Caitlin M. Baker

The paper describes the discovery of a new species of Paleoamblypygi and uses it to generate the first molecular phylogeny of whip spiders, showing the importance of relict taxa in divergence time estimation.

This study presents the genome of a daddy-long-legs and investigates appendage development through functional experiments, revealing conserved and coopted roles of Egfr in leg patterning across arthropods.