Elia Benito Gutierrez
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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.
https://www.amphispace.com
Reposted by Elia Benito Gutierrez
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. 😄
January 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Elia Benito Gutierrez
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.
January 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you want to know more look here! 👇
For my first post on 🦋, I am incredibly excited to share that my PhD paper has been published in #ScienceAdvances!

We compared the development of the anterior neuroectoderm to uncover how the chordate #forebrain evolved 🧠. Have a look at the summary 🧵 below!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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.
www.science.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Happy to see everyone here by the way! 😀
January 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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/...
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.
www.science.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM