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  1. www.nytimes.com › 2024/03/01 › scienceDaddy Longlegs Have Been Hiding Extra Eyes From Us

    Mar 1, 2024 · March 1, 2024. Guilherme Gainett, then a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was looking through a microscope at the embryo of a daddy longlegs when he saw it — or, rather, saw ...

  2. www.smithsonianmag.com › smart-news › daddy-longlegsDaddy Longlegs Have Four Extra, Hidden Eyes, Researchers Say

    Mar 19, 2024 · The hidden pairs of eyes weren’t a total surprise to the researchers. In 2014, a 305-million-year-old fossilized daddy longlegs found in eastern France had four total eyes —two more than today ...

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  4. www.sciencenews.org › article › daddy-longlegs-howA species of daddy longlegs has been hiding four extra eyes

    Mar 14, 2024 · Despite its two-eyed appearance, Phalangium opilio has six peepers. The four extra eyes — leftovers of evolution — shed light on the evolutionary history of daddy longlegs. ljphoto7/iStock ...

  5. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleVestigial organs alter fossil placements in an ancient group ...

    Mar 25, 2024 · Phalangium opilio vestigial lateral eye and its projection to the lateral brain center, related to Figures 5D–5F. Z-stack optical slices of the developing head in frontal view, from anterior to posterior. rh1 (orange) mRNA expression marks the lateral cells and acet-tub protein (green), showing a connection to the lateral brain center (black ...

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  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Phalangium_opilioPhalangium opilio - Wikipedia

    P. opilio is a generalist predator and scavenger that feeds on soft-bodied animals found in crops, such as aphids, caterpillars, leafhoppers, beetle larvae, and mites. Sometimes it may also scavenge on hard-bodied animals, such as various arthropods, including other harvestmen. [6]

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › OpilionesOpiliones - Wikipedia

    A harvestman (a male Phalangium opilio), showing the almost fused arrangement of abdomen and cephalothorax that distinguishes these arachnids from spiders. Harvestmen have a pair of prosomatic defensive scent glands that secrete a peculiar-smelling fluid when disturbed. In some species, the fluid contains noxious quinones.

  9. royalsocietypublishing.org › doi › 10The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the ...

    Aug 4, 2021 · (a) Phalangium opilio draft genome assembly. The draft assembly of the P. opilio genome comprises 580.4 Mbp (37.5% GC content) in 5137 scaffolds (N50: 211 089) and 8349 contigs (N50: 127 429; electronic supplementary material, figure S1 and table S5). The predicted genome repetitiveness is 54.4% and estimated heterozygosity is 1.24%.