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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
- Mapping The Genome
- Switching Off The Genes
- Deformed Legs
- Understanding Arachnids
The researchers took two years to map all 580 million base pairs of the P. opiliogenome, which is around one-sixth the size of the human genome, Gainett said. Once that was done, researchers searched the DNA map for genes likely to cause long legs, by comparing the P. opilio genome with the genomes of other insects, such as the fruit fly (Drosophil...
The researchers were confident that the Dfd and Scr genes played a role in the development of long legs in P. opilio. But it was not clear if both needed to be turned off, or if some combination was sufficient, to change leg shape and size, Gainett said. Therefore, the researchers down-regulated these genes in developing embryos to see if the chang...
Switching off both the Dfd and Scr genes resulted in individuals with three pairs of shortened "walking" legs. They also changed shape. "When the Hox genes are down-regulated these leg appendages transform into short food-manipulating appendages called pedipalps," Gainett said. In addition to being much shorter than their normal legs, pedipalps hav...
The findings help shine light on one of the most unusual body plans in the animal kingdom, Gainett said. "They [daddy longlegs] have been around for far longer than we have, around 400 million years, and to me, it is just amazing that we can make inferences about how animal morphologies evolved long ago and understand a bit more about the creatures...
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Aug 5, 2021 · A daddy-long-legs of the species Phalangium opilio. Despite its spider-like appearance, it is a member of a grouping called harvestmen. ... the genome of the long-legged harvestman Phalangium ...
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%.
