Cooption of an appendage-patterning gene cassette in the head segmentation of arachnids

The evolutionarily conserved transcription factor Sp1 controls appendage growth through Notch signaling

(2016) Sergio Córdoba et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Formation of body appendages during caudal regeneration in Platynereis dumerilii: adaptation of conserved molecular toolsets

(2016) Jan Grimmel et al.   EvoDevo

The genome of the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis, a model for animal development, regeneration, immunity and lignocellulose digestion

(2016) Damian Kao et al.   eLife

KLF/SP Transcription Factor Family Evolution: Expansion, Diversification, and Innovation in Eukaryotes

(2015) Jason S. Presnell et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Ancestral whole-genome duplication in the marine chelicerate horseshoe crabs

(2015) N J Kenny et al.   HEREDITY

A conserved genetic mechanism specifies deutocerebral appendage identity in insects and arachnids

(2015) P. P. Sharma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Key patterning genes contribute to leg elongation in water striders

(2015) Peter Nagui Refki et al.   EvoDevo

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenomic Interrogation of Arachnida Reveals Systemic Conflicts in Phylogenetic Signal

(2014) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Hox gene duplications correlate with posterior heteronomy in scorpions

(2014) P. P. Sharma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The First Myriapod Genome Sequence Reveals Conservative Arthropod Gene Content and Genome Organisation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima

(2014) Ariel D. Chipman et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Distal-lessanddachshundpattern both plesiomorphic and apomorphic structures in chelicerates: RNA interference in the harvestmanPhalangium opilio(Opiliones)

(2013) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The expression of limb gap genes in the miteArchegozetes longisetosusreveals differential patterning mechanisms in chelicerates

(2013) Austen A. Barnett et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Functional analysis of the role of eyes absent and sine oculis in the developing eye of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

(2012) Akira Takagi et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Evolution of the chelicera: adachshunddomain is retained in the deutocerebral appendage of Opiliones (Arthropoda, Chelicerata)

(2012) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Divergent role of the Hox gene Antennapedia in spiders is responsible for the convergent evolution of abdominal limb repression

(2012) S. Khadjeh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A context-dependent combination of Wnt receptors controls axis elongation and leg development in a short germ insect

(2011) A. Beermann et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Gene expression suggests conserved mechanisms patterning the heads of insects and myriapods

(2011) Ralf Janssen et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

dlx and sp6-9 Control Optic Cup Regeneration in a Prototypic Eye

(2011) Sylvain W. Lapan et al.   PLoS Genetics

Novel Function of Distal-less as a Gap Gene during Spider Segmentation

(2011) Matthias Pechmann et al.   PLoS Genetics

Patterning mechanisms and morphological diversity of spider appendages and their importance for spider evolution

(2010) Matthias Pechmann et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

A clustered set of three Sp-family genes is ancestral in the Metazoa: evidence from sequence analysis, protein domain structure, developmental expression patterns and chromosomal location

(2010) Nina D Schaeper et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Gene expression patterns in an onychophoran reveal that regionalization predates limb segmentation in pan-arthropods

(2010) Ralf Janssen et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Non-Redundant Selector and Growth-Promoting Functions of Two Sister Genes, buttonhead and Sp1, in Drosophila Leg Development

(2010) Carlos Estella et al.   PLoS Genetics

Appendage patterning in the South American bird spider Acanthoscurria geniculata (Araneae: Mygalomorphae)

(2009) Matthias Pechmann et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Loss of Tc-arrow and canonical Wnt signaling alters posterior morphology and pair-rule gene expression in the short-germ insect, Tribolium castaneum

(2009) Renata Bolognesi et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

A conserved function of the zinc finger transcription factor Sp8/9 in allometric appendage growth in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus

(2009) Nina D. Schaeper et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Divergent and conserved roles of extradenticle in body segmentation and appendage formation, respectively, in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

(2007) Taro Mito et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Antenna and all gnathal appendages are similarly transformed by homothorax knock-down in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

(2007) Monica Ronco et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY