The availability of public genomic resources can greatly assist biodiversity assessment,
conservation, and restoration efforts by providing evidence for scientifically informed …

The basal phylogeny of Chelicerata is one of the opaquest parts of the animal Tree of Life,
defying resolution despite application of thousands of loci and millions of sites. At the …

Natural product extraction is ingenuity that permits the mass manufacturing of specific
products in a cost-effective manner. With the aim of obtaining an alternative chitosan supply …

Background Ambitious initiatives to coordinate genome sequencing of Earth's biodiversity
mean that the accumulation of genomic data is growing rapidly. In addition to cataloguing …

Gene duplication generates new genetic material that can contribute to the evolution of gene
regulatory networks and phenotypes. Duplicated genes can undergo subfunctionalization to …

Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) have long been considered the causal mechanism
underlying dramatic increases to morphological complexity due to the neo-functionalization …

Paired box genes are conserved across animals and encode transcription factors playing
key roles in development, especially neurogenesis. Pax6 is a chief example for functional …

The Ecuadorian brown-headed spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps fusciceps) is currently
considered one of the most endangered primates in the world and is classified as critically …

This perspective identifies the grand challenges in arachnid science: 1. Grasp the arachnid
species diversity. There is a need to accelerate taxonomic research to obtain a sense of …

Background The resurgence of interest in the comparative developmental study of
chelicerates has led to important insights, such as the discovery of a genome duplication …