M. Eleonora Rossi
@meleonora-rossi.bsky.social
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Postdoc at the Gahan Lab in ๐จ๐ฎ Origin of animals, phylogenomics, evolutionary biology
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M. Eleonora Rossi
Aurora Ruiz-Herrera
about 1 month ago
๐ฃ Call for Abstracts! Working on sex chromosomes? Join us at SMBE 2026 in Copenhagen (28 Juneโ2 July). All taxa, systems, and approaches welcome! โฐ Deadline: 3 Feb 2026 ๐
smbe2026.org/abstracts/
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M. Eleonora Rossi
Natural History Museum, London
about 1 month ago
Did you know sponges are among the oldest animals on Earth? They're over half a billion years old! New research has helped to narrow down when they first evolved - and it could reveal more about the first ever animals! Find out more about these marine marvels ๐
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
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Weโve finally discovered when sponges appeared on Earth | Natural History Museum
New research has revealed the hidden early history of the sponges.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2026/january/weve-finally-discovered-when-sponges-appeared.html?utm_source=bls-link-post-20260120-ja&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news
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James McInerney
about 2 months ago
Sponges are notoriously difficult to understand in evolutionary biology terms. I think this paper is a big step forward :
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history
Sponges have a cryptic Ediacaran history because ancestral sponges were soft-bodied and had low fossilization potential.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx1754
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M. Eleonora Rossi
about 2 months ago
Our work on the evolution of the regulatory genome of echinoderms is now out in
@natecoevo.nature.com
. Led by my former PhD Marta Magri, Danila Voronov & Saoirse Foley. Great collaboration of Arnone, Hinman & Maeso labs, started long time ago with our missed Josรฉ Luis Gomez-Skarmeta:
rdcu.be/eXX8l
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Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of the 3D chromatin architecture and cis-regulatory elements in a sea urchin and a sea star reveals mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization in echinoderms...
https://rdcu.be/eXX8l
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M. Eleonora Rossi
Philip Donoghue
about 2 months ago
Our latest: Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history, led by
@meleonora-rossi.bsky.social
with help from friends
@bristolpalaeo.bsky.social
including
@anariesgo.bsky.social
@evopalaeo.bsky.social
Davide Pisani and many others
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Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history
Sponges have a cryptic Ediacaran history because ancestral sponges were soft-bodied and had low fossilization potential.
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciadv.adx1754
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M. Eleonora Rossi
Joe Keating
about 2 months ago
Early sponges lacked [mineralised] skeletons. New paper led by M. Eleonora Rossi. Great to have contributed alongside colleagues from
@bristolpalaeo.bsky.social
,
@nhm-london.bsky.social
and
@mncn-csic.bsky.social
. Read it here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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