Dario Tommasini

The paper reconstructs the evolutionary origins of retinal amacrine cell diversity using transcriptomic data from 24 vertebrate species, identifying 42 orthologous cell types and suggesting a hybrid precursor origin.

The paper uses transcriptomic data from six vertebrate species to investigate the evolutionary origin of the tetrapod double cone, finding that both members originated from ancestral red cones and rods emerged before cone diversification.

The paper identifies helper-embedded satellites (HESs) that integrate into prophage late genes, revealing a new cis-regulatory mechanism and genomic organization.