Neural and sensory-motor pathways offer genomic clues to convergent funnel-web building in spiders (IMAGE)

Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Neural and sensory-motor pathways offer genomic clues to convergent funnel-web building in spiders

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Convergent evolutionary signals in neural, synaptic, sensory, and motor-related genes are associated with the independent evolution of funnel-web building across multiple spider lineages.

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Zheng Fan, Lu-Yu Wang, Zhi Li, Tian-Yu Ren, Bing Tan, Wei Pu, Wen-Hui Wu, Jun-Han Xiong, Ling-Xin Cheng, Jin-Xia Kong, Bin Luo, Zi-Zhong Yang, Chao Tong, and Zhi-Sheng Zhang

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