Old Cell, New Trick? Cnidocytes as a Model for the Evolution of Novelty

Sequencing depth and coverage: key considerations in genomic analyses

(2014) David Sims et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

A Snapshot of a Coral “Holobiont”: A Transcriptome Assembly of the Scleractinian Coral, Porites, Captures a Wide Variety of Genes from Both the Host and Symbiotic Zooxanthellae

(2014) Chuya Shinzato et al.   PLoS One

Transcriptome deep-sequencing and clustering of expressed isoforms from Favia corals

(2013) Shaadi F Pooyaei Mehr et al.   BMC GENOMICS

RNAseq versus genome-predicted transcriptomes: a large population of novel transcripts identified in an Illumina-454 Hydra transcriptome

(2013) Yvan Wenger et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Characterization of differential transcript abundance through time during Nematostella vectensis development

(2013) Rebecca Helm et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Transcriptomics in the RNA-seq era

(2013) Paul A McGettigan   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Mechanisms of tentacle morphogenesis in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

(2013) A. E. Fritz et al.   DEVELOPMENT

What is evolutionary novelty? Process versus character based definitions

(2013) Tim Peterson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Single-cell gene expression analysis reveals genetic associations masked in whole-tissue experiments

(2013) Quin F Wills et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microinjection of mRNA or morpholinos for reverse genetic analysis in the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis

(2013) Michael J Layden et al.   Nature Protocols

Genomic basis for coral resilience to climate change

(2013) Daniel J. Barshis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Two-Layer Mathematical Modeling of Gene Expression: Incorporating DNA-Level Information and System Dynamics

(2013) Jacqueline M. Dresch et al.   SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS

A model based criterion for gene expression calls using RNA-seq data

(2013) Günter P. Wagner et al.   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

Proteomic characterisation of toxins isolated from nematocysts of the South Atlantic jellyfish Olindias sambaquiensis

(2013) Andrew J. Weston et al.   TOXICON

A quantitative reference transcriptome for Nematostella vectensis early embryonic development: a pipeline for de novo assembly in emerging model systems

(2013) Sarah Tulin et al.   EvoDevo

Data exploration, quality control and testing in single-cell qPCR-based gene expression experiments

(2012) Andrew McDavid et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Oases: robust de novo RNA-seq assembly across the dynamic range of expression levels

(2012) Marcel H. Schulz et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Developing the anemone Aiptasia as a tractable model for cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis: the transcriptome of aposymbiotic A. pallida

(2012) Erik M Lehnert et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Nematostella vectensis achaete-scute homolog NvashA regulates embryonic ectodermal neurogenesis and represents an ancient component of the metazoan neural specification pathway

(2012) M. J. Layden et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Morphological and molecular development of the eyes during embryogenesis of the freshwater planarian Schmidtea polychroa

(2012) José María Martín-Durán et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Stem cell dynamics in Cnidaria: are there unifying principles?

(2012) David A. Gold et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

NF-κB is required for cnidocyte development in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

(2012) Francis S. Wolenski et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Interstitial stem cells in Hydra: multipotency and decision-making

(2012) Charles N. David   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Hydractinia, a pioneering model for stem cell biology and reprogramming somatic cells to pluripotency

(2012) Günter Plickert et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Hydra, a fruitful model system for 270 years

(2012) Brigitte Galliot   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Analysis of Soluble Protein Contents from the Nematocysts of a Model Sea Anemone Sheds Light on Venom Evolution

(2012) Yehu Moran et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Molecular Signatures of the Three Stem Cell Lineages in Hydra and the Emergence of Stem Cell Function at the Base of Multicellularity

(2012) Georg Hemmrich et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Whole Transcriptome Analysis of the CoralAcropora milleporaReveals Complex Responses to CO2-driven Acidification during the Initiation of Calcification

(2012) A. MOYA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Transdermal Delivery of Scopolamine by Natural Submicron Injectors: In-Vivo Study in Pig

(2012) Esther Shaoul et al.   PLoS One

Diversity, Phylogeny and Expression Patterns of Pou and Six Homeodomain Transcription Factors in Hydrozoan Jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbyi

(2012) Miluse Hroudova et al.   PLoS One

A Framework for the Establishment of a Cnidarian Gene Regulatory Network for “Endomesoderm” Specification: The Inputs of ß-Catenin/TCF Signaling

(2012) Eric Röttinger et al.   PLoS Genetics

Characterization of taxonomically restricted genes in a phylum-restricted cell type

(2012) Sabine Milde et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

(2011) Bo Li et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Production of a reference transcriptome and transcriptomic database (PocilloporaBase) for the cauliflower coral, Pocillopora damicornis

(2011) Nikki Traylor-Knowles et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Taxonomically restricted genes are associated with the evolution of sociality in the honey bee

(2011) Brian R Johnson et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Nervous systems of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis are generated by ectoderm and endoderm and shaped by distinct mechanisms

(2011) N. Nakanishi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Complex functions of Mef2 splice variants in the differentiation of endoderm and of a neuronal cell type in a sea anemone

(2011) G. Genikhovich et al.   DEVELOPMENT

A two-step process in the emergence of neurogenesis

(2011) Brigitte Galliot et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Differential expression in RNA-seq: A matter of depth

(2011) S. Tarazona et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Levels of Biological Organization and the Origin of Novelty

(2011) Brian K. Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Morphological and Molecular Analysis of the Nematostella vectensis Cnidom

(2011) Claudia Zenkert et al.   PLoS One

Differential Gene Expression in the Siphonophore Nanomia bijuga (Cnidaria) Assessed with Multiple Next-Generation Sequencing Workflows

(2011) Stefan Siebert et al.   PLoS One

Gene Discovery in the Threatened Elkhorn Coral: 454 Sequencing of the Acropora palmata Transcriptome

(2011) Nicholas R. Polato et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of form and function in a model of differentiated multicellular organisms with gene regulatory networks

(2010) Daniel Lobo et al.   BIOSYSTEMS

Evolutionary novelties

(2010) Günter P. Wagner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Non-sulfated Chondroitin Stabilizes Membrane Tubulation in Cnidarian Organelles

(2010) Patrizia Adamczyk et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

De novo assembly and analysis of RNA-seq data

(2010) Gordon Robertson et al.   NATURE METHODS

The cnidarian nematocyst: a miniature extracellular matrix within a secretory vesicle

(2010) Suat Özbek   PROTOPLASMA

A genomic view of 500 million years of cnidarian evolution

(2010) Robert E. Steele et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty

(2009) Neil Shubin et al.   NATURE

A muscle-specific transgenic reporter line of the sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis

(2009) E. Renfer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cnidocyst structure and the biomechanics of discharge

(2009) Suat Özbek et al.   TOXICON

More than just orphans: are taxonomically-restricted genes important in evolution?

(2009) Konstantin Khalturin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of cnidarian stinging cells

(2008) Elsa Denker et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ordered progression of nematogenesis from stem cells through differentiation stages in the tentacle bulb of Clytia hemisphaerica (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria)

(2007) Elsa Denker et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY