An FGF-driven feed-forward circuit patterns the cardiopharyngeal mesoderm in space and time

Wnt signaling balances specification of the cardiac and pharyngeal muscle fields

(2017) Amrita Mandal et al.   MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

JASPAR 2018: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles and its web framework

(2017) Aziz Khan et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The invariant cleavage pattern displayed by ascidian embryos depends on spindle positioning along the cell's longest axis in the apical plane and relies on asynchronous cell divisions

(2017) Rémi Dumollard et al.   eLife

Isl2b regulates anterior second heart field development in zebrafish

(2017) Hagen R. Witzel et al.   Scientific Reports

Cycling through developmental decisions: how cell cycle dynamics control pluripotency, differentiation and reprogramming

(2016) Abdenour Soufi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Rewiring of an ancestral Tbx1/10-Ebf-Mrf network for pharyngeal muscle specification in distinct embryonic lineages

(2016) Theadora Tolkin et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Initiation of stem cell differentiation involves cell cycle-dependent regulation of developmental genes by Cyclin D

(2016) Siim Pauklin et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Syntax compensates for poor binding sites to encode tissue specificity of developmental enhancers

(2016) Emma K. Farley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Development of Bipotent Cardiac/Skeletal Myogenic Progenitors from MESP1+ Mesoderm

(2016) Sunny Sun-Kin Chan et al.   Stem Cell Reports

Regulation and evolution of cardiopharyngeal cell identity and behavior: insights from simple chordates

(2015) Nicole Kaplan et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Diverse ETS transcription factors mediate FGF signaling in the Ciona anterior neural plate

(2015) T. Blair Gainous et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

An early requirement for nkx2.5 ensures the first and second heart field ventricular identity and cardiac function into adulthood

(2015) Vanessa George et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Mitotic Membrane Turnover Coordinates Differential Induction of the Heart Progenitor Lineage

(2015) Christina D. Cota et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

A Cranial Mesoderm Origin for Esophagus Striated Muscles

(2015) Swetha Gopalakrishnan et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

A new heart for a new head in vertebrate cardiopharyngeal evolution

(2015) Rui Diogo et al.   NATURE

Clonal analysis reveals a common origin between nonsomite-derived neck muscles and heart myocardium

(2015) Fabienne Lescroart et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Suboptimization of developmental enhancers

(2015) E. K. Farley et al.   SCIENCE

Linking the Cell Cycle to Cell Fate Decisions

(2015) Stephen Dalton   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Chamber identity programs drive early functional partitioning of the heart

(2015) Christian Mosimann et al.   Nature Communications

Dual-specificity phosphatases: critical regulators with diverse cellular targets

(2015) Kate I. Patterson et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Morphological Differences between Larvae of the Ciona intestinalis Species Complex: Hints for a Valid Taxonomic Definition of Distinct Species

(2015) Roberta Pennati et al.   PLoS One

Determination and Inference of Eukaryotic Transcription Factor Sequence Specificity

(2014) Matthew T. Weirauch et al.   CELL

Nuclear to cytoplasmic shuttling of ERK promotes differentiation of muscle stem/progenitor cells

(2014) I. Michailovici et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Islet is a key determinant of ascidian palp morphogenesis

(2014) E. Wagner et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Tissue-specific genome editing in Ciona embryos by CRISPR/Cas9

(2014) A. Stolfi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Ephrin-mediated restriction of ERK1/2 activity delimits the number of pigment cells in the Ciona CNS

(2014) Nicolas Haupaix et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Collier/OLF/EBF-Dependent Transcriptional Dynamics Control Pharyngeal Muscle Specification from Primed Cardiopharyngeal Progenitors

(2014) Florian Razy-Krajka et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Guidelines for the nomenclature of genetic elements in tunicate genomes

(2014) Alberto Stolfi et al.   GENESIS

Early lineage restriction in temporally distinct populations of Mesp1 progenitors during mammalian heart development

(2014) Fabienne Lescroart et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Regulation of the Number of Cell Division Rounds by Tissue-Specific Transcription Factors and Cdk Inhibitor during Ascidian Embryogenesis

(2014) Mami Kuwajima et al.   PLoS One

Fibroblast growth factor signalling controls nervous system patterning and pigment cell formation in Ciona intestinalis

(2014) Claudia Racioppi et al.   Nature Communications

Divergent mechanisms regulate conserved cardiopharyngeal development and gene expression in distantly related ascidians

(2014) Alberto Stolfi et al.   eLife

The Cell-Cycle State of Stem Cells Determines Cell Fate Propensity

(2013) Siim Pauklin et al.   CELL

Mesp1 Patterns Mesoderm into Cardiac, Hematopoietic, or Skeletal Myogenic Progenitors in a Context-Dependent Manner

(2013) Sunny Sun-Kin Chan et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Matrix adhesion polarizes heart progenitor induction in the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis

(2013) J. Norton et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Tbx1 is required for second heart field proliferation in zebrafish

(2013) Kathleen Nevis et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

NK4 Antagonizes Tbx1/10 to Promote Cardiac versus Pharyngeal Muscle Fate in the Ascidian Second Heart Field

(2013) Wei Wang et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Lineage Tree for the Venous Pole of the Heart

(2012) Fabienne Lescroart et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Initial deployment of the cardiogenic gene regulatory network in the basal chordate, Ciona intestinalis

(2012) Arielle Woznica et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Fibroblast growth factor 10 gene regulation in the second heart field by Tbx1, Nkx2-5, and Islet1 reveals a genetic switch for down-regulation in the myocardium

(2012) Y. Watanabe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pharyngeal mesoderm development during embryogenesis: implications for both heart and head myogenesis

(2011) E. Tzahor et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Stage-Specific Optimization of Activin/Nodal and BMP Signaling Promotes Cardiac Differentiation of Mouse and Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines

(2011) Steven J. Kattman et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Dynamic control of head mesoderm patterning

(2011) I. Bothe et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Neural tube patterning by Ephrin, FGF and Notch signaling relays

(2011) A. Stolfi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Mef2cb regulates late myocardial cell addition from a second heart field-like population of progenitors in zebrafish

(2011) Savo Lazic et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cytoskeletal polarity mediates localized induction of the heart progenitor lineage

(2011) James Cooley et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Embryonic stem cell–based mapping of developmental transcriptional programs

(2011) Esteban O Mazzoni et al.   NATURE METHODS

Cell Signaling by Receptor Tyrosine Kinases

(2010) Mark A. Lemmon et al.   CELL

A cis-Regulatory Signature in Ascidians and Flies, Independent of Transcription Factor Binding Sites

(2010) Pierre Khoueiry et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Programming embryonic stem cells to neuronal subtypes

(2010) Mirza Peljto et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Arterial pole progenitors interpret opposing FGF/BMP signals to proliferate or differentiate

(2010) M. R. Hutson et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Clonal analysis reveals common lineage relationships between head muscles and second heart field derivatives in the mouse embryo

(2010) F. Lescroart et al.   DEVELOPMENT

BMP-mediated inhibition of FGF signaling promotes cardiomyocyte differentiation of anterior heart field progenitors

(2010) L. Tirosh-Finkel et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Early Chordate Origins of the Vertebrate Second Heart Field

(2010) A. Stolfi et al.   SCIENCE

Epicardium and Myocardium Separate From a Common Precursor Pool by Crosstalk Between Bone Morphogenetic Protein– and Fibroblast Growth Factor–Signaling Pathways

(2009) Bram van Wijk et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Tbx1 Regulates Proliferation and Differentiation of Multipotent Heart Progenitors

(2009) Li Chen et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Role of Mesodermal FGF8 and FGF10 Overlaps in the Development of the Arterial Pole of the Heart and Pharyngeal Arch Arteries

(2009) Yusuke Watanabe et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Distinct and dynamic myogenic populations in the vertebrate embryo

(2009) Margaret Buckingham et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Distinct phases of cardiomyocyte differentiation regulate growth of the zebrafish heart

(2009) E. de Pater et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Heart and craniofacial muscle development: A new developmental theme of distinct myogenic fields

(2009) Eldad Tzahor   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Mesp1 Acts as a Master Regulator of Multipotent Cardiovascular Progenitor Specification

(2008) Antoine Bondue et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Context-dependent regulation of Groucho/TLE-mediated repression

(2008) Einat Cinnamon et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Ephrin signaling establishes asymmetric cell fates in an endomesoderm lineage of the Ciona embryo

(2008) W. Shi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Multiple RTK pathways downregulate Groucho-mediated repression in Drosophila embryogenesis

(2008) E. Cinnamon et al.   DEVELOPMENT

FGF3 in the floor plate directs notochord convergent extension in the Ciona tadpole

(2008) W. Shi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The contribution of Islet1-expressing splanchnic mesoderm cells to distinct branchiomeric muscles reveals significant heterogeneity in head muscle development

(2008) E. Nathan et al.   DEVELOPMENT

An FGF autocrine loop initiated in second heart field mesoderm regulates morphogenesis at the arterial pole of the heart

(2008) E. J. Park et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Trunk lateral cells are neural crest-like cells in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis: Insights into the ancestry and evolution of the neural crest

(2008) William R. Jeffery et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Reiterative roles for FGF signaling in the establishment of size and proportion of the zebrafish heart

(2008) Sara R. Marques et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

M-Ras evolved independently of R-Ras and its neural function is conserved between mammalian and ascidian, which lacks classical Ras

(2008) Etsuko Keduka et al.   GENE

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

(2008) Nicholas H. Putnam et al.   NATURE

The Transcription/Migration Interface in Heart Precursors of Ciona intestinalis

(2008) L. Christiaen et al.   SCIENCE