Developmental Biology of Marine Organisms | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

The study of the processes by which marine organisms grow and how factors such as temperature, nutrition, microbes, predators, and hormones influence development. (Green fluorescent amphioxus photo by Dimitri Deheyn)

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Academics

HOLLAND, NICHOLAS

Professor

HOLLAND, LINDA

Emeritus

HAMDOUN, Amro

Associate Professor

LYONS, DEIRDRE

Assistant Professor

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Recent Publications

Nodal and Hedgehog synergize in gill slit formation during development of the cephalochordate Branchiostoma floridae (2018) [10.1242/dev.162586]

Ono, H.; Koop, D.; Holland, L. Z.

Hybrids between the Florida amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae) and the Bahamas lancelet (Asymmetron lucayanum): Developmental morphology and chromosome counts (2015) []

Holland, N. D.; Holland, L. Z.; Heimberg, A.

Amphioxus tails: source and fate of larval fin rays and the metamorphic transition from an ectodermal to a predominantly mesodermal tail (2015) [10.1111/azo.12058]

Mansfield, J. H.; Holland, N. D.

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