Conclusions
The chromosome-level assembly of D. silvatica is the first
high-quality continuous genome of a representative of the Synspermiata
clade, one of the major evolutionary lineages within spiders. This new
assembly will contribute to alleviate the scarce representation of
spiders and chelicerates genomes within the tree of life while
represents a very useful resource to rightly characterize structural
variants, repetitive elements and large gene families involved in
relevant biological functions in spiders, such as, for example, those
encoding chemosensory system proteins and venom components. An immediate
application will be the comprehensive evolutionary analysis of these
genomic variants beyond single nucleotide changes to elucidate the
genomic regions and the mechanisms underlying the remarkable adaptive
radiation of the genus Dysdera in Canary Islands.