I deposited the codebase that powers EvoDevo Papers on Zenodo. It is now citable: Vellutini, B. C. (2026). EvoDevo Papers: a literature bot for evolutionary developmental biology. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18238617
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The peer-reviewed version of our cephalic furrow paper is out 🎉 It was published back-to-back with another cephalic furrow study: Research mutualism This was a wonderful collaborative effort to understand the developmental role and evolutionary origins of this prominent but overlooked tissue fold of fly embryos. We were two teams working on a similar question, […]
The Platynereis genome paper is out 🎉 Mutemi KN, Simakov O, Pan L, Santangeli L, Null RW, Handberg-Thorsager M, Vellutini BC, Peterson KJ, Fromm B, Larsson T, Savage E, Lopez MO, Hercog R, Provaznik J, Ordoñez-Rueda D, Azevedo N, Gazave E, Vervoort M, Tomancak P, Tan W, Winkler S, Benes V, Hui J, Helm C, […]
We generated a transcriptome from developmental stages of the annelid Platynereis dumerilii using the Iso-Seq method from PacBio, which outputs full-length transcripts and resolved isoforms. The dataset is now available on Zenodo: Vellutini, B. C., Handberg-Thorsager, M. & Tomancak, P. (2024). Platynereis dumerilii full-length transcriptome of developmental stages. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14250773 The transcriptome was used for the […]
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
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 […]
preLights is a (another) great initiative from The Company of Biologists where teams of scientists review and comment on preprints of interest for the biology community. I was delighted to hear that they were going to highlight our cephalic furrow preprint (Vellutini et al.) combined with the cephalic furrow preprint of Lemke and Wang labs […]
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Cephalic furrow thread
I published a cephalic furrow thread about our paper on Twitter and Mastodon. We recently updated the manuscript on bioRxiv. In addition to the tissue mechanics, this new version includes gene expression data comparing Drosophila with Clogmia, a fly that has no cephalic furrow… It gives us some hints about the patterning changes associated with […]
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
Our paper about the function of the cephalic furrow in the fruit fly is ready and now available as a preprint in bioRxiv! To access: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.30.534554 P. S. Apart from the poem The Great Divide, I didn’t write much about the cephalic furrow here. But this will change.