A Conserved Role for VEGF Signaling in Specification of Homologous Mesenchymal Cell Types Positioned at Spatially Distinct Developmental Addresses in Early Development of Sea Urchins

RNA-Seq identifies SPGs as a ventral skeletal patterning cue in sea urchins

(2016) Michael L. Piacentino et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Ancestral state reconstruction by comparative analysis of a GRN kernel operating in echinoderms

(2016) Eric M. Erkenbrack et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

The conserved genetic background for pluteus arm development in brittle stars and sea urchin

(2016) Yoshiaki Morino et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The origin and evolution of cell types

(2016) Detlev Arendt et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Experimental Approach Reveals the Role of alx1 in the Evolution of the Echinoderm Larval Skeleton

(2016) Hiroyuki Koga et al.   PLoS One

Divergence of ectodermal and mesodermal gene regulatory network linkages in early development of sea urchins

(2016) Eric M. Erkenbrack   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vascular endothelial growth factors: A comparison between invertebrates and vertebrates

(2015) Yulia O. Kipryushina et al.   CYTOKINE & GROWTH FACTOR REVIEWS

Juvenile skeletogenesis in anciently diverged sea urchin clades

(2015) Feng Gao et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Expession patterns of mesenchyme specification genes in two distantly related echinoids, Glyptocidaris crenularis and Echinocardium cordatum

(2015) Atsuko Yamazaki et al.   GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS

Evolutionary rewiring of gene regulatory network linkages at divergence of the echinoid subclasses

(2015) Eric M. Erkenbrack et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reorganization of sea urchin gene regulatory networks at least 268 million years ago as revealed by oldest fossil cidaroid echinoid

(2015) Jeffrey R. Thompson et al.   Scientific Reports

Larval mesenchyme cell specification in the primitive echinoid occurs independently of the double-negative gate

(2014) A. Yamazaki et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Signal-dependent regulation of the sea urchin skeletogenic gene regulatory network

(2014) Zhongling Sun et al.   GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS

The echinoderm larval skeleton as a possible model system for experimental evolutionary biology

(2014) Hiroyuki Koga et al.   GENESIS

Branching out: Origins of the sea urchin larval skeleton in development and evolution

(2014) Daniel C. McIntyre et al.   GENESIS

Phylogenomic analysis of echinoderm class relationships supports Asterozoa

(2014) M. J. Telford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Growth factor-mediated mesodermal cell guidance and skeletogenesis during sea urchin gastrulation

(2013) A. Adomako-Ankomah et al.   DEVELOPMENT

VEGF-Directed Blood Vessel Patterning: From Cells to Organism

(2013) V. L. Bautch   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Direct and indirect control of oral ectoderm regulatory gene expression by Nodal signaling in the sea urchin embryo

(2012) Enhu Li et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Heterochronic activation of VEGF signaling and the evolution of the skeleton in echinoderm pluteus larvae

(2012) Yoshiaki Morino et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Recombinant Sea Urchin Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Directs Single-Crystal Growth and Branching in Vitro

(2012) Regina T. Knapp et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Development of an embryonic skeletogenic mesenchyme lineage in a sea cucumber reveals the trajectory of change for the evolution of novel structures in echinoderms

(2012) Brenna S McCauley et al.   EvoDevo

The genomic regulatory control of skeletal morphogenesis in the sea urchin

(2011) K. Rafiq et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Resolving phylogenetic signal from noise when divergence is rapid: A new look at the old problem of echinoderm class relationships

(2011) Davide Pisani et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

In VivoStructure−Activity Relationship Study of Dorsomorphin Analogues Identifies Selective VEGF and BMP Inhibitors

(2009) Jijun Hao et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) regulates cranial neural crest migration in vivo

(2009) Rebecca McLennan et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

HpSulf, a heparan sulfate 6-O-endosulfatase, is involved in the regulation of VEGF signaling during sea urchin development

(2009) Kazumasa Fujita et al.   MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

Transfer of a large gene regulatory apparatus to a new developmental address in echinoid evolution

(2008) F. Gao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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