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(2011-2022)

2024

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Olivier De Thier, Mohammed M.Tawfeeq, Roland Faure, Marie Lebel, Philippe Dru, Simon Blanchoud, Alexandre
Alié, Federico D. Brown, Jean-François Flot, and Stefano Tiozzo. First chromosome-level genome assembly of the
colonial tunicate
Botryllus schlosseribioRxiv https:/doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.29.594498

 

Vitoria Tobias-Santos, Rita Andreoni, Dany El Gharbi, Marie Lebel, Stefano Tiozzo and Alexandre Alié. Salinity-Mediated Limitation of Asexual Reproduction in the Colonial Ascidian Polyandrocarpa zorritensisFront. Ecol. Evol.10.3389/fevo.2024.1332780.

 

2023

 

Stefano Tiozzo and Igor Schneider. Model organisms for regeneration: one, no one, and every single one

Front. Ecol. Evol. 10.3389/fevo.2022.1127607.

 

2022

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Laurel S. Hiebert, Marta Scelzo, Alexandre Alié, Anthony De Tomaso, Federico Brown, Stefano Tiozzo. Comparing dormancy in two distantly related tunicates reveals morphological, molecular, and ecological convergences and repeated co-option  bioRxiv 2022.02.09.477513; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.09.477513; Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-022-16656-8

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Lorenzo Ricci, Bastien Salmon, Caroline Olivier, Rita Andreoni Pham, Ankita Chaurasia, Alexandre Alie, Stefano Tiozzo. The onset of whole-body regeneration in Botryllus schlosseri: morphological and molecular characterization. bioRxiv 2022.01.04.472827; Front. Cell Dev. Biol., 14 February 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2022.843775

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Chiara Sinigaglia, Alexandre Alie, Stefano Tiozzo. The hazards of regeneration: from Morgan’s legacy to evo-devo. Methods Mol. Biol. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2450:3-25. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2172-1_1

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Martinez P, Ballarin L, Ereskovsky AV, Gazave E, Hobmayer B, Manni L, Rottinger E, Sprecher SG, Tiozzo S, Varela-Coelho A, and Rinkevich B. Articulating the stem cell niche paradigm through the lens of non-model aquatic invertebrates.  BMC Biology. 2022, 20:23 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01230-5.

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2021

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Rinkevich, Baruch; Ballarin, Loriano; Martinez, Pedro; Somorjai, Ildiko; Ben-Hamo, oshrat; Borisenko, Ilya; Berezikov , Eugene; Ereskovsky, Alexander; Gazave, Eve; Khnykin, Denis; Manni, Lucia; Petukhova, Olga; Rosner, Amalia; Röttinger, Eric; Spagnuolo, Antonietta; Sugni, Michela; Tiozzo, Stefano; Hobmayer, Bert. A pan-metazoan concept for adult stem cells: The wobbling Penrose landscape. Biological Reviews. 2021,10.1111/brv.12801.

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Laurel Sky Hiebert, Leandro M. Vieira, Stefano Tiozzo, Carl Simpson, Richard K. Grosberg, Alvaro Migotto, Andre Morandini, Federico D. Brown. From the individual to the colony: marine invertebrates as models to understand levels of biological organization. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 1-7. DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.23044

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2020

 

Zullo L., Bozzo M., Daya A., Di Clemente A., Mancini F., Megighian A., Nesher N., Rottinger E., Shomrat T., Tiozzo S., Zullo A., Candiani S. The diversity of muscles and their regenerative potential across animals. Cells (2020) 9:1925.

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L. B. Geyer, K. S. Zigler, S. Tiozzo, H. A. Lessios. Slow evolution under purifying selection in the gamete recognition protein bindin of the sea urchin genus Diadema. Sci. Rep. (2020) 10:9834

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Laurel Hiebert, Carl Simpson, Stefano Tiozzo. Coloniality, clonality and modularity in animals: the elephant in the room. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2020 Apr 19

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Alexandre Alié , Laurel Hiebert, Marta Scelzo, Stefano Tiozzo. The eventful history of non-embryonic development in colonial Tunicates. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2020 Mar 19. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22940.

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2019


Juan Jiménez, Isadora Santos de Abreu, Silvana Allodi, Cintia M. de Barros, Stefano Tiozzo, Federico D. Brown. Putative stem cells in the hemolymph and in the intestinal submucosa of the solitary.ascidian Styela plicata. EvoDevo 2019 (accepted)  

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Marta Scelzo, Alexandre Alie, Francesco Mastrototaro, Sonia Lotito, Federico Brown, Stefano Tiozzo. Characterization of a novel mode of asexual development in the colonial ascidian Polyandrocarpa zorritiensis. EvoDevo 2019 Apr 3;10:7. doi: 10.1186/s13227-019-0121-x.

