[HTML][HTML] The role of cnidarian developmental biology in unraveling axis formation and Wnt signaling

TW Holstein - Developmental biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cnidarians are fascinating creatures at the base of metazoan evolution possessing an
almost unlimited regeneration capacity that has attracted the interest of researchers, from …

[HTML][HTML] The Hydra stem cell system–Revisited

TW Holstein - Cells & Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Cnidarians are> 600 million years old and are considered the sister group of Bilateria based
on numerous molecular phylogenetic studies. Apart from Hydra, the genomes of all major …

Massive gene presence-absence variation shapes an open pan-genome in the Mediterranean mussel

M Gerdol, R Moreira, F Cruz, J Gómez-Garrido… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis is an ecologically
and economically relevant edible marine bivalve, highly invasive and resilient to biotic and …

Topological structures and syntenic conservation in sea anemone genomes

B Zimmermann, JD Montenegro, SMC Robb… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is currently little information about the evolution of gene clusters, genome
architectures and karyotypes in early branching animals. Slowly evolving anthozoan …

A chromosome-scale epigenetic map of the Hydra genome reveals conserved regulators of cell state

JF Cazet, S Siebert, HM Little, P Bertemes… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
The epithelial and interstitial stem cells of the freshwater polyp Hydra are the best-
characterized stem cell systems in any cnidarian, providing valuable insight into cell type …

Whole-animal multiplexed single-cell RNA-seq reveals transcriptional shifts across Clytia medusa cell types

T Chari, B Weissbourd, J Gehring, A Ferraioli… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
We present an organism-wide, transcriptomic cell atlas of the hydrozoan medusa Clytia
hemisphaerica and describe how its component cell types respond to perturbation. Using …

[HTML][HTML] A genetically tractable jellyfish model for systems and evolutionary neuroscience

B Weissbourd, T Momose, A Nair, A Kennedy, B Hunt… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Jellyfish are radially symmetric organisms without a brain that arose more than 500 million
years ago. They achieve organismal behaviors through coordinated interactions between …

Support for a clade of Placozoa and Cnidaria in genes with minimal compositional bias

CE Laumer, H Gruber-Vodicka, MG Hadfield… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
The phylogenetic placement of the morphologically simple placozoans is crucial to
understanding the evolution of complex animal traits. Here, we examine the influence of …

The genome of the colonial hydroid Hydractinia reveals that their stem cells use a toolkit of evolutionarily shared genes with all animals

CE Schnitzler, ES Chang, J Waletich… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Hydractinia is a colonial marine hydroid that shows remarkable biological properties,
including the capacity to regenerate its entire body throughout its lifetime, a process made …

The genome of the jellyfish Aurelia and the evolution of animal complexity

DA Gold, T Katsuki, Y Li, X Yan, M Regulski… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
We present the genome of the moon jellyfish Aurelia, a genome from a cnidarian with a
medusa life stage. Our analyses suggest that gene gain and loss in Aurelia is comparable to …