The cover of the journal Nature features an article exclusively signed by the Research Group on Evolution and Development (Evo-Devo) of the University of Barcelona.
The cover of the journal Nature features an article exclusively signed by the Research Group on Evolution and Development (Evo-Devo) of the University of Barcelona. The cover of this week's edition of Nature , with the eye-catching title "Matters of the heart", features a basic research study carried out exclusively by the Research Group on Evolution and Development (Evo-Devo) of the Genetics Section of the Faculty of Biology of the UB. The study deciphers one of the remaining enigmas about the transition between free and sedentary lifestyle in the ancestors of our own phylum: chordates. Publishing an article in Nature -considered one of the foremost and most influential scientific journals in the world is a coveted achievement for any researcher and for any university or research institution. When the article in question is signed exclusively by members of a single research group, the achievement is truly exceptional, so to have, as in this case, a basic research study featured as a cover article is virtually unheard of. It is probably the first such achievement recorded by the University of Barcelona and one of only a handful of examples in the history of research in Spain. The paper proposes a new evolutionary scenario that helps to better understand the evolution of our phylum and to discover what the ancestor of tunicates -the sister group of vertebrates- were like.
