The escalating demand for sustainable materials has propelled cellulose into the spotlight
as a promising alternative to petroleum-based products. As the most abundant organic …

Deuterostomes are the major division of animal life which includes sea stars, acorn worms,
and humans, among a wide variety of ecologically and morphologically disparate taxa …

Genome structural variations within species are rare. How selective constraints preserve
gene order and chromosome structure is a central question in evolutionary biology that …

Paired fins are a major innovation, that evolved in the jawed vertebrate lineage after
divergence from living jawless vertebrates. Extinct jawless armoured stem gnathostomes …

Tunicates are an evolutionarily significant subphylum of marine chordates, with their
phylogenetic position as the sister-group to Vertebrata making them key to unraveling our …

Zygotic genome activation (ZGA) is a universal process in early embryogenesis of
metazoan, when the quiescent zygotic nucleus initiates global transcription. However, the …

INTRODUCTION Within each animal species, embryonic development is highly
reproducible, ensuring the faithful production of a complex organism with precisely arranged …

Marine tunicates are identified as a potential source of marine natural products (MNPs),
demonstrating a wide range of biological properties, like antimicrobial and anticancer …

Telomeres consist of highly conserved simple tandem telomeric repeat motif (TRM):(TTAGG)
n in arthropods,(TTAGGG) n in vertebrates, and (TTTAGGG) n in most plants. TRM can be …

The need to protect neural tissue from toxins or other substances is as old as neural tissue
itself. Early recognition of this need has led to more than a century of investigation of the …