Glad to have participated in this (brittle starsgenomics) project, led by Ferdinand Marlétaz, with the critical input of #Elise Parey and Oliveri Lab; all members of CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution at UCL. A marvelous adventure, with amazing comparative data. GeneticsUB& Universitat de Barcelona : nature.com/articles/s4155…

Paul Watson, fondateur de Sea Shepherd, a été arrêté au Groenland et menacé d’extradition vers le Japon. Son tort ? Lutter fermement contre l'illégale et immorale chasse à la baleine. J'appelle la France à peser diplomatiquement pour sa libération.

Brittle stars, a class of echinoderms, have long intrigued scientists due to their ecological significance. A ground-breaking new study by colleagues in the Division of Biosciences looks at how they evolve and regenerate. Read more: ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/ne…

The ability to regenerate body parts is remarkably common across the animal kingdom. New research finds these powers trace back to shared, ancient genetic roots. scim.ag/7MV

So its out Genome Biology: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…. All you need to know about DNA methylation in annelids🪱! This has been a great collaboration with the Martín-Durán lab lab, led by kero guynes. One of the main findings is that the methylome erodes throughout development and beyond! 1/

Very pleased to welcome our new stem mollusc Shishania aculeata published today in Science Magazine! A great collaboration led by Guangxu Zhang who discovered these amazing fossils with Xiaoya Ma and Jakob Vinther. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Excited to share our work on animal genome structure led by @Tom_Lewin! We assembled a dataset of 64 animal genomes and quantified shuffling rates to provide a comprehensive view of genome evolution across various lineages. 1/3 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Congratulations to Svenja Kling for winning UCSD's art of Science Competition with a photo of a transgenic sea urchin larva! library.ucsd.edu/news-events/20…

30 years after a "clàssic" paper. >30 years of friendship!!!! Peter Holland and me, young and now :-)

Annelid Comparative Genomics and the Evolution of Massive Lineage-specific Genome Rearrangement in Bilaterians academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… Molecular Biology and Evolution

🚨Mark your calendars! We are launching the London EvoDevo club, a space to learn great new science, meet new colleagues and have fun! First meeting on Nov the 8th at Queen Mary University of London Register now! shorturl.at/34BOj Margarida Cardoso Moreira Alex de Mendoza Ferdinand Marlétaz

RIP Pierre Christin (1938-2024)... Scénariste des meilleurs Bilal, de Valérian & Laureline,...

How do organisms evolve new traits and behaviors? In Annual Reviews, Wendy Valencia surveys major sensory receptor families to uncover evolutionary patterns of sensation driving diversification and speciation. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Our paper has been published in Nature Communications ! We discovered that light irradiation on sea urchin larvae makes them excrement! This work reveals how light controls the opening of the anus. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Does 6mA exist in eukaryotic DNA? This is our take on this dispute: yes it does, and can be very abundant, but mostly correlates with presence of the MT-A70 writer AMT1. Then, 6mA is associated with transcriptionally-permissive chromatin (H3K4me3) 1/6: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢 The ATLASea Scientific Advisory Board meeting took place at Maison de l'Océan in Paris over the past 2 days. A big thank you to all SAB members for their active participation, valuable insights, and dedication to advancing the project and to MuséeOcéanographique for the meeting room!

Breaking paradigms: Finding 6mA DNA methylation in eukaryotes Francisco Falcon Francisco Falcon highlights research from Alex de Mendoza and team on 6mA in eukaryotes. #preprint #preLights 👀⤵️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/ade…

We're recruiting a postdoc to study animal–algal symbiosis in green hydra at Academia Sinica, Taipei. If you're interested in symbiosis, genome biology, and sequencing technologies, get in touch! More at: sgel.biodiv.tw