Evolution and function of chromatin domains across the tree of life

MF Szalay, B Majchrzycka, I Jerković… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
The genome of all organisms is spatially organized to function efficiently. The advent of
genome-wide chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) methods has revolutionized our ability …

Evolution of 3D chromatin organization at different scales

RD Acemel, DG Lupiáñez - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Chromatin folding into topologically associated domains (TADs) is pervasive
across animal groups.•TADs are plastic entities composed of genomic strata from different …

Single-cell Stereo-seq reveals induced progenitor cells involved in axolotl brain regeneration

X Wei, S Fu, H Li, Y Liu, S Wang, W Feng, Y Yang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The molecular mechanism underlying brain regeneration in vertebrates remains elusive. We
performed spatial enhanced resolution omics sequencing (Stereo-seq) to capture spatially …

Harmonized cross-species cell atlases of trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia

SA Bhuiyan, M Xu, L Yang, E Semizoglou, P Bhatia… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Sensory neurons in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and trigeminal ganglion (TG) are
specialized to detect and transduce diverse environmental stimuli to the central nervous …

The enormous repetitive Antarctic krill genome reveals environmental adaptations and population insights

C Shao, S Sun, K Liu, J Wang, S Li, Q Liu, BE Deagle… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is Earth's most abundant wild animal, and its enormous
biomass is vital to the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Here, we report a 48.01-Gb chromosome …

Single-cell analyses of axolotl telencephalon organization, neurogenesis, and regeneration

K Lust, A Maynard, T Gomes, JS Fleck, JG Camp… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Salamanders are tetrapod models to study brain organization and regeneration; however,
the identity and evolutionary conservation of brain cell types are largely unknown. We …

Diversity and evolution of the vertebrate chemoreceptor gene repertoire

M Policarpo, MW Baldwin, D Casane… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Chemoreception–the ability to smell and taste–is an essential sensory modality of most
animals. The number and type of chemical stimuli that animals can perceive depends …

[HTML][HTML] Fibroblast dedifferentiation as a determinant of successful regeneration

TY Lin, T Gerber, Y Taniguchi-Sugiura, P Murawala… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Limb regeneration, while observed lifelong in salamanders, is restricted in post-
metamorphic Xenopus laevis frogs. Whether this loss is due to systemic factors or an …

Helical coiling of metaphase chromatids

I Kubalová, AS Câmara, P Cápal, T Beseda… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Chromatids of mitotic chromosomes were suggested to coil into a helix in early cytological
studies and this assumption was recently supported by chromosome conformation capture …

The NIH Comparative Genomics Resource: addressing the promises and challenges of comparative genomics on human health

K Bornstein, G Gryan, ES Chang, A Marchler-Bauer… - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Comparative genomics is the comparison of genetic information within and across
organisms to understand the evolution, structure, and function of genes, proteins, and non …