Perturbation of gut bacteria induces a coordinated cellular immune response in the purple sea urchin larva

Gut immunity in a protochordate involves a secreted immunoglobulin-type mediator binding host chitin and bacteria

(2016) Larry J. Dishaw et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity of animal immune receptors and the origins of recognition complexity in the deuterostomes

(2015) Katherine M. Buckley et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Perforin-2/Mpeg1 and other pore-forming proteins throughout evolution

(2015) R. McCormack et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

An abundance of Epsilonproteobacteria revealed in the gut microbiome of the laboratory cultured sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus

(2015) Joseph A. Hakim et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A detailed staging scheme for late larval development in Strongylocentrotus purpuratus focused on readily-visible juvenile structures within the rudiment

(2014) Andreas Heyland et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

An ancient role for Gata-1/2/3 and Scl transcription factor homologs in the development of immunocytes

(2013) Cynthia M. Solek et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cis-regulatory logic driving glial cells missing: Self-sustaining circuitry in later embryogenesis

(2012) Andrew Ransick et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Diversification of oral and aboral mesodermal regulatory states in pregastrular sea urchin embryos

(2012) Stefan C. Materna et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Gene structure in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus based on transcriptome analysis

(2012) Q. Tu et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

Dynamic Evolution of Toll-Like Receptor Multigene Families in Echinoderms

(2012) Katherine M. Buckley et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: sea urchins

(2011) D. R. McClay   DEVELOPMENT

The interleukins of fish

(2011) C.J. Secombes et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Characterization of a scavenger receptor cysteine-rich-domain-containing protein of the starfish, Asterina pectinifera: ApSRCR1 acts as an opsonin in the larval and adult innate immune systems

(2011) Ryohei Furukawa et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Offerings from an Urchin

(2011) Susan G. Ernst   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Chitin-Induced Carbotype Conversion in Vibrio vulnificus

(2011) Jana Neiman et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Genome-wide polymorphisms show unexpected targets of natural selection

(2011) M. H. Pespeni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Resistance to rifampicin: at the crossroads between ecological, genomic and medical concerns

(2010) Audrey Tupin et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

Dynamics of Delta/Notch signaling on endomesoderm segregation in the sea urchin embryo

(2009) J. C. Croce et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Sp185/333: A novel family of genes and proteins involved in the purple sea urchin immune response

(2009) Julie Ghosh et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Defense system by mesenchyme cells in bipinnaria larvae of the starfish, Asterina pectinifera

(2008) Ryohei Furukawa et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Uncovering the evolutionary history of innate immunity: The simple metazoan Hydra uses epithelial cells for host defence

(2008) Thomas C.G. Bosch et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

The larval stages of the sea urchin,Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

(2008) M. Meighan Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Global regulatory logic for specification of an embryonic cell lineage

(2008) P. Oliveri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA