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Lepidopteran scale cells derive from sensory organ precursors through a canonical lineage.
Journal Article Development (Cambridge, England) · March 2025 The success of butterflies and moths is tightly linked to the origin of scales within the group. A long-standing hypothesis postulates that scales are homologous to the well-described mechanosensory bristles found in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, ... Full text CiteSingle-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals Evolutionary Reconfiguration of Embryonic Cell Fate Specification in the Sea Urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma.
Journal Article Genome biology and evolution · January 2025 Altered regulatory interactions during development likely underlie a large fraction of phenotypic diversity within and between species, yet identifying specific evolutionary changes remains challenging. Analysis of single-cell developmental transcriptomes ... Full text Open Access CiteThe people behind the papers – Alejandro Berrio and David McClay
Journal Article Development · December 15, 2024 Early sea urchin embryos contain cells called micromeres, which play an important role in the formation of three mesodermal cell types: skeletogenic, blastocoelar and pigment cells. When micromeres are removed, the embryo can replace the skeletogen ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Embryonic Cell Recognition: Specificity Determinants
ResearchPostdoctoral Associate · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 1980 - 2028CORonavirus VAriant Sequencing (CORVASEQ) Surveillance Network
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