Lauren H. Sumner‐Rooney

ctSpyderFields reconstructs visual fields of spiders from CT scans, enabling comparative analysis of visual ecology and evolution.

The paper analyzes eye loss patterns in spiders, showing it occurs in 12% of species, mainly in Synspermiata, with six-eyed spiders being most common and eye loss linked to low-light environments.

The paper examines head patterning in a spider, identifying neurosecretory centres and pioneer neurons, providing new insights into arthropod development and evolution.

The paper characterizes visual system development in eight spider species to understand how diverse eye configurations arise and evolve.

This study examines eye size allometry and ecological factors in spiders, finding variable growth dynamics and significant allometric shifts linked to ecological adaptations.

The paper examines retention of ohnologs in developmental gene families across arachnopulmonate species, finding extensive retention and evolutionary patterns in Hox, Wnt, and frizzled genes.

This study examines Sox gene repertoires and regulation of segmentation in arachnids, finding Sox21b-1 plays distinct roles in prosomal and opisthosomal segmentation.