Torben Kallesøe

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a chordate with a highly compact genome, Oikopleura dioica, now joins Caenorhabditis elegans in coupling trans splicing with processing of polycistronic transcipts and identified a single SL RNA which associates with Sm proteins and has a trimethyl guanosine cap structure reminiscent of spliceosomal snRNPs.

TL;DR: It is shown that the house is composed of at least 20 polypeptides, a number of which are highly glycosylated, with glycosidase treatments resulting in molecular mass shifts exceeding 100 kDa.

TL;DR: Examination of related species indicated that the coenocyst arrangement is a conserved feature of Appendicularian oogenesis allowing efficient numerical adjustment of oocyte production, clearly a common and successful reproductive strategy on a global scale.

TL;DR: Using cDNA representation difference analysis (cDNA RDA) on whole animals at two different developmental stages separated by the metamorphic tailshift event, four families of genes (oikosins) that are expressed only from specific subregions of the oikoplastic epithelium are isolated.

TL;DR: It is shown that despite sharing one common cytoplasm with meiotic and nurse nuclei evenly distributed in a 1:1 ratio, both entry into meiosis and subsequent endocycles of nurseuclei were asynchronous, and it was possible to both decouple meiotic progression from cellular mechanisms governing oocyte growth, and to advance the timing of oocytes growth in response to external cues.