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The
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The Hox genes are a group of highly conserved transcription factor-encoding genes that are used to pattern the antero-posterior axis in bilaterian metazoans (
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and Hogan,
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1988;
<bibRefCitation author="Hrycaj S. M. &amp; Wellik D. M." box="[555,806,1252,1276]" pageId="11" pageNumber="542" pagination="5" refId="ref28728" refString="Hrycaj S. M., Wellik D. M. 2016. Hox genes and evolution. F 1000 Research, 5. https: // doi. org / 10.12688 / f 1000 research. 7663.1" type="journal article" year="2016">Hrycaj and Wellik, 2016</bibRefCitation>
). Ancestrally, arthropods likely had ten Hox genes arranged in a cluster (
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). During arthropod development, the Hox genes specify the identities of the body segments, and mutations in Hox genes usually result in the transformation of segmental identities (
<bibRefCitation author="Hughes C. L. &amp; Kaufman T. C." box="[892,1171,1356,1380]" pageId="11" pageNumber="542" pagination="459 - 499" refId="ref28836" refString="Hughes C. L., Kaufman T. C. 2002. Hox genes and the evolution of the arthropod body plan. Evol Dev, 4: 459 - 499. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1525 - 142 X. 2002.02034. x" type="journal article" year="2002">Hughes and Kaufman, 2002</bibRefCitation>
). The importance of Hox genes in development of metazoans makes knowledge of their duplication and disappearances important for understanding their role in the evolution of body plans (
<bibRefCitation author="Hughes C. L. &amp; Kaufman T. C." box="[1198,1436,1425,1449]" pageId="11" pageNumber="542" pagination="459 - 499" refId="ref28836" refString="Hughes C. L., Kaufman T. C. 2002. Hox genes and the evolution of the arthropod body plan. Evol Dev, 4: 459 - 499. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1525 - 142 X. 2002.02034. x" type="journal article" year="2002">Hughes and Kaufman,</bibRefCitation>
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<paragraph blockId="11.[491,1503,1183,2036]" box="[491,536,1460,1484]" pageId="11" pageNumber="542">2002).</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="11.[491,1503,1183,2036]" pageId="11" pageNumber="542">
Mites largely lack overt, external signs of segmentation, other than the serially arranged appendages of the prosoma (
<bibRefCitation author="Dunlop J. A. &amp; Lamsdell J. C." box="[789,1078,1529,1553]" pageId="11" pageNumber="542" pagination="395 - 418" refId="ref25924" refString="Dunlop J. A., Lamsdell J. C. 2017. Segmentation and tagmosis in Chelicerata. Arthropod Struct Dev, 46: 395 - 418. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. asd. 2016.05.002" type="journal article" year="2017">Dunlop and Lamsdell, 2017</bibRefCitation>
). Signs of segmentation in the posterior body tagma, the opisthosoma, do exist in adult members of Endeostigmata (
<bibRefCitation author="van der Hammen L." box="[1368,1448,1563,1587]" pageId="11" pageNumber="542" pagination="3 - 10" refId="ref37511" refString="van der Hammen L. 1970. La segmentation primitive des Acariens. Acarologia, 12: 3 - 10." type="journal article" year="1970">van der</bibRefCitation>
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Hammen, 1970). However, these segmental boundaries are largely present only in the dorsal opisthosoma, making it difficult to assess how these correspond to the ventral somites (
<bibRefCitation author="van der Hammen L." pageId="11" pageNumber="542" pagination="3 - 10" refId="ref37511" refString="van der Hammen L. 1970. La segmentation primitive des Acariens. Acarologia, 12: 3 - 10." type="journal article" year="1970">van der Hammen, 1970</bibRefCitation>
;
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). Developmental genetic studies of the spider mite and
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<emphasis box="[591,738,1701,1725]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="542">Archegozetes</emphasis>
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suggest that acariform mites only pattern two segments in the posterior body region, during embryogenesis (
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Grbić
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, 2011
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Barnett A. A. &amp; Thomas R. H." box="[1075,1334,1736,1760]" pageId="11" pageNumber="542" pagination="383 - 92" refId="ref22248" refString="Barnett A. A., Thomas R. H. 2012. The delineation of the fourth walking leg segment is temporally linked to posterior segmentation in the mite Archegozetes longisetosus (Acari: Oribatida, Trhypochthoniidae). Evol Dev, 14: 383 - 92. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1525 - 142 X. 2012.00556. x" type="journal article" year="2012">Barnett and Thomas, 2012</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Barnett A. A. &amp; Thomas R. H." box="[1345,1392,1736,1760]" pageId="11" pageNumber="542" pagination="23" refId="ref22369" refString="Barnett A. A., Thomas R. H. 2013 b. Posterior Hox gene reduction in an arthropod: Ultrabithorax and Abdominal-B are expressed in a single segment in the mite Archegozetes longisetosus. EvoDevo, 4: 23. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / 2041 - 9139 - 4 - 23" type="journal article" year="2013">2013b</bibRefCitation>
;
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). This stands in stark contrast to other studied chelicerate embryos. For example, during embryogenesis the spider
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<emphasis box="[770,1061,1805,1829]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="542">Parasteatoda tepidariorum</emphasis>
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patterns twelve opisthosomal segments
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(
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Schwager
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) and the opilionid
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patterns seven (
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Sharma
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,
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2012). Furthermore, a member of Parasitiformes, the tick
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,
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appears to pattern eight opisthosomal segments during embryogenesis (Santos
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Parallel to the observation of segmental reduction in the spider mite, genomic evidence suggests that this acariform mite has lost two of its Hox genes,
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and
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<emphasis box="[491,507,2012,2036]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="542">A</emphasis>
) (
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Grbić
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, 2011
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). Interestingly, orthologs of
<emphasis box="[1021,1086,2012,2036]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="542">abd-A</emphasis>
in other studied arthropods pattern the posterior segments as well. A genomic comparison of arthropod Hox clusters has also shown a correlation between independent losses of
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and a reduction in posterior segmentation (
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Pace
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, 2016
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). To investigate whether the loss of segmentation in
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is also due to an absence in
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, we annotated its Hox cluster, paying close attention to the region between the Hox genes
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(
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) and
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(
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), which is usually where this gene resides in other arthropods (
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). Our results suggest that the
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genes are clustered in a contiguous sequence (HiC scaffold 3, total size ~12.36 Mbp) in the same order as suggested for the ancestral arthropod (
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2015). Furthermore, we found no sequences suggestive of an
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ortholog in
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<emphasis box="[1349,1496,506,530]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">Archegozetes</emphasis>
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(
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). These data also support the findings of a previous PCR survey that retrieved no
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ortholog in
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<emphasis box="[684,830,575,599]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">Archegozetes</emphasis>
(
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Cook
<emphasis box="[903,955,575,599]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">et al.</emphasis>
, 2001
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)
</taxonomicName>
. Genomic evidence from the Parasitiformes
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<emphasis box="[491,680,609,633]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">Ixodes scapularis</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName box="[734,1000,609,633]" class="Arachnida" family="Phytoseiidae" genus="Metaseiulus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="12" pageNumber="543" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="occidentalis">
<emphasis box="[734,1000,609,633]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">Metaseiulus occidentalis</emphasis>
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reveal that these taxa maintain orthologs of all ten Hox genes, however in
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<emphasis box="[823,990,644,668]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">M. occidentalis</emphasis>
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these genes are not clustered as they are in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">I. scapularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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Gulia-Nuss
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;
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Taken together, these observations suggest that the last common ancestor of acariform mites likely lost its
<emphasis box="[706,846,747,771]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">abdominal-A</emphasis>
gene as well as experiencied a reduction in opisthosomal segmentation (
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[650,762,782,806]" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">Figure 5b</emphasis>
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). Alternatively, these shared losses of
<emphasis box="[1189,1254,782,806]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">abd-A</emphasis>
may be due to convergence due to similar selective pressures favoring a reduction in body size. The dorsal, external segmentation of endeostigmatid mites does not necessarily contradict the hypothesis of a loss of
<emphasis box="[623,688,886,910]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">abd-A</emphasis>
at the base of the acariform mites. As Hox genes are usually deployed after the genetic establishment of segments in arthropods (
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), the opisthosomal segments in endeostigmatid mites may still develop in the absence of
<emphasis box="[1402,1467,955,979]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">abd-A</emphasis>
. However, this hypothesis needs further testing with observations of segmental gene expression in endeostigmatids as well as additional acariform species.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[491,1101,1097,1123]" pageId="12" pageNumber="543">Life-stage specific RNA expression patterns</emphasis>
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