Metazoan opsin evolution reveals a simple route to animal vision

Blue-light-receptive cryptochrome is expressed in a sponge eye lacking neurons and opsin

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Origin of metazoan cadherin diversity and the antiquity of the classical cadherin/ -catenin complex

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

Chance and Necessity in Eye Evolution

(2011) Walter J. Gehring   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Phototransduction and the Evolution of Photoreceptors

(2010) Gordon L. Fain et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Deep Genomic-Scale Analyses of the Metazoa Reject Coelomata: Evidence from Single- and Multigene Families Analyzed Under a Supertree and Supermatrix Paradigm

(2010) Thérèse A. Holton et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

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

The dynamic genome of Hydra

(2010) Jarrod A. Chapman et al.   NATURE

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

The evolution of phototransduction from an ancestral cyclic nucleotide gated pathway

(2010) D. C. Plachetzki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa

(2009) E. A. Sperling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Early origin of the bilaterian developmental toolkit

(2009) D. H. Erwin   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2009) Bernd Schierwater et al.   PLOS 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

Assembly of the cnidarian camera-type eye from vertebrate-like components

(2008) Zbynek Kozmik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Jellyfish vision starts with cAMP signaling mediated by opsin-Gs cascade

(2008) M. Koyanagi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogeny-Aware Gap Placement Prevents Errors in Sequence Alignment and Evolutionary Analysis

(2008) A. Loytynoja et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution and Functional Diversity of Jellyfish Opsins

(2007) Hiroshi Suga et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY