Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Evolution of the spider homeobox gene repertoire by tandem and whole genome duplication
M. E. Aase-Remedios, R. Janssen, D. J. Leite…·A. P. McGregor
The paper investigates the origin of duplicated homeobox genes in spiders, finding most are from a whole genome duplication, with evidence of subfunctionalisation in the NK cluster.