André Luiz de Oliveira, Andrew Calcino, Andreas Wanninger
Evolutionary reconstruction of the ecdysis pathway shows that its major elements are present in the majority of metazoans, providing evidence that they originated much earlier than currently assumed.
Extensive genetic diversity and novel genome structures in RNA viruses from arthropods shed important new light on the ancestry and evolutionary history of major classes of vertebrate and plant viruses.
Artem N Bonchuk, Konstantin I Balagurov ... Pavel G Georgiev
The cryo-EM structure of the CG6765 BTB domain and solution scattering experiments revealed a unique three-dimer hexameric assembly for the arthropod Tramtrack group BTB domains.
Achim H Schwermann, Tomy dos Santos Rolo ... Thomas van de Kamp
X-ray imaging reveals well-preserved internal characters in mineralized arthropods from the Paleogene, urging the reexamination of previously neglected fossil collections.
Environmental DNA from highly standardized leaf sample time series suggests no localized species losses, but biotic turnover and homogenization, as main drivers of forest insect decline.
A new tick metabolic pathway that is connected to the survival of the Lyme disease spirochete was identified, which may lead to new ways to interfere with the spirochete life cycle.
New morphological information on the Cambrian artiopodan Acanthomeridion, including CT data, demonstrate that dorsal ecdysial sutures likely evolved multiple times within this group.