The people behind the papers - Masanori Kawaguchi, Kota Sugiyama and Yoshiyuki Seki.

The molecular regulation of pluripotency has been most intensively studied in early mammalian development, but whether the transcriptional networks revealed in mouse and man also regulate pluripotency in other deuterostomes has remained unclear. A paper in this issue of Development now addresses the evolution of pluripotency with an analysis of the function of PRDM14 in zebrafish, amphioxus and sea urchin. We caught up with first authors Masanori Kawaguchi and Kota Sugiyama and their supervisor Yoshiyuki Seki, Associate Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University in Sanda, Japan, to find out more about the story.