Srikrishna Putta

TL;DR: This study developed ESTs for Mexican axolotl and Eastern tiger salamander, species with deep and diverse research histories, to highlight the value of developing resources in traditional model systems where the likelihood of information transfer to multiple, closely related taxa is high, thus simultaneously enabling both laboratory and natural history research.

TL;DR: It is found that T4 concentration affected the timing of gene expression and the shape of temporal gene expression profiles, and essentially all of the identified genes were similarly affected by 5 and 50 nM T4.

TL;DR: The axolotl hopeful monster provides a model to identify mechanisms of early brain development that proximally and ultimately affect the expression of adult phenotypes and suggests that an axolots failure to undergo anatomical metamorphosis late in the larval period is indirectly associated with a mechanism(s) that acts earlier in development to broadly program transcription.

TL;DR: The results suggest that Hox cluster expansion and transposon accumulation are common features of non-mammalian tetrapod vertebrates.