Developmental expression of “germline”- and “sex determination”-related genes in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

An ancient protein-DNA interaction underlying metazoan sex determination

(2015) Mark W Murphy et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

An ancient protein-DNA interaction underlying metazoan sex determination

(2015) Mark W Murphy et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Sex-specific and developmental expression of Dmrt genes in the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis

(2015) Nikki G Traylor-Knowles et al.   EvoDevo

Pan-metazoan phylogeny of the DMRT gene family: a framework for functional studies

(2014) Judith R. Wexler et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Developmental gene expression provides clues to relationships between sponge and eumetazoan body plans

(2014) Sven Leininger et al.   Nature Communications

Expression of multiple Sox genes through embryonic development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi is spatially restricted to zones of cell proliferation

(2014) Christine E Schnitzler et al.   EvoDevo

Expanding roles for the evolutionarily conserved Dmrt sex transcriptional regulators during embryogenesis

(2013) Eric J. Bellefroid et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Differential Expression of Conserved Germ Line Markers and Delayed Segregation of Male and Female Primordial Germ Cells in a Hermaphrodite, the Leech Helobdella

(2013) Sung-Jin Cho et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Lessons for inductive germline determination

(2013) Riyad N.H. Seervai et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs function in Hydra somatic stem cells

(2013) C. E. Juliano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

Autonomy in specification of primordial germ cells and their passive translocation in the sea urchin

(2012) M. Yajima et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Maternally localized germ plasm mRNAs and germ cell/stem cell formation in the cnidarian Clytia

(2012) Lucas Leclère et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Dmrt genes in the development and evolution of sexual dimorphism

(2012) Artyom Kopp   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Primordial Germ Cells in Mice

(2012) M. Saitou et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Hidden in the crowd: primordial germ cells and somatic stem cells in the mesodermal posterior growth zone of the polychaete Platynereis dumerillii are two distinct cell populations

(2012) Nicole Rebscher et al.   EvoDevo

Evolution of RNA-Binding Proteins in Animals: Insights from Genome-Wide Analysis in the Sponge Amphimedon queenslandica

(2011) P. Kerner et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The multiple hats of Vasa: Its functions in the germline and in cell cycle progression

(2011) Mamiko Yajima et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Environmental Sex Determination in the Branchiopod Crustacean Daphnia magna: Deep Conservation of a Doublesex Gene in the Sex-Determining Pathway

(2011) Yasuhiko Kato et al.   PLoS Genetics

Vasa genes: Emerging roles in the germ line and in multipotent cells

(2010) Eric A. Gustafson et al.   BIOESSAYS

Small micromeres contribute to the germline in the sea urchin

(2010) M. Yajima et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Somatic stem cells express Piwi and Vasa genes in an adult ctenophore: Ancient association of “germline genes” with stemness

(2010) Alexandre Alié et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Piwi expression in archeocytes and choanocytes in demosponges: insights into the stem cell system in demosponges

(2010) Noriko Funayama et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Identifying the germline in an equally cleaving mollusc: Vasa and Nanos expression during embryonic and larval development of the vetigastropod Haliotis asinina

(2010) Alexandrea M. Kranz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Versatile Germline Genes

(2010) C. Juliano et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2010) Kevin Pang et al.   EvoDevo

The molecular machinery of germ line specification

(2009) Ben Ewen-Campen et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

(2009) A. Hejnol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Vasa and nanos are coexpressed in somatic and germ line tissue from early embryonic cleavage stages through adulthood in the polychaete Capitella sp. I

(2008) Kariena K. Dill et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

The germ plasm component vasa allows tracing of the interstitial stem cells in the cnidarianHydractinia echinata

(2008) Nicole Rebscher et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Doublesex and the Regulation of Sexual Dimorphism inDrosophila melanogaster

(2008) Yanwu Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Insights into the early evolution ofSOXgenes from expression analyses in a ctenophore

(2008) Muriel Jager et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

Ordered progression of nematogenesis from stem cells through differentiation stages in the tentacle bulb of Clytia hemisphaerica (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria)

(2007) Elsa Denker et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY