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

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

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

Genomic organization, evolution, and expression of photoprotein and opsin genes in Mnemiopsis leidyi: a new view of ctenophore photocytes

(2012) Christine E Schnitzler et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Near intron pairs and the metazoan tree

(2012) Jörg Lehmann et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Evolution of the TGF-β Signaling Pathway and Its Potential Role in the Ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2011) Kevin Pang et al.   PLoS One

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

Nuclear receptors from the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi lack a zinc-finger DNA-binding domain: lineage-specific loss or ancestral condition in the emergence of the nuclear receptor superfamily?

(2011) Adam M Reitzel et al.   EvoDevo

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

Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

(2010) Cole Trapnell et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Ancient origin of the integrin-mediated adhesion and signaling machinery

(2010) A. Sebe-Pedros et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Expression and phylogenetic analysis of the zic gene family in the evolution and development of metazoans

(2010) Michael J Layden et al.   EvoDevo

The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera diverged prior to the ParaHoxozoa

(2010) Joseph F Ryan et al.   EvoDevo

Genomic insights into Wnt signaling in an early diverging metazoan, the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2010) Kevin Pang et al.   EvoDevo

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

(2009) A. Hejnol et al.   PROCEEDINGS 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

Developmental expression of homeobox genes in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2008) Kevin Pang et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

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

Automated eukaryotic gene structure annotation using EVidenceModeler and the Program to Assemble Spliced Alignments

(2008) Brian J Haas et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY