An exciting story about how killifish have adapted their development from Phil and co-authors is now out! Killifish manage to survive extreme drought by their eggs entering a dormant diapause state. Phil and co-authors found that embryonic cells of killifish lack maternally pre-patterned of the dorsal ventral axis. Instead, the cells self-organise to form the body axis.
Read the paper here
Read a news article here
Find out more about Phil’s lab at University of Washington here