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Associate professor at the University of Barcelona.
Biologist
Biologist
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Echinoderms as a paradigm to understand how genome organization shapes body plans and their evolution
Animal morphology is dependent on where, when and which genes are turned on in the body and to what extent. In order to find out how species build their distinct body plans one needs to look genome an...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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I would like to thank to all the other co-authors, this has been a long project that could have not been possible without their fantastic work!
January 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I would like to thank to all the other co-authors, this has been a long project that could have not been possible without their fantastic work!
We also found thousands of deeply conserved cis regulatory elements in echinoderms, some of them shared across different animal phyla and dating back to the Cambrian, suggesting that this type of extreme regulatory conservation is much more common than previously thought
January 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
We also found thousands of deeply conserved cis regulatory elements in echinoderms, some of them shared across different animal phyla and dating back to the Cambrian, suggesting that this type of extreme regulatory conservation is much more common than previously thought
Similar to other animals, sea star and sea urchin genomes are also organized into TAD-like structures. But these TADs do not have the CTCF motif orientation pattern typically found in vertebrates, suggesting that CTCF-mediated loop formation could be a novelty of the vertebrate or chordate lineage
January 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Similar to other animals, sea star and sea urchin genomes are also organized into TAD-like structures. But these TADs do not have the CTCF motif orientation pattern typically found in vertebrates, suggesting that CTCF-mediated loop formation could be a novelty of the vertebrate or chordate lineage