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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…·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.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.24.761492