FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

bold: Tosches lab members
* : co-first author
# : corresponding author
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2025

• Deryckere A, Choudhary S, Lynch C, Limperis LKVP, Affatato P, Woych J, Gumnit E, Ortega Gurrola A, Satija R, Mayer C, Tosches MA# (2025) – "A conserved logic for the development of cortical layering in tetrapods" – bioRxiv 2025.10.01.679862

• Gumnit E, Gattoni G, Woych J, Deryckere A, Bhattarai P, Gillis JA, Kizil C, Tosches MA# (2025) – “Evolution of Cajal-Retzius Cells in Vertebrates from an Ancient Class of Tp73+ Neurons” – bioRxiv 2025.08.21.671508

• Jaeger ECB*, Vijatovic D*, Deryckere A*, Zorin N, Nguyen AL, Ivanian G, Woych J, Arnold RC, Ortega-Gurrola A, Shvartsman A, Barbieri F, Toma FA, Cline HT, Shay TF, Kelley DB, Yamaguchi A, Shein-Idelson M, Tosches MA#, Sweeney LB# (2025) - "Adeno-Associated Viral Tools to Trace Neural Development and Connectivity Across Amphibians" - Developmental Cell 60 (5): 794-812.e6

• Zeppilli S, Ortega Gurrola A, Demetci P, Brann D, Attey R, Zilkha N, Kimchi T, Datta SR, Singh R, Tosches MA, Crombach A#, Fleischmann A# (2025)– “Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution” – bioRxiv 2023 Aug 14:2023.08.13.553130 - Nature Neuroscience May;28(5):937-948

• Gattoni G, Tosches MA (2025) - "Constrained roads to complex brains" - Science 387 (6735), 716-717

• Matheson AMM, Chua NJ, Tosches MA (2025) - "Iberian ribbed newts" - Current Biology 35 (2), R49-R51

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2024

• Colonna M, Konopka G, Liddelow SA, Nowakowski T, Awatramani R, Bateup HS, Cadwell CR, Caglayan E, Chen JL, Gillis J, Kampmann M, Krienen F, Marsh SE, Monje M, O’Dea MR, Patani R, Pollen AA, Quintana FJ, Scavuzzo M, Schmitz M, Sloan SA, Tesar PJ, Tollkuhn J, Tosches MA, Urbanek ME, Werner JM, Bayraktar OA, Gokce O, Habib N (2025) - "Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience" - Nature Neuroscience 27 (12), 2310-2325
   

2023

• Tosches MA, Lee HJ (2023) – “Cellular atlases of the entire mouse brain” – Nature 624 (7991): 253-255

• Gumnit E, Tosches MA# (2023) – “A cell atlas of the lamprey brain” – Nature Ecology and Evolution 7: 1591-1592

• Deryckere A*, Woych J*, Jaeger ECB, Tosches MA# (2023) - "Molecular diversity of neuron types in the salamander amygdala and implications for amygdalar evolution" - Brain behavior and evolution 98(2):61-75

 
2022

• Woych J*, Ortega Gurrola A*, Deryckere A*, Jaeger ECB*, Gumnit E*, Merello G, Gu J, Joven Araus A, Leigh ND, Yun M, Simon A, Tosches MA# (2022) - "Cell-type profiling in salamanders identifies innovations in vertebrate forebrain evolution" - Science 377 (6610):1063

• Hain D*#, Gallego-Flores T*#, Klinkmann M, Macias A, Ciirdaeva E, Arends A, Thum C, Tushev G, Kretchmer F, Tosches MA#, Laurent G# (2022) -  "Molecular diversity and evolution of neuron types in the amniote brain" - Science 377 (6610), 

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2021

• Tosches MA# (2021) - "From Cell Types to an Integrated Understanding of Brain Evolution: The Case of the Cerebral Cortex" - Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology Vol. 37:495-517

• Tosches MA# (2021) - "Different origins for similar brain circuits" - Science 371(6530): 676-677
   

