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Elia Benito Gutierrez

@amphispacelab.bsky.social

The Benito-Gutierrez Lab uses amphioxus as a model system to understand how vertebrates evolved and conquered water, land and air. www.amphispace.com

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Giacomo Gattoni @giacomogattoni.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This was possible thanks to the help, support and feedback from so many people! Thank you so much Elia, Dan, Ash and the whole lab @amphispacelab.bsky.social, @cruk-ci.bsky.social, @CamZoology, and Whitten Program for funding my PhD. And thank you for reading! Please reach out for any question. 😄

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Giacomo Gattoni @giacomogattoni.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Our work shows the conservation of an anterior co-expression module across deuterostomes. With the evolution of dorsal neurulation in the chordate ancestor, the anterior neural plate came under the influence of this gene module, leading to the development of the sensory-neurosecretory forebrain.

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Elia Benito Gutierrez @amphispacelab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you want to know more look here! 👇

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Elia Benito Gutierrez @amphispacelab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Happy to see everyone here by the way! 😀

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Elia Benito Gutierrez @amphispacelab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

New Year, New Account, New Paper! So happy to see it out! 🥳 An ancient apical patterning system sets the position of the forebrain in chordates | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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An ancient apical patterning system sets the position of the forebrain in chordates

A conserved Wnt-regulated molecular signature sets forebrain position and identity in chordates.

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