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Developmental gene expression provides clues to relationships between sponge and eumetazoan body plans

Leininger, Sven; Adamski, Marcin; Bergum, Birth; Guder, Corina; Liu, Jing; Laplante, Mary; Brate, Jon; Hoffmann, Friederike; Fortunato, Sofia; Jordal, Signe; Rapp, Hans Tore; Adamska, Maja

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Elucidation of macroevolutionary transitions between diverse animal body plans remains a major challenge in evolutionary biology. We address the sponge-eumetazoan transition by analyzing expression of a broad range of eumetazoan developmental regulatory genes in Sycon ciliatum (Calcispongiae). Here we show that many members of surprisingly numerous Wnt and Tgfi 2 gene families are expressed higher or uniquely in the adult apical end and the larval posterior end. Genes involved in formation of...[Show more]

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Date published: 2014
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/98354
Source: Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4905
Access Rights: Open Access

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