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The dynamic behavior of chromatophores marks the transition from bands to spots in leopard geckos by Ullate-Agote, Asier, Tzika, Athanasia C

“…Reptilian skin coloration is spectacular and diverse, yet little is known about the ontogenetic processes that govern its establishment and the molecular…”
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Evolution of Cortical Neurogenesis in Amniotes Controlled by Robo Signaling Levels by Cárdenas, Adrián, Villalba, Ana, de Juan Romero, Camino, Picó, Esther, Kyrousi, Christina, Tzika, Athanasia C., Tessier-Lavigne, Marc, Ma, Le, Drukker, Micha, Cappello, Silvia, Borrell, Víctor

“…Cerebral cortex size differs dramatically between reptiles, birds, and mammals, owing to developmental differences in neuron production. In mammals, signaling…”
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PMEL is involved in snake colour pattern transition from blotches to stripes by Tzika, Athanasia C., Ullate-Agote, Asier, Helleboid, Pierre-Yves, Kummrow, Maya

“…Corn snakes are emerging models for animal colouration studies. Here, we focus on the Terrazzo morph, whose skin pattern is characterized by stripes rather…”
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On the role of TFEC in reptilian coloration by Tzika, Athanasia C

“…Reptilian species, particularly snakes and lizards, are emerging models of animal coloration. Here, I focus on the role of the TFEC transcription factor in…”
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Genome mapping of a LYST mutation in corn snakes indicates that vertebrate chromatophore vesicles are lysosome-related organelles by Ullate-Agote, Asier, Burgelin, Ingrid, Debry, Adrien, Langrez, Carine, Montange, Florent, Peraldi, Rodrigue, Daraspe, Jean, Kaessmann, Henrik, Milinkovitch, Michel C., Tzika, Athanasia C.

“…Reptiles exhibit a spectacular diversity of skin colors and patterns brought about by the interactions among three chromatophore types: black melanophores with…”
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Patterns of recombination in snakes reveal a tug-of-war between PRDM9 and promoter-like features by Hoge, Carla, de Manuel, Marc, Mahgoub, Mohamed, Okami, Naima, Fuller, Zachary, Banerjee, Shreya, Baker, Zachary, McNulty, Morgan, Andolfatto, Peter, Macfarlan, Todd S, Schumer, Molly, Tzika, Athanasia C, Przeworski, Molly

“…In some mammals, notably humans, recombination occurs almost exclusively where the protein PRDM9 binds, whereas in vertebrates lacking an intact , such as…”
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Retroviral envelope syncytin capture in an ancestrally diverged mammalian clade for placentation in the primitive Afrotherian tenrecs by Cornelis, Guillaume, Vernochet, Cécile, Malicorne, Sébastien, Souquere, Sylvie, Tzika, Athanasia C, Goodman, Steven M, Catzeflis, François, Robinson, Terence J, Milinkovitch, Michel C, Pierron, Gérard, Heidmann, Odile, Dupressoir, Anne, Heidmann, Thierry

“…Significance Syncytins are genes of retroviral origin that have been captured by their host as symbionts for a function in placentation. They can mediate…”
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Feather arrays are patterned by interacting signalling and cell density waves by Ho, William K W, Freem, Lucy, Zhao, Debiao, Painter, Kevin J, Woolley, Thomas E, Gaffney, Eamonn A, McGrew, Michael J, Tzika, Athanasia, Milinkovitch, Michel C, Schneider, Pascal, Drusko, Armin, Matthäus, Franziska, Glover, James D, Wells, Kirsty L, Johansson, Jeanette A, Davey, Megan G, Sang, Helen M, Clinton, Michael, Headon, Denis J

“…Feathers are arranged in a precise pattern in avian skin. They first arise during development in a row along the dorsal midline, with rows of new feather buds…”
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The genome sequence of the corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus), a valuable resource for EvoDevo studies in squamates by Ullate-Agote, Asier, Milinkovitch, Michel C, Tzika, Athanasia C

“…Squamates (snakes and lizards) exhibit a striking variety of phenotypes, with little known on their generative mechanisms. Studies aiming to understand the…”
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Somitic positional information guides self-organized patterning of snake scales by Tzika, Athanasia C, Ullate-Agote, Asier, Zakany, Szabolcs, Kummrow, Maya, Milinkovitch, Michel C

“…Two influential concepts in tissue patterning are Wolpert's positional information and Turing's self-organized reaction-diffusion (RD). The latter establishes…”
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Induction of kidney-related gene programs through co-option of SALL1 in mole ovotestes by Schindler, Magdalena, Osterwalder, Marco, Harabula, Izabela, Wittler, Lars, Tzika, Athanasia C, Dechmann, Dina K N, Vingron, Martin, Visel, Axel, Haas, Stefan, Real, Francisca M

“…Changes in gene expression represent an important source of phenotypic innovation. Yet, how such changes emerge and impact the evolution of traits remains…”
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Repeat domain-associated O-glycans govern PMEL fibrillar sheet architecture by Graham, Morven, Tzika, Athanasia C., Mitchell, Susan M., Liu, Xinran, Leonhardt, Ralf M.

“…PMEL is a pigment cell-specific protein that forms a functional amyloid matrix in melanosomes. The matrix consists of well-separated fibrillar sheets on which…”
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Cryptic patterning of avian skin confers a developmental facility for loss of neck feathering by Mou, Chunyan, Pitel, Frederique, Gourichon, David, Vignoles, Florence, Tzika, Athanasia, Tato, Patricia, Yu, Le, Burt, Dave W, Bed'hom, Bertrand, Tixier-Boichard, Michele, Painter, Kevin J, Headon, Denis J

“…Vertebrate skin is characterized by its patterned array of appendages, whether feathers, hairs, or scales. In avian skin the distribution of feathers occurs on…”
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2× genomes - depth does matter by Milinkovitch, Michel C, Helaers, Raphaël, Depiereux, Eric, Tzika, Athanasia C, Gabaldón, Toni

“…Abstract Background Given the availability of full genome sequences, mapping gene gains, duplications, and losses during evolution should theoretically be…”
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Multiple Enhancers Regulate Hoxd Genes and the Hotdog LncRNA during Cecum Budding by Delpretti, Saskia, Montavon, Thomas, Leleu, Marion, Joye, Elisabeth, Tzika, Athanasia, Milinkovitch, Michel, Duboule, Denis

“…Hox genes are required for the development of the intestinal cecum, a major organ of plant-eating species. We have analyzed the transcriptional regulation of…”
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Assemble a Reptilian Genome by Ullate-Agote, Asier, Chan, Yingguang Frank, Tzika, Athanasia C

“…Multiple technologies and software are now available facilitating the de novo sequencing and assembly of any vertebrate genome. Yet the quality of most…”
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Contrasted evolution of the vomeronasal receptor repertoires in mammals and squamate reptiles by Brykczynska, Urszula, Tzika, Athanasia C, Rodriguez, Ivan, Milinkovitch, Michel C

“…The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is an olfactory structure that detects pheromones and environmental cues. It consists of sensory neurons that express evolutionary…”
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Development and embryonic staging in non‐model organisms: the case of an afrotherian mammal by Werneburg, Ingmar, Tzika, Athanasia C., Hautier, Lionel, Asher, Robert J., Milinkovitch, Michel C., Sánchez‐Villagra, Marcelo R.

“…Studies of evolutionary developmental biology commonly use ‘model organisms’ such as fruit flies or mice, and questions are often functional or epigenetic…”
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Reptilian-transcriptome v1.0, a glimpse in the brain transcriptome of five divergent Sauropsida lineages and the phylogenetic position of turtles by Tzika, Athanasia C, Helaers, Raphaël, Schramm, Gerrit, Milinkovitch, Michel C

“…Reptiles are largely under-represented in comparative genomics despite the fact that they are substantially more diverse in many respects than mammals. Given…”
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Reptilian Transcriptomes v2.0: An Extensive Resource for Sauropsida Genomics and Transcriptomics by Tzika, Athanasia C, Ullate-Agote, Asier, Grbic, Djordje, Milinkovitch, Michel C

“…Despite the availability of deep-sequencing techniques, genomic and transcriptomic data remain unevenly distributed across phylogenetic groups. For example,…”
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