Eva Jiménez-Guri

Developmental toxicity of pre-production plastic pellets affects a large swathe of invertebrate taxa

The paper tests the developmental toxicity of plastic pellets on invertebrates from multiple phyla, finding concentration-dependent effects on embryonic development and morphogenesis.

tarsal-less is expressed as a gap gene but has no gap gene phenotype in the moth midge Clogmia albipunctata.

The paper shows that tarsal-less (Ca-tal) in Clogmia albipunctata is expressed and regulated like a gap gene but does not function as one, lacking a gap gene phenotype.

A damped oscillator imposes temporal order on posterior gap gene expression in Drosophila

The paper shows that a damped oscillator mechanism drives posterior gap gene expression shifts in Drosophila, suggesting similarities between long- and short-germband segmentation.