Evidence for sponges as sister to all other animals from partitioned phylogenomics with mixture models and recoding

AK Redmond, A McLysaght - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Resolving the relationships between the major lineages in the animal tree of life is
necessary to understand the origin and evolution of key animal traits. Sponges …

Discovery of all three types in cartilaginous fishes enables phylogenetic resolution of the origins and evolution of interferons

AK Redmond, J Zou, CJ Secombes… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Interferons orchestrate host antiviral responses in jawed vertebrates. They are categorized
into three classes; IFN1 and IFN3 are the primary antiviral cytokine lineages, while IFN2 …

The whale shark genome reveals patterns of vertebrate gene family evolution

M Tan, AK Redmond, H Dooley, R Nozu, K Sato… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) are fundamental for understanding vertebrate
evolution, yet their genomes are understudied. We report long-read sequencing of the whale …

Phylotranscriptomics suggests the jawed vertebrate ancestor could generate diverse helper and regulatory T cell subsets

AK Redmond, DJ Macqueen, H Dooley - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2018 - Springer
Background The cartilaginous fishes diverged from other jawed vertebrates~ 450 million
years ago (mya). Despite this key evolutionary position, the only high-quality cartilaginous …

Sharks provide evidence for a highly complex TNFSF repertoire in the jawed vertebrate ancestor

AK Redmond, R Pettinello, FK Bakke… - The Journal of …, 2022 - journals.aai.org
Cytokines of the TNF superfamily (TNFSF) control many immunological processes and are
implicated in the etiology of many immune disorders and diseases. Despite their obvious …

Exploration of the Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) Plasma Immunoproteome Using High-Resolution LC-MS/MS

FK Bakke, MK Gundappa, H Matz, DA Stead… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Many animals of scientific importance lack species-specific reagents (eg, monoclonal
antibodies) for in-depth studies of immune proteins. Mass spectrometry (MS)-based …

[PDF][PDF] Tumor necrosis factor superfamily: Ancestral functions and remodeling in early vertebrate evolution

I Marín - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The evolution of the tumor necrosis factor superfamily (TNFSF) in early vertebrates is
inferred by comparing the TNFSF genes found in humans and nine fishes: three agnathans …

Evolutionary history of the T cell receptor complex as revealed by small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)

R Pettinello, AK Redmond, CJ Secombes… - Developmental & …, 2017 - Elsevier
In every jawed vertebrate species studied so far, the T cell receptor (TCR) complex is
composed of two different TCR chains (α/β or γ/δ) and a number of CD3 subunits …

Ancient BCMA-like genes herald B cell regulation in lampreys

S Das, Y Sutoh, MP Cancro, JP Rast, Q Han… - The Journal of …, 2019 - journals.aai.org
The TNF superfamily ligands BAFF and APRIL interact with three receptors, BAFFR, BCMA,
and TACI, to play discrete and crucial roles in regulating B cell selection and homeostasis in …

Chondrichthyes: The immune system of cartilaginous fishes

H Dooley - Advances in comparative immunology, 2018 - Springer
The cartilaginous fishes (sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras) hold a key evolutionary
position, being the most distant group to mammals that possesses a “mammalian-like” …