ReviewFrontiers in zoology2017
From egg to "no-body": an overview and revision of developmental pathways in the ancient arthropod lineage Pycnogonida.
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- The genome of a sea spider corroborates a shared Hox cluster motif in arthropods with a reduced posterior tagma.BMC biology · 2025Article
- The development and evolution of arthropod tagmata.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Pycnogonida collection of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences.Biodiversity data journal · 2025Article
- A Novel Expression Domain of extradenticle Underlies the Evolutionary Developmental Origin of the Chelicerate Patella.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Epimorphic development in tropical shallow-water Nymphonidae (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) revealed by fluorescence imaging.Zoological letters · 2024Article
- New insights into the Devonian sea spiders of the Hunsrück Slate (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida).PeerJ · 2024Article
- Appearance of a transparent protrusion containing two pairs of legs on the apodous ring preceding the anamorphic molt in a millipede, Niponia nodulosa.Frontiers in zoology · 2023Article
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- The sea spiderProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The visual pathway in sea spiders (Pycnogonida) displays a simple serial layout with similarities to the median eye pathway in horseshoe crabs.BMC biology · 2022Article
- Small body size of pseudoscorpions and a distinct architecture of the ovary: A step to miniaturization?Journal of anatomy · 2021Article
- Phylogenomic Resolution of Sea Spider Diversification through Integration of Multiple Data Classes.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- First description of epimorphic development in Antarctic Pallenopsidae (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) with insights into the evolution of the four-articled sea spider cheliphore.Zoological letters · 2019Article
- Comparison of ventral organ development across Pycnogonida (Arthropoda, Chelicerata) provides evidence for a plesiomorphic mode of late neurogenesis in sea spiders and myriapods.BMC evolutionary biology · 2018Article
- Feeding ecology in sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida): what do we know?Frontiers in zoology · 2018Review
- Genetic signature of Last Glacial Maximum regional refugia in a circum-Antarctic sea spider.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundArthropod diversity is unparalleled in the animal kingdom. The study of ontogeny is pivotal to understand which developmental processes underlie the incredible morphological disparity of arthropods and thus to eventually unravel evolutionary transformations leading to their success. Work on laboratory model organisms has yielded in-depth data on numerous developmental mechanisms in arthropods. Yet, although the range of studied taxa has increased noticeably since the advent of comparative evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), several smaller groups remain understudied. This includes the bizarre Pycnogonida (sea spiders) or "no-bodies", a taxon occupying a crucial phylogenetic position for the interpretation of arthropod development and evolution.
resultsPycnogonid development is variable at familial and generic levels and sometimes even congeneric species exhibit different developmental modes. Here, we summarize the available data since the late 19
conclusionsA resurgence of studies on pycnogonid postembryonic development has provided various new insights in the last decades. However, the scarcity of modern-day embryonic data - including the virtual lack of gene expression and functional studies - needs to be addressed in future investigations to strengthen comparisons to other arthropods and arthropod outgroups in the framework of evo-devo. Our review may serve as a basis for an informed choice of target species for such studies, which will not only shed light on chelicerate development and evolution but furthermore hold the potential to contribute important insights into the anamorphic development of the arthropod ancestor.
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