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

Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: Cnidaria

(2011) U. Technau et al.   DEVELOPMENT

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

(2011) Chuya Shinzato et al.   NATURE

The Hydra polyp: Nothing but an active stem cell community

(2010) Thomas C. G. Bosch et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

From brain formation to plasticity: Insights on Otx2 homeoprotein

(2010) Sayaka Sugiyama et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

The stem cell system in demosponges: Insights into the origin of somatic stem cells

(2010) Noriko Funayama   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

β-catenin plays a central role in setting up the head organizer in hydra

(2010) Lydia Gee et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The dynamic genome of Hydra

(2010) Jarrod A. Chapman et al.   NATURE

A phylogenetically based transcriptome age index mirrors ontogenetic divergence patterns

(2010) Tomislav Domazet-Lošo et al.   NATURE

Stem cell-specific activation of an ancestral myc protooncogene with conserved basic functions in the early metazoan Hydra

(2010) M. Hartl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydra and the evolution of stem cells

(2009) Thomas C. G. Bosch   BIOESSAYS

The developmental roles of the extracellular matrix: beyond structure to regulation

(2009) Kwok Yeung Tsang et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Foxa2 regulates polarity and epithelialization in the endoderm germ layer of the mouse embryo

(2009) I. Burtscher et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The extracellular matrix in development and morphogenesis: A dynamic view

(2009) Tania Rozario et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The 'division of labour' model of eye evolution

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

Immortality and the base of multicellular life: Lessons from cnidarian stem cells

(2009) Hiroshi Watanabe et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Plasticity of epithelial cell shape in response to upstream signals: A whole-organism study using transgenic Hydra

(2009) Friederike Anton-Erxleben et al.   ZOOLOGY

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

(2009) Bernd Schierwater et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

Aggressive assembly of pyrosequencing reads with mates

(2008) Jason R. Miller et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Integration of External Signaling Pathways with the Core Transcriptional Network in Embryonic Stem Cells

(2008) Xi Chen et al.   CELL

The multiple roles of CUX1: Insights from mouse models and cell-based assays

(2008) Laurent Sansregret et al.   GENE

An Ancient Evolutionary Origin of Genes Associated with Human Genetic Diseases

(2008) T. Domazet-Loso et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

A Novel Gene Family Controls Species-Specific Morphological Traits in Hydra

(2008) Konstantin Khalturin et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Cell type complexity in the basal metazoan Hydra is maintained by both stem cell based mechanisms and transdifferentiation

(2007) Stefan Siebert et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY