Febrimarsa Febrimarsa

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.

This study characterizes the genome and single-cell transcriptome of Hydractinia, revealing that its stem cells use a conserved gene toolkit shared with all animals.

This study shows that random genomic 6mA accumulation in early Hydractinia embryos delays zygotic transcription initiation by inhibiting gene expression.

This study shows that senescent cell signals reprogram somatic cells into stem cells, enabling whole-body regeneration in cnidarians.

The paper shows that spH2B variants in Hydractinia sperm stabilize chromatin and block transcription without significantly compacting chromatin, supporting their role in sperm buoyancy.