A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, and Western Connecticut State University, has assembled the first draft genome of Phalangium opilio—the daddy longlegs spider. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes clues they found that explain why the spider developed such long legs.
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