Thomas D. Lewin

This study shows that photosymbiosis in different animals uses ancestral endodermal programs and lineage-specific innovations, revealing a general cellular principle for complex symbiosis evolution.

This study presents a corallimorpharian genome and single-cell transcriptomes to show that coral calcification evolved through a derived calicoblast cell state and genomic innovations.

The paper identifies ancient whole-genome duplications in bryozoans using synteny-based methods, revealing genomic signatures and functional enrichment in cilia-related genes.

This study identifies E. acroporae Acr-14T as a coral probiotic that enhances thermal resilience by mitigating protein-folding stress and supporting energy homeostasis through single-cell transcriptomics and microbial profiling.

The paper shows that high-fidelity genome structure conservation is rare across bilaterian species, with large-scale genome restructuring events being common and linked to increased protein sequence evolution.

The paper analyzes genome organization in annelids, finding that some species have highly rearranged genomes and developing a metric to quantify genome structure evolution.

The paper studies BMP-Chordin signaling in brachiopods to reveal conserved dorsal-ventral patterning mechanisms across bilaterians.

This study reveals unique genome evolution in Bryozoa, showing extensive chromosome fusions and fissions that disrupt bilaterian linkage groups and support the Lophophorata hypothesis.