Work from Leslie S. Babonis shows a simple switch controls the development of two alternative types of stinging cells in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Whitney Laboratory Eco and Evo Biology nature.com/articles/s4146…

Ctenophores or sponges? We identified chromosomal changes that support ctenophores as the sister group of all other animals. In nature w/ stevehaddock.bsky Dan Rokhsar et al. Support from MBARI U.S. National Science Foundation European Research Council (ERC) 🔗nature.com/articles/s4158…

The #Aiptasia life cycle is closed! A prerequisite to settlement of larvae is actively hunting prey, not #symbiosis. Thus, carnivory likely is an ancestral feature in the cnidarian gastrula life stage: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Regrettably, Daniel Thiel isn't on Twitter. But this is the result of 4 years of his postdoc work and our great collaboration during this time at the Jekely lab. We've identified numerous receptors in Nematostella and discovered many interesting things 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great summary of a cool project. Happy to have played a small part! qoto.org/@jekely/110656…

Medusozoans like the scyphozoan Aurelia undergo metagenesis from the asexual polyp to the sexual medusa. What are the changes in cell types? Check out our Aurelia scRNAseq atlas of this crucial body plan change: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

13 years ago this month, my son was diagnosed with brain cancer. I promised him that I would do everything I could to help kids with #ChildhoodCancer. It’s the only thing he asked us to do. Not to help him, but to help others. I would be grateful for a follow or a RT to spread

#Jobs available: 3-year #PhD and #postdoc in our lab at Biologie Uni Hohenheim! We've got the infrastructure and now need the people. Very happy to discuss projects. Please RT widely! #DevBio #EvoDevo #Genomics #Insects #Evolution #GeneRegulation tinyurl.com/HOHPhD tinyurl.com/HOHpostdoc

Thanks to funding by FWF we will put worm snails in the limelight of evodevo and omics research! 2 fully funded PhD positions being announced soon. Feel free to spread the word and send inquiries directly to me if interested. 🐌🪱

Check out our updated single cell atlas of Nematostella, by alison cole: doi.org/10.1186/s12983… It was completely remapped on the new chromosome scale genome and gene annotation (PMID: 38092765), but also contains new data and analyses. Great work, Alison!

New preprint! I’ve been thinking about genetic toolkits and convergent evolution. preprints.org/manuscript/202…

Comparative single cell analysis reveals complex patterns of cell type and cell signaling innovations at the fetal-maternal interface dlvr.it/T6Kltf

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