Deconstruction of the cardiopharyngeal gene regulatory network in appendicularians, a paradigmatic study of Oikopleura dioica as an evolutionary knockout model 

Ferrández Roldán, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2021-02-22)

The bloom of genomic data has revealed a vast amount of gene losses across all life kingdoms. However, the impact of gene loss on the evolution of the mechanisms of embryo development remains an important challenge. In ...