Giulia Campli from @dee_unil: despite their diversity, all arthropods share an exoskeleton and the process of moulting. Moulting can be observed both in live animals and in the fossil record. #SMBE2023 @moultdb
G Campli: chelicerates 🕷️🦂 have very dynamic evolution of gene families involved in moulting, with more duplications and losses than other arthropod lineages #SMBE2023 #ArthropodEvolution
Campli: loss of Neverland gene family in Coleoptera despite analysing 154 genomes. How does the most diverse insect group moult without this key gene family? #SMBE2023