Researchers have elucidated the evolutionary origins of placodes and neural crests, which are defining features of vertebrates, through lineage tracing and genetic analysis in Ciona intestinalis, a ...

After cold winters, invertebrates such as honeybees and paper wasps seem to disappear and then suddenly return in large ...

Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, reshaping how animals with a spine evolved. From frogs and fish to birds and ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult marine bristleworms continue to grow throughout life – driven by a ring of ...

Invertebrates dominate the animal kingdom, making up 97 percent of all creatures. These animals, lacking a backbone, display incredible diversity. From microscopic mites to giant squid, their ...

Signalling by bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) acts in a conserved all-or-none fashion to repress the expression of all neural genes in the epidermal ectoderm of bilaterian embryos. The ...

Lab Head-Developmental Epigenomics and Senior Research Fellow, Garvan Institute Today a large international consortium of researchers published a complex but important study looking at how DNA works ...