Scientists have pinpointed a key gene that controls segmentation during spider development, which reveals a further similarity to the control of segmentation in insects. Scientists have pinpointed a ...

The ancient ancestors of insects probably had relatively symmetrical body segments, each with a pair of legs. These segments have become modified over the millenniums in wildly different ways. In some ...

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 ...

MUCH has been written relative to the morphology of the insect thorax and its appendages, but few of the contributions of recent years have led to any modification of tho present-day conceptions of ...

Researchers identify a member of the Sox gene family -- which probably arose from whole genome duplication -- that controls segmentation during spider development and likely represents a common ...