Shedding light on the embryogenesis and eye development of the troglophile cave spider Tegenaria pagana C. L. Koch, 1840 (Araneae: Agelenidae)
EvoDevo,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
16(1)
Опубликована: Март 8, 2025
Relatively
little
is
known
about
the
diversity
of
embryonic
development
across
lineages
spiders,
even
though
study
a
primary
step
in
evo-devo
studies
and
essential
for
understanding
phenotypic
evolution.
Practically
nothing
embryogenesis
cave-dwelling
animals
which
play
an
important
role
cave
ecosystems
may
have
remarkable
adaptations
to
aphotic
habitats
such
as
loss
eyes.
Here,
we
describe
expression
patterns
several
genes
Retinal
Determination
Network
(RDN)
troglophile
(species
that
pre-adaptations
life
caves,
can
complete
their
cycle
well
epigean
habitats)
eye-bearing
funnel-web
spider
species
Tegenaria
pagana
C.
L.
Koch,
1840,
using
fluorescent
staining
confocal
microscopy.
We
discuss
characteristic
features
T.
key
RDN
genes.
Although
many
respects
different
entelegyne
spiders
similar,
found
differences
rate
development,
details
opisthosoma,
respiratory
system,
brain
morphogenesis
comparison
with
established
model
species.
Our
data
supports
hypothesis
conserved
sine
oculis
gene
eye
formation
arachnids.
Given
recent
discovery
congeneric
degrees
reduction
throughout
Israel,
these
sets
provide
foundational
point
studying
events
genus
Tegenaria.
Язык: Английский
Evolution: Decoding the adaptation of multi-eyed visual systems
Current Biology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
34(14), С. R675 - R677
Опубликована: Июль 1, 2024
Язык: Английский
Machine learning approaches to assess microendemicity and conservation risk in cave-dwelling arachnofauna
Conservation Genetics,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
25(5), С. 1103 - 1110
Опубликована: Авг. 3, 2024
Язык: Английский
Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, With New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)
Опубликована: Июнь 2, 2023
The
location
of
Israel
at
the
junction
three
continents
leads
to
a
unique
faunal
combination
Palearctic
and
Afrotropic
zoogeographic
origins.
Following
systematic
revisions
over
past
sixty
years
discovery
new
species,
only
available
key
pseudoscorpions
(Arachnida:
Pseudoscorpiones)
(Beier
1963)
has
become
outdated.
We
provide
here
an
up-to-date
checklist
pseudoscorpion
species
including
distribution
maps,
first
illustrated
identification
Israeli
fauna
based
on
morphological
characters.
Prior
our
study
this
comprised
twelve
families,
26
genera
52
morphospecies,
several
“subspecies”.
increase
number
list
61
morphospecies
that
belong
28
fourteen
families.
Most
are
Mediterranean,
few
Afrotropic.
Two
families
reported
for
time:
Syarinidae
Cheiridiidae.
Both
cosmopolitan
have
representatives
in
Mediterranean
region.
putative
presented
genus
level
will
be
described
separately
elsewhere.
Язык: Английский
Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)
Taxonomy,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
3(4), С. 466 - 496
Опубликована: Окт. 24, 2023
The
location
of
Israel
at
the
junction
three
continents
leads
to
a
unique
fauna
both
Palearctic
and
Afrotropical
zoogeographic
origins.
Following
systematic
revisions
over
past
sixty
years
discovery
new
species,
only
available
key
pseudoscorpions
has
become
outdated.
We
provide
here
an
up-to-date
checklist
pseudoscorpion
species
including
distribution
maps,
first
illustrated
identification
Israeli
based
on
morphological
characters.
Prior
our
study,
this
comprised
twelve
families,
26
genera
52
morphospecies,
several
“subspecies”.
increase
number
list
61
morphospecies
that
belong
28
fourteen
families.
Most
are
Mediterranean,
few
Afrotropical.
Two
families
reported
for
time:
Syarinidae
Cheiridiidae.
Both
cosmopolitan
have
representatives
in
Mediterranean
region.
putative
presented
genus
level
will
be
described
separately
elsewhere.
Язык: Английский
Machine learning approaches to assess microendemicity and conservation risk in cave-dwelling arachnofauna
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Дек. 20, 2023
Abstract
The
biota
of
cave
habitats
faces
heightened
conservation
risks,
due
to
geographic
isolation
and
high
levels
endemism.
Molecular
datasets,
in
tandem
with
ecological
surveys,
have
the
potential
delimit
precisely
nature
endemism
identify
priorities
for
microendemic
species.
Here,
we
sequenced
ultraconserved
elements
Tegenaria
within,
at
entrances
of,
25
sites
test
phylogenetic
relationships,
combined
an
unsupervised
machine
learning
approach
Our
data
identified
clear
species
limits,
as
well
incidence
previously
unidentified,
cryptic
We
employed
R
package
canaper
Categorical
Analysis
Neo-
Paleo-Endemism
(CANAPE)
generate
metrics
that
are
informative
future
policy,
assessments
troglobitic
Israeli
this
genus.
Язык: Английский