Evolution of germline segregation processes in animal development

SOX17 Is a Critical Specifier of Human Primordial Germ Cell Fate

(2015) Naoko Irie et al.   CELL

Establishing the germline in spiralian embyos

(2015) Nicole Rebscher   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Stochastic specification of primordial germ cells from mesoderm precursors in axolotl embryos

(2014) J. Chatfield et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Development of blastomere clones in the Ilyanassa embryo: transformation of the spiralian blastula into the larval body plan

(2014) Xin Yi Chan et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

BMP signaling is required for the generation of primordial germ cells in an insect

(2014) S. Donoughe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Acquisition of Germ Plasm Accelerates Vertebrate Evolution

(2014) T. Evans et al.   SCIENCE

Cell Lineages and Fate Maps in Tunicates: Conservation and Modification

(2014) Hiroki Nishida et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Developmental gene expression provides clues to relationships between sponge and eumetazoan body plans

(2014) Sven Leininger et al.   Nature Communications

Germ Cell Specification Requires Zygotic Mechanisms Rather Than Germ Plasm in a Basally Branching Insect

(2013) Ben Ewen-Campen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Primordial germ cells in an oligochaete annelid are specified according to the birth rank order in the mesodermal teloblast lineage

(2013) Yukie Kato et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

A Mesodermal Factor, T, Specifies Mouse Germ Cell Fate by Directly Activating Germline Determinants

(2013) Shinya Aramaki et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Differential Expression of Conserved Germ Line Markers and Delayed Segregation of Male and Female Primordial Germ Cells in a Hermaphrodite, the Leech Helobdella

(2013) Sung-Jin Cho et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

oskar Predates the Evolution of Germ Plasm in Insects

(2012) Ben Ewen-Campen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Maternally localized germ plasm mRNAs and germ cell/stem cell formation in the cnidarian Clytia

(2012) Lucas Leclère et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Primordial Germ Cells in Mice

(2012) M. Saitou et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

A Maternal Factor Unique to Ascidians Silences the Germline via Binding to P-TEFb and RNAP II Regulation

(2011) Gaku Kumano et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ci-Pem-1 localizes to the nucleus and represses somatic gene transcription in the germline of Ciona intestinalis embryos

(2011) M. Shirae-Kurabayashi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

BMP signals and the transcriptional repressor BLIMP1 during germline segregation in the mammalian embryo

(2011) Clas Hopf et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

PGL proteins self associate and bind RNPs to mediate germ granule assembly inC. elegans

(2011) Momoyo Hanazawa et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Evolution of the germ line–soma relationship in vertebrate embryos

(2011) Andrew D Johnson et al.   REPRODUCTION

Small micromeres contribute to the germline in the sea urchin

(2010) M. Yajima et al.   DEVELOPMENT

A conserved germline multipotency program

(2010) C. E. Juliano et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Development of the appendicularian Oikopleura dioica: Culture, genome, and cell lineages

(2010) Hiroki Nishida   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

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

(2010) Noriko Funayama   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Somatic stem cells express Piwi and Vasa genes in an adult ctenophore: Ancient association of “germline genes” with stemness

(2010) Alexandre Alié 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

Versatile Germline Genes

(2010) C. Juliano et al.   SCIENCE

Bucky Ball Organizes Germ Plasm Assembly in Zebrafish

(2009) Franck Bontems et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early lineage specification of long-lived germline precursors in the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri

(2009) F. D. Brown et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Stem cells are differentially regulated during development, regeneration and homeostasis in flatworms

(2009) Katrien De Mulder et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Nanos functions to maintain the fate of the small micromere lineage in the sea urchin embryo

(2009) Celina E. Juliano et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The molecular machinery of germ line specification

(2009) Ben Ewen-Campen et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Nanos Is Required in Somatic Blast Cell Lineages in the Posterior of a Mollusk Embryo

(2008) Jeremy S. Rabinowitz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Vasa and nanos are coexpressed in somatic and germ line tissue from early embryonic cleavage stages through adulthood in the polychaete Capitella sp. I

(2008) Kariena K. Dill et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Cleavage pattern, gastrulation, and neurulation in the appendicularian, Oikopleura dioica

(2008) Setsuko Fujii et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Localization of Vasa mRNA during early cleavage of the snail Ilyanassa

(2008) S. Zachary Swartz et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Flatworm stem cells and the germ line: Developmental and evolutionary implications of macvasa expression in Macrostomum lignano

(2008) Daniela Pfister et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The germ plasm component vasa allows tracing of the interstitial stem cells in the cnidarianHydractinia echinata

(2008) Nicole Rebscher et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Drosophila Pgc protein inhibits P-TEFb recruitment to chromatin in primordial germ cells

(2008) Kazuko Hanyu-Nakamura et al.   NATURE

The PIWI proteins SMEDWI-2 and SMEDWI-3 are required for stem cell function and piRNA expression in planarians

(2008) D. Palakodeti et al.   RNA

Vasa protein expression is restricted to the small micromeres of the sea urchin, but is inducible in other lineages early in development

(2007) Ekaterina Voronina et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY