Madeleine E Aase-Remedios

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.

The paper compares gene expression and chromatin accessibility of ohnologues and single-copy genes in two arachnids, one with a history of whole genome duplication, to assess subfunctionalization.

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