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Origin and evolution of the Rax homeobox gene by comprehensive evolutionary analysis

FEBS Open Bio, 2020
Rax is one of the key transcription factors crucial for vertebrate eye development. In this study, we conducted comprehensive evolutionary analysis of Rax.
Tetsuo Kon, Takahisa Furukawa
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Why Homoscleromorph Sponges Have Ciliated Epithelia: Evidence for an Ancestral Role in Mucociliary Driven Particle Flux

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, Volume 344, Issue 8, Page 505-516, December 2025.
Epithelia are typically ciliated, except in sponges. Of all Porifera only Homoscleromorphs have motile cilia on their epithelia. Our data highlight the presence of cilia and mucociliary particle transport as a common feature of metazoa and a secondary loss in other sponge lineages.
Veronica L. Price, Anudi Nanayakkara, Andrea Pasini, Elsa Bazellières, Amelie Vernale, Caroline Rocher, Carole Borchiellini, Andre Le Bivic, Emmanuelle Renard, Sally P. Leys   +9 more
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The evolution of reproduction in Ediacaran–Cambrian metazoans

Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 5, Page 2084-2098, October 2025.
ABSTRACT The evolution of reproductive style is a fundamental aspect of metazoan life history but has not been explored holistically through the Ediacaran–Cambrian rise of metazoans. Recent molecular clock analyses based on only unequivocal metazoan fossil calibrations suggest that Porifera were present by at least 590 million years ago (Ma), all major
Rachel A. Wood, Mary L. Droser
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Multiple Mammalian Cytokines and Erythropoietin‐Mimetic Peptides Protect Insect Neurons via Phylogenetically Conserved Cytokine Receptor‐Like Factor 3 (CRLF3)

Journal of Neurochemistry, Volume 169, Issue 9, September 2025.
Mammals express five different structurally related cytokine type I receptors: erythropoietin‐receptor, thrombopoietin‐receptor, prolactin‐receptor, growth hormone‐receptor and cytokine receptor‐like factor 3 (CRLF3). Of these, only CRLF3 exists in insects and other eumetazoan invertebrates.
Nina Hahn, Debbra Y. Knorr, Björn Twellsieck, Ruoyu Huang, Abigail Trebilcock, Nicola Schwedhelm‐Domeyer, Stephanie Pauls, Lars v. Werven, Olaf Jahn, Hannelore Ehrenreich, Ralf Heinrich   +10 more
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Never ending analysis of a century old evolutionary debate: unringing the urmetazoon bell

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016
Our understanding of the early evolution of animals will be greatly improved if a final solution can be found to the evolutionary relationships between Porifera, Placozoa, Ctenophora, Cnidaria and Bilateria.
Bernd eSchierwater, Peter W H Holland, David John Miller, Peter F Stadler, Brian M. Wiegmann, Gert eWörheide, Gregory A. Wray, Rob eDeSalle   +7 more
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A Reassessment of the Coprostane Biomarker in the Ediacaran With Implications for Dickinsonia

Geobiology, Volume 23, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT The discovery of cholestane in animal fossils from the Ediacaran (571–541 million years ago) has generated much excitement, but it is not the only interesting biomarker recovered. Coprostane, a geologically stable form of coprostanol, has also been found in Ediacaran rocks.
Christopher Mulligan, David A. Gold
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The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera diverged prior to the ParaHoxozoa

EvoDevo, 2010
Background The much-debated phylogenetic relationships of the five early branching metazoan lineages (Bilateria, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Placozoa and Porifera) are of fundamental importance in piecing together events that occurred early in animal evolution.
Ryan Joseph F, Pang Kevin, Mullikin James C, Martindale Mark Q, Baxevanis Andreas D   +4 more
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A Network Approach to White Band Disease Challenged Staghorn Coral Acropora cervicornis microRNAs and Their Targets

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025.
Our study looks at the association between microRNA expression and disease resistance in Caribbean staghorn corals infected with White Band Disease. We find three microRNAs differentially expressed due to disease resistance with putative targets involved in innate immunity.
Brecia A. Despard, Jason D. Selwyn, Allison N. Shupp, Steven V. Vollmer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early animal evolution: a morphologist's view [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2019
Two hypotheses for the early radiation of the metazoans are vividly discussed in recent phylogenomic studies, the ‘Porifera-first’ hypothesis, which places the poriferans as the sister group of all other metazoans, and the ‘Ctenophora-first’ hypothesis ...
Claus Nielsen
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The Buds of Oscarella lobularis (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha): A New Convenient Model for Sponge Cell and Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, Volume 342, Issue 8, Page 503-528, December 2024.
We describe a technique for triggering asexual reproduction by budding in vitro and have monitored bud development. The natural properties of Oscarella lobularis buds and the technical tools we developed make them a new biological system for getting insights into sponge molecular and cellular processes.
Caroline Rocher, Amélie Vernale, Laura Fierro‐Constaín, Nina Séjourné, Sandrine Chenesseau, Christian Marschal, Julien Issartel, Emilie Le Goff, David Stroebel, Julie Jouvion, Morgan Dutilleul, Cédric Matthews, Florent Marschal, Nicolas Brouilly, Dominique Massey‐Harroche, Quentin Schenkelaars, Alexander Ereskovsky, André Le Bivic, Emmanuelle Renard, Carole Borchiellini   +19 more
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