The Paper T. Omotezako et al., “DNA interference: DNA-induced gene silencing in the appendicularian Oikopleura dioica,” Proc R Soc B, 282:20150435, 2015. Accidental discovery Scientists often exploit ...

The genome sequence of the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica shows that early metazoans possessed several Hox-like genes of the NK family, but Hox genes themselves arose and expanded only after ...

“I think it’s really clear that this is a functional [epigenetic system] . . . a novel way of regulation in rotifers that has not been seen in metazoans before,” she says, noting that the system’s ...