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Behind the paper: A transcriptomic hourglass in brown algae

Posted by , on 12 November 2024

Brown algae are a group of complex multicellular eukaryotes, unrelated to animals, plants and fungi. It follows that brown algae evolved the process of multicellular development independently, offering a unique ...

London EvoDevo meeting (LED)

Posted by , on 25 September 2024

London EvoDevo meeting (LED) Dear colleagues, Given all the outstanding evo-devo work going on in the London area, we feel that a regular gathering to share recent discoveries and to ...

Making a map: exploring the origins of the shoulder and neck

Posted by , on 18 September 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Multiple embryonic sources converge to form the pectoral girdle skeleton in zebrafish" from first author Shunya Kuroda.

Development presents... October webinar on environment, evolution and development

Posted by , on 4 September 2024

Hear from three early-career researchers studying environment, evolution and development. Chaired by Guest Editor, Karen Sears.

Development presents... September webinar on cardiac development and regeneration

Posted by , on 28 August 2024

Hear from two early-career researchers studying the heart. Chaired by Senior Editor, Alex Eve.

Ascidian embryonic cells offer clues to the evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors

Posted by , on 11 June 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Ascidian embryonic cells with properties of neural-crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors of vertebrates".

 Ancient origin of the vertebrate sympathetic nervous system

Posted by , on 1 June 2024

A recent paper “Neural crest origin of sympathetic neurons at the dawn of vertebrates” challenges the prevailing dogma that the sympathetic ganglia arose only in jawed vertebrates. Instead, based on ...

An afternoon in the museum with an exploded skull and a 3.5m python skeleton

Posted by , on 19 March 2024

The people and the research behind the exhibition ‘Growing a backbone’ at the University Museum of Zoology (Cambridge, UK).

Meeting report - “Genes, cells and embryos in development and evolution: Pere Alberch 25 years on”

Posted by , on 19 December 2023

I read the name of Pere Alberch for the first time while leafing through a collection of articles on Ecology and Evolution edited by the Universidad Autónoma de México [1]. ...

Behind the paper: What bats can tell us about the evolution of mammalian teeth

Posted by , on 25 September 2023

Find out about the behind the paper story from Alexa Sadier about the origin of tooth classes in bats.

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