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New year, new chaetognath! Introducing Timorebestia koprii! A giant (~30 cm) long chaetognath from the early Cambrian (approx 520 millions of years old) Sirius Passet biota of North Greenland! Published in Science Advances here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨Job alert 🚨 We have an open 3-year research technician post to work with Allan Carrillo-Baltodano Margarida Cardoso Moreira and Dave Ferrier in the evolution of DV specification and developmental system drift in 🪱 and spiral cleavage. Close: 2 April Apply! qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies… + info DM

Ever wondered what the babies of bone-devouring zombie worms look like? 🧐 Your curiosity ends here! Our paper on the postembryonic development of #Osedax is published today. 📖🔬led by @kworsaae w/ Alice Rouan Norio Miyamoto & Elaine Seaver frontiersin.org/journals/neuro…

At the beginning of last year, Xiaoyu Yang came with a Humboldt-Stiftung fellowship and a beautiful Cambrian annelid fossil to our department. Have a look what it means for annelid evolution, with @MTAguado and Conrad Helm royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

PhD opportunity @TelfordLab. Join the Pan-European ZooCELL Doctoral Network (zoocell.eu). Study evolution of animal sensory cells/larvae/life cycles. Learn cutting edge electron microscopy. Be part of a fantastic training network. Please RT. bit.ly/3Ur06Dj

I'm excited to share the preprint of my second work from Rink Lab. This time we looked into the stem cell system of my favorite catenulid flatworm, Stenostomum. Using plenty of methods we showed that it is... very different from what one would expect from a flatworm!

Thrilled to share our latest work on the brachiopod genome and BMP patterning. This decade-long effort was made possible with contributions from @Tom_Lewin, Isabel Jiah-Yih Liao 🐸, and many others! 1/5 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Exciting day! 🌟 I get to share two new papers on chaetae and chaetogenesis! One is on the peculiar Osedax, arguably one of the strangest annelids, and the other explores Capitella, one of the few established models in annelid studies. Here's a quick look at both. 🧵1/7

Check out our (with Marta Tischer ) new paper on Wolbachia infections in soil arthropods. We find a lower infection frequency compared to other ecosystems, but higher supergroup diversity Uni Göttingen doi.org/10.1016/j.meeg…

I'm thrilled to announce that I've just started a new position as a leader of the Comparative Invertebrate Zoology group Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW. Thanks to funding from NAWA Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange I will keep working on my beloved catenulids. You can find more details here: bit.ly/3AOoCad

Planarians are model systems for stem cells & regeneration. Ivanković et al. provide new genome assemblies of S. mediterranea & 3 relatives, showing that synteny is not an evolutionary constraint in flatworm genome evolution. Jeremias Brand MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences Rink Lab nature.com/articles/s4146…

Read our recent paper on the evolution of synteny in flatworms! My blog about it: jeremias-brand.github.io/2024-09-19-nco… And the open access paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… André Marques Rink Lab

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🚨 Last call: Only two weeks left to apply! A post-doc position (computational or wet lab) for 3 years at Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW Wydział Biologii UW in the Narodowe Centrum Nauki #SonataBIS project on #protist & #symbiosis. Apply by October 31, 2024 Read more 👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/245702

Does the aggregation of complex multicellularity follow a universal developmental pattern across the eukaryotic tree of life? Thrilled to announce that we found a convergently evolved transcriptomic hourglass pattern in brown algal development. nature 👉nature.com/articles/s4158…

I´m excited to announce that we have a venue and dates for the next International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology (ICIM-6)! All invertebrate lovers, let's meet in 🇨🇱 next year from August 10th to 14th. 👇👇

By checking the Fox gene complement in additional catenulid and macrostomorph species, I show that the evolution of Fox complement in flatworms is related to ancestral losses and multiple, independent, lineage-specific expansions. link.springer.com/article/10.100…