Tosuke Sakagami

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 compares scRNA-seq and snRNA-seq in Praesagittifera naikaiensis, finding snRNA-seq better recovers neural transcripts and reduces symbiont reads.