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Zoë Schultz
@zxschultz.bsky.social
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PhD student @McGregorLab researching spider EvoDevo🕷🧬🔬
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Zoë Schultz @zxschultz.bsky.social · Mar 16
Want to know more about spider eyes? Check out our new paper!🕷️
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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · Mar 14
📢New paper in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B!📢

We tracked #eye #development in seven spider species with wildly different visual systems to try and identify the mechanisms underlying their diversity 👀👀👀👀
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Development and patterning of a highly versatile visual system in spiders | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Visual systems provide a key interface between organisms and their surroundings, and have evolved in many forms to perform diverse functions across the animal kingdom. Spiders exhibit a range of visual abilities and ecologies, the diversity of which is ...
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · Feb 21
WHAT. Ecuador's government recently authorized a U.S. military base on the Galápagos Islands. NO. No no no no no no noooooooo NO 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Military base threatens Galápagos Islands
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Prashant Sharma @prashantpsharma.bsky.social · Feb 7
The lab is delighted to release the first genome for the giant American vinegaroon! The slowly-evolving order Uropygi captures the strongest signature yet of the arachnopulmonate whole genome duplication. #biodiversity #genomics

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A chromosome-level genome of the giant vinegaroon Mastigoproctus giganteus exhibits the signature of pre-Silurian whole genome duplication
Abstract. Within the arachnids, chromosome-level genome assemblies have greatly accelerated the understanding of gene family evolution and developmental ge
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McGregor Lab @mcgregorlab.bsky.social · Dec 21
New preprint from our lab. Great work by @maaseremedios.bsky.social in collaboration with Ralf Janssen looking at gene regulation and expression after whole genome duplication by comparing a spider and harvestman:
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Assessing the impact of whole genome duplication on gene expression and regulation during arachnid development
Whole genome duplication (WGD) generates new genetic material that can contribute to the evolution of the regulation of developmental processes and phenotypic diversification. A WGD occurred in an anc...
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Zoë Schultz @zxschultz.bsky.social · Nov 27
Yes!!! Its expression is very cool! We’ll keep you posted😻
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Zoë Schultz @zxschultz.bsky.social · Nov 27
Come look at some cute spider embryos with stunning 🧬expression with me!

This gene is very exciting, and will be a major part of my PhD research! Watch this space for new updates🔬
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#EvoDevo #Biology #phdlife
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Zoë Schultz @zxschultz.bsky.social · Feb 4
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!
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