Natascha Turetzek

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 constructs a single-cell RNA sequencing atlas of spider embryos, revealing cell clusters, gene expression patterns, and developmental insights into arthropod embryogenesis.

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