Single-cell atlases of two lophotrochozoan larvae highlight their complex evolutionary histories

Annelid functional genomics reveal the origins of bilaterian life cycles

(2023) Francisco M. Martín-Zamora et al.   NATURE

Mantle Transcriptome Provides Insights into Biomineralization and Growth Regulation in the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica)

(2022) Dan Zeng et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genome Assembly of the Polyclad Flatworm Prostheceraeus crozieri

(2022) Daniel J Leite et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Deep learning of cross-species single-cell landscapes identifies conserved regulatory programs underlying cell types

(2022) Jiaqi Li et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Homologous gene regulatory networks control development of apical organs and brains in Bilateria

(2022) Roberto Feuda et al.   Science Advances

Integrating single cell transcriptomics and volume electron microscopy confirms the presence of pancreatic acinar-like cells in sea urchins

(2022) Periklis Paganos et al.   Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Evolutionary Cell Type Mapping with Single-Cell Genomics

(2021) Amos Tanay et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Mapping single-cell atlases throughout Metazoa unravels cell type evolution

(2021) Alexander J Tarashansky et al.   eLife

A chromosome-level genome assembly for the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

(2021) Carolina Peñaloza et al.   GigaScience

Molecular evidence for a single origin of ultrafiltration-based excretory organs

(2021) Ludwik Gąsiorowski et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Nemertean, brachiopod and phoronid neuropeptidomics reveals ancestral spiralian signalling systems

(2021) Daniel Thiel et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evidence from oyster suggests an ancient role for Pdx in regulating insulin gene expression in animals

(2021) Fei Xu et al.   Nature Communications

Ciliary photoreceptors in sea urchin larvae indicate pan-deuterostome cell type conservation

(2021) Jonathan E. Valencia et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Profiling cellular diversity in sponges informs animal cell type and nervous system evolution

(2021) Jacob M. Musser et al.   SCIENCE

Single-cell RNA sequencing of the Strongylocentrotus purpuratus larva reveals the blueprint of major cell types and nervous system of a non-chordate deuterostome

(2021) Periklis Paganos et al.   eLife

Differences in proteomic profile between two haemocyte types, granulocytes and hyalinocytes, of the flat oyster Ostrea edulis

(2020) Nuria R. de la Ballina et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Evolutionary transcriptomics of metazoan biphasic life cycle supports a single intercalation origin of metazoan larvae

(2020) Jing Wang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Genes with spiralian-specific protein motifs are expressed in spiralian ciliary bands

(2020) Longjun Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Gene expression does not support the developmental hourglass model in three animals with spiralian development

(2019) Longjun Wu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Comprehensive Integration of Single-Cell Data

(2019) Tim Stuart et al.   CELL

Reinvestigating the early embryogenesis in the flatworm Maritigrella crozieri highlights the unique spiral cleavage program found in polyclad flatworms

(2019) Johannes Girstmair et al.   EvoDevo

Neuronal coordination of motile cilia in locomotion and feeding

(2019) Milena Marinković et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cnidarian Cell Type Diversity and Regulation Revealed by Whole-Organism Single-Cell RNA-Seq

(2018) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   CELL

Third-generationin situhybridization chain reaction: multiplexed, quantitative, sensitive, versatile, robust

(2018) Harry M. T. Choi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Nervous system development in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas (Mollusca: Bivalvia)

(2018) Olga V. Yurchenko et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Whole-Body Single-Cell Sequencing Reveals Transcriptional Domains in the Annelid Larval Body

(2018) Kaia Achim et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The dynamics of gene expression in vertebrate embryogenesis at single-cell resolution

(2018) James A. Briggs et al.   SCIENCE

Ectomesoderm and EMT-related genes in spiralian development

(2018) C. Cornelia Osborne et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Xenacoelomorph Neuropeptidomes Reveal a Major Expansion of Neuropeptide Systems during Early Bilaterian Evolution

(2018) Daniel Thiel et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

foxF-1 Controls Specification of Non-body Wall Muscle and Phagocytic Cells in Planarians

(2018) M. Lucila Scimone et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ciliomotor circuitry underlying whole-body coordination of ciliary activity in the Platynereis larva

(2017) Csaba Verasztó et al.   eLife

Gut-like ectodermal tissue in a sea anemone challenges germ layer homology

(2017) Patrick R. H. Steinmetz et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evolution of the molluscan body plan: the case of the anterior adductor muscle of bivalves

(2016) Yoshihisa Kurita et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A thymosin beta-4 is involved in production of hemocytes and immune defense of Hong Kong oyster, Crassostrea hongkongensis

(2016) Jun Li et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Hematopoiesis in Bivalvia larvae: Cellular origin, differentiation of hemocytes, and neoplasia

(2016) Vyacheslav A. Dyachuk   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

The origin and evolution of cell types

(2016) Detlev Arendt et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Shaping the Things to Come: Ontogeny of Lophotrochozoan Neuromuscular Systems and the Tetraneuralia Concept

(2016) Andreas Wanninger   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

High expression of new genes in trochophore enlightening the ontogeny and evolution of trochozoans

(2016) Fei Xu et al.   Scientific Reports

Larval body patterning and apical organs are conserved in animal evolution

(2014) Heather Marlow et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Identification two novel nacrein-like proteins involved in the shell formation of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

(2014) Xiaorui Song et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

The diversity, development and evolution of polyclad flatworm larvae

(2014) Kate A Rawlinson   EvoDevo

The neuropeptide complement of the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii

(2013) Markus Conzelmann et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Identification of a tyrosinase gene potentially involved in early larval shell biogenesis of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

(2013) Pin Huan et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Pattern and process during sea urchin gut morphogenesis: The regulatory landscape

(2013) Rossella Annunziata et al.   GENESIS

Innervation of bivalve larval catch muscles by serotonergic and FMRFamidergicneurons

(2012) V. Dyachuk et al.   ACTA BIOLOGICA HUNGARICA

A regulatory program for excretory system regeneration in planarians

(2011) M. L. Scimone et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The segmental pattern of otx, gbx, and Hox genes in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii

(2011) Patrick R. H. Steinmetz et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Development of the larval muscle system in the mussel Mytilus trossulus (Mollusca, Bivalvia)

(2010) Vyacheslav Dyachuk et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Embryonic and post-embryonic development of the polyclad flatworm Maritigrella crozieri; implications for the evolution of spiralian life history traits

(2010) Kate A Rawlinson   Frontiers in Zoology

Ancient animal microRNAs and the evolution of tissue identity

(2010) Foteini Christodoulou et al.   NATURE

Molecular Analysis of Stem Cells and Their Descendants during Cell Turnover and Regeneration in the Planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

(2008) George T. Eisenhoffer et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Early Development of the Japanese Spiny Oyster (Saccostrea kegaki): Characterization of Some Genetic Markers

(2008) Shota Kakoi et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE