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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.

How we learned to build a gliding mammal

Posted by , on 2 September 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Emx2 underlies the development and evolution of marsupial gliding membranes" from first author Jorge Moreno.

Lab meeting with the Martín-Durán lab

Posted by , on 11 September 2023

Meet the lab of Chema Martín-Durán at Queen Mary University of London, using segmented worms with spiral cleavage to study how development is controlled and evolves to generate new phenotypes.

BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report - Xueqing Li

Posted by , on 6 January 2023

The role of canonical Wnt signalling in embryogenesis of the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis. Ascidians, as the closest invertebrate sister group of vertebrates, are important to study the development and ...

Senior research scientist at the Francis Crick Institute (permanent position)

Posted by , on 14 December 2020

The Evolutionary Developmental Biology Lab at the Francis Crick Institute is seeking a laboratory research scientist that will help establish the laboratory, manage its day-to-day operations, and lead the generation ...

Lab Manager/Research Assistant--Marine Invertebrate EvoDevo

Posted by , on 27 November 2020

We seek a motivated and organized individual to join the Lyons Lab (https://www.lyonslab.org/) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (https://scripps.ucsd.edu/) to serve as lab manger and research assistant.  The individual ...

Looking to crustaceans to understand insect wing evolution

Posted by , on 19 October 2020

The wings of vertebrates, like birds and bats, emerged relatively recently, and we understand that these wings evolved from forelimbs. Even for the mythological dragon there seems to be a ...

Mayflies: an emergent model to investigate the evolution of winged insects

Posted by , on 11 September 2020

Winged insects are the most diverse and numerous group of animals on Earth. This great diversity has been possible thanks to the acquisition of novel morphologies and lifestyles. How the ...

The people behind the papers – Xin Zhu, Yiquan Wang and Guang Li

Posted by , on 26 August 2020

This interview, the 77th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  During development, the establishment of directional left-right (L-R) asymmetry is crucial for the correct positioning of ...

Monotreme ears and the evolution of mammal jaws

Posted by , on 5 August 2020

Jaw joints, in most vertebrate animals that have them, form between a bone in the head called the quadrate and one in the mandible called the articular. The mandibles (lower ...

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