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RNAseq versus genome-predicted transcriptomes: a large population of novel transcripts identified in an Illumina-454 Hydra transcriptome

(2013) Yvan Wenger et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

(2013) Kerstin Howe et al.   NATURE

Functional and evolutionary implications of gene orthology

(2013) Toni Gabaldón et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Capsaspora genome reveals a complex unicellular prehistory of animals

(2013) Hiroshi Suga et al.   Nature Communications

Cnidocyte discharge is regulated by light and opsin-mediated phototransduction

(2012) David C Plachetzki et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

How much does the amphioxus genome represent the ancestor of chordates?

(2012) A. Louis et al.   Briefings in Functional Genomics

A Tight Link between Orthologs and Bidirectional Best Hits in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes

(2012) Yuri I. Wolf et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The “Eyes absent” (eya) Gene in the Eye-Bearing Hydrozoan Jellyfish Cladonema radiatum: Conservation of the Retinal Determination Network

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Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

(2012) Patrick R. H. Steinmetz et al.   NATURE

Ancient deuterostome origins of vertebrate brain signalling centres

(2012) Ariel M. Pani et al.   NATURE

Experimental evolution of multicellularity

(2012) W. C. Ratcliff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: Cnidaria

(2011) U. Technau et al.   DEVELOPMENT

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

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

A two-step process in the emergence of neurogenesis

(2011) Brigitte Galliot et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Using the Acropora digitifera genome to understand coral responses to environmental change

(2011) Chuya Shinzato et al.   NATURE

The draft genome of the parasitic nematode Trichinella spiralis

(2011) Makedonka Mitreva et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Three Periods of Regulatory Innovation During Vertebrate Evolution

(2011) C. B. Lowe et al.   SCIENCE

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylostratigraphic tracking of cancer genes suggests a link to the emergence of multicellularity in metazoa

(2010) Tomislav Domazet-Lošo et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The backbone of the post-synaptic density originated in a unicellular ancestor of choanoflagellates and metazoans

(2010) Alexandre Alié et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Origins, evolution, and phenotypic impact of new genes

(2010) H. Kaessmann   GENOME RESEARCH

The dynamic genome of Hydra

(2010) Jarrod A. Chapman et al.   NATURE

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Flexibly deployed Pax genes in eye development at the early evolution of animals demonstrated by studies on a hydrozoan jellyfish

(2010) H. Suga et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Genome of the Western Clawed Frog Xenopus tropicalis

(2010) U. Hellsten et al.   SCIENCE

New tricks with old genes: the genetic bases of novel cnidarian traits

(2010) Sylvain Forêt et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Protein Evolution by Molecular Tinkering: Diversification of the Nuclear Receptor Superfamily from a Ligand-Dependent Ancestor

(2010) Jamie T. Bridgham et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The causes of repeated genetic evolution

(2009) Nicolas Gompel et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Origins of neurogenesis, a cnidarian view

(2009) Brigitte Galliot et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Anatomy and development of the nervous system ofNematostella vectensis, an anthozoan cnidarian

(2009) Heather Q. Marlow et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

On the Origin and Evolution of Vertebrate Olfactory Receptor Genes: Comparative Genome Analysis Among 23 Chordate Species

(2009) Yoshihito Niimura   Genome Biology and Evolution

Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty

(2009) Neil Shubin et al.   NATURE

InParanoid 7: new algorithms and tools for eukaryotic orthology analysis

(2009) G. Ostlund et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

BMPs and Chordin regulate patterning of the directive axis in a sea anemone

(2009) M. Saina 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

Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis: A Genetic Theory of Morphological Evolution

(2008) Sean B. Carroll   CELL

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

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

A Phylogenomic Investigation into the Origin of Metazoa

(2008) Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

(2008) Nicholas H. Putnam et al.   NATURE

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

(2008) Nicole King et al.   NATURE

The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum

(2008) Stephen Richards et al.   NATURE

Turning a hobby into a job: How duplicated genes find new functions

(2008) Gavin C. Conant et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

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

(2008) Detlev Arendt   NATURE REVIEWS 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

Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives

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

The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records

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

Evolution and Functional Diversity of Jellyfish Opsins

(2007) Hiroshi Suga et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY