The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution
Evelyn E. Schwager, Prashant P. Sharma, Thomas H. Clarke, Daniel J. Leite, Torsten Wierschin, Matthias Pechmann, Yasuko Akiyama‐Oda, Lauren A. Esposito, Jesper Bechsgaard, Trine Bilde, Alexandra D. Buffry, Hsu Chao, Huyen Dinh, HarshaVardhan Doddapaneni, Shannon Dugan, , Alistair P. McGregor
The paper analyzes the house spider genome to identify an ancient whole-genome duplication shared by spiders and scorpions, distinct from horseshoe crab duplications.
BMC Biology · Jul 17, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics