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The ecological and evolutionary success of vertebrates stems in large part from their remarkably diverse organs. Understanding how this organ diversity has arisen has been a long-standing goal. What ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

The gap between correlation and causation in linking gene duplication to cell-type evolution reflects a broader challenge of connecting WGD to phenotypic complexity in early vertebrate evolution. We ...

The cellular biology of reproduction is often depicted as an epic journey, in which millions of intrepid sperm fight to be the first to claim the ultimate prize: the chance to fertilize the egg, which ...

In a study published in Developmental Cell, a team led by Prof. Robert K. Naumann from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and researchers from BGI ...