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Laurel Sky Hiebert, Edson A. Vieira, Gustavo M. Dias, Stefano Tiozzo, Federico D. Brown. Colonial ascidians strongly preyed upon, yet dominate the substrate in a tropical fouling community. Proc Biol Sci. 2019 Mar 7;286(1899):20190396.

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Maria Mandela Prünster, Lorenzo Ricci, Federico Brown, Stefano Tiozzo. Modular co−option of cardiopharyngeal genes during non−embryonic myogenesis. Evodevo. 2019 Mar 5;10:3. doi: 10.1186/s13227-019-0116-7. eCollection 2019.

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2018


Maria Mandela Prünster, Lorenzo Ricci, Federico Brown, Stefano Tiozzo. De novo neurogenesis in a budding chordate: Co−option of larval anteroposterior patterning genes in a transitory neurogenic organ. Dev. Biol. 2018 Oct 25. pii: S0012-1606(17)30887-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.10.009.  

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Alexandre Alié , Laurel S Hiebert, Paul Simion , Marta Scelzo, Maria Mandela Prünster, Sonia Lotito, Frederic Delsuc , Emmanuel JP Douzery, Cristelle Dantec, Patrick Lemaire , Sebastien Darras, Kazuo Kawamura, Federocp D Brown, Stefano Tiozzo. Convergent Acquisition of Nonembryonic Development in Styelid Ascidians. Mol Biol Evol. 2018 1;35(7):1728−1743. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msy068.

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2016


Alberto Valero-Gracia, Rita Marino, Fabio Crocetta, Valeria Nittoli, Stefano Tiozzo, Paolo Sordino. Comparative localization of 5HT serotonin receptors in Thaliacea informs tunicate phylogeny. Front. Zool. In press  

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Lorenzo Ricci*, Ankita Chaurasia*, Pascal Lapebie, Philippe Dru, Rebecca R Helm, Richard R Copley, Stefano Tiozzo. Identification of differentialle expressed genes in multipotent epithelia: transcriptomic landscape of an asexual developmental onset. *equal contribution  Sci. Rep. 2016 6;6:27357.  

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Lorenzo Ricci, Fabien Cabrera, Sonia Lotito, Stefano Tiozzo. Conservation of germ layers specification domains during asexual and regenerative  development. Dev. Biol. 2016 1;416(1): 235-48

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2015

 

Stefano Tiozzo, Richard R. Copley. Reconsidering regeneration in metazoans: an evo-devo approach. Front Ecol Evol. June 2015 (pdf)  

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Alessandro Di Maio, Leah Setar, Anthony W. De Tomaso, Stefano Tiozzo. Wnt effects symmetry and morphogenesis during post-embryonic development in colonial chordates. EvoDevo 1;6:17

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Rebecca R Helm, Stefano Tiozzo, Martin K S Lilley, Fabien Lombard and Casey W Dunn. Comparative muscle development of jellyfish (Scyphozoa) with simple and complex life cycles. EvoDevo 2015 Apr 17;6:11. doi: 10.1186/s13227-015-0005-7.

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2014

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Lucia Manni, Fabio Gasparini, Kohji Hotta, Katherine J. Ishizuka J, Lorenzo Ricci, Stefano Tiozzo, Ayelet Voskoboynik, Delphine Dauga. Ontology for the asexual development and anatomy of the colonial chordate Botryllus schlosseri. Plos ONE May 2014 1;9(5):e96434.  

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Auxane Buresi, Roger P. Croll, Stefano Tiozzo, Laure Bonnaud, Sébastien Baratte. Emergence of sensory structures in the developing epidermis in Sepia officinalis and other coleoid cephalopods. J.Comp. Neur 2014 Feb 18.

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2013

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Robert Lauzon, Catherine Castagna, Louis Kerr, Stefano Tiozzo. Phagocyte dynamics in a highly regenerative urochordate: insights into development and host defense Dev. Biol. 2013 Feb 15;374(2):357-73.

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2011

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AnnetteHellbach, Stefano Tiozzo, Jungho Ohn, Michael Liebling, Anthony W. De Tomaso. Characterization of HCN2 and its cardiac function in a colonial ascidian. J. Exp. Zool. Part A 2011.(pdf)   

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UlrichKuern*, Snjezana Rendulic*,Stefano Tiozzo*, Robert Lauzon. Asexual propagation and regeneration in colonial ascidians. Biol Bull. 2011 Aug;221(1):43-61.*equal contribution  

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Kaz Kawamura*, Stefano Tiozzo*, Lucia Manni*, Takeshi Sunanaga*, Paolo Burighel*, Anthony W. De Tomaso*. A harmony of lineage stringency and flexibility in ascidian germline cell development. Dev. Dyn.2011*equal contribution

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