The medicinal leech genome encodes 21 innexin genes: different combinations are expressed by identified central neurons

A cautionary note for retrocopy identification: DNA-based duplication of intron-containing genes significantly contributes to the origination of single exon genes

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Pannexin channels are not gap junction hemichannels

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Phylogenomic analyses unravel annelid evolution

(2011) Torsten H. Struck et al.   NATURE

Construction of a medicinal leech transcriptome database and its application to the identification of leech homologs of neural and innate immune genes

(2010) Eduardo R Macagno et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Structure of the gap junction channel and its implications for its biological functions

(2010) Shoji Maeda et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Gap Junction Expression Is Required for Normal Chemical Synapse Formation

(2010) K. L. Todd et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase HmLAR1 is up-regulated in the CNS of the adult medicinal leech following injury and is required for neuronal sprouting and regeneration

(2010) Jasmine Sethi et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE

Jalview Version 2--a multiple sequence alignment editor and analysis workbench

(2009) A. M. Waterhouse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

High resolution map ofCaenorhabditis elegansgap junction proteins

(2009) Zeynep F. Altun et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Involvement of the Cytoplasmic C-Terminal Domain of Connexin43 in Neuronal Migration

(2009) C. Cina et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Mechanisms underlying spontaneous patterned activity in developing neural circuits

(2009) Aaron G. Blankenship et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Heterotypic gap junction channels as voltage-sensitive valves for intercellular signaling

(2009) N. Palacios-Prado et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gap Junctions

(2009) D. A. Goodenough et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Molecular Mechanism of Rectification at Identified Electrical Synapses in the Drosophila Giant Fiber System

(2008) Pauline Phelan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Connexin Specificity of Second Messenger Permeation: Real Numbers At Last

(2008) Andrew L. Harris   JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

Dynamic ATP signalling and neural development

(2008) Nicholas Dale   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON