From Anemonefish to Acorn Worm: Comparative Transcriptomics Reveals the Bilaterian Gut Blueprint

We are very very happy to announce the publication in Plos Biology of our paper on the blueprint of adult bilaterian gut revealed by comparative transcriptomic of 5 very different organisms among which of course anemonefish but also sea urchin, amphioxus, Platynereis and acorn worm. 

It was a great pleasure to work with our colleagues Yi-Hsien Su Jr-Kai Yu and Stephan Schneider from the at Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology (ICOB) of Academia Sinica.

Special thanks to Stefano Vianello post-doc in our Taiwan lab, but also , Ching-Yi Lin, Wahyu Cristine Pinem, Han-Ru Li, Kun-Lung Li, Grace Sonia, Shu-Hua Lee, and Szu-Kai Wu!

You can find the paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003571