A common ancestral gene causes body segmentation in spiders and insects
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have pinpointed a key gene that controls segmentation during spider development, which reveals a further similarity to the control of segmentation in insects, a study in eLife reports. The research suggests the Sox gene was duplicated in the spider and then may have replaced the function of another related Sox gene that is still […]