Dynamic Evolution of Immune System Regulators: The History of the Interferon Regulatory Factor Family

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

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Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

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Concatenated Analysis Sheds Light on Early Metazoan Evolution and Fuels a Modern “Urmetazoon” Hypothesis

(2009) Bernd Schierwater et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The IRF Family Transcription Factors in Immunity and Oncogenesis

(2008) Tomohiko Tamura et al.   Annual Review of Immunology

Compagen, a comparative genomics platform for early branching metazoan animals, reveals early origins of genes regulating stem-cell differentiation

(2008) Georg Hemmrich et al.   BIOESSAYS

Interferon regulatory factor family of transcription factors and regulation of oncogenesis

(2008) Akinori Takaoka et al.   CANCER SCIENCE

The transcription factor NF-κB in the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica: insights on the evolutionary origin of the Rel homology domain

(2008) Marie Gauthier et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Genomic analysis of the immune gene repertoire of amphioxus reveals extraordinary innate complexity and diversity

(2008) S. Huang et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Genesis and Expansion of Metazoan Transcription Factor Gene Classes

(2008) Claire Larroux et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

(2008) Nicholas H. Putnam et al.   NATURE

The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans

(2008) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

(2008) Nicole King et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance

(2008) G. E Budd   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Novel genes dramatically alter regulatory network topology in amphioxus

(2008) Qing Zhang et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY