Phylogenomics meets neuroscience: How many times might complex brains have evolved?

Ultrastructure of the Retinal Synapses in Cubozoans

(2016) G. Clark Gray et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Dicyemid’s dilemma: structure versus genes. The unorthodox structure of dicyemid reproduction

(2011) Renate Czaker   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Direct Lineage Conversion of Terminally Differentiated Hepatocytes to Functional Neurons

(2011) Samuele Marro et al.   Cell Stem Cell

The evolution of nervous system patterning: insights from sea urchin development

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

Deuterostome neuroanatomy and the body plan paradox

(2011) Robert D. Burke   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Do jellyfish have central nervous systems?

(2011) R. A. Satterlie   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Distinction of Cell Types in Dicyema japonicum (Phylum Dicyemida) by Expression Patterns of 16 Genes

(2011) Kazutoyo Ogino et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools

(2011) Stephen A. Smith et al.   NATURE

Bespoke cells for the human brain

(2011) Michael Sendtner   NATURE

MicroRNA-mediated conversion of human fibroblasts to neurons

(2011) Andrew S. Yoo et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

(2011) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomic analyses unravel annelid evolution

(2011) Torsten H. Struck et al.   NATURE

A decade’s perspective on DNA sequencing technology

(2011) Elaine R. Mardis   NATURE

Improving our family tree

(2011) Tanita Casci   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Direct development of neurons within foregut endoderm of sea urchin embryos

(2011) Z. Wei et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Early evolution of the LIM homeobox gene family

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

On the Origin and Evolution of the Tripartite Brain

(2010) Frank Hirth   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Cladistic Analysis Reveals Brainless Urbilateria

(2010) R. Glenn Northcutt   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Evolutionary origin of rhopalia: insights from cellular-level analyses of Otx and POU expression patterns in the developing rhopalial nervous system

(2010) Nagayasu Nakanishi et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Phylogenetic Analysis of Dicyemid Mesozoans (Phylum Dicyemida) From Innexin Amino Acid Sequences: Dicyemids Are Not Related to Platyhelminthes

(2010) Takahito G. Suzuki et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Nuclear reprogramming to a pluripotent state by three approaches

(2010) Shinya Yamanaka et al.   NATURE

Direct conversion of fibroblasts to functional neurons by defined factors

(2010) Thomas Vierbuchen et al.   NATURE

Origin and early evolution of neural circuits for the control of ciliary locomotion

(2010) G. Jekely   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera diverged prior to the ParaHoxozoa

(2010) Joseph F Ryan et al.   EvoDevo

Developing Nervous Systems in Molluscs: Navigating the Twists and Turns of a Complex Life Cycle

(2009) Roger P. Croll   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

On the Independent Origins of Complex Brains and Neurons

(2009) Leonid L. Moroz   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Oct4-Induced Pluripotency in Adult Neural Stem Cells

(2009) Jeong Beom Kim et al.   CELL

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Multiple photoreceptor systems control the swim pacemaker activity in box jellyfish

(2009) A. Garm et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Direct reprogramming of human neural stem cells by OCT4

(2009) Jeong Beom Kim et al.   NATURE

To Be or Not to Be a Flatworm: The Acoel Controversy

(2009) Bernhard Egger et al.   PLoS One

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

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

Genomes as documents of evolutionary history

(2009) Bastien Boussau et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Adult-to-embryo chemical signaling in the regulation of larval development in trochophore animals: Cellular and molecular mechanisms

(2008) Elena Voronezhskaya et al.   ACTA BIOLOGICA HUNGARICA

Evo-Devo: Variations on Ancestral Themes

(2008) E.M. De Robertis   CELL

Sponge Genes Provide New Insight into the Evolutionary Origin of the Neurogenic Circuit

(2008) Gemma S. Richards et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Acoel development indicates the independent evolution of the bilaterian mouth and anus

(2008) Andreas Hejnol et al.   NATURE

The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans

(2008) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

(2008) Nicole King et al.   NATURE

Pluripotent stem cells induced from adult neural stem cells by reprogramming with two factors

(2008) Jeong Beom Kim et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

Acoel development supports a simple planula-like urbilaterian

(2008) A. Hejnol et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES