RNA interference in marine and freshwater sponges: actin knockdown in Tethya wilhelma and Ephydatia muelleri by ingested dsRNA expressing bacteria

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What sponges can tell us about the evolution of developmental processes

(2011) Maja Adamska et al.   ZOOLOGY

The stem cell system in demosponges: Insights into the origin of somatic stem cells

(2010) Noriko Funayama   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

β-catenin plays a central role in setting up the head organizer in hydra

(2010) Lydia Gee et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Wnt signaling and induction in the sponge aquiferous system: evidence for an ancient origin of the organizer

(2010) Pamela J. Windsor et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Freshwater Sponges Have Functional, Sealing Epithelia with High Transepithelial Resistance and Negative Transepithelial Potential

(2010) Emily D. M. Adams et al.   PLoS One

The Homoscleromorph spongeOscarellalobularis, a promising sponge model in evolutionary and developmental biology

(2009) Alexander V. Ereskovsky et al.   BIOESSAYS

Distinctive Paleo-Indian Migration Routes from Beringia Marked by Two Rare mtDNA Haplogroups

(2009) Ugo A. Perego et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Highly conserved functions of the Brachyury gene on morphogenetic movements: Insight from the early-diverging phylum Ctenophora

(2009) Atsuko Yamada et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Sponge budding is a spatiotemporal morphological patterning process: Insights from synchrotron radiation-based x-ray microtomography into the asexual reproduction of Tethya wilhelma

(2009) Jörg U Hammel et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Cell kinetics of the marine sponge Halisarca caerulea reveal rapid cell turnover and shedding

(2009) J. M. De Goeij et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa

(2009) E. A. Sperling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Amplification efficiency: linking baseline and bias in the analysis of quantitative PCR data

(2009) J. M. Ruijter et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Exploring the early origins of the synapse by comparative genomics

(2008) K. S Kosik   Biology Letters

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

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

Reconstructing ordinal relationships in the Demospongiae using mitochondrial genomic data

(2008) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

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

(2008) Detlev Arendt   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS