An L. longissimus «of about 10 meters can be held in your hand as a slimy heap,» says study coauthor Malin Strand, a marine biologist and molecular
systematist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala.
Equally impressed with the approach's potential is Alfried Vogler, a molecular
systematist at Imperial College London.
A milestone came in 2014, when two reports in Current Biology «turned spider evolution upside down,» says Gustavo Hormiga, a spider
systematist at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who co-led one of the studies.