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Zoe X. Schultz

Durham University

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Lost and found: beer belly is a novel, ancient regulator of animal development

Zoe X. Schultz, Grace Blakeley, Madeleine E Aase-Remedios, Dorothea V. Grillmayer, Daniel J. Leite, Tom Frankish, Gemma Sutton, Grigory Genikhovich, Steffen Scholpp, Matthias Pechmann, José María Martín-Durán, Natascha Turetzek, Ralf Janßen, Alistair P. McGregor

The paper identifies a novel gene, beer belly, as a regulator of segmentation in spiders using single-cell RNA sequencing and shows its evolutionary loss in mammals and holometabolous insects.

bioRxiv · Oct 27, 2026 · PreprintDevelopmental 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