Ayaki Nakamoto

Disruption of spindle orientation and protein localization during asymmetric cleavage by pharmacological inhibition of serotonin signaling

This study shows that serotonin signaling inhibition disrupts spindle orientation and protein localization during asymmetric cleavage in snail embryos.

Embryonic organizer specification in the mud snail Ilyanassa obsoleta depends on intercellular signaling

The paper shows that specification of the organizer cell 3D in Ilyanassa obsoleta requires both polar lobe inheritance and intercellular signals from micromeres.