nuclear protein-coding gene, elongation factor-1 gamma (EF-1g), for spider systematics, emphasizing family level relationships of tarantulas and their kin (Araneae: Mygalomorphae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42:394-409.
2006 Garb, J.E., DiMauro, T., Vo, V. & C. Y. Hayashi. Silk genes support the single origin of orb-webs. Science 312:1762.
2006 Garb, J.E. & R.G. Gillespie. Island hopping across the central Pacific: mitochondrial DNA detects sequential colonization of the Austral Islands by crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae). Journal of Biogeography 33:201–220.
2006 Garb, J.E. A new species of thomisid spider from the Society Islands with a description of the male of Misumenops melloleitaoi (Araneae, Thomisidae). Journal of Arachnology 34:357-367.
2005 Garb, J.E. & C.Y. Hayashi. Modular evolution of egg case silk genes across orb-weaving spider superfamilies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102(32): 11379–11384.
2004 Garb, J.E., Gonzalez, A. & R.G. Gillespie. The black widow spider genus Latrodectus: phylogeny, biogeography and invasion history. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(3):1127-1142.
2000 Garb, J., Kotler, B.P. & J.S. Brown. Foraging and community consequences of seed size selection for coexisting Negev Desert grainivores. Oikos 88(2): 291-300.
1999 Garb, J.E. Unusual phenotype suggests role for homeotic genes in arachnid development. Journal of Arachnology 27(2): 539-541.
1999 Garb, J.E. An adaptive radiation of Hawaiian Thomisidae: biogeographic and genetic evidence. Journal of Arachnology 27(1): 71-78.
1999 Blaustein, L., Garb, J., Shebitz, D. & E. Nevo. Microclimate and community structure in artificial temporary pools. Hydrobiologia 392: 187-196.
1998 Gillespie, R.G, Rivera, M.J., & J.E. Garb. Sun, surf and spiders: taxonomy and phylogeography of Hawaiian Araneae. In Proceeding of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edingburgh 1997. (ed.) P.A. Selden. British Arachnological Society:Burnham Beeches, Bucks. pp 41-50.
