Davide M. Vespasiani

Dissecting functional regulatory convergence over 160 million years of therian evolution.

Understanding the molecular mechanisms underpinning convergent traits can provide insight into the predictability of the evolutionary process. The thylacine, an extinct marsupial carnivore, has been long known to have a very similar craniofacial morphology to that of eutherian canids, despite having diverged approximat...