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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,
Gates, Ruth D, Gold, David A, Jacobs, David K   +2 more
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Evolutionary origin of synapses and neurons – Bridging the gap [PDF]

, 2017
The evolutionary origin of synapses and neurons is an enigmatic subject that inspires much debate. Non-bilaterian metazoans, both with and without neurons and their closest relatives already contain many components of the molecular toolkits for ...
Alberstein, Alié, Anderson, Anderson, Arcila, Backs, Baram, Bhattacharyya, Bosch, Bottos, Brunet, Brusca, Bucher, Burkhardt, Burkhardt, Cai, Collins, Conaco, Dayel, De Blas, de Mendoza, Dellaporta, Devaraju, Dunn, Emes, Fairclough, Ganot, Gill, Gur Barzilai, Hejnol, Hernandez-Nicaise, Hernandez-Nicaise, Hernandez-Nicaise, Hobert, Hoffmeyer, Huang, Iezzi, Jager, Jekely, Julio-Pieper, Kang, Kim, Koh, Lang, Leys, Leys, Liebeskind, Manneville, Marlow, Marshall, McWilliams, Melicoff, Moroz, Moroz, Moroz, Moroz, Moroz, Nichols, Norekian, Ortiz-Ramírez, Pavans de Ceccatty, Pavans de Ceccatty, Philippe, Pisani, Plugge, Ren, Richards, Richards, Richter, Riesgo, Rodríguez, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Sakarya, Sakarya, Satterlie, Schütze, Sebe-Pedros, Sebe-Pedros, Sebé-Pedrós, Sebé-Pedrós, Shen, Sigala, Simion, Smith, Smith, Soltau, Speidel, Squire, Srivastava, Stratton, Suckow, Suga, Suga, Tadokoro, Tapken, Taylor, Telford, Weissenfels, Whelan, Whelan, Woods, Worley, Xavier, Yang, Yin, Yu, Zhang   +109 more
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MicroRNAs and essential components of the microRNA processing machinery are not encoded in the genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

BMC Genomics, 2012
Background MicroRNAs play a vital role in the regulation of gene expression and have been identified in every animal with a sequenced genome examined thus far, except for the placozoan Trichoplax. The genomic repertoires of metazoan microRNAs have become
Maxwell Evan K, Ryan Joseph F, Schnitzler Christine E, Browne William E, Baxevanis Andreas D   +4 more
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A phylogenetic survey of myotubularin genes of eukaryotes: distribution, protein structure, evolution, and gene expression [PDF]

, 2010
Background Phosphorylated phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) lipids, produced and modified by PtdIns kinases and phosphatases, are critical to the regulation of diverse cellular functions.
David Kerk, Greg BG Moorhead
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The ventral epithelium of Trichoplax adhaerens deploys in distinct patterns cells that secrete digestive enzymes, mucus or diverse neuropeptides

Biology Open, 2019
The disk-shaped millimeter-sized marine animal, Trichoplax adhaerens, is notable because of its small number of cell types and primitive mode of feeding.
Tatiana D. Mayorova, Katherine Hammar, Christine A. Winters, Thomas S. Reese, Carolyn L. Smith   +4 more
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The evolutionary history of histone H3 suggests a deep eukaryotic root of chromatin modifying mechanisms [PDF]

, 2010
Background The phenotype of an organism is an outcome of both its genotype, encoding the primary sequence of proteins, and the developmental orchestration of gene expression.
Jan Postberg, Sakeh Forcob, Wei-Jen Chang, Hans J Lipps   +3 more
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Support for a clade of Placozoa and Cnidaria in genes with minimal compositional bias

eLife, 2018
The phylogenetic placement of the morphologically simple placozoans is crucial to understanding the evolution of complex animal traits. Here, we examine the influence of adding new genomes from placozoans to a large dataset designed to study the deepest ...
Christopher E Laumer, Harald Gruber-Vodicka, Michael G Hadfield, Vicki B Pearse, Ana Riesgo, John C Marioni, Gonzalo Giribet   +6 more
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Insights into the evolution of digestive systems from studies of Trichoplax adhaerens [PDF]

Cell and Tissue Research, 2019
Trichoplax, a member of the phylum Placozoa, is a tiny ciliated marine animal that glides on surfaces feeding on algae and cyanobacteria. It stands out from other animals in that it lacks an internal digestive system and, instead, digests food trapped under its lower surface.
Carolyn L. Smith, Tatiana D. Mayorova
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Conservation of DNA and ligand binding properties of retinoid X receptor from the placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens to human [PDF]

, 2018
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2018. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here under a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license granted to WHOI. It is made available for personal use, not for redistribution.
Fang, Bin, Macrander, Jason, Mane-Padros, Daniel, Reitzel, Adam M., Sladek, Frances M., Tarrant, Ann M.   +5 more
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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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