Structural Molecular Components of Septate Junctions in Cnidarians Point to the Origin of Epithelial Junctions in Eukaryotes

Novel Cell Types, Neurosecretory Cells, and Body Plan of the Early-Diverging Metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens

(2014) Carolyn L. Smith et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The transmembrane protein Macroglobulin complement-related is essential for septate junction formation and epithelial barrier function in Drosophila

(2014) T. Batz et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The Analysis of Eight Transcriptomes from All Poriferan Classes Reveals Surprising Genetic Complexity in Sponges

(2014) Ana Riesgo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Identification of MicroRNAs in the Coral Stylophora pistillata

(2014) Yi Jin Liew et al.   PLoS One

Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

(2013) Ehsan Kayal et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Novel Scenarios of Early Animal Evolution--Is It Time to Rewrite Textbooks?

(2013) M. Dohrmann et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Usher protein functions in hair cells and photoreceptors

(2013) Dominic Cosgrove et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Variable immune molecules in invertebrates

(2013) L. Cerenius et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

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

A Matter of Balance: Role of Neurexin and Neuroligin at the Synapse

(2013) Marie Louise Bang et al.   NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH

Claudins and the Modulation of Tight Junction Permeability

(2013) Dorothee Günzel et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

The Capsaspora genome reveals a complex unicellular prehistory of animals

(2013) Hiroshi Suga et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenomics meets neuroscience: How many times might complex brains have evolved?

(2012) L. Moroz   ACTA BIOLOGICA HUNGARICA

The Na-K-ATPase α1β1 heterodimer as a cell adhesion molecule in epithelia

(2012) Olga Vagin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Ocean Acidification and Coral Reefs: Effects on Breakdown, Dissolution, and Net Ecosystem Calcification

(2012) Andreas J. Andersson et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

TMHS Is an Integral Component of the Mechanotransduction Machinery of Cochlear Hair Cells

(2012) Wei Xiong et al.   CELL

The Claudin Megatrachea Protein Complex

(2012) Martin H. J. Jaspers et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Functionalization of a protosynaptic gene expression network

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

Tight Junction Pore and Leak Pathways: A Dynamic Duo

(2011) Le Shen et al.   Annual Review of Physiology

4.1G promotes arborization and tight junction formation of oligodendrocyte cell line OLN-93

(2011) Wenhao Xia et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Coral biomineralization: From the gene to the environment

(2011) Sylvie Tambutté et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Epithelia, an Evolutionary Novelty of Metazoans

(2011) Sally P. Leys et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Pre and postsynaptic roles for Drosophila CASK

(2011) Kaiyun Chen et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE

Zonula occludens-1 and -2 regulate apical cell structure and the zonula adherens cytoskeleton in polarized epithelia

(2011) Alan S. Fanning et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

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

(2011) Chuya Shinzato et al.   NATURE

Live Tissue Imaging Shows Reef Corals Elevate pH under Their Calcifying Tissue Relative to Seawater

(2011) Alexander Venn et al.   PLoS One

A Laminin G-EGF-Laminin G Module in Neurexin IV Is Essential for the Apico-Lateral Localization of Contactin and Organization of Septate Junctions

(2011) Swati Banerjee et al.   PLoS One

Calcein labelling and electrophysiology: insights on coral tissue permeability and calcification

(2011) E. Tambutte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Coral and mollusc resistance to ocean acidification adversely affected by warming

(2011) R. Rodolfo-Metalpa et al.   Nature Climate Change

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Transcellular and paracellular pathways of transepithelial fluid secretion in Malpighian (renal) tubules of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2010) K. W. Beyenbach et al.   Acta Physiologica

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

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

Evolution of the MAGUK protein gene family in premetazoan lineages

(2010) Alex de Mendoza et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Origin of animal epithelia: insights from the sponge genome

(2010) Bryony Fahey et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The Drosophila Claudin Kune-kune Is Required for Septate Junction Organization and Tracheal Tube Size Control

(2010) K. S. Nelson et al.   GENETICS

In Vivo Deletion of Immunoglobulin Domains 5 and 6 in Neurofascin (Nfasc) Reveals Domain-Specific Requirements in Myelinated Axons

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

Electron tomography of paranodal septate-like junctions and the associated axonal and glial cytoskeletons in the central nervous system

(2010) Andrea Nans et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 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

Epithelial septate junction assembly relies on melanotransferrin iron binding and endocytosis in Drosophila

(2010) Katarína Tiklová et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Neurexin in Embryonic Drosophila Neuromuscular Junctions

(2010) Kaiyun Chen et al.   PLoS One

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

(2010) Eve Gazave et al.   PLoS One

Freshwater Sponges Have Functional, Sealing Epithelia with High Transepithelial Resistance and Negative Transepithelial Potential

(2010) Emily D. M. Adams et al.   PLoS One

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Contactins

(2010) Yasushi Shimoda et al.   Cell Adhesion & Migration

Comprehensive EST analysis of the symbiotic sea anemone, Anemonia viridis

(2009) Cécile Sabourault et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

FERM proteins in animal morphogenesis

(2009) Ulrich Tepass   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Dscam and DSCAM: complex genes in simple animals, complex animals yet simple genes

(2009) D. Schmucker et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Marine calcifiers exhibit mixed responses to CO2-induced ocean acidification

(2009) J. B. Ries et al.   GEOLOGY

Usher syndrome IIIA gene clarin-1 is essential for hair cell function and associated neural activation

(2009) R. Geng et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Epithelia and integration in sponges

(2009) S. P. Leys et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Origin of the neuro-sensory system: new and expected insights from sponges

(2009) EMMANUELLE RENARD et al.   Integrative Zoology

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

Yurt, Coracle, Neurexin IV and the Na+,K+-ATPase form a novel group of epithelial polarity proteins

(2009) Patrick Laprise et al.   NATURE

Unexpected Roles of the Na-K-ATPase and Other Ion Transporters in Cell Junctions and Tubulogenesis

(2009) Thomas Krupinski et al.   PHYSIOLOGY

Molecular Basis of the Core Structure of Tight Junctions

(2009) M. Furuse   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The lateral mobility of cell adhesion molecules is highly restricted at septate junctions in Drosophila

(2008) Monique Laval et al.   BMC CELL BIOLOGY

Varicose: a MAGUK required for the maturation and function of Drosophila septate junctions

(2008) Katherine E Moyer et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Carbonic Anhydrase in the Scleractinian CoralStylophora pistillata

(2008) Aurélie Moya et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Grainy head promotes expression of septate junction proteins and influences epithelial morphogenesis

(2008) M. Narasimha et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Neuroligins and neurexins link synaptic function to cognitive disease

(2008) Thomas C. Südhof   NATURE

The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans

(2008) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

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

(2008) Nicole King et al.   NATURE

Structure and function of claudins

(2007) Gerd Krause et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES