Oleg Tolstenkov, Rodolfo da Silva Mazzarini Baldinotti, Sissel Norland, Anne Elin Aasjord, Daniel Chourrout, Marios Chatzigeorgiou

bioRxiv 2025.12.03.692109; doi: 10.64898/2025.12.03.692109

Behavioral ontogeny in a pelagic tunicate reveals the deep origins of chordate behavioral developmental plasticity

“We built a behavioral atlas of the planktonic tunicate Oikopleura dioica across its life cyclefrom larval to adult stages using high-throughput tracking and unsupervised analysis.”