2020

• Schede HH, Schneider CG, Stergiadou J, Borm LE, Ranjak A, Yamawaki TM, David FPA, Lönnerberg P, Laurent G, Tosches MA, Codeluppi S, La Manno G. (2020) - "Spatial tissue profiling by imaging-free molecular tomography". - Nature Biotechnology; 39: 968–977

• Yuste R, Hawrylycz M, ….. Tosches MA,…. Zeng H, Lein E. (2020) - "A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types" - Nature Neuroscience 23: 1465-1468

• Norimoto H*, Fenk L*, Li H-H, Tosches MA, Gallego-Flores T, Hain D, Reiter S, Kobayashi R, Macias A, Arends A, Klinkmann M, Laurent G (2020) - "A claustrum in reptiles and its role in slow-wave sleep" Nature 578: 413–418

 
2019

• Tosches MA, Laurent G (2019) – “Evolution of neuronal identity in the cerebral cortex” – Current Opinion in Neurobiology 56: 199-208

• Silver, D. L., Rakic P, Grove EA, Haydar TF, Hensch TK, Huttner WB, Molnar Z, Rubenstein J, Sestan N, Stryker MP, Sur M, Tosches MA, Walsh CA. 2019. Evolution and Ontogenetic Development of Cortical Structures. In: The Neocortex, ed. W. Singer, T. J. Sejnowski and P. Rakic, pp. 61-93. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 27, J. Lupp, series editor.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• Vopalensky P, Tosches MA, Achim K, Handberg-Thorsager M, Arendt D (2019) – “From spiral cleavage to bilateral symmetry: the developmental cell lineage of the annelid brain” – BMC Biology 17:81

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2018

• Tosches MA#*, Yamawaki TM*, Naumann RK, Jacobi A, Tushev G, Laurent G# (2018) – “Evolution of pallium, hippocampus and cortical cell types revealed by single-cell transcriptomics in reptiles” – Science 360(6391):881-888

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2017

• Tosches MA# (2017) – “Developmental and genetic mechanisms of neural circuit evolution” – Developmental Biology 431(1): 16-25

• Martinez-Cerdeño V, Garcia-Moreno F, Tosches MA, Csillag A, Manger PR, Molnar Z (2017) – “Update on forebrain evolution: From neurogenesis to thermogenesis” – Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology S1084-9521(17)30211

• Martinez-Vergara H, Bertucci PY, Hantz P, Tosches MA, Achim K, Vopalensky P, Arendt D (2017) – “Whole-organism cellular gene expression atlas reveals conserved cell types in the ventral nerve cord of Platynereis dumerilii” – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(23):5878-5885

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2016

• Laurent G, Fournier J, Hemberger M, Müller C, Naumann RK, Ondracek JM, Pammer L, Reiter S, Shein-Idelson M, Tosches MA, Yamawaki TM. (2016) – “Cortical evolution: introduction to the reptilian cortex” – in Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Dynamics of the Brain, Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences, Cham (CH): Springer

• Arendt D, Tosches MA, Marlow H. (2016) – “From nerve ring to nerve cord and brain - evolution of the nervous system” –  Nature Reviews Neuroscience 17(1), 61-72

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2015

• Naumann RK, Ondracek JM, Reiter S, Shein-Idelson M, Tosches MA, Yamawaki TM, Laurent G. (2015) – “The reptilian brain” – Current Biology 25(8):R317-21

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2014

• Tosches MA#, Bucher D, Vopalensky P, Arendt D#. (2014) – “Melatonin signaling controls circadian swimming in marine zooplankton” – Cell 159(1):46-57                            

• Marlow H, Tosches MA, Tomer R, Steinmetz PR, Lauri A, Larsson T, Arendt D. (2014) – “Larval body patterning and apical organs are conserved in animal evolution” - BMC Biology 12:7

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2013

• Tosches MA, Arendt D. (2013) – “The bilaterian forebrain: an evolutionary chimaera” – Current Opinion in Neurobiology  23(6):1080-9