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.
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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