Speculative Species

In Speculative Evolution, we envisioned how species could be further developed to increase their resilience based on scientific publications on synthetic biology, genetic engineering and robotics, and formulated text prompts to create AI-generated images using DALL-E. As a result, each speculative species in the environment has a backstory rooted in real-life scenarios.
 
 


Jumping Spider
Jumping Spiders
2017genome wide phylogeny using anchored hybrid enrichment
Laboratory research by Maddison et al., 2017
2054genetically modified jumping spiders, mostly sold for entertainment purposes

Lineage of the 29 species from a total of 41

    • Jumping Spider, Species 40-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Zurich, Switzerland (40-1)
      • Jumping Spider, Species 40-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Zurich, Switzerland (40-1-1)
    • Jumping Spider, Species 40-13, Android 9, London, Canada (40-13)
      • Jumping Spider, Species 40-13-1, Android 9, London, Canada (40-13-1)
    • Jumping Spider, Species 40-2Samsung G955F, Android 9, Zurich, Switzerland (40-2)
      • Jumping Spider, Species 40-2-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Zurich, Switzerland (40-2-1)
        • Jumping Spider, Species 40-2-1-1Samsung A356E, Android 14, La Serena, Chile (40-2-1-1)
        • Jumping Spider, Species 40-2-1-2, Android 14, Tel Aviv, Israel (40-2-1-2)
    • Jumping Spider, Species 40-3Samsung G955F, Android 9, Zurich, Switzerland (40-3)
      • Jumping Spider, Species 40-3-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Zurich, Switzerland (40-3-1)
        • Jumping Spider, Species 40-3-1-1vivo 1718, Android 8.1.0, Tasikmalaya, Indonesia (40-3-1-1)
      • Jumping Spider, Species 40-3-2, Android 11, Surgut, Russia (40-3-2)
        • Jumping Spider, Species 40-3-2-1, Android 13, Statesville, United States (40-3-2-1)
          • Jumping Spider, Species 40-3-2-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Berlin, Germany (40-3-2-1-1)
            • Jumping Spider, Species 40-3-2-1-1-1Samsung G950F, Android 9, São Paulo, Brazil (40-3-2-1-1-1)
              • Jumping Spider, Species 40-3-2-1-1-1-1Samsung G986U1, Android 13, Monterrey, Mexico (40-3-2-1-1-1-1)
          • Jumping Spider, Species 40-3-2-1-2Samsung G986U1, Android 13, Monterrey, Mexico (40-3-2-1-2)
    • Jumping Spider, Species 40-4Samsung G955F, Android 9, Zurich, Switzerland (40-4)
      • Jumping Spider, Species 40-4-1Samsung G950F, Android 9, São Paulo, Brazil (40-4-1)
        • Jumping Spider, Species 40-4-1-1Samsung A127M, Android 13, Arequipa, Peru (40-4-1-1)
          • Jumping Spider, Species 40-4-1-1-1Samsung G955U, Android 9, Xi'an, China (40-4-1-1-1)
            • Jumping Spider, Species 40-4-1-1-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (40-4-1-1-1-1)
      • Jumping Spider, Species 40-4-2, Android 14, Nova Prata, Brazil (40-4-2)
    • Jumping Spider, Species 40-6, Android 14, Makati City, Philippines (40-6)
      • Jumping Spider, Species 40-6-1Samsung G955U, Android 9, Xi'an, China (40-6-1)
        • Jumping Spider, Species 40-6-1-1Samsung G955U, Android 9, Xi'an, China (40-6-1-1)
          • Jumping Spider, Species 40-6-1-1-1Samsung G986U1, Android 13, Monterrey, Mexico (40-6-1-1-1)
    • Jumping Spider, Species 40-7Samsung G950F, Android 9, São Paulo, Brazil (40-7)
      • Jumping Spider, Species 40-7-1Samsung G950F, Android 9, São Paulo, Brazil (40-7-1)

A genome-wide phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae), using anchored hybrid enrichment

Maddison, Wayne P et al. ZooKeys ,695 89-101. 4 Sep. 2017, doi:10.3897/zookeys.695.13852
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5673835/

Abstract

We present the first genome-wide molecular phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), inferred from Anchored Hybrid Enrichment (AHE) sequence data. From 12 outgroups plus 34 salticid taxa representing all but one subfamily and most major groups recognized in previous work, we obtained 447 loci totalling 96,946 aligned nucleotide sites. Our analyses using concatenated likelihood, parsimony, and coalescent methods (ASTRAL and SVDQuartets) strongly confirm most previous results, resolving as monophyletic the Spartaeinae, Salticinae (with the hisponines sister), Salticoida, Amycoida, Saltafresia, and Simonida. The agoriines, previously difficult to place beyond subfamily, are finally placed confidently within the saltafresians as relatives of the chrysillines and hasariines. Relationships among the baviines, astioids, marpissoids, and saltafresians remain uncertain, though our analyses tentatively conclude the first three form a clade together. Deep relationships, among the seven subfamilies, appear to be largely resolved, with spartaeines, lyssomanines, and asemoneines forming a clade. In most analyses, Onomastus (representing the onomastines) is strongly supported as sister to the hisponines plus salticines. Overall, the much-improved resolution of many deep relationships despite a relatively sparse taxon sample suggests AHE is a promising technique for salticid phylogenetics.
Maximum likelihood phylogeny from the partitioned concatenated matrix of 447 loci captured by Anchored Hybrid Enrichment. Numbers indicate percentage of likelihood bootstrap replicates showing the clade. Half circle indicates clades supported also in the results of Maddison et al. (2014) or, for the Amycoida, of Ruiz and Maddison (2015). Letters u, p, a, and s indicate clades that fail to appear in the analyses by unpartitioned likelihood, parsimony, ASTRAL and SVDQuartets respectively.