Publications
Musser, J. M. (2024). Tripartite origin of the chordate brain. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(10), 1782-1783.
Chicago. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02528-z
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Ruperti, F., Becher, I., Stokkermans, A., Wang, L., Marschlich, N., Potel, C., Maus, E., Stein, F., Drotleff, B., Schippers, K. J., Nickel, M., Prevedel, R., Musser, J. M., Savitski, M. M., & Arendt, D. (2024). Molecular profiling of sponge deflation reveals an ancient relaxant-inflammatory response. Current biology : CB, 34(2), 361–375.e9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.021
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Piovani, L., Leite, D. J., Yañez Guerra, L. A., Simpson, F., Musser, J. M., Salvador-Martínez, I., Marlétaz, F., Jékely, G., & Telford, M. J. (2023). Single-cell atlases of two lophotrochozoan larvae highlight their complex evolutionary histories. Science advances, 9(31), eadg6034. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6034
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Ruperti, F., Papadopoulos, N., Musser, J. M., Mirdita, M., Steinegger, M., & Arendt, D. (2023). Cross-phyla protein annotation by structural prediction and alignment. Genome biology, 24(1), 113. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-02942-9
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Almazán, A., Çevrim, Ç., Musser, J. M., Averof, M., & Paris, M. (2022). Crustacean leg regeneration restores complex microanatomy and cell diversity. Science advances, 8(34), eabn9823. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn9823
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Tarashansky, A. J., Musser, J. M., Khariton, M., Li, P., Arendt, D., Quake, S. R., & Wang, B. (2021). Mapping single-cell atlases throughout Metazoa unravels cell type evolution. eLife, 10, e66747. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66747
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Paganos, P., Voronov, D., Musser, J. M., Arendt, D., & Arnone, M. I. (2021). Single-cell RNA sequencing of the Strongylocentrotus purpuratus larva reveals the blueprint of major cell types and nervous system of a non-chordate deuterostome. eLife, 10, e70416. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.70416
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Musser, J. M., Schippers, K. J., Nickel, M., Mizzon, G., Kohn, A. B., Pape, C., Ronchi, P., Papadopoulos, N., Tarashansky, A. J., Hammel, J. U., Wolf, F., Liang, C., Hernández-Plaza, A., Cantalapiedra, C. P., Achim, K., Schieber, N. L., Pan, L., Ruperti, F., Francis, W. R., Vargas, S., … Arendt, D. (2021). Profiling cellular diversity in sponges informs animal cell type and nervous system evolution. Science, 374(6568), 717–723. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj2949
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Arendt, D., Bertucci, P. Y., Achim, K., & Musser, J. M. (2019). Evolution of neuronal types and families. Current opinion in neurobiology, 56, 144–152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.01.022
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Liang, C., Musser, J. M., Cloutier, A., Prum, R. O., & Wagner, G. P. (2018). Pervasive Correlated Evolution in Gene Expression Shapes Cell and Tissue Type Transcriptomes. Genome biology and evolution, 10(2), 538–552. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy016
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Arendt, D., Musser, J. M., Baker, C. V. H., Bergman, A., Cepko, C., Erwin, D. H., Pavlicev, M., Schlosser, G., Widder, S., Laubichler, M. D., & Wagner, G. P. (2016). The origin and evolution of cell types. Nature reviews. Genetics, 17(12), 744–757. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg.2016.127