Phase response curve and RNA-sequencing demonstrate spiders’ sensitivity to light and pinpoint candidate light-responsive genes

• Natalia Toporikova ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ NT, TCJ, DM, and NAA are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, United States of America

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• Wenduo Cheng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, United States of America

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• Leyuan Qian,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, United States of America

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• Andrew Mah,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Center for Computational Neuroscience, Flatiron Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, United States of America

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• Thomas Clarke,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, United States of America

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• Thomas C. Jones ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ NT, TCJ, DM, and NAA are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Darrell Moore ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ NT, TCJ, DM, and NAA are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Nadia A. Ayoub

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ayoubn@wlu.edu

  ¶‡ NT, TCJ, DM, and NAA are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4404-1472

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