Gastric pouches and the mucociliary sole: setting the stage for nervous system evolution

Confinement and Low Adhesion Induce Fast Amoeboid Migration of Slow Mesenchymal Cells

(2015) Yan-Jun Liu et al.   CELL

Elements of a 'nervous system' in sponges

(2015) S. P. Leys   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The origin and evolution of synaptic proteins - choanoflagellates lead the way

(2015) P. Burkhardt   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The role of G protein-coupled receptors in the early evolution of neurotransmission and the nervous system

(2015) A. Krishnan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Convergent evolution of neural systems in ctenophores

(2015) L. L. Moroz   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

High-throughput spatial mapping of single-cell RNA-seq data to tissue of origin

(2015) Kaia Achim et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

(2015) Cong Liang et al.   Nature Communications

Evolutionary origins of sensation in metazoans: functional evidence for a new sensory organ in sponges

(2014) Danielle A Ludeman et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Expression of GAD67 and Dlx5 in the Taste Buds of Mice Genetically Lacking Mash1

(2014) A. Kito-Shingaki et al.   CHEMICAL SENSES

Evolution: Ctenophore Genomes and the Origin of Neurons

(2014) Heather Marlow et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Novel Cell Types, Neurosecretory Cells, and Body Plan of the Early-Diverging Metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens

(2014) Carolyn L. Smith et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A novel serotonin-secreting cell type regulates ciliary motility in the mucociliary epidermis of Xenopus tadpoles

(2014) P. Walentek et al.   DEVELOPMENT

A secretory cell type develops alongside multiciliated cells, ionocytes and goblet cells, and provides a protective, anti-infective function in the frog embryonic mucociliary epidermis

(2014) E. Dubaissi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Switching on cilia: transcriptional networks regulating ciliogenesis

(2014) S. P. Choksi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Choanoflagellate and choanocyte collar-flagellar systems and the assumption of homology

(2014) Jasmine L. Mah et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Insight into planar cell polarity

(2014) Michael Sebbagh et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Ontogeny of O2 and CO2//H+ chemosensitivity in adrenal chromaffin cells: role of innervation

(2014) S. Salman et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Calcisponges have a ParaHox gene and dynamic expression of dispersed NK homeobox genes

(2014) Sofia A. V. Fortunato et al.   NATURE

Origin and Evolution of the Self-Organizing Cytoskeleton in the Network of Eukaryotic Organelles

(2014) G. Jekely   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Insights into the Origin of Metazoan Filopodia and Microvilli

(2013) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The role of Atonal transcription factors in the development of mechanosensitive cells

(2013) Andrew P. Jarman et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Independent specialisation of myosin II paralogues in muscle vs. non-muscle functions during early animal evolution: a ctenophore perspective

(2012) Cyrielle Dayraud et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ghost Loci Imply Hox and ParaHox Existence in the Last Common Ancestor of Animals

(2012) Olivia Mendivil Ramos et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Deuterostomic Development in the Protostome Priapulus caudatus

(2012) José M. Martín-Durán et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

Forkhead Transcription Factor Fd3F Cooperates with Rfx to Regulate a Gene Expression Program for Mechanosensory Cilia Specialization

(2012) Fay G. Newton et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Beyond generalized hair cells: Molecular cues for hair cell types

(2012) Israt Jahan et al.   HEARING RESEARCH

Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

(2012) Patrick R. H. Steinmetz et al.   NATURE

Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: The first 800 million years

(2012) H. H. Zakon   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Photomechanical Responses in Drosophila Photoreceptors

(2012) R. C. Hardie et al.   SCIENCE

Evolutionarily Ancient Association of the FoxJ1 Transcription Factor with the Motile Ciliogenic Program

(2012) Shubha Vij et al.   PLoS Genetics

Fgf signaling controls pharyngeal taste bud formation through miR-200 and Delta-Notch activity

(2011) Marika Kapsimali et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Cell differentiation and morphogenesis in the colony-forming choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2011) Mark J. Dayel et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

A two-step process in the emergence of neurogenesis

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

Do jellyfish have central nervous systems?

(2011) R. A. Satterlie   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Epithelia, an Evolutionary Novelty of Metazoans

(2011) Sally P. Leys et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Ancestral Ca2+ Signaling Machinery in Early Animal and Fungal Evolution

(2011) X. Cai et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Mechanoreception in motile flagella of Chlamydomonas

(2011) Kenta Fujiu et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Evolution of sodium channels predates the origin of nervous systems in animals

(2011) B. J. Liebeskind et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Gene Regulatory Cascade Linking Proneural Specification with Differentiation in Drosophila Sensory Neurons

(2011) Sebastián Cachero et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Convergent evolution of RFX transcription factors and ciliary genes predated the origin of metazoans

(2010) Jeffrey SC Chu et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The backbone of the post-synaptic density originated in a unicellular ancestor of choanoflagellates and metazoans

(2010) Alexandre Alié et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cnidarians and the evolutionary origin of the nervous system

(2010) Hiroshi Watanabe et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Embryonic frog epidermis: a model for the study of cell-cell interactions in the development of mucociliary disease

(2010) E. Dubaissi et al.   Disease Models & Mechanisms

Six major steps in animal evolution: are we derived sponge larvae?

(2010) Claus Nielsen   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A placozoan affinity for Dickinsonia and the evolution of late Proterozoic metazoan feeding modes

(2010) Erik A. Sperling et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary emergence of synaptic nervous systems: what can we learn from the non-synaptic, nerveless Porifera?

(2010) Michael Nickel   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

Evidence for glutamate, GABA and NO in coordinating behaviour in the sponge, Ephydatia muelleri (Demospongiae, Spongillidae)

(2010) G. R. D. Elliott et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Unexpected Repertoire of Metazoan Transcription Factors in the Unicellular Holozoan Capsaspora owczarzaki

(2010) A. Sebe-Pedros et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Regulatory Factor X (RFX)-mediated transcriptional rewiring of ciliary genes in animals

(2010) B. P. Piasecki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

cAMP and cGMP signaling: sensory systems with prokaryotic roots adopted by eukaryotic cilia

(2010) Jacque-Lynne F. Johnson et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Mammalian Merkel cells are descended from the epidermal lineage

(2009) Kristin M. Morrison et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Anatomy and development of the nervous system ofNematostella vectensis, an anthozoan cnidarian

(2009) Heather Q. Marlow et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Origin of the neuro-sensory system: new and expected insights from sponges

(2009) EMMANUELLE RENARD et al.   Integrative Zoology

Non-muscle myosin II takes centre stage in cell adhesion and migration

(2009) Miguel Vicente-Manzanares et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

The origin and evolution of synapses

(2009) Tomás J. Ryan et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The 'division of labour' model of eye evolution

(2009) D. Arendt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms

(2009) M. Laflamme et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Merkel Cells Are Essential for Light-Touch Responses

(2009) S. M. Maricich et al.   SCIENCE

Sponge Genes Provide New Insight into the Evolutionary Origin of the Neurogenic Circuit

(2008) Gemma S. Richards et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

NK homeobox genes with choanocyte-specific expression in homoscleromorph sponges

(2008) Eve Gazave et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Foxj1 transcription factors are master regulators of the motile ciliogenic program

(2008) Xianwen Yu et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The forkhead protein Foxj1 specifies node-like cilia in Xenopus and zebrafish embryos

(2008) Jennifer L Stubbs et al.   NATURE GENETICS