Min Zheng

The paper investigates the maternal-to-zygotic transition in brown algae, finding that zygotic genome activation occurs immediately after fertilization without stable parental imprinting, suggesting evolutionary flexibility in embryogenesis.

This study uses transcriptomic data from brown algae to show that regulatory evolution drives multicellular innovation despite conserved genome architecture.

The paper investigates sexual differentiation in a U/V sex chromosome system using giant kelp, identifying key genes and transcriptome changes associated with male and female development.

The paper investigates the presence of a molecular hourglass pattern in brown algae, finding it in developmentally complex species but not in simpler ones.