Centipedes get genome sequenced, reveal secrets of arthropod evolution

The genome of centipedes have been sequenced for the first time. Arthropods are underrepresented in terms of which organisms get sequenced. Professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem postulate that the centipede's genome tells us how arthropods made the sea-to-land transition.

It turns out that insects and centipedes independently evolved mechanisms for life on land. Centipedes do not have the gene for air-sniffing that insects do, so it sought elsewhere in its genetic arenal for a solution--at a locus that insects lack.

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