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Homoplastic evolution of proximal podomere patterning across Arthropoda
Benjamin C Klementz, Max Hämmerle, Ethan M Laumer…·Prashant P Sharma
The paper examines proximal podomere patterning in sea spiders and arachnids, finding homoplastic evolution of gene expression patterns that challenges assumptions about leg segment homology.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.30.763126