Imagine a world where the boundaries between “fish” and “not-fish” blur, where the ancestors of birds and mammals once swam ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

All vertebrate embryos follow a common developmental ... The study of this development can yield insights into the process of evolution.

Research in our group investigates a number of questions central to understanding animal evolution and development ... impressive morphological diversity of organs and tissues across vertebrates ?

The left–right asymmetrical placement of internal organs that characterizes the vertebrate body plan is established during embryogenesis by complex genetic and epigenetic cascades. In all ...

Technological advances, improved computational methods and the ever-decreasing cost of sequencing enabled the Vertebrate Genomes ... of insights into genome evolution in vertebrates.