Excited to share our new paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org #ProcB ✨
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We uncover ancestral gene losses in the #thylacine; their timing mirrors its shift to hypercarnivory and increase in body size.
#evolution #geneloss #extinction #conservation

Beautiful piece by @carlzimmer.com about the impact of #GeneLoss on pygmy sea horses. Thrilled to see Cañestro’s comments mentioned in @nytimes.com. This does not happen everyday! Thanks, Carl☺️

@criscanestro.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu

Publication of our outreach article on our work on #GeneLoss "Less, but more" studying #Fgf #evolution in #Oikopleura @gasparsanchez.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social
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Thanks Laura for your great editorial work @lauragderivera.bsky.social
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To better understand the impact of #GeneLoss on the #evolution of mechanisms #development, during the PhD project of @gasparsanchez.bsky.social we investigated the #Fgf system on #appendicularian #tunicates, the sister group of vertebrates, in the context of our own phylum, the #chordates.