No silver bullet: Patterns of macrosynteny recapitulate systemic conflicts in the higher-level relationships of the arachnids
Siddharth Kulkarni, Benjamin C. Klementz, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Kaitlyn M. Abshire, Tauana Junqueira Cunha, Mohammad Kamrul Hassan, Ethan M. Laumer, Bruno A.S. de Medeiros, S Neu, M. Sabrina Pankey, David C. Plachetzki, Carlos E. Santibáñez‐López, Emily V.W. Setton, Rebecca Varney, Mohamed Ashraf Khalil Abdel‐Rahman, , Prashant P. Sharma
The paper uses genomic data to investigate arachnid phylogeny, finding that ancient whole genome duplications and fusion-with-mixing events do not resolve conflicts in higher-level relationships.
bioRxiv · Jun 23, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology