Our brachiopod Wnt paper has been peer-reviewed, was accepted, and is now published in BMC Biology! The article is open-access: Vellutini, B. C., Martín-Durán, J. M., Børve, A. & Hejnol, A. Combinatorial Wnt signaling landscape during brachiopod anteroposterior patterning. BMC Biol. 22, 1–23 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01988-w
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Posts related to my position as a doctoral researcher at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (Michael Sars Centre) of the University of Bergen (UiB) in Bergen, Norway.
I recently finished the revision of our paper about the Wnt signaling landscape in brachiopod development. This is work from my PhD time in the Hejnol Lab in Norway. We posted it on bioRxiv last September, and sent to a journal later that year. Following the reviewers’ feedback, we added new data, made significant improvements […]
Small note to say that our paper about the brachiopod Wnt landscape is now online on bioRxiv! Vellutini BC, Martín-Durán JM, Børve A, and Hejnol A (2023). Combinatorial Wnt signaling landscape during brachiopod anteroposterior patterning. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.03.556047
Read the previous section: Spiral cleavage, an oblique matter. Annelids, arthropods and vertebrates show a remarkable morphological diversity (Chipman, 2010). Beneath this multiplicity of shapes and forms lies a common pattern of body organization—a trunk divided into repeated parts. This pattern and the developmental process that generates it are known as segmentation (Minelli and Fusco, […]
Read the previous section: Larvae as the epitome of evolution. By the end of the 19th century, a series of biologists had dedicated themselves to following and discovering the fate of individual cells of an embryo during ontogeny. These works, known as cell lineage studies1, were critical to disambiguate the relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny, […]
Read the previous section: What a larva is. Francis M. Balfour set the pace on discussions about the evolutionary importance of larvae by addressing many of the fundamental questions regarding larval evolution (Balfour, 1874; Balfour, 1880; Balfour, 1881). He wondered about the ancestry of larvae. Can larvae reveal the ancestral forms of metazoans? He indicated […]
This text is a section of my PhD thesis. The Latin word lārva means evil spirit, ghost or mask1. In the 18th century, the naturalist Carolus Linnaeus was the first to employ the word larva to describe a stage in the life of an animal in which its adult form is still hidden or masked […]
I wrote the introduction of my PhD thesis as a series of blog posts.
Stumbled upon this fine depiction of an Aurora Borealis while browsing some historical bryozoan literature in the Biodiversity Heritage Library:
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