Review
Cell Biology
Sarah N. Bradshaw, W. Ted Allison
Summary: The evolution of the vertebrate eye remains unclear, although studies on the eyes of hagfish and lamprey, the most ancient extant vertebrates, suggest similarities in eye development and retinal neurogenesis genes with jawed vertebrates. Further research on retinal neurogenesis in jawless vertebrates could provide insights into the evolutionary origins of the vertebrate eye. The unexpected finding of retinal growth in hagfish despite their degenerate eye phenotype raises questions about the mechanisms involved.
FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Emmanuelle Szenker-Ravi, Tim Ott, Muznah Khatoo, Anne Moreau de Bellaing, Wei Xuan Goh, Yan Ling Chong, Anja Beckers, Darshini Kannesan, Guillaume Louvel, Priyanka Anujan, Vydianathan Ravi, Carine Bonnard, Sebastien Moutton, Patric Schoen, Melanie Fradin, Estelle Colin, Andre Megarbane, Linda Daou, Ghassan Chehab, Sylvie Di Filippo, Caroline Rooryck, Jean-Francois Deleuze, Anne Boland, Nicolas Arribard, Rukiye Eker, Sumanty Tohari, Alvin Yu-Jin Ng, Marlene Rio, Chun Teck Lim, Birgit Eisenhaber, Frank Eisenhaber, Byrappa Venkatesh, Jeanne Amiel, Hugues Roest Crollius, Christopher T. Gordon, Achim Gossler, Sudipto Roy, Tania Attie-Bitach, Martin Blum, Patrice Bouvagnet, Bruno Reversade
Summary: Phylogenomic and genetic analyses have identified an ancestral module of genes expressed specifically in ciliated left-right organizer tissue, which is essential for left-right axis specification in humans and certain vertebrates. CIROP, a newly discovered gene encoding an extracellular protein, is shown to be specifically expressed in ciliated LROs and plays a crucial role in distinguishing left from right in vertebrates. Mutations in the CIROP gene have been found in human patients with recessive situs anomalies, highlighting the importance of this gene in determining left-right asymmetry.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Anna Trofka, Bau-Lin Huang, Jianjian Zhu, William F. Heinz, Valentin Magidson, Yuki Shibata, Yun-Bo Shi, Basile Tarchini, H. Scott Stadler, Mirindi Kabangu, Nour W. Al Haj Baddar, S. Randal Voss, Susan Mackem
Summary: The deletion of the 5'Hoxd gene in mice leads to preaxial dominance in limb formation, while Gli3 knockdown in axolotl results in postaxial dominant limb skeleton formation, demonstrating the key role of evolutionary changes in Gli3R activity level in the transition from preaxial to postaxial polarity in tetrapod limb skeleton formation.
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Daniel Ocampo Daza, Christina A. Bergqvist, Dan Larhammar
Summary: This study provides a parsimonious explanation for the origin of the OTR/VTR gene family, based on phylogenetic and chromosomal conserved synteny analyses. The findings suggest a chromosome quadruplication event associated with whole-genome duplications early in vertebrate evolution, prior to the radiation of jawed vertebrates. The evolution of the OTR/VTR gene family can be explained by two whole-genome duplications followed by differential gene losses of VTR2 genes in different lineages.
FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Kurt L. Harris, Raine E. S. Thomson, Yosephine Gumulya, Gabriel Foley, Saskya E. Carrera-Pacheco, Parnayan Syed, Tomasz Janosik, Ann-Sofie Sandinge, Shalini Andersson, Ulrik Jurva, Mikael Boden, Elizabeth M. J. Gillam
Summary: The cytochrome P450 family 1 enzymes (CYP1s) are a diverse family of hemoprotein monooxygenases that metabolize many xenobiotics, including numerous environmental carcinogens. The study found that CYP1 enzymes have diversified their functions through evolution, such as caffeine metabolism and increased activity toward specific substrates. Additionally, the thermostability of CYP1 enzymes has increased over time.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Noriaki Ota, Hideaki Kato, Nobuyoshi Shiojiri
Summary: This study compared the gene expression in the liver of the hagfish and mouse using in situ hybridization technique. The results showed similarities and differences between the gene expression in hagfish liver and mammalian liver, suggesting unique characteristics of hagfish liver gene expression.
ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Samuel Albert, Giulio Biroli, Francois Ladieu, Roland Tourbot, Pierfrancesco Urbani
Summary: The study revealed the absence of a Gardner phase transition in glassy glycerol, suggesting that standard molecular glasses may suppress its existence. Instead, a specific localized excitation pattern was observed at low temperatures.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Peter Caley, Simon C. Barry
Summary: Citizens' observations of the natural world are becoming more detailed and are being shared on web platforms. This is important for biosecurity, as it is responsible for a majority of post-border reports and detections of exotic pest species. However, the level of surveillance provided by citizen science is still unclear.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Takeshi Yoshimatsu, Philipp Bartel, Cornelius Schroeder, Filip K. Janiak, Francois St-Pierre, Philipp Berens, Tom Baden
Summary: The research revealed that red and green cones efficiently rotate the encoding of natural daylight in a manner similar to principal components analysis, while blue and UV cones capture the remaining differences to provide achromatic and UV achromatic axes respectively. This strategy of rotating color space into primary achromatic and chromatic axes may be a fundamental principle of color vision with more than two spectrally well-separated photoreceptor types.
Article
Ornithology
Gerald Mayr, Andrew C. Kitchener
Summary: This article describes a fossilized owl that provides insights into the early evolution and ecological characteristics of owls. The fossil exhibits features that differ from extant owls, suggesting that it was diurnal rather than nocturnal like modern owls.
Review
Fisheries
Fidji Berio, Melanie Debiais-Thibaud
Summary: This study explores the development and genetic expression of teeth and odontodes in vertebrates, highlighting the importance of proper comparative frameworks and the contributions and biases in interspecific comparisons. The evolutionary processes explaining intra and interspecific similarities and divergences in genetic cascades involved in tooth and odontode development in jawed vertebrates are also discussed.
JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Marina Kounkel, Aidan Mcbride, Keivan G. Stassun, Nathan Leigh
Summary: This study presents a catalog of 3354 candidate young stars that have been ejected from their parent associations with relative speeds of >5 km s(-1). These candidates have been selected through a spherical traceback of pre-main-sequence candidates to different star-forming regions, ensuring consistent age information. The study also identifies pairs of stars that have interacted during the ejection process.
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
(2022)
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Katarzyna Stachowicz, Magdalena Sowa-Kucma
Summary: Depression is a severe mental health problem that affects people regardless of social status or education. The current treatment of depression with drugs from the 1960s and 1970s is burdened with side effects and inefficacy. There is a great need for new antidepressants with different mechanisms of action, and this review discusses new research directions and trends in the field, as well as proposing a new perspective on depressive therapies.
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Essodjolo Kpatcha, Inaki Lara, Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani, Carlos Munoz, Natsumi Nagata, Hidetoshi Otono
Summary: The study analyzes the relevant signals at the LHC for a stop as the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) and discusses the results in the framework of the mu nu SSM. Stops are pair produced at the LHC, decaying with displaced vertices to a lepton and a bottom quark or a neutrino and a top quark.Using a data-driven method to sample the mu nu SSM, with special attention given to reproducing experimental data.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Dominika Ozieblo, Natalia Baldyga, Marcin L. Leja, Henryk Skarzynski, Monika Oldak
