How did vertebrate opsins 👁️diversify? - putting the last pieces of the puzzle together
Gene linkage in a jawless vertebrate living in a distant corner of the world shed light on a big evolutionary picture of the light-sensing ☀ system we all rely on. https://t.co/jEBcSEZOgC
#DBfeature#Oikopleura🌊
Pax3/7 gene function in Oikopleura dioica supports a neuroepithelial-like origin for its house-making Fol territory
by David Lagman, Daniel Chourrout et al @lanternshark
https://t.co/uLsfjRkMwz
Loving deep-sea fish and molecular evolution?
We're hiring!:-) Looking for a motivated PhD student to join us to study evolution of vision & to explore limits of vertebrate eye in extreme environment. Deadline 15th March. Thanks for applying and sharing!
https://t.co/gaJA3rCcUh
I am more than happy to share our preprint about the evolution of non-visual and visual opsins in fishes, fruit of a collaboration between the Salzburger lab (@fogg_lily , @WSalzburger ) and Fabio Cortesi (@FCortesi).
https://t.co/ODU1QJHhO7
✨Read how a team of researchers led by David Lagman @lanternshark uncovered how #Oikopleura dioica repurposed ancient cellular machinery to build its complex, food-filtering "house." @AppyGenetics@mchlab@UiB@SocDevBio
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https://t.co/O7xaDPARku
Finally! The work I did during my postdoc Bergen @MSarsCentre in the @AppyGenetics lab out in Developmental Biology! Great job everyone involved! https://t.co/0jxv7sDUCB
We are so happy to see @lanternshark's work finally published! By using a wide set of techniques (CRISPR, scRNA-seq, ISH, FISH, IF), we show the importance of Pax3/7b+ cells in the formation of the house in O. dioica.
Moreover ...🧵
check 👉 https://t.co/NvwXhpHIZu
New preprint from the lab: https://t.co/a1kv2XEMfC . @ZonglaiL@HoyerJorgen show that members of the evolutionarily conserved #Anoctamin superfamily modulate Ciona metamorphosis rates in response to mechanical & chemical inputs. @UiB@MSarsCentre
Our lab engineer @Bio_Antho had the opportunity to show his results on scRNAseq analysis of O. dioica. His collaboration w/ @lanternshark at @MSarsCentre is helping our team to investigate the origin and divergence of lineage-specific cell types in larvaceans @OISTedu@UiB
Our engineer @aaasjord has been in charge of the appendicularian facility (Appypark) at @MSarsCentre for many years. Now she is sharing her experience with our colleagues from @OISTedu@luslab@evodevogenomeUB and learning about the different cryptospecies of O. dioica in Okinawa
Postdoc #SimonHenriet does not fear working in non - conventional biological models. He is the first one to sequence, analyze and uncover the mysteries of Fritillaria borealis, a larvacean with striking genomic features. @MSarsCentre@OISTedu
We are so proud of our postdoc @maxiaofei320 who is uncovering the role of Hox proteins in O. dioica - Norway. CRISPR-Cas9 mutants, generated in collaboration with @CarineLG29, exhibit striking phenotypes during development.
@UiB@MSarsCentre@OISTedu