Gabriel S. Bever

The paper investigates muscle loss as a key evolutionary step in turtle shell development using multi-modal imaging and histology-based deep learning to analyze turtle embryos.

The paper uses 3D imaging to analyze vascular and nervous systems in embryos, finding shared structural principles but distinct architectures shaped by biophysical constraints.

This paper reconstructs the evolutionary history of the MAPK signaling network across eukaryotes, identifying two coevolutionary expansion events and proposing a STE-regulated origin for the network.