Jordi Paps

The paper constructs a Hydractinia cell atlas to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms of coloniality, finding that distinct colony parts are defined by combinations of shared cell types and rare innovations.

Chromosome-scale inshore hagfish genome places 1R before the cyclostome-gnathostome split and 2R in the gnathostome stem, and reveals two cyclostome-specific duplications (CR1, CR2).