ArticleGenome research2025
The genomic consequences and persistence of sociality in spiders.
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- Big Spider, Big Genome: Chromosome-Level Genome of a North American Tarantula (Aphonopelma marxi) and Comparative Genomics Across 300 Million Years of Spider Evolution.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Convergent Molecular Evolution Associated With Repeated Transitions to Gregarious Larval Behavior in Heliconiini.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Exploring changes in social spider DNA methylation profiles in all cytosine contexts following infection.Heredity · 2024Article
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Abstract
In cooperatively breeding social animals, a few individuals account for all reproduction. In some taxa, sociality is accompanied by a transition from outcrossing to inbreeding. In concert, these traits reduce effective population size, potentially rendering transitions to sociality "evolutionarily dead-ends." We addressed this hypothesis in a comparative genomic study in spiders, in which sociality has evolved independently at least 23 times, but social branches are recent and short. We present genomic evidence for the evolutionary dead-end hypothesis in a spider genus with three independent transitions to sociality. We assembled and annotated high-quality, chromosome-level reference genomes from three pairs of closely related social and subsocial
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