litopenaeus vannamei Transcriptome
This project generates single-nucleus/single-cell transcriptomic data from Litopenaeus vannamei embryos to characterize cellular heterogeneity and developmental trajectories during early embryogenesis. Using LiFT, we aim to align the shrimp embryonic atlas with a lineage-annotated reference atlas of Drosophila melanogaster embryos and to assess cross-species developmental correspondence under deep evolutionary divergence. Despite the large phylogenetic distance and limited set of one-to-one orthologs, the study focuses on reconstructing coarse germ-layer organization and resolving branch-specific cell states associated with ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm lineages. This dataset provides a resource for studying shrimp embryogenesis, germ-layer formation, cross-species developmental conservation, and comparative single-cell genomics in arthropods and crustaceans.