Anastasios Pavlopoulos

This study investigates the functional role of clawless in harvestman tarsus development and suggests developmental system drift in arthropod appendage patterning.

The paper investigates how square cell grids form in crustacean embryos, showing that lineage-specific and supracellular mechanisms coordinate this process.

The paper shows cell divisions drive fourfold orientationally ordered tissue phases in Parhyale hawaiensis embryos through active defect climb mechanisms.

The paper shows that during insect gastrulation, regionalized tissue fluidization by an actomyosin cable enables epithelial gap closure through cell intercalation and tension release.

The paper shows that integrin-mediated adhesion between blastoderm and vitelline envelope provides counter-forces that shape gastrulation in insects.

The paper uses multi-view light-sheet imaging and a new tracking tool to reconstruct cell lineages and behaviors during crustacean limb development, revealing how cell proliferation and division orientation drive limb outgrowth.

The paper sequences and annotates the genome of Parhyale hawaiensis, identifying key genes for development, immunity, and lignocellulose digestion, providing a resource for comparative studies.