Pteropod origins and earth carbon cycle

May 2nd, 2020 in Publications

Our paper tackling the origin of pteropods has been published in PNAS in collaboration with Katja Peijnenburg from the University of Amsterdam (and the Naturalis biodiversity Centre). These mesmerising planktonic gastropods are important bioindicator of ocean acidication. We reconstructed their evolutioanry relationship and showed that their main clades have an older evolutionary origin than originally anticipated suggested that several pteropod lineage survived past major climatic crises.

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Amphioxus chromosome scale and vertebate genome architecture

May 2nd, 2020 in Publications

After long efforts, our updated assembly of amphioxus has been published in Nature Ecol. Evol. in collaboration with Dan Rokhsar and Oleg Simakov. The paper a huge leap in trying to resolve the sequence of chromsomal events that lead to vertebrate karyotypes and evaluate the impact of whole genome duplication on chromosmal architecture.

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