How spiders make their eyes: Systemic paralogy and function of retinal determination network homologs in arachnids
Guilherme Gainett, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Charlotte R. Kanzler, Jakob T. Zehms, John M. Zern, Shlomi Aharon, Efrat Gavish‐Regev, Prashant P. Sharma
The paper investigates the genetic basis of eye development and reduction in arachnids, identifying duplicated RDGN homologs and showing that soA is necessary for eye development across arachnid species.
BMC Genomics · Nov 23, 2020Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology