An Jiang, Kai Han, Jiankai Wei, Xiaoshan Su, Rui Wang, Wei Zhang, Xiawei Liu, Jinghan Qiao, Penghui Liu, Qun Liu, Jin Zhang, Nannan Zhang, Yonghang Ge, Yuan Zhuang, Haiyan Yu, Shi Wang, Kai Chen, Wange Lu, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Guangyi Fan, Bo Dong
The pharyngeal endoderm, an innovation of deuterostome ancestors, contributes to pharyngeal development by influencing the patterning and differentiation of pharyngeal structures in vertebrates; however, the evolutionary origin of the pharyngeal organs in vertebrates is largely unknown. The endostyle, a distinct pharyngeal organ exclusively present in basal chordates, represents a good model for understanding pharyngeal organ origins. Using Stereo-seq and single-cell RNA sequencing, we constructed aspatially resolved single-cell atlas for the endostyle of the ascidian Styela clava ...
March 29, 2024: Science Advances