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

New insights on ctenophore neural anatomy: Immunofluorescence study in Pleurobrachia pileus (Müller, 1776)

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Synaptic transmission and plasticity are modulated by nonmuscle myosin II at the neuromuscular junction of Drosophila

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Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Nonmuscle Myosin II helps regulate synaptic vesicle mobility at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction

(2010) Sara Seabrooke et al.   BMC NEUROSCIENCE

Cytoskeletal Cross-linking and Bundling in Motor-Independent Contraction

(2010) Sean X. Sun et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Somatic stem cells express Piwi and Vasa genes in an adult ctenophore: Ancient association of “germline genes” with stemness

(2010) Alexandre Alié et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

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

Non-muscle myosin II regulates survival threshold of pluripotent stem cells

(2010) Andrea Walker et al.   Nature Communications

Pulsation and stabilization: Contractile forces that underlie morphogenesis

(2009) Adam C. Martin   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Myosin II Is Essential for the Spatiotemporal Organization of Traction Forces during Cell Motility

(2009) Ruedi Meili et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Non-muscle myosin II takes centre stage in cell adhesion and migration

(2009) Miguel Vicente-Manzanares et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

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

EdU, a new thymidine analogue for labelling proliferating cells in the nervous system

(2008) Fatemah Chehrehasa et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

Pulsed contractions of an actin–myosin network drive apical constriction

(2008) Adam C. Martin 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

Germ line activation of the Tie2 and SMMHC promoters causes noncell-specific deletion of floxed alleles

(2008) Willem J. de Lange et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS