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Frontiers in Zoology, 2007 Background The marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii (Polychaeta, Nereididae) has been recognized as a slow-evolving lophotrochozoan that attracts increasing attention as a valuable model for evolutionary and developmental research.
Vilcinskas Andreas, Altincicek Boran
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Regulation of Sphingosine-1-phosphate Lyase Gene Expression by Members of the GATA Family of Transcription Factors [PDF]
, 2005 Sphingosine-1-phosphate is a bioactive sphingolipid that regulates proliferation, differentiation, migration, and apoptosis. Sphingosine-1-phosphate is irreversibly degraded by the highly conserved enzyme sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase.
Fyrst, Henrik +5 more
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Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 2, Page 920-935, April 2025.ABSTRACT Mitochondria are dynamic and plastic, undergoing continuous fission and fusion and rearrangement of their bioenergetic sub‐compartments called cristae. These fascinating processes are best understood in animal and fungal models, which are taxonomically grouped together in the expansive Opisthokonta supergroup.
Hassan Hashimi +2 more
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Slit-Robo expression in the leech nervous system: insights into eyespot evolution
Cell & Bioscience, 2023 Background Slit and Robo are evolutionarily conserved ligand and receptor proteins, respectively, but the number of slit and robo gene paralogs varies across recent bilaterian genomes.
Hee-Jin Kwak +9 more
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Identification, distribution and molecular evolution of the pacifastin gene family in Metazoa [PDF]
, 2009 BACKGROUND: Members of the pacifastin family are serine peptidase inhibitors, most of which are produced as multi domain precursor proteins. Structural and biochemical characteristics of insect pacifastin-like peptides have been studied intensively, but ...
Breugelmans, B +4 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 Pigment dispersing factors (PDFs, or PDHs in crustaceans) form a structurally related group of neuropeptides found throughout the Ecdysozoa and were first discovered as pigmentary effector hormones in crustaceans.
Jodi L. Alexander +6 more
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Breakdown of coevolution between symbiotic bacteria Wolbachia and their filarial hosts [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Wolbachia is an alpha-proteobacterial symbiont widely distributed in arthropods. Since the identification of Wolbachia in certain animal-parasitic nematodes (the Onchocercidae or filariae), the relationship between arthropod and nematode Wolbachia has ...
Emilie Lefoulon +6 more
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A peritidal Burgess‐Shale‐type fauna from the middle Cambrian of western Canada
Palaeontology, Volume 68, Issue 1, January/February 2025.Abstract Burgess‐Shale‐type (BST) faunas have proven critical for mapping the Cambrian assembly of animal‐dominated ecosystems, but have so far only been reported from fully subaqueous deposits. Here we integrate evidence from ichnofossils, sedimentary features, and small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from the middle Cambrian (Late Guzhangian, Series 3 ...
Giovanni Mussini +2 more
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Trichoplax, the simplest known animal, contains an estrogen-related receptor: Implications for the evolution of vertebrate and invertebrate estrogen receptors [PDF]
, 2008 Although, as their names imply, vertebrate and invertebrate estrogen receptors [ERs] and estrogen-related receptors [ERRs] are related transcription factors, their evolutionary relationships to each other are not fully understood.
Michael E. Baker
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Stepwise metamorphosis of the tubeworm Hydroides elegans is mediated by a bacterial inducer and MAPK signaling [PDF]
, 2016 Diverse animal taxa metamorphose between larval and juvenile phases in response to bacteria. Although bacteria-induced metamorphosis is widespread among metazoans, little is known about the molecular changes that occur in the animal upon stimulation by ...
Antoshechkin, Igor +4 more
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