Significant evolutionary constraints on neuron cells revealed by single-cell transcriptomics

G Hu, J Li, GZ Wang - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in single-cell RNA-sequencing technology have enabled us to
characterize a variety of different cell types in each brain region. However, the evolutionary …

Evolutionary neurogenomics at single-cell resolution

E Caglayan, G Konopka - Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2024 - Elsevier
The human brain is composed of increasingly recognized heterogeneous cell types.
Applying single-cell genomics to brain tissue can elucidate relative cell type proportions as …

Lessons from single cell sequencing in CNS cell specification and function

Z Li, WA Tyler, TF Haydar - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2020 - Elsevier
Modern RNA sequencing methods have greatly increased our understanding of the
molecular fingerprint of neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes throughout the central …

Single-cell sequencing of brain cell transcriptomes and epigenomes

EJ Armand, J Li, F Xie, C Luo, EA Mukamel - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Single-cell sequencing technologies, including transcriptomic and epigenomic assays, are
transforming our understanding of the cellular building blocks of neural circuits. By directly …

Single-cell genomics unravels brain cell-type complexity

A Guillaumet-Adkins, H Heyn - Neuroepigenomics in Aging and Disease, 2017 - Springer
The brain is the most complex tissue in terms of cell types that it comprises, to the extent that
it is still poorly understood. Single cell genome and transcriptome profiling allow to …

Cross-species Transcriptomic Comparison of In Vitro and In Vivo Mammalian Neural Cells

PR LoVerso, CM Wachter, F Cui - Bioinformatics and Biology …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The mammalian brain is characterized by distinct classes of cells that differ in morphology,
structure, signaling, and function. Dysregulation of gene expression in these cell populations …

Spatial transcriptomic survey of human embryonic cerebral cortex by single-cell RNA-seq analysis

X Fan, J Dong, S Zhong, Y Wei, Q Wu, L Yan, J Yong… - Cell research, 2018 - nature.com
The cellular complexity of human brain development has been intensively investigated,
although a regional characterization of the entire human cerebral cortex based on single …

STAB2: an updated spatio-temporal cell atlas of the human and mouse brain

YT Yang, Z Gan, J Zhang, X Zhao, Y Yang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The brain is constituted of heterogeneous types of neuronal and non-neuronal cells, which
are organized into distinct anatomical regions, and show precise regulation of gene …

Single cell transcriptomics in neuroscience: cell classification and beyond

B Tasic - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Biology has been facing a daunting problem since the cell was understood to be the
building block of metazoans: how do we study multicellular systems, when a universal …

Single-neuron RNA-Seq: technical feasibility and reproducibility

S Qiu, S Luo, O Evgrafov, R Li, GP Schroth… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Understanding brain function involves improved knowledge about how the genome
specifies such a large diversity of neuronal types. Transcriptome analysis of single neurons …