Molecular evolution of spider vision: new opportunities, familiar players

NI Morehouse, EK Buschbeck, DB Zurek… - The Biological …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Spiders are among the world's most species-rich animal lineages, and their visual systems
are likewise highly diverse. These modular visual systems, composed of four pairs of image …

'Distributed'vision and the architecture of animal visual systems

L Sumner-Rooney - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
More than a century of research, of which JEB has published a substantial selection, has
highlighted the rich diversity of animal eyes. From these studies have emerged numerous …

Congruence between ultraconserved element‐based matrices and phylotranscriptomic datasets in the scorpion Tree of Life

CE Santibáñez‐López, AA Ojanguren‐Affilastro… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Scorpions are ancient and historically renowned for their potent venom. Traditionally, the
systematics of this group of arthropods was supported by morphological characters, until …

Systematic revision of the neotropical club-tailed scorpions, Physoctonus, Rhopalurus, and Troglorhopalurus, revalidation of Heteroctenus, and descriptions of two …

LA Esposito, HY Yamaguti, CA Souza… - Bulletin of the American …, 2017 - BioOne
The Neotropical “club-tailed” scorpions of the genus Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876, and two
related genera in family Buthidae CL Koch, 1837, ie, Physoctonus Mello-Leitão, 1934, and …

Another one bites the dust: taxonomic sampling of a key genus in phylogenomic datasets reveals more non-monophyletic groups in traditional scorpion classification

CE Santibáñez-López… - Invertebrate …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Historically, morphological characters have been used to support the monophyly,
composition, and phylogenetic relationships of scorpion families. Although recent …

Molecular characterization and embryonic origin of the eyes in the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum

C Schomburg, N Turetzek, MI Schacht, J Schneider… - EvoDevo, 2015 - Springer
Background Two visual systems are present in most arthropod groups: median and lateral
eyes. Most of our current knowledge about the developmental and molecular mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Systematics of the relictual Asian scorpion family Pseudochactidae Gromov, 1998, with a review of cavernicolous, troglobitic, and troglomorphic scorpions

L Prendini, VL Ehrenthal, SF Loria - Bulletin of the American Museum of …, 2021 - BioOne
The first integrative systematic revision of the relictual Asian scorpion family
Pseudochactidae Gromov, 1998, making use of an unprecedented collection of material …

Single-cell sequencing suggests a conserved function of Hedgehog-signalling in spider eye development

BI Medina‑Jiménez, GE Budd, M Pechmann… - EvoDevo, 2024 - Springer
Background Spiders evolved different types of eyes, a pair of primary eyes that are usually
forward pointing, and three pairs of secondary eyes that are typically situated more posterior …

Three new species of genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861 from Tibet, China (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae), with implications for the diagnostic values of qualitative characters

V Tang, K Ouyang, Z Liu, F Šťáhlavský - Euscorpius, 2024 - mds.marshall.edu
Three new species of genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861 are described from Tibet Autonomous
Region, China. S. deshpandei sp. n. is described based on an adult male and an immature …

Distributed vision in spiders

AM Winsor, NI Morehouse, EM Jakob - Distributed Vision: From Simple …, 2023 - Springer
We examine the distributed visual system of spiders, an ancient and diverse lineage of
predators. Across families, prey-capture strategies include active pursuit, sit-and-wait …