Vladimír Soukup

This study shows that external and internal gills in amphibians both originate from a continuous pharyngeal endoderm epithelium, resolving a long-standing developmental question.

This study induces homeotic transformations in salamander branchial regions using RA signaling inhibition, revealing ectopic gills and skeletal elements similar to fossil stem amphibians.

The paper uses TOMO-Seq to compare maternal RNA localization across four fish and amphibian species, revealing diverse localization patterns and poor correlation between vegetally localized genes.