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Konstantin Khalturin
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The origin of metazoan larvae
A comparative analysis of developmental transcriptomes across Metazoa provides a quantitative approach to test scenarios of life-cycle evolution and supports an ancestral adult form with later intercalation of...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Medusozoan genomes inform the evolution of the jellyfish body plan
The version of this article originally published was not open access, but should have been open access. The error has been corrected, and the paper is now open access with a CC-BY license.
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Open AccessMedusozoan genomes inform the evolution of the jellyfish body plan
Cnidarians are astonishingly diverse in body form and lifestyle, including the presence of a jellyfish stage in medusozoans and its absence in anthozoans. Here, we sequence the genomes of Aurelia aurita (a scypho...
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Open AccessAdoption of conserved developmental genes in development and origin of the medusa body plan
The metagenesis of sessile polyps into pelagic medusae in cnidarians represents one of the most ancient complex life cycles in animals. Interestingly, scyphozoans and hydrozoans generate medusae by apparently ...
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Open AccessThe dynamic genome of Hydra
Hydra, first described by Anton van Leeuwenhoek in a letter to the Royal Society in 1702, has been studied by biologists for centuries and now is an important model for work on axial patterning, stem cell biology...
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Open AccessCharacterization of taxonomically restricted genes in a phylum-restricted cell type
Despite decades of research, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the evolution of morphological diversity remain poorly understood. While current models assume that species-specific morphologies are gover...
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Immune Reactions in the Vertebrates' Closest Relatives, the Urochordates
Currently existing urochordates (sea squirts) and vertebrates diverged in evolution around 570 million years (myr) ago. Phylogenetic analyses based on molecular data provide compelling evidence that these anim...
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Open AccessThe innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss
Characterization of the innate immune repertoire of extant cnidarians is of both fundamental and applied interest - it not only provides insights into the basic immunological 'tool kit' of the common ancestor ...
