What if an embryo made immune cells before it finished building the tissue they usually come from?
In our new preprint, we show that annual killifish embryos specify neutrophils before germ layers are fully resolved.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Huge thanks to my PI, @ohnolog.bsky.social !
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biorxiv.org
Early immune cell development precedes gastrulation in annual killifish
During embryogenesis, cell types arise in a predictable order because developmental regulators act sequentially. But how evolutionary changes in morphogenesis reshape the signaling environments that a...
