Salvatore D’Aniello

This study investigates how the single visual opsin in deep-sea octopods evolves across different light environments, finding specific amino acid substitutions that alter spectral sensitivity and structural properties to adapt to pressure and light conditions.

The paper investigates ZGA timing across 61 animal species and finds that genome size to cytoplasm volume ratio predicts ZGA onset.

This study analyzes opsin diversity and evolution using meta-omic data from marine expeditions, identifying known subfamilies and highlighting novel sequences from understudied taxa.

Chromosome-scale inshore hagfish genome places 1R before the cyclostome-gnathostome split and 2R in the gnathostome stem, and reveals two cyclostome-specific duplications (CR1, CR2).

The paper shows that NO and RA pathways interact in amphioxus pharynx development through reciprocal regulation of Aldh1a.2 and Nos genes.