JEZ-B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

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Evolution of Duplicated Hox Gene Clusters in Land Snails and Slugs Molluscs of the order Stylommatophora underwent an ancient genome duplication. We show that stylommatophoran snails and slugs have two broken and incomplete Hox gene clusters; HoxA generally has 9 ge...

📝New Publication🧪
Congratulations to team members Finn McHale and Peter Holland for their paper exploring the evolution of duplicated Hox Gene clusters in land snails and slugs, showing similar retention patterns following WGD in vertebrates and invertebrates🐌
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Best Postdoc Symposium Oral Presentation award - Jasmin Camacho @stowersinstitute.bsky.social ! Congratulations! Evolutionary rewiring of insulin signaling in Nectar bats #PASEDB2025 #nectarbats #sweettooth

Our dear friend @ischneider.bsky.social receiving the Young Investigator Award from @evodevopanam.bsky.social! So incredibly deserved!
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To infishity and beyond! Great work, Igor!

Congratulations Deema Abayawardena @univmiami.bsky.social for Best Student Poster!! Axis formation of sea star embryos #PASEDB2025 #BestStudentPoster #Wikramanayake_lab

🥳 Our amazing community reunited to talk about evodevo in our #PASEDB2025!

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Nectar bats rewired insulin signaling so that can take a lot of sugar! Metabolic evolution by Jasmin Camacho @stowersinstitute.bsky.social #batsdrinknectar #insulin #geneticrewiring #PASEDB2025

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Paper in focus: Kariyayama, Ozaki and Colleagues reveal the presence of domain-shuffling origin genes before and after the divergence of cyclostomes and gnathostomes, suggesting that domain shuffling as a key mechanism in vertebrate early evolution.

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Exploring the Influence of Neomorphic Gekkotan Paraphalanges on Limb Modularity and Integration In this work, we evaluated the influence of paraphalanges on the organization of the limbs of gekkotans. One of our main results reveals that paraphalanges increase modularity along the proximaldista...

Paper in Focus:

Exploring the Influence of Neomorphic Gekkotan Paraphalanges on Limb Modularity and Integration

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by Fratani & Colleagues

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🌟 PASEDB announcement!
We have re-opened the registration portal to allow for more folks to register for our Pam Am Evo Devo meeting at U Miami, July 22-25! 🥳

While we are no longer accepting abstracts for talks, we have space available for 16 more posters at the meeting

JEZ-B is sponsoring this amazing society and meeting. Please support by attending the meeting!

A Morphospace Exploration Using a General Model of Development Reveals a Basic Set of Morphologies for Early Animal Development and Evolution This work used the model EmbryoMaker to explore the most basic set of morphologies that can be produced from spherical initial conditions by activating cell properties and behaviors in simple genetic...

Paper in Focus:

Morphospace Exploration Using a General Model of Development Reveals a Basic Set of Morphologies for Early Animal Development and Evolution

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Paper in focus:
Gotoh and Colleagues discovered that the Y-chromosome plays a limited role in male-specific mandible growth in stag beetles!
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Paper In focus: Tim Wollesen and Colleagues explore the developmental and evolutionary relationship between Mollusc shells and spicules

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Sofia Casasa is in JEZ-B’s Spotlight! Check out her inspiring path to evo-devo and her thoughts on the field:

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