The early expansion and evolutionary dynamics of POU class genes. [PDF]
, 2014 The POU genes represent a diverse class of animal-specific transcription factors that play important roles in neurogenesis, pluripotency, and cell-type specification. Although previous attempts have been made to reconstruct the evolution of the POU class,
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The cytochrome P450 (CYP) superfamily in cnidarians
Scientific Reports, 2021 The cytochrome P450 (CYP) superfamily is a diverse and important enzyme family, playing a central role in chemical defense and in synthesis and metabolism of major biological signaling molecules.
Kirill V. Pankov +5 more
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Independent elaboration of steroid hormone signaling pathways in Metazoans [PDF]
, 2009 Steroid hormones regulate many physiological processes in vertebrates, nematodes and arthropods through binding to nuclear receptors (NR), a metazoan-specific family of ligand-activated transcription factors.
Gabriel V. Markov +5 more
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Signaling cascades and the importance of moonlight in coral broadcast mass spawning
eLife, 2015 Many reef-building corals participate in a mass-spawning event that occurs yearly on the Great Barrier Reef. This coral reproductive event is one of earth's most prominent examples of synchronised behavior, and coral reproductive success is vital to the ...
Paulina Kaniewska +4 more
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siRNA-mediated gene knockdown via electroporation in hydrozoan jellyfish embryos
Scientific Reports, 2022 As the sister group to bilaterians, cnidarians stand in a unique phylogenetic position that provides insight into evolutionary aspects of animal development, physiology, and behavior.
Tokiha Masuda-Ozawa +5 more
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Development and myogenesis of the vermiform Buddenbrockia (Myxozoa) and implications for cnidarian body plan evolution [PDF]
, 2016 email ORCID ID© 2012 Gruhl and Okamura; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use ...
Gruhl, A, Okamura, B
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eLife, 2015 Moonlight alters the expression of a number of genes in coral cells in order to synchronize the release of sex cells across different coral species.
Didier Zoccola, Sylvie Tambutté
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Varied effects of algal symbionts on transcription factor NF-κB in a sea anemone and a coral: possible roles in symbiosis and thermotolerance [PDF]
, 2019 Many cnidarians, including the reef-building corals, undergo symbiotic mutualisms with photosynthetic dinoflagellate algae of the family Symbiodiniaceae.
Benson, Brooke E. +11 more
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The Complicated Evolutionary Diversification of the Mpeg-1/Perforin-2 Family in Cnidarians
Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 The invertebrate innate immune system is surprisingly complex, yet our knowledge is limited to a few select model systems. One understudied group is the phylum Cnidaria (corals, sea anemones, etc.).
Brian M. Walters +3 more
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Dawn of complex animal food webs: A new predatory anthozoan (Cnidaria) from Cambrian
The Innovation, 2022 Cnidarians diverged very early in animal evolution; therefore, investigations of the morphology and trophic levels of early fossil cnidarians may provide critical insights into the evolution of metazoans and the origin of modern marine food webs. However,
Qiang Ou +9 more
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