Computationally predicted gene regulatory networks in molluscan biomineralization identify extracellular matrix production and ion transportation pathways

The development of CRISPR for a mollusc establishes the formin Lsdia1 as the long-sought gene for snail dextral/sinistral coiling

(2019) Masanori Abe et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Cellular stress responses to chronic heat shock and shell damage in temperate Mya truncata

(2018) Victoria A. Sleight et al.   CELL STRESS & CHAPERONES

Extracellular and Non-Chaperone Function of Heat Shock Protein−90α Is Required for Skin Wound Healing

(2018) Ayesha Bhatia et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

Notch expressed by osteocytes plays a critical role in mineralisation

(2018) Jin Shao et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE-JMM

Calcium transfer across the outer mantle epithelium in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas

(2018) J. Kirsikka Sillanpää et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Identification and Differential Expression of Biomineralization Genes in the Mantle of Pearl Oyster Pinctada fucata

(2017) Haimei Li et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Comparative transcriptomics enlarges the toolkit of known developmental genes in mollusks

(2016) A. L. De Oliveira et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Characterization of the mantle transcriptome in bivalves: Pecten maximus, Mytilus edulis and Crassostrea gigas

(2016) Tejaswi Yarra et al.   Marine Genomics

Characterisation of the mantle transcriptome and biomineralisation genes in the blunt-gaper clam, Mya truncata

(2016) Victoria A. Sleight et al.   Marine Genomics

A shell regeneration assay to identify biomineralization candidate genes in mytilid mussels

(2016) Anne K. Hüning et al.   Marine Genomics

Insights from the Shell Proteome: Biomineralization to Adaptation

(2016) Jaison Arivalagan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An Antarctic molluscan biomineralisation tool-kit

(2016) Victoria A. Sleight et al.   Scientific Reports

Deployment of regulatory genes during gastrulation and germ layer specification in a model spiralian molluscCrepidula

(2015) Kimberly J. Perry et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Identification of novelFgfenhancers and their role in dental evolution

(2015) Vagan Tapaltsyan et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome modification in the mollusc,Crepidula fornicata

(2015) Kimberly J. Perry et al.   GENESIS

The Roles and Mechanisms of Actions of Vitamin C in Bone: New Developments

(2015) Patrick Aghajanian et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH

Transcriptomic response to shell damage in the Antarctic clam, Laternula elliptica: Time scales and spatial localisation

(2015) Victoria A. Sleight et al.   Marine Genomics

Functional characterization and molecular mechanism exploration of three granulin epithelin precursor splice variants in biomineralization of the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata

(2015) Mi Zhao et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Evolution of the tyrosinase gene family in bivalve molluscs: Independent expansion of the mantle gene repertoire

(2014) Felipe Aguilera et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

The evolution of metazoan α-carbonic anhydrases and their roles in calcium carbonate biomineralization

(2014) Nathalie Le Roy et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

The role of regucalcin in bone homeostasis: involvement as a novel cytokine

(2014) Masayoshi Yamaguchi   Integrative Biology

Atrophic thyroid follicles and inner ear defects reminiscent of cochlear hypothyroidism in Slc26a4-related deafness

(2014) Amiel A. Dror et al.   MAMMALIAN GENOME

An ancient process in a modern mollusc: early development of the shell in Lymnaea stagnalis

(2013) Jennifer Hohagen et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Impacts of ocean acidification on marine shelled molluscs

(2013) Frédéric Gazeau et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

The shell-forming proteome ofLottia giganteareveals both deep conservations and lineage-specific novelties

(2012) Benjamin Marie et al.   FEBS Journal

Novel Basic Protein, PfN23, Functions as Key Macromolecule during Nacre Formation

(2012) Dong Fang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Different secretory repertoires control the biomineralization processes of prism and nacre deposition of the pearl oyster shell

(2012) B. Marie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biomimetic layer-by-layer assembly of artificial nacre

(2012) Alexander Finnemore et al.   Nature Communications

From molecules to mastication: the development and evolution of teeth

(2012) Andrew H. Jheon et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology

Insights into shell deposition in the Antarctic bivalve Laternula elliptica: gene discovery in the mantle transcriptome using 454 pyrosequencing

(2010) Melody S Clark et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Proteomic analysis of the organic matrix of the abalone Haliotis asinina calcified shell

(2010) Benjamin Marie et al.   Proteome Science

edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

(2009) M. D. Robinson et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An Acidic Matrix Protein, Pif, Is a Key Macromolecule for Nacre Formation

(2009) M. Suzuki et al.   SCIENCE