Yi‐Jyun Luo

This study shows that photosymbiosis in different animals uses ancestral endodermal programs and lineage-specific innovations, revealing a general cellular principle for complex symbiosis evolution.

This study presents a corallimorpharian genome and single-cell transcriptomes to show that coral calcification evolved through a derived calicoblast cell state and genomic innovations.

The paper identifies ancient whole-genome duplications in bryozoans using synteny-based methods, revealing genomic signatures and functional enrichment in cilia-related genes.

The paper investigates ZGA timing across 61 animal species and finds that genome size to cytoplasm volume ratio predicts ZGA onset.

The paper identifies a conserved global control region for Hox gene regulation in annelids and shows convergent evolution of cluster-wide regulatory mechanisms in vertebrates and spiralians.

This study identifies E. acroporae Acr-14T as a coral probiotic that enhances thermal resilience by mitigating protein-folding stress and supporting energy homeostasis through single-cell transcriptomics and microbial profiling.

The paper shows that high-fidelity genome structure conservation is rare across bilaterian species, with large-scale genome restructuring events being common and linked to increased protein sequence evolution.

The paper analyzes genome organization in annelids, finding that some species have highly rearranged genomes and developing a metric to quantify genome structure evolution.

The paper studies BMP-Chordin signaling in brachiopods to reveal conserved dorsal-ventral patterning mechanisms across bilaterians.

This study reveals unique genome evolution in Bryozoa, showing extensive chromosome fusions and fissions that disrupt bilaterian linkage groups and support the Lophophorata hypothesis.

The paper characterizes stem cell dynamics and heterogeneity in the acoel Hofstenia miamia using single-cell transcriptomics, revealing lineage-primed neoblast subpopulations and their response to regeneration.