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Systemic paralogy and function of retinal determination network homologs in arachnids.
BMC genomics - 23 Nov 2020
Gainett Guilherme, Ballesteros Jesús A, Kanzler Charlotte R, Zehms Jakob T, Zern John M, Aharon Shlomi, Gavish-Regev Efrat, Sharma Prashant P
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BACKGROUND: Arachnids are important components of cave ecosystems and display many examples of troglomorphisms, such as blindness, depigmentation, and elongate appendages. Little is known about how the eyes of arachnids are specified genetically, let alone the mechanisms for eye reduction and loss in troglomorphic arachnids. Additionally, duplication of Retinal Determination Gene Network (RDGN) homologs in...
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