A dynamic history of gene duplications and losses characterizes the evolution of the SPARC family in eumetazoans

Structural disorder in proteins brings order to crystal growth in biomineralization

(2012) Lajos Kalmar et al.   BONE

Cloning and spatiotemporal expression of RIC-8 in Xenopus embryogenesis

(2011) R. Maldonado-Agurto et al.   GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Drosophila SPARC Is a Self-Protective Signal Expressed by Loser Cells during Cell Competition

(2010) Marta Portela et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Two families of Xenopus tropicalis skeletal genes display well-conserved expression patterns with mammals in spite of their highly divergent regulatory regions

(2010) Javier Espinoza et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Mapping amorphous calcium phosphate transformation into crystalline mineral from the cell to the bone in zebrafish fin rays

(2010) J. Mahamid et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biomineralization and matrix vesicles in biology and pathology

(2010) Ellis E. Golub   Seminars in Immunopathology

Origin and Genetic Evolution of the Vertebrate Skeleton

(2010) Hiroshi Wada   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Molecular evolution of SPARC: absence of the acidic module and expression in the endoderm of the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis

(2009) Anne Koehler et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

The SCPP gene repertoire in bony vertebrates and graded differences in mineralized tissues

(2009) Kazuhiko Kawasaki   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Tracking gene expression during zebrafish osteoblast differentiation

(2009) Nan Li et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

(2009) M. Gouy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Differences in matrix composition between calvaria and long bone in mice suggest differences in biomechanical properties and resorption

(2008) T. van den Bos et al.   BONE

Evidence for stasis and not genetic piracy in developmental expression patterns of Branchiostoma lanceolatum and Branchiostoma floridae, two amphioxus species that have evolved independently over the course of 200 Myr

(2008) Ildiko Somorjai et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Essential role for the alpha 1 chain of type VIII collagen in Zebrafish notochord formation

(2008) John M. Gansner et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Enamel Defects and Ameloblast-specific Expression inEnamKnock-out/lacZKnock-in Mice

(2008) Jan C.-C. Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Haemocyte-derived SPARC is required for collagen-IV-dependent stability of basal laminae in Drosophila embryos

(2008) N. Martinek et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Sparc (Osteonectin) functions in morphogenesis of the pharyngeal skeleton and inner ear

(2008) Josep Rotllant et al.   MATRIX BIOLOGY

High-resolution in situ hybridization to whole-mount zebrafish embryos

(2007) Christine Thisse et al.   Nature Protocols