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SUBMITTER: Dederichs TM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6813115 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dederichs Tim M TM Müller Carsten H G CHG Sentenská Lenka L Lipke Elisabeth E Uhl Gabriele G Michalik Peter P
Frontiers in zoology 20191024
<h4>Background</h4>Nervous tissue is an inherent component of the many specialized genital structures for transferring sperm directly into the female's body. However, the male copulatory organ of spiders was considered a puzzling exception. Based on the recent discovery of nervous tissue in the pedipalps of two distantly related spider species, we investigated representatives of all major groups across the spider tree of life for the presence of palpal nerves. We used a correlative approach that ...[more]