Independent origins of neurons and synapses: insights from ctenophores

Unbiased View of Synaptic and Neuronal Gene Complement in Ctenophores: Are There Pan-neuronal and Pan-synaptic Genes across Metazoa?

(2015) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Elements of a 'nervous system' in sponges

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

The ctenophore lineage is older than sponges? That cannot be right! Or can it?

(2015) K. M. Halanych   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Convergent evolution of neural systems in ctenophores

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

Integrated genome and transcriptome sequencing of the same cell

(2015) Siddharth S Dey et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Epigenomic Signatures of Neuronal Diversity in the Mammalian Brain

(2015) Alisa Mo et al.   NEURON

Coordinated Feeding Behavior in Trichoplax, an Animal without Synapses

(2015) Carolyn L. Smith et al.   PLoS One

Error, signal, and the placement of Ctenophora sister to all other animals

(2015) Nathan V. Whelan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The genome ofAiptasia, a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis

(2015) Sebastian Baumgarten et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The brain's identity crisis

(2015) E. Underwood   SCIENCE

MicroRNA control of protein expression noise

(2015) J. M. Schmiedel et al.   SCIENCE

Cell types in the mouse cortex and hippocampus revealed by single-cell RNA-seq

(2015) A. Zeisel et al.   SCIENCE

Somatic mutation in single human neurons tracks developmental and transcriptional history

(2015) M. A. Lodato et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanosensitive unpaired innexin channels in C. elegans touch neurons

(2014) Rachele Sangaletti et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

(2014) Casey W. Dunn et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

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

Pannexin-1 as a potentiator of ligand-gated receptor signaling

(2014) Brant E Isakson et al.   Channels

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

Innexin and pannexin channels and their signaling

(2014) Gerhard Dahl et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Mechanosensitive release of adenosine 5′-triphosphate through pannexin channels and mechanosensitive upregulation of pannexin channels in optic nerve head astrocytes: A mechanism for purinergic involvement in chronic strain

(2014) Jonathan M. Beckel et al.   GLIA

Cilia and the life of ctenophores

(2014) Sidney L. Tamm   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

The Analysis of Eight Transcriptomes from All Poriferan Classes Reveals Surprising Genetic Complexity in Sponges

(2014) Ana Riesgo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Unbiased classification of sensory neuron types by large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing

(2014) Dmitry Usoskin et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Evidence for Involvement of Wnt Signalling in Body Polarities, Cell Proliferation, and the Neuro-Sensory System in an Adult Ctenophore

(2014) Muriel Jager et al.   PLoS One

Did the ctenophore nervous system evolve independently?

(2014) Joseph F. Ryan   ZOOLOGY

The elephant brain in numbers

(2014) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Innexin gap junctions in nerve cells coordinate spontaneous contractile behavior in Hydra polyps

(2014) Yasuharu Takaku et al.   Scientific Reports

Pannexins form gap junctions with electrophysiological and pharmacological properties distinct from connexins

(2014) Giriraj Sahu et al.   Scientific Reports

How do taste cells lacking synapses mediate neurotransmission? CALHM1, a voltage-gated ATP channel

(2013) Akiyuki Taruno et al.   BIOESSAYS

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

(2013) Tetyana Nosenko et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The bizarre pharmacology of the ATP release channel pannexin1

(2013) Gerhard Dahl et al.   NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

Nervous System May Have Evolved Twice

(2013) E. Pennisi   SCIENCE

My Oldest Sister Is a Sea Walnut?

(2013) A. Rokas   SCIENCE

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenomics meets neuroscience: How many times might complex brains have evolved?

(2012) L. Moroz   ACTA BIOLOGICA HUNGARICA

Evolutionary analyses of gap junction protein families

(2012) Federico Abascal et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Serotonin of mast cell origin contributes to hippocampal function

(2012) Katherine M. Nautiyal et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

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

Lim homeobox genes in the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi: the evolution of neural cell type specification

(2012) David K Simmons et al.   EvoDevo

Mast cell–nerve axis with a focus on the human gut

(2011) Sabine Buhner et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE

Parallel evolution of Nitric Oxide signaling: Diversity of synthesis and memory pathways

(2011) Leonid et al.   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

New insights on ctenophore neural anatomy: Immunofluorescence study in Pleurobrachia pileus (Müller, 1776)

(2011) Muriel Jager et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Extreme mitochondrial evolution in the ctenophoreMnemiopsis leidyi: Insight from mtDNA and the nuclear genome

(2011) Walker Pett et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

Rapid evolution of the compact and unusual mitochondrial genome in the ctenophore, Pleurobrachia bachei

(2011) Andrea B. Kohn et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Using the Acropora digitifera genome to understand coral responses to environmental change

(2011) Chuya Shinzato et al.   NATURE

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

(2011) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   NATURE

Acetylcholine-Synthesizing T Cells Relay Neural Signals in a Vagus Nerve Circuit

(2011) M. Rosas-Ballina et al.   SCIENCE

The activity of phosphate-dependent glutaminase from the rat small intestine is modulated by ADP and is dependent on integrity of mitochondria

(2010) B. Masola et al.   ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Phosphate-activated glutaminase (GLS2), a p53-inducible regulator of glutamine metabolism and reactive oxygen species

(2010) S. Suzuki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The origin of Metazoa: a transition from temporal to spatial cell differentiation

(2009) Kirill V. Mikhailov et al.   BIOESSAYS

Molluscan Memory of Injury: Evolutionary Insights into Chronic Pain and Neurological Disorders

(2009) Edgar T. Walters et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

On the Independent Origins of Complex Brains and Neurons

(2009) Leonid L. Moroz   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Frederico A.C. Azevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

(2009) A. Hejnol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans

(2008) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

The evolution of cell types in animals: emerging principles from molecular studies

(2008) Detlev Arendt   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The evolution of nervous system centralization

(2008) D. Arendt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES