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Mar 19, 2024 · But while looking through a microscope at an embryo of Phalangium opilio—a daddy longlegs species—scientists recently discovered four additional eyes that never fully develop.
Mar 1, 2024 · In a paper published last week in the journal Current Biology, Dr. Gainett, now at Boston Children’s Hospital, and his co-authors report that they believe they have discovered remnants in the...
Mar 14, 2024 · Daddy longlegs have up to two functional eyes and at least one species has four hidden, underdeveloped ones. In this fluorescent microscope image of a Phalangium opilio embryo, the two working...
Feb 23, 2024 · Neuroanatomical gene expression surveys of eye-patterning transcription factors, opsins, and other structural proteins in the daddy-longlegs Phalangium opilio show that the vestigial median and lateral eyes innervate regions of the brain positionally homologous to the median and lateral eye neuropils, respectively, of chelicerate groups like ...
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 .
Phalangium opilio is 'the most widespread species of harvestman in the world', occurring natively in Europe, and much of Asia, and having been introduced to North America, North Africa and New Zealand.
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Nov 19, 2010 · Zoom in on a Daddy Longlegs. This psychedelic photo is a depth color-coded projection of a confocal microscope image of the eyes of a daddy longlegs (Phalangium opilio). The image, by Igor ...
