Specification of distinct cell types in a sensory-adhesive organ important for metamorphosis in tunicate larvae

• Christopher J. Johnson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher J. Johnson, Florian Razy-Krajka

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Florian Razy-Krajka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher J. Johnson, Florian Razy-Krajka

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Fan Zeng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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• Katarzyna M. Piekarz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Shweta Biliya,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Evolution Core, Petit H. Parker Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Ute Rothbächer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ute.rothbaecher@uibk.ac.at (UR); alberto.stolfi@biosci.gatech.edu (AS)

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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• Alberto Stolfi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ute.rothbaecher@uibk.ac.at (UR); alberto.stolfi@biosci.gatech.edu (AS)

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7179-9700

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