Evolving gene regulatory networks into cellular networks guiding adaptive behavior: an outline how single cells could have evolved into a centralized neurosensory system

Spontaneous hair cell regeneration in the neonatal mouse cochlea in vivo

(2014) B. C. Cox et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The evolutionary history of vertebrate cranial placodes II. Evolution of ectodermal patterning

(2014) Gerhard Schlosser et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The evolutionary history of vertebrate cranial placodes – I: Cell type evolution

(2014) Cedric Patthey et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Neural crest and placode interaction during the development of the cranial sensory system

(2014) Ben Steventon et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

A genome-wide survey of bHLH transcription factors in the Placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens reveals the ancient repertoire of this gene family in metazoan

(2014) Fuki Gyoja   GENE

Cilia and the life of ctenophores

(2014) Sidney L. Tamm   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

ATP Hydrolysis Is Critically Required for Function of CaV1.3 Channels in Cochlear Inner Hair Cells via Fueling Ca2+ Clearance

(2014) S. Weiler et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Form and function remixed: developmental physiology in the evolution of vertebrate body plans

(2014) Stuart A. Newman   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

A Global Regulatory Mechanism for Activating an Exon Network Required for Neurogenesis

(2014) Bushra Raj et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

bHLH Factors in Self-Renewal, Multipotency, and Fate Choice of Neural Progenitor Cells

(2014) Itaru Imayoshi et al.   NEURON

The ARID-HMG DNA-binding protein AtHMGB15 is required for pollen tube growth inArabidopsis thaliana

(2014) Chuan Xia et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

In Vivo Generation of Immature Inner Hair Cells in Neonatal Mouse Cochleae by Ectopic Atoh1 Expression

(2014) Zhiyong Liu et al.   PLoS One

Targeted Deletion of Sox10 by Wnt1-cre Defects Neuronal Migration and Projection in the Mouse Inner Ear

(2014) YanYan Mao et al.   PLoS One

Epigenome-Wide DNA Methylation in Hearing Ability: New Mechanisms for an Old Problem

(2014) Lisa E. Wolber et al.   PLoS One

Interchromosomal Communication Coordinates Intrinsically Stochastic Expression Between Alleles

(2014) R. J. Johnston et al.   SCIENCE

Somites Without a Clock

(2014) A. S. Dias et al.   SCIENCE

Composition of isolated synaptic boutons reveals the amounts of vesicle trafficking proteins

(2014) B. G. Wilhelm et al.   SCIENCE

The emerging roles of TCF4 in disease and development

(2014) Marc P. Forrest et al.   TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Did the ctenophore nervous system evolve independently?

(2014) Joseph F. Ryan   ZOOLOGY

MANF Is Indispensable for the Proliferation and Survival of Pancreatic β Cells

(2014) Maria Lindahl et al.   Cell Reports

Expression of multiple Sox genes through embryonic development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi is spatially restricted to zones of cell proliferation

(2014) Christine E Schnitzler et al.   EvoDevo

Evolution of the Pax-Six-Eya-Dach network: the calcisponge case study

(2014) Sofia AV Fortunato et al.   EvoDevo

A BMP-FGF Morphogen Toggle Switch Drives the Ultrasensitive Expression of Multiple Genes in the Developing Forebrain

(2014) Shyam Srinivasan et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Different ways to make neurons: parallel evolution in the SoxB family

(2014) Nathalie Neriec et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Modeling Gene Expression in Time and Space

(2013) Pau Rué et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Developmental Fate and Cellular Maturity Encoded in Human Regulatory DNA Landscapes

(2013) Andrew B. Stergachis et al.   CELL

Evolution of Development: The Details Are in the Entrails

(2013) Mark Q. Martindale   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolution and development of the tetrapod auditory system: an organ of Corti-centric perspective

(2013) Bernd Fritzsch et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The Bruchpilot cytomatrix determines the size of the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles

(2013) Tanja Matkovic et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Evolution of vertebrate mechanosensory hair cells and inner ears: toward identifying stimuli that select mutation driven altered morphologies

(2013) Bernd Fritzsch et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

MicroRNAs support the monophyly of enteropneust hemichordates

(2013) Kevin J. Peterson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

(2013) Tetyana Nosenko et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Generation of inner ear sensory epithelia from pluripotent stem cells in 3D culture

(2013) Karl R. Koehler et al.   NATURE

The genetic causes of convergent evolution

(2013) David L. Stern   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Notch Inhibition Induces Cochlear Hair Cell Regeneration and Recovery of Hearing after Acoustic Trauma

(2013) Kunio Mizutari et al.   NEURON

Structure-function analysis of Hmo1 unveils an ancestral organization of HMG-Box factors involved in ribosomal DNA transcription from yeast to human

(2013) Benjamin Albert et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Transplantation of Xenopus laevis Tissues to Determine the Ability of Motor Neurons to Acquire a Novel Target

(2013) Karen L. Elliott et al.   PLoS One

Continued Expression of GATA3 Is Necessary for Cochlear Neurosensory Development

(2013) Jeremy S. Duncan et al.   PLoS One

Characterization of the Structural and Functional Determinants of MANF/CDNF in Drosophila In Vivo Model

(2013) Riitta Lindström et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of phototransduction, vertebrate photoreceptors and retina

(2013) Trevor D. Lamb   PROGRESS IN RETINAL AND EYE RESEARCH

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

Programmed Cell Death in Neuronal Development

(2013) M. P. J. Dekkers et al.   SCIENCE

A developmental ontology for the mammalian brain based on the prosomeric model

(2013) Luis Puelles et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

The Capsaspora genome reveals a complex unicellular prehistory of animals

(2013) Hiroshi Suga et al.   Nature Communications

Genomic Regions Flanking E-Box Binding Sites Influence DNA Binding Specificity of bHLH Transcription Factors through DNA Shape

(2013) Raluca Gordân et al.   Cell Reports

A Network of HMG-box Transcription Factors Regulates Sexual Cycle in the Fungus Podospora anserina

(2013) Jinane Ait Benkhali et al.   PLoS Genetics

Regulated aggregative multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of metazoa

(2013) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   eLife

Premetazoan genome evolution and the regulation of cell differentiation in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2013) Stephen R Fairclough et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Network motif comparison rationalizes Sec1/Munc18-SNARE regulation mechanism in exocytosis

(2012) Tian Xia et al.   BMC Systems Biology

Understanding the evolution and development of neurosensory transcription factors of the ear to enhance therapeutic translation

(2012) Ning Pan et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

EYA1 and SIX1 drive the neuronal developmental program in cooperation with the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex and SOX2 in the mammalian inner ear

(2012) M. Ahmed et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Eya1-Six1 Interaction Is Sufficient to Induce Hair Cell Fate in the Cochlea by Activating Atoh1 Expression in Cooperation with Sox2

(2012) Mohi Ahmed et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Correct Timing of Proliferation and Differentiation is Necessary for Normal Inner Ear Development and Auditory Hair Cell Viability

(2012) Benjamin J. Kopecky et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Experimental approaches for gene regulatory network construction: The chick as a model system

(2012) Andrea Streit et al.   GENESIS

Induction of the inner ear: Stepwise specification of otic fate from multipotent progenitors

(2012) Jingchen Chen et al.   HEARING RESEARCH

Beyond generalized hair cells: Molecular cues for hair cell types

(2012) Israt Jahan et al.   HEARING RESEARCH

The logic of gene regulatory networks in early vertebrate forebrain patterning

(2012) Leonardo Beccari et al.   MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

Chasing the urmetazoon: Striking a blow for quality data?

(2012) Hans-Jürgen Osigus et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Ancient deuterostome origins of vertebrate brain signalling centres

(2012) Ariel M. Pani et al.   NATURE

The Presynaptic Active Zone

(2012) Thomas C. Südhof   NEURON

A Triantagonistic Basic Helix-Loop-Helix System Regulates Cell Elongation in Arabidopsis

(2012) M. Ikeda et al.   PLANT CELL

Expression of Neurog1 Instead of Atoh1 Can Partially Rescue Organ of Corti Cell Survival

(2012) Israt Jahan et al.   PLoS One

Egr2::Cre Mediated Conditional Ablation of Dicer Disrupts Histogenesis of Mammalian Central Auditory Nuclei

(2012) Elena Rosengauer et al.   PLoS One

The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost

(2012) S. Herculano-Houzel   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of centralized nervous systems: Two schools of evolutionary thought

(2012) R. G. Northcutt   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The amniote paratympanic organ develops from a previously undiscovered sensory placode

(2012) Paul O'Neill et al.   Nature Communications

A Mutation in the Srrm4 Gene Causes Alternative Splicing Defects and Deafness in the Bronx Waltzer Mouse

(2012) Yoko Nakano et al.   PLoS Genetics

Activin and GDF11 collaborate in feedback control of neuroepithelial stem cell proliferation and fate

(2011) K. K. Gokoffski et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Cell differentiation and morphogenesis in the colony-forming choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2011) Mark J. Dayel et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Mapping Gene Expression in Two Xenopus Species: Evolutionary Constraints and Developmental Flexibility

(2011) Itai Yanai et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Motoneuron programmed cell death in response to proBDNF

(2011) Anna R. Taylor et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

microRNA complements in deuterostomes: origin and evolution of microRNAs

(2011) Florent Campo-Paysaa et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The role of sensory organs and the forebrain for the development of the craniofacial shape as revealed by Foxg1-cre-mediated microRNA loss

(2011) Jennifer Kersigo et al.   GENESIS

Do jellyfish have central nervous systems?

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

Diversification and Molecular Evolution of ATOH8, a Gene Encoding a bHLH Transcription Factor

(2011) Jingchen Chen et al.   PLoS One

The molecular origins of evolutionary innovations

(2011) Andreas Wagner   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Synaptic Vesicle Exocytosis

(2011) T. C. Sudhof et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Mutual Inactivation of Notch Receptors and Ligands Facilitates Developmental Patterning

(2011) David Sprinzak et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Pax2 and Pax8 cooperate in mouse inner ear morphogenesis and innervation

(2010) Maxime Bouchard et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The role of bHLH genes in ear development and evolution: revisiting a 10-year-old hypothesis

(2010) Bernd Fritzsch et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

MicroRNA-183 family conservation and ciliated neurosensory organ expression

(2010) Marsha L. Pierce et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Sox2 Induces Neuronal Formation in the Developing Mammalian Cochlea

(2010) C. Puligilla et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Neurod1 Suppresses Hair Cell Differentiation in Ear Ganglia and Regulates Hair Cell Subtype Development in the Cochlea

(2010) Israt Jahan et al.   PLoS One

MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion

(2009) Kevin J. Peterson et al.   BIOESSAYS

Defects in the cerebella of conditional Neurod1 null mice correlate with effective Tg(Atoh1-cre) recombination and granule cell requirements for Neurod1 for differentiation

(2009) Ning Pan et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Early evolution of metazoan transcription factors

(2009) Bernard M Degnan et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling in neural development

(2009) Andrew S Yoo et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Residual microRNA expression dictates the extent of inner ear development in conditional Dicer knockout mice

(2009) Garrett A. Soukup et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Differential and overlapping expression pattern of SOX2 and SOX9 in inner ear development

(2009) Angel C.Y. Mak et al.   GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS

Dynamical patterning modules: a "pattern language" for development and evolution of multicellular form

(2009) Stuart A. Newman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty

(2009) Neil Shubin et al.   NATURE

miR-124 regulates adult neurogenesis in the subventricular zone stem cell niche

(2009) Li-Chun Cheng et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The 'division of labour' model of eye evolution

(2009) D. Arendt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neurogenin2 Directs Granule Neuroblast Production and Amplification while NeuroD1 Specifies Neuronal Fate during Hippocampal Neurogenesis

(2009) Laurent Roybon et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary conservation of mechanisms for neural regionalization, proliferation and interconnection in brain development

(2008) H. Reichert   Biology Letters

Ectodermal Factor Restricts Mesoderm Differentiation by Inhibiting p53

(2008) Noriaki Sasai et al.   CELL

Having it both ways: Sox protein function between conservation and innovation

(2008) S. I. E. Guth et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

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

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

An aboral-dorsalization hypothesis for chordate origin

(2008) Nori Satoh   GENESIS

Man is but a worm: Chordate origins

(2008) Federico D. Brown et al.   GENESIS

Chordate origins and evolution

(2008) Billie J. Swalla et al.   GENESIS

Evolution of the neural crest viewed from a gene regulatory perspective

(2008) Tatjana Sauka-Spengler et al.   GENESIS

Eya1 gene dosage critically affects the development of sensory epithelia in the mammalian inner ear

(2008) D. Zou et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Molecular genetic insights into deuterostome evolution from the direct-developing hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii

(2008) C. J Lowe   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of nervous system centralization

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

Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives

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

Sox2 signaling in prosensory domain specification and subsequent hair cell differentiation in the developing cochlea

(2008) A. Dabdoub et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA