A group around Professor LI Wenxin has sequenced the genome of the scorpion (Mesobuthus martensii) which is both a „living fossil“ and a unique model for arthropod adaptation.

Zhijian CAO et al., Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms3602

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