Optimal transport for single-cell and spatial omics

C Bunne, G Schiebinger, A Krause, A Regev… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
High-throughput single-cell profiling provides an unprecedented ability to uncover the
molecular states of millions of cells. These technologies are, however, destructive to cells …

A single-cell Arabidopsis root atlas reveals developmental trajectories in wild-type and cell identity mutants

R Shahan, CW Hsu, TM Nolan, BJ Cole, IW Taylor… - Developmental cell, 2022 - cell.com
In all multicellular organisms, transcriptional networks orchestrate organ development. The
Arabidopsis root, with its simple structure and indeterminate growth, is an ideal model for …

Evolutionary cell type mapping with single-cell genomics

A Tanay, A Sebé-Pedrós - Trends in genetics, 2021 - cell.com
A fundamental characteristic of animal multicellularity is the spatial coexistence of
functionally specialized cell types that are all encoded by a single genome sequence. Cell …

Single-cell RNA sequencing of the Strongylocentrotus purpuratus larva reveals the blueprint of major cell types and nervous system of a non-chordate deuterostome

P Paganos, D Voronov, JM Musser, D Arendt… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Identifying the molecular fingerprint of organismal cell types is key for understanding their
function and evolution. Here, we use single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to survey the …

[HTML][HTML] Plastic leachate-induced toxicity during sea urchin embryonic development: Insights into the molecular pathways affected by PVC

P Paganos, CV Ullmann, D Gaglio, M Bonanomi… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics are now polluting all seas and, while studies have found numerous negative
interactions between plastic pollution and marine animals, the effects on embryonic …

ROCK and the actomyosin network control biomineral growth and morphology during sea urchin skeletogenesis

E Hijaze, T Gildor, R Seidel, M Layous, M Winter… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Biomineralization had apparently evolved independently in different phyla, using distinct
minerals, organic scaffolds, and gene regulatory networks (GRNs). However, diverse …

Recent reconfiguration of an ancient developmental gene regulatory network in Heliocidaris sea urchins

PL Davidson, H Guo, JS Swart, AJ Massri… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in developmental gene regulatory networks (dGRNs) underlie much of the
diversity of life, but the evolutionary mechanisms that operate on regulatory interactions …

Evolutionary origin of the chordate nervous system revealed by amphioxus developmental trajectories

Y Dai, Y Zhong, R Pan, L Yuan, Y Fu, Y Chen… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The common ancestor of all vertebrates had a highly sophisticated nervous system, but
questions remain about the evolution of vertebrate neural cell types. The amphioxus, a …

Reconstruction of single-cell lineage trajectories and identification of diversity in fates during the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

YC Cheng, Y Zhang, S Tripathi… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Exploring the complexity of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) unveils a
diversity of potential cell fates; however, the exact timing and mechanisms by which early …

New hypotheses of cell type diversity and novelty from orthology-driven comparative single cell and nuclei transcriptomics in echinoderms

A Meyer, C Ku, WL Hatleberg, CA Telmer, V Hinman - elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Cell types are the building blocks of metazoan biodiversity and offer a powerful perspective
for inferring evolutionary phenomena. With the development of single-cell transcriptomic …