The tomato russet mite, Aculops lycopersici, is among the smallest animals on earth. It is a
worldwide pest on tomato and can potently suppress the host's natural resistance. We …

BACKGROUND Insight into the mode of action of plant‐derived acaricides will help in the
development of sustainable control strategies for mite pests. Scopoletin, a promising plant …

Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) have occurred multiple times during animal evolution,
including in lineages leading to vertebrates, teleosts, horseshoe crabs, and …

Background Arachnids are important components of cave ecosystems and display many
examples of troglomorphisms, such as blindness, depigmentation, and elongate …

Background MicroRNAs (miRs) are known to participate in sepsis; hence, we aim to discuss
the protective effect of miR-499-5p targeting sex-determining region Y-related high-mobility …

Background The common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum represents an emerging
new model organism of arthropod evolutionary and developmental (EvoDevo) studies …

Background Early during onychophoran development and prior to the formation of the germ
band, a posterior tissue thickening forms the posterior pit. Anterior to this thickening forms a …

The Sox family of transcription factors regulates many processes during metazoan
development, including stem cell maintenance and nervous system specification …

Members of sox gene family play critical roles in development, and some of them have
crucial functions in sexual dimorphism. To understand the role of two SoxB2 genes, Sox14b …

The Sry-related HMG-box (Sox) family is a group of transcriptional regulators that play a
critical role in many important developmental processes in both vertebrates and …