The paper examines how urbanization affects specific traits of the European garden spider across 22 cities, finding trait-specific and city-dependent responses.

bioRxiv · Jun 22, 2026 · PreprintEcology

Towards large-scale museomics projects: a cost-effective and high-throughput extraction method for obtaining historical DNA from museum insect specimens

Anna J. Holmquist, Holly Tavris, Grace E. S. Kim, Lauren A. Esposito, Brian Lee Fisher, Athena Wai Lam

This paper introduces a cost-effective DNA extraction method for museum insect specimens, validated against existing protocols and applied to a large sample set.

Molecular Ecology Resources · May 5, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics

Gene Content Evolution in the Arthropods

Gregg W.C. Thomas, Elias Dohmen, Daniel Hughes, Shwetha Canchi Murali, Monica F. Poelchau, Karl M. Glastad, Clare A. Anstead, Nadia A. Ayoub, Philip Batterham, Michelle Bellair, Greta J. Binford, Hsu Chao, Yolanda H. Chen, Christopher P. Childers, Huyen Dinh, , Stephen Richards

The paper analyzes gene and protein domain content changes across 76 arthropod genomes to understand evolutionary patterns and their association with phenotypic adaptations.

Genome biology · Jan 22, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics

The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution

Evelyn E. Schwager, Prashant P. Sharma, Thomas H. Clarke, Daniel J. Leite, Torsten Wierschin, Matthias Pechmann, Yasuko Akiyama‐Oda, Lauren A. Esposito, Jesper Bechsgaard, Trine Bilde, Alexandra D. Buffry, Hsu Chao, Huyen Dinh, HarshaVardhan Doddapaneni, Shannon Dugan, , Alistair P. McGregor

The paper analyzes the house spider genome to identify an ancient whole-genome duplication shared by spiders and scorpions, distinct from horseshoe crab duplications.

BMC Biology · Jul 17, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics