Cong Liang

Profiling cellular diversity in sponges informs animal cell type and nervous system evolution

Jacob M. Musser, Klaske J. Schippers, Michael Nickel et al. · Science · 2021 · 222 citations · Full text

Synaptic Transmission, Cellular Neurobiology, Synaptic Signaling +32

The mammalian decidual cell evolved from a cellular stress response

Eric M. Erkenbrack, Jamie Maziarz, Oliver W. Griffith et al. · PLoS Biology · 2018 · 99 citations · Full text

Genetics, Reproductive Biology, Precursor Cell Type +19

Evolution of placental invasion and cancer metastasis are causally linked

Kshitiz Gupta, Junaid Afzal, Jamie Maziarz et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2019 · 79 citations · Full text

Developmental Biology, Endocrine-related Cancer, Tumor Heterogeneity +7

The statistical geometry of transcriptome divergence in cell-type evolution and cancer

Cong Liang, Alistair R. R. Forrest, Günter P. Wagner · Nature Communications · 2015 · 74 citations · Full text

Pervasive Correlated Evolution in Gene Expression Shapes Cell and Tissue Type Transcriptomes

Cong Liang, Jacob M. Musser, Alison Cloutier et al. · Genome Biology and Evolution · 2018 · 67 citations · Full text

Genetics, Tissue Type Transcriptomes, Transcriptomics Technology +24