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Ala Morshedian

University of California, Los AngelesORCID 0000-0002-6836-1641Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Evolutionary Biology· 2

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Organism:zebrafish· 2 Assay:ATAC-seq· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

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Alapakkam P. SampathiD· 2 shared Gordon FainiD· 2 shared Ali Pahlevan· 1 shared Connie A. Myers· 1 shared Joseph C. CorboiD· 1 shared Junqiang WangiD· 1 shared Junwei SuniD· 1 shared Lin ZhangiD· 1 shared

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Evolutionary BiologyScience AdvancesPeer-reviewedDec 12, 2025

Conservation of cis-regulatory codes over half a billion years of evolution

Yohey Ogawa, Yu Liu, Connie A. Myers…·Joseph C. Corbo

The paper shows that cis-regulatory codes in retinal cell classes are highly conserved across vertebrates despite extensive enhancer turnover.

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Evolutionary BiologyNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedDec 30, 2024

Molecular Characterization of the Sea Lamprey Retina Illuminates the Evolutionary Origin of Retinal Cell Types

Junqiang Wang, Lin Zhang, Martina Cavallini…·Yi‐Rong Peng

The paper characterizes lamprey retinal cell types using single-cell RNA-seq and compares them to jawed vertebrates, finding conserved and divergent cell types and regulatory elements.

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