The evolutionary origin of bilaterian smooth and striated myocytes

Animal Evolution: The Hard Problem of Cartilage Origins

(2016) Thibaut Brunet et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The genetic program for cartilage development has deep homology within Bilateria

(2016) Oscar A. Tarazona et al.   NATURE

Xenacoelomorpha is the sister group to Nephrozoa

(2016) Johanna Taylor Cannon et al.   NATURE

The origin and evolution of cell types

(2016) Detlev Arendt et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Coregulation of tandem duplicate genes slows evolution of subfunctionalization in mammals

(2016) X. Lan et al.   SCIENCE

The study of Priapulus caudatus reveals conserved molecular patterning underlying different gut morphogenesis in the Ecdysozoa

(2015) José M Martín-Durán et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

A Cranial Mesoderm Origin for Esophagus Striated Muscles

(2015) Swetha Gopalakrishnan et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Dual embryonic origin and patterning of the pharyngeal skeleton in the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)

(2015) Elizabeth M. Sefton et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Myoinhibitory peptide regulates feeding in the marine annelid Platynereis

(2015) Elizabeth A Williams et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Character trees from transcriptome data: Origin and individuation of morphological characters and the so-called “species signal”

(2015) Jacob M. Musser et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

From damage response to action potentials: early evolution of neural and contractile modules in stem eukaryotes

(2015) Thibaut Brunet et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An invertebrate smooth muscle with striated muscle myosin filaments

(2015) Guidenn Sulbarán et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The statistical geometry of transcriptome divergence in cell-type evolution and cancer

(2015) Cong Liang et al.   Nature Communications

Evolution and Classification of Myosins, a Paneukaryotic Whole-Genome Approach

(2014) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Global MEF2 target gene analysis in cardiac and skeletal muscle reveals novel regulation of DUSP6 by p38MAPK-MEF2 signaling

(2014) Stephanie Wales et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Development of the annelid axochord: Insights into notochord evolution

(2014) A. Lauri et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2014) Sven Leininger et al.   Nature Communications

The Transcription Factor Foxf1 Binds to Serum Response Factor and Myocardin to Regulate Gene Transcription in Visceral Smooth Muscle Cells

(2013) April M. Hoggatt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Muscle Cells Provide Instructions for Planarian Regeneration

(2013) Jessica N. Witchley et al.   Cell Reports

Myogenesis in the sea urchin embryo: the molecular fingerprint of the myoblast precursors

(2013) Carmen Andrikou et al.   EvoDevo

Independent specialisation of myosin II paralogues in muscle vs. non-muscle functions during early animal evolution: a ctenophore perspective

(2012) Cyrielle Dayraud et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Multinucleated smooth muscles and mononucleated as well as multinucleated striated muscles develop during establishment of the male reproductive organs of Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) Loreen Susic-Jung et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

(2012) Patrick R. H. Steinmetz et al.   NATURE

Whole-body gene expression pattern registration in Platynereis larvae

(2012) Albina Asadulina et al.   EvoDevo

Complex functions of Mef2 splice variants in the differentiation of endoderm and of a neuronal cell type in a sea anemone

(2011) G. Genikhovich et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Combinatorial coding of Drosophila muscle shape by Collier and Nautilus

(2011) Jonathan Enriquez et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The normal development of Platynereis dumerilii (Nereididae, Annelida)

(2011) Antje HL Fischer et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Muscle type-specific expression of Zasp52 isoforms in Drosophila

(2011) Anja Katzemich et al.   GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS

Molecular architecture of muscles in an acoel and its evolutionary implications

(2011) Marta Chiodin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

An Imbalancing Act: Gap Junctions Reduce the Backward Motor Circuit Activity to Bias C. elegans for Forward Locomotion

(2011) Taizo Kawano et al.   NEURON

The Cardiac Transcription Network Modulated by Gata4, Mef2a, Nkx2.5, Srf, Histone Modifications, and MicroRNAs

(2011) Jenny Schlesinger et al.   PLoS Genetics

Clustered Fox genes in lophotrochozoans and the evolution of the bilaterian Fox gene cluster

(2010) Sebastian M. Shimeld et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Complementary striped expression patterns of NK homeobox genes during segment formation in the annelid Platynereis

(2008) Alexandra Saudemont et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The evolution of cell types in animals: emerging principles from molecular studies

(2008) Detlev Arendt   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The myocardin-related transcription factor, MASTR, cooperates with MyoD to activate skeletal muscle gene expression

(2008) S. M. Meadows et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Invertebrate muscles: Thin and thick filament structure; molecular basis of contraction and its regulation, catch and asynchronous muscle

(2008) Scott L. Hooper et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY