Cellular and molecular processes leading to embryo formation in sponges: evidences for high conservation of processes throughout animal evolution

Dissecting the PCP pathway: One or more pathways?

(2011) Pascal Lapébie et al.   BIOESSAYS

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

(2011) Ajna S Rivera et al.   BMC BIOTECHNOLOGY

No longer Demospongiae: Homoscleromorpha formal nomination as a fourth class of Porifera

(2011) Eve Gazave et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

What sponges can tell us about the evolution of developmental processes

(2011) Maja Adamska et al.   ZOOLOGY

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Cell-Cell Adhesion in the Cnidaria: Insights Into the Evolution of Tissue Morphogenesis

(2010) Craig R. Magie et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Does the High Gene Density in the Sponge NK Homeobox Gene Cluster Reflect Limited Regulatory Capacity?

(2010) Bryony Fahey et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Early evolution of the LIM homeobox gene family

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Molecular signaling of the epithelial to mesenchymal transition in generating and maintaining cancer stem cells

(2010) Gaoliang Ouyang et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Expansion, diversification, and expression of T-box family genes in Porifera

(2010) Kay Holstien et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

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

(2010) Noriko Funayama   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Origin of Pax and Six gene families in sponges: Single PaxB and Six1/2 orthologs in Chalinula loosanoffi

(2010) April Hill et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Piwi expression in archeocytes and choanocytes in demosponges: insights into the stem cell system in demosponges

(2010) Noriko Funayama et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Structure and expression of conserved Wnt pathway components in the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica

(2010) Maja Adamska et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

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

Origin of animal epithelia: insights from the sponge genome

(2010) Bryony Fahey et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

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

Unexpected Repertoire of Metazoan Transcription Factors in the Unicellular Holozoan Capsaspora owczarzaki

(2010) A. Sebe-Pedros et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Targeting cancer stem cells by inhibiting Wnt, Notch and Hedgehog pathways

(2010) Naoko Takebe et al.   Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Cadherins in the human placenta – epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and placental development

(2010) M.I. Kokkinos et al.   PLACENTA

Molecular Phylogeny Restores the Supra-Generic Subdivision of Homoscleromorph Sponges (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha)

(2010) Eve Gazave et al.   PLoS One

The origin of Metazoa: a transition from temporal to spatial cell differentiation

(2009) Kirill V. Mikhailov et al.   BIOESSAYS

Origin and evolution of the Notch signalling pathway: an overview from eukaryotic genomes

(2009) Eve Gazave et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions in Development and Disease

(2009) Jean Paul Thiery et al.   CELL

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genetic and cellular mechanisms of oncogenesis

(2009) Julian Downward et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

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

Nearly complete rRNA genes assembled from across the metazoan animals: Effects of more taxa, a structure-based alignment, and paired-sites evolutionary models on phylogeny reconstruction

(2009) Jon Mallatt et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Comparative analysis of neurulation: First impressions do not count

(2009) Michael J. Harrington et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

WNT/β-Catenin Signalling and Epithelial Patterning in the Homoscleromorph Sponge Oscarella

(2009) Pascal Lapébie et al.   PLoS One

Wnt/ -Catenin and noncanonical Wnt signaling interact in tissue evagination in the simple eumetazoan Hydra

(2009) I. Philipp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

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

Morphogenesis accompanying larval metamorphosis in Plakina trilopha (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha)

(2009) Alexander V. Ereskovsky et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

Concatenated Analysis Sheds Light on Early Metazoan Evolution and Fuels a Modern “Urmetazoon” Hypothesis

(2009) Bernd Schierwater et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Early evolution of symmetry and polarity in metazoan body plans

(2008) Michaël Manuel   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

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

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

A maternally localised Wnt ligand required for axial patterning in the cnidarian Clytia hemisphaerica

(2008) T. Momose et al.   DEVELOPMENT

NK homeobox genes with choanocyte-specific expression in homoscleromorph sponges

(2008) Eve Gazave et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

The transcription factor NF-κB in the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica: insights on the evolutionary origin of the Rel homology domain

(2008) Marie Gauthier et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Reproductive output in a Mediterranean population of the homosclerophoridCorticium candelabrum(Porifera, Demospongiae), with notes on the ultrastructure and behavior of the larva

(2008) Manuel Maldonado et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Genesis and Expansion of Metazoan Transcription Factor Gene Classes

(2008) Claire Larroux et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Multigene Phylogeny of Choanozoa and the Origin of Animals

(2008) Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi et al.   PLoS One

Transitions between epithelial and mesenchymal states in development and disease

(2008) Buzz Baum et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Epithelial morphogenesis in embryos: asymmetries, motors and brakes

(2008) Sophie Quintin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Larval development in Guancha arnesenae (Porifera, Calcispongiae, Calcinea)

(2008) Alexander V. Ereskovsky et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY