Nadia A. Ayoub

The paper uses phase response curves and RNA-sequencing to show spiders' sensitivity to light and identify candidate light-responsive genes.

The study examines how diet affects silk gene expression in house spiders, finding that low-energy diets reduce minor ampullate spidroin transcripts but not dragline or major ampullate spidroins.

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

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