Summary: This study found that genetic factors can explain a significant proportion of hearing losses in partial deafness patients, and identified new genetic factors associated with the condition.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Haiyang Hu, Masahiro Uesaka, Song Guo, Kotaro Shimai, Tsai-Ming Lu, Fang Li, Satoko Fujimoto, Masato Ishikawa, Shiping Liu, Yohei Sasagawa, Guojie Zhang, Shigeru Kuratani, Jr-Kai Yu, Takehiro G. Kusakabe, Philipp Khaitovich, Naoki Irie
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2017)
Article
Ecology
Eri Okamoto, Rie Kusakabe, Shigehiro Kuraku, Susumu Hyodo, Alexandre Robert-Moreno, Koh Onimaru, James Sharpe, Shigeru Kuratani, Mikiko Tanaka
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2017)
Article
Ecology
Yoshiyuki Matsubara, Tatsuya Hirasawa, Shiro Egawa, Ayumi Hattori, Takaya Suganuma, Yuhei Kohara, Tatsuya Nagai, Koji Tamura, Shigeru Kuratani, Atsushi Kuroiwa, Takayuki Suzuki
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2017)
Article
Zoology
Noritaka Adachi, Juan Pascual-Anaya, Tamami Hirai, Shinnosuke Higuchi, Shigeru Kuratani
ZOOLOGICAL LETTERS
(2018)
Review
Zoology
Shigeru Kuratani, Per E. Ahlberg
ZOOLOGICAL LETTERS
(2018)
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Ing-Jia Li, Shu-Hua Lee, Gembu Abe, Kinya G. Ota
DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS
(2019)
Article
Zoology
Masahiro Uesaka, Shigeru Kuratani, Hiroyuki Takeda, Naoki Irie
ZOOLOGICAL LETTERS
(2019)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Taro Nojiri, Laura A. B. Wilson, Camilo Lopez-Aguirre, Vuong Tan Tu, Shigeru Kuratani, Kai Ito, Hiroki Higashiyama, Nguyen Truong Son, Dai Fukui, Alexa Sadier, Karen E. Sears, Hideki Endo, Satoshi Kamihori, Daisuke Koyabu
Summary: The study found that laryngeal echolocation in bats may have multiple origins, supporting the hypothesis of a non-echolocating bat ancestor and independent gain of echolocation in Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera. Additionally, there were no developmental differences in the hearing apparatus between non-echolocating bats and terrestrial non-bat mammals.
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Shunya Kuroda, Noritaka Adachi, Shigeru Kuratani
Summary: In this study, the embryonic origin and evolutionary relationship of skeletal elements in the mammalian orbitotemporal region were investigated, revealing the existence of certain endoskeletal elements that were previously believed to be primitive traits lost in mammals.
EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Woranop Sukparangsi, Elena Morganti, Molly Lowndes, Helene Mayeur, Melanie Weisser, Fella Hammachi, Hanna Peradziryi, Fabian Roske, Jurriaan Holzenspies, Alessandra Livigni, Benoit Gilbert Godard, Fumiaki Sugahara, Shigeru Kuratani, Guillermo Montoya, Stephen R. Frankenberg, Sylvie Mazan, Joshua M. Brickman
Summary: This study reconstructs the evolutionary trajectory of the Pou5 gene family and finds that the ability of POU5 proteins to support pluripotency originated in the gnathostome lineage. The specialization of the paralogues Pou5f1 and Pou5f3 in osteichthyans enables the diversification of function in self-renewal and differentiation. The study also identifies the OCT4 regions sufficient for naive pluripotency and describes their adaptation over evolutionary time.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hsiao-Chian Chen, Chenyi Wang, Ing-Jia Li, Gembu Abe, Kinya G. Ota
Summary: This study demonstrates that the chordin gene is responsible for both the twin-tail and dorsal-finless phenotypes in ornamental goldfish. The rapid fixation of these morphological mutations during domestication may be related to the robustness of embryonic developmental mechanisms.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Gembu Abe, Ing-Jia Li, Shu-Hua Lee, Kinya G. Ota
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION
(2018)
Article
Developmental Biology
Toshiko Furutera, Masaki Takechi, Taro Kitazawa, Junko Takei, Takahiko Yamada, Tri Vu Hoang, Filippo M. Rijli, Hiroki Kurihara, Shigeru Kuratani, Sachiko Iseki
Article
Cell Biology
Kanami Noguchi, Ryota Ishikawa, Masahumi Kawaguchi, Kanako Miyoshi, Takahiko Kawasaki, Tatsumi Hirata, Makiko Fukui, Shigeru Kuratani, Mikiko Tanaka, Yasunori Murakami
DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION
(2017)
Review
Cell Biology
Fumiaki Sugahara, Yasunori Murakami, Juan Pascual-Anaya, Shigeru Kuratani
DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION
(2017)