How the skate got its wings
Our paper on the little skate genome has been published in Nature in a large collaboration led together with Darío Lupiáñez, Juan Tena and Testuya Nakamura. By combining a chromosome-scale genome with extensive regulatory datasets in developing fins, we uncovered skate-specific genomic rearrangements that rewire the three-dimensional regulatory landscape of genes involved in planar cell polarity — shedding light on the molecular origin of the skate’s iconic wing-like fins.
