... and longevity. Cnidaria Life-cycle optimization CRISPR-Cas9 Stress response Regeneration Longevity Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002915 SPF20170938703 SPF20130526781 Agence Nationale de la Recherche http://dx.doi.org/10.13039...

.... Cnidaria Nematostella Axial patterning Gastrulation Austrian Science Foundation P30404-B29 Universität Wien Wnt ligands and their Frizzled (Fz) receptors are involved in multiple cellular signalling pathways, one of which leads to the nuclear accumulation of β-catenin...

... Cilia Cnidaria Nematostella vectensis Natural Environment Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000270 Marine Biological Association http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000655 Austrian Science Fund http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002428 P30404-B29...

... cadherins are localized to apical and basal-lateral adherens junctions. Endoderm formation is marked by a cadherin switch. Cadherin Cell adhesion Morphogenesis Germ layers Nematostella Cnidaria Morphogenesis is a process of tissue and organ formation during organism development (Gilbert...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2018 Highlighted Article: W/RPRPamide-related tetrapeptides released from neural-type gonad ectoderm cells in response to light cues cause oocyte maturation and spawning in male and female hydrozoan jellyfish. Oocyte maturation Meiosis Neuropeptide Cnidaria...

... developmental biology. Recent findings from non-bilaterian animals, in particular from Cnidaria, the sister group to Bilateria, have shed new light into the evolutionary origin of bilaterality. Here, we compare the molecular control of body axes in radially and bilaterally symmetric cnidarians and bilaterians...

.... and Wikramanayake , A. H. (2011). Strabismus-mediated primary archenteron invagination is uncoupled from Wnt/beta-catenin-dependent endoderm cell fate specification in Nematostella vectensis (Anthozoa, Cnidaria): implications for the evolution of gastrulation . Evodevo   2 , 2 . 10.1186/2041-9139-2-2...

... Nematostella vectensis , a representative of the Cnidaria, the sister clade to the Bilateria. It has previously been found that the SoxB orthologue NvSoxB(2) is expressed in neural progenitor cells (NPCs) in Nematostella and promotes the development of both neurons and nematocytes, whereas Notch signalling has...

..., the Cnidaria, occurs via interstitial stem cells that also possess broader, non-neural, developmental potential. We address this question by analysing neurogenesis in an anthozoan cnidarian, Nematostella vectensis . Using a transgenic reporter line, we show that NvSoxB(2) – an orthologue of bilaterian SoxB...

... declare no competing financial interests. 23 1 2013 5 9 2013 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 Cnidaria Hydra Pattern formation Pyridone Regeneration Small molecule The adult Hydra polyp has a simple body plan - it is organized...

... financial interests. 30 8 2012 © 2012. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2012 Body axis Cnidaria Frizzled Planar cell polarity Strabismus/Van Gogh Planar cell polarity (PCP) is a key feature of many adult tissues. It accounts for the common orientation of epidermis...

...Nagayasu Nakanishi; Eduard Renfer; Ulrich Technau; Fabian Rentzsch As a sister group to Bilateria, Cnidaria is important for understanding early nervous system evolution. Here we examine neural development in the anthozoan cnidarian Nematostella vectensis in order to better understand whether...

... POU domain transcription factors in vertebrates and their characterisation in a marsupial . Dev. Biol. 337 , 162 - 170 . Gajewski M. , Leitz T. , Schloessherr J. , Plickert G. (1996). LWamides from Cnidaria constitute a novel family of neuropeptides with morphogenetic...

.... Cell 17 , 279 - 289 . Chiori R. , Jager M. , Denker E. , Wincker P. , Da Silva C. , Le Guyader H. , Manuel M. , Queinnec E. (2009). Are Hox genes ancestrally involved in axial patterning? Evidence from the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica (Cnidaria...

... The authors declare no competing financial interests. 29 6 2010 © 2010. 2010 Wnt Tcf β-catenin Axis formation Posterior patterning Hydractinia Cnidaria RNAi Metamorphosis Regeneration Organizer Invertebrate Oocytes Gonads Sperm maturation Sperm development Oogonia...

... mechanisms have been described in the basally diverging phylum Cnidaria (Wikramanayake et al., 2003) on the future `oral' side of embryos, which is derived from the animal pole of the egg. This suggests that early canonical Wnt pathway activation already operated to specify axial polarity and/or endomesoderm...

...,termed Kringelchen, has been reported so far (Sudhop et al., 2005), which clusters with the Nematostella FGFRs (see Fig. S2 in the supplementary material). As the duplication leading to FGFRa and FGFRb appears to be lineage specific, we conclude that the common ancestor of Cnidaria and Bilateria had...

... antagonism Regeneration Axis formation Neurogenesis Cnidaria Hydra Xenopus Secreted Wnt glycoproteins constitute one of the major families of cell signalling molecules (Logan and Nusse,2004 ; Nelson and Nusse,2004 ; Nusse,2003), and their appearance in early metazoan...

...-mail: [email protected]) 6 5 2004 ©2004. 2004 FGFR Cnidaria Budding Morphogenesis Hydra The superfamily of fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) comprises structurally similar receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) that are activated after interaction with FGFs...

..., a member of the phylum Cnidaria. The phylum Cnidaria (sea anemones, corals, hydras and jellyfish) is the likely sister group of the triploblastic Bilateria. Cnidarians are generally regarded as diploblastic animals, possessing endoderm and ectoderm,but lacking mesoderm. To investigate the origin...