Journal
DEVELOPMENT
Volume 139, Issue 15, Pages 2655-2662Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.078204
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Axis formation; Evolution; Gene regulation; Segmentation; Spiders
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- Oxford Brookes University
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Spiders belong to the chelicerates, which is an arthropod group that branches basally from myriapods, crustaceans and insects. Spiders are thus useful models with which to investigate whether aspects of development are ancestral or derived with respect to the arthropod common ancestor. Moreover, they serve as an important reference point for comparison with the development of other metazoans. Therefore, studies of spider development have made a major contribution to advancing our understanding of the evolution of development. Much of this knowledge has come from studies of the common house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum. Here, we describe how the growing number of experimental tools and resources available to study Parasteatoda development have provided novel insights into the evolution of developmental regulation and have furthered our understanding of metazoan body plan evolution.
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