From damage response to action potentials: early evolution of neural and contractile modules in stem eukaryotes

Mechanotransduction's Impact on Animal Development, Evolution, and Tumorigenesis

(2015) Maria-Elena Fernandez-Sanchez et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Cortical Contractility Triggers a Stochastic Switch to Fast Amoeboid Cell Motility

(2015) Verena Ruprecht et al.   CELL

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

(2015) Yan-Jun Liu et al.   CELL

Insights into the early evolution of animal calcium signaling machinery: A unicellular point of view

(2015) Xinjiang Cai et al.   CELL CALCIUM

Elements of a 'nervous system' in sponges

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

Evolution of voltage-gated ion channels at the emergence of Metazoa

(2015) Y. Moran et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Electrogenesis in the lower Metazoa and implications for neuronal integration

(2015) R. W. Meech   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A Transient Receptor Potential Ion Channel inChlamydomonasShares Key Features with Sensory Transduction-Associated TRP Channels in Mammals

(2015) Luis Arias-Darraz et al.   PLANT CELL

Evolution and Classification of Myosins, a Paneukaryotic Whole-Genome Approach

(2014) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Geometry-Driven Polarity in Motile Amoeboid Cells

(2014) Oliver Nagel et al.   PLoS One

Stretch-activated ion channel Piezo1 directs lineage choice in human neural stem cells

(2014) Medha M. Pathak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Independent acquisition of sodium selectivity in bacterial and animal sodium channels

(2013) Benjamin J. Liebeskind et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Calcium in the Early Evolution of Living Systems: A Biohistorical Approach

(2013) Jozef Kazmierczak et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Calcium signalling and calcium channels: Evolution and general principles

(2013) Alexei Verkhratsky et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Autonomous changes in the swimming direction of sperm in the gastropod Strombus luhuanus

(2013) K. Shiba et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A force of nature: molecular mechanisms of mechanoperception in plants

(2013) Gabriele B. Monshausen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Plant mechanosensing and Ca2+ transport

(2013) Takamitsu Kurusu et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Ancient Origin of Four-Domain Voltage-gated Na+ Channels Predates the Divergence of Animals and Fungi

(2012) Xinjiang Cai   JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE BIOLOGY

Phylogeny Unites Animal Sodium Leak Channels with Fungal Calcium Channels in an Ancient, Voltage-Insensitive Clade

(2012) Benjamin J. Liebeskind et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

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

Evolution of increased complexity in a molecular machine

(2012) Gregory C. Finnigan et al.   NATURE

Crystal structure of an orthologue of the NaChBac voltage-gated sodium channel

(2012) Xu Zhang et al.   NATURE

Calaxin drives sperm chemotaxis by Ca2+-mediated direct modulation of a dynein motor

(2012) K. Mizuno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Origin of first cells at terrestrial, anoxic geothermal fields

(2012) A. Y. Mulkidjanian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell wound repair inDrosophilaoccurs through three distinct phases of membrane and cytoskeletal remodeling

(2011) Maria Teresa Abreu-Blanco et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

The characean internodal cell as a model system for studying wound healing

(2011) I. FOISSNER et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY

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

Ferlins: Regulators of Vesicle Fusion for Auditory Neurotransmission, Receptor Trafficking and Membrane Repair

(2011) Angela Lek et al.   TRAFFIC

The Genome of Naegleria gruberi Illuminates Early Eukaryotic Versatility

(2010) Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin et al.   CELL

Two-pore channels: Regulation by NAADP and customized roles in triggering calcium signals

(2010) Sandip Patel et al.   CELL CALCIUM

Tuning sperm chemotaxis by calcium burst timing

(2010) Adan Guerrero et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Calcium channels in photosynthetic eukaryotes: implications for evolution of calcium-based signalling

(2010) Frédéric Verret et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Chlamydomonas CAV2 Encodes a Voltage- Dependent Calcium Channel Required for the Flagellar Waveform Conversion

(2009) Kenta Fujiu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolution: Revisiting the Root of the Eukaryote Tree

(2009) Andrew J. Roger et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Analysis of Rare Genomic Changes Does Not Support the Unikont–Bikont Phylogeny and Suggests Cyanobacterial Symbiosis as the Point of Primary Radiation of Eukaryotes

(2009) Igor B. Rogozin et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A Fast Na+/Ca2+-Based Action Potential in a Marine Diatom

(2009) Alison R. Taylor   PLoS One

Plasma membrane repair in plants

(2009) Arnaldo L. Schapire et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Evolutionary primacy of sodium bioenergetics

(2008) Armen Y Mulkidjanian et al.   Biology Direct

Presynaptic Calcium Channel Localization and Calcium-Dependent Synaptic Vesicle Exocytosis Regulated by the Fuseless Protein

(2008) A. A. Long et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Unicellular Ca2+ Signaling 'Toolkit' at the Origin of Metazoa

(2008) X. Cai   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Origins of life: How leaky were primitive cells?

(2008) David W. Deamer   NATURE

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

(2008) Detlev Arendt   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Arabidopsis Synaptotagmin 1 Is Required for the Maintenance of Plasma Membrane Integrity and Cell Viability

(2008) A. L. Schapire et al.   PLANT CELL

Pond Scum Genomics: The Genomes of Chlamydomonas and Ostreococcus

(2008) G. Peers et al.   PLANT CELL

Ca2+ bursts occur around a local minimal concentration of attractant and trigger sperm chemotactic response

(2008) K. Shiba et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Invertebrate muscles: Thin and thick filament structure; molecular basis of contraction and its regulation, catch and asynchronous muscle

(2008) Scott L. Hooper et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Two-way traffic on the road to plasma membrane repair

(2008) Vincent Idone et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanisms of Sperm Chemotaxis

(2007) U. Benjamin Kaupp et al.   Annual Review of Physiology

Power-Limited Contraction Dynamics of Vorticella convallaria: An Ultrafast Biological Spring

(2007) A. Upadhyaya et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL