Nature Communications (May 2022)

Myriapod genomes reveal ancestral horizontal gene transfer and hormonal gene loss in millipedes

  • Wai Lok So,
  • Wenyan Nong,
  • Yichun Xie,
  • Tobias Baril,
  • Hai-yao Ma,
  • Zhe Qu,
  • Jasmine Haimovitz,
  • Thomas Swale,
  • Juan Diego Gaitan-Espitia,
  • Kwok Fai Lau,
  • Stephen S. Tobe,
  • William G. Bendena,
  • Zhen-peng Kai,
  • Alexander Hayward,
  • Jerome H. L. Hui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30690-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Myriapods play an important ecological role in soil and forest ecosystems. Here the authors analyse nine myriapod genomes, showing rapid evolution of distinct genomic pathways in centipede and millipede lineages, shaped by differing ecological pressures.