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Open AccessAn atlas of spider development at single-cell resolution provides new insights into arthropod embryogenesis
Spiders are a diverse order of chelicerates that diverged from other arthropods over 500 million years ago. Research on spider embryogenesis, particularly studies using the common house spider Parasteatoda tepida...
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Open AccessDuplication and expression of Sox genes in spiders
The Sox family of transcription factors is an important part of the genetic ‘toolbox’ of all metazoans examined to date and is known to play important developmental roles in vertebrates and insects. However, o...
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Open AccessThe house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution
The duplication of genes can occur through various mechanisms and is thought to make a major contribution to the evolutionary diversification of organisms. There is increasing evidence for a large-scale duplic...
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Chelicerata
Chelicerata is a subphylum of arthropods that includes terrestrial as well as marine animals. Both the fossil record and molecular data place the origin of the chelicerates over 500 million years ago in the Ca...
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Open AccessSexual dimorphism and natural variation within and among species in the Drosophilaretinal mosaic
Insect compound eyes are composed of ommatidia, which contain photoreceptor cells that are sensitive to different wavelengths of light defined by the specific rhodopsin proteins that they express. The fruit fly D...
