Happy to share this preprint on the evolution of vertebrate gonadogenesis!
It was a great pleasure to co-supervise this work with Manfred Schartl and Amaury Herpin.
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An ancestral pronephric contribution reveals the multilineage origin of the teleost gonad and revises the evolution of vertebrate gonadogenesis
Challenging the paradigm that pronephric field contribution to gonadal formation would be an amniote innovation, we demonstrate this trait is ancestral to bony vertebrates. Using cell lineage tracing,...