Publication News Archive

New Intron Splicing Code Revealed in Tunicates

A Sars study shows an extraordinary case in which >90% introns have unusual and highly variable splice sites. A new splicing code appeared, which required an evolution of the splicing machinery.

News on the Cell Cycle

Duplication of a key mitotic regulator in Oikopleura with further division of tasks: a recurrent theme that makes sense

Small bricks to rapidly enlarge genomes

The tunicate larvacean Oikopleura dioica, a flagship of Sars Centre science, is well known for having a remarkably small and compact genome. However, sequencing of related species has revealed immense variations in genome size among larvaceans, up to 12X. Research at the Sars Centre and at the...

Profiling Ciona Behaviour

Establishing links between the anatomy and behavior of animals is one of the top goals of neurobiologists. For such a challenge, Ciona is gradually getting on the right track! Read the exciting new paper from Marios Chatzigeorgiou's group.

This graph shows that in Oikopleura dioica, end joining of linear DNA fragments leads to deletions larger than in ascidians and human

With Licence to Mutate

Loss of a DNA repair pathway in Oikopleura