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Amber Harper

Oxford Brookes University

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Pre-cheliceral region patterning in a spider provides new insights into the development and evolution of arthropod neurosecretory centres

Amber Harper, Lauren H. Sumner‐Rooney, Ralf Janßen, Alistair P. McGregor

The paper examines head patterning in a spider, identifying neurosecretory centres and pioneer neurons, providing new insights into arthropod development and evolution.

Open Biology · Apr 8, 2026Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology

Development and patterning of a highly versatile visual system in spiders

Luís Baudouin-Gonzalez, Anna Schönauer, Amber Harper, Saad Arif, Daniel J. Leite, Philip O. M. Steinhoff, Matthias Pechmann, Valerіia Telizhenko, Atal Pande, Zoe X. Schultz, Carolin Kosiol, Madeleine E Aase-Remedios, Alistair P. McGregor, Lauren H. Sumner‐Rooney

The paper characterizes visual system development in eight spider species to understand how diverse eye configurations arise and evolve.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · Mar 1, 2025Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology

An atlas of spider development at single-cell resolution provides new insights into arthropod embryogenesis

Daniel J. Leite, Anna Schönauer, Grace Blakeley, Amber Harper, Helena García-Castro, Luís Baudouin-Gonzalez, Ruixun Wang, Naïra Sarkis, Alexander Günther Nikola, Venkata Sai Poojitha Koka, Nathan J. Kenny, Natascha Turetzek, Matthias Pechmann, Jordi Solana, Alistair P. McGregor

The paper constructs a single-cell RNA sequencing atlas of spider embryos, revealing cell clusters, gene expression patterns, and developmental insights into arthropod embryogenesis.

EvoDevo · May 10, 2024Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology

Widespread retention of ohnologs in key developmental gene families following whole genome duplication in arachnopulmonates

Amber Harper, Luís Baudouin-Gonzalez, Anna Schönauer, Ralf Janßen, Michael Seiter, Michaela Holzem, Saad Arif, Alistair P. McGregor, Lauren H. Sumner‐Rooney

The paper examines retention of ohnologs in developmental gene families across arachnopulmonate species, finding extensive retention and evolutionary patterns in Hox, Wnt, and frizzled genes.

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Sep 6, 2021Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology

The evolution of Sox gene repertoires and regulation of segmentation in arachnids

Luís Baudouin-Gonzalez, Anna Schönauer, Amber Harper, Grace Blakeley, Michael Seiter, Saad Arif, Lauren H. Sumner‐Rooney, Steven R. H. Russell, Prashant P. Sharma, Alistair P. McGregor

This study examines Sox gene repertoires and regulation of segmentation in arachnids, finding Sox21b-1 plays distinct roles in prosomal and opisthosomal segmentation.

Molecular Biology and Evolution · Mar 22, 2021Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology