Dr Daniel Leite's Outputs (4)

Insights into early animal evolution form the genome of the xenacoelomorph worm (2024)
Journal Article
Schiffer, P. H., Natsidis, P., Leite, D. J., Robertson, H. E., Lapraz, F., Marlétaz, F., Fromm, B., Baudry, L., Simpson, F., Høye, E., Zakrzewski, A. C., Kapli, P., Hoff, K. J., Mueller, S., Marbouty, M., Marlow, H., Copley, R. R., Koszul, R., Sarkies, P., & Telford, M. J. (in press). Insights into early animal evolution form the genome of the xenacoelomorph worm. eLife, 13, Article e94948. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.94948

The evolutionary origins of Bilateria remain enigmatic. One of the more enduring proposals highlights similarities between a cnidarian-like planula larva and simple acoel-like flatworms. This idea is based in part on the view of the Xenacoelomorpha a... Read More about Insights into early animal evolution form the genome of the xenacoelomorph worm.

An atlas of spider development at single-cell resolution provides new insights into arthropod embryogenesis (2024)
Journal Article
Leite, D. J., Schönauer, A., Blakeley, G., Harper, A., Garcia-Castro, H., Baudouin-Gonzalez, L., Wang, R., Sarkis, N., Nikola, A. G., Koka, V. S. P., Kenny, N. J., Turetzek, N., Pechmann, M., Solana, J., & McGregor, A. P. (in press). An atlas of spider development at single-cell resolution provides new insights into arthropod embryogenesis. EvoDevo, 15(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-024-00224-4

Spiders are a diverse order of chelicerates that diverged from other arthropods over 500 million years ago. Research on spider embryogenesis, particularly studies using the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum, has made important contributio... Read More about An atlas of spider development at single-cell resolution provides new insights into arthropod embryogenesis.

Evolution of the Spider Homeobox Gene Repertoire by Tandem and Whole Genome Duplication (2023)
Journal Article
Aase-Remedios, M. E., Janssen, R., Leite, D. J., Sumner-Rooney, L., & McGregor, A. P. (2023). Evolution of the Spider Homeobox Gene Repertoire by Tandem and Whole Genome Duplication. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(12), Article msad239. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad239

Gene duplication generates new genetic material that can contribute to the evolution of gene regulatory networks and phenotypes. Duplicated genes can undergo subfunctionalization to partition ancestral functions and/or neofunctionalization to assume... Read More about Evolution of the Spider Homeobox Gene Repertoire by Tandem and Whole Genome Duplication.

FGF signalling is involved in cumulus migration in the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, R., Leite, D. J., Karadas, L., Schiffer, P. H., & Pechmann, M. (2023). FGF signalling is involved in cumulus migration in the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum. Developmental Biology, 494, 35-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2022.11.009

Cell migration is a fundamental component during the development of most multicellular organisms. In the early spider embryo, the collective migration of signalling cells, known as the cumulus, is required to set the dorsoventral body axis.

Here,... Read More about FGF signalling is involved in cumulus migration in the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum.