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ReviewDevelopmental biology2006

High regulatory gene use in sea urchin embryogenesis: Implications for bilaterian development and evolution.

Meredith Howard-Ashby, Stefan C Materna, C Titus Brown, Qiang Tu, Paola Oliveri, R Andrew Cameron, Eric H Davidson

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Review in Developmental biology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Expression of Hox Genes in Early Development of Irregular Sea Urchin Scaphechinus mirabilis (Echinodermata, Echinoidea).Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections · 2025
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  5. A Survey on Tubulin and Arginine Methyltransferase Families Sheds Light onInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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  9. Echinobase: an expanding resource for echinoderm genomic information.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2017
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  12. Phylogenomics of strongylocentrotid sea urchins.BMC evolutionary biology · 2013
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  16. Functional cis-regulatory genomics for systems biology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2010
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  20. The sea urchin genome as a window on function.The Biological bulletin · 2008
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Meredith Howard-AshbyDivision of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Stefan C Materna
C Titus Brown
Qiang Tu
Paola Oliveri
R Andrew Cameron
Eric H Davidson

Funding

Transcriptional Casualty in Embryonic Morphogenesis: from the Specifications GRNP01HD037105 · NICHD · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI DAVIDSON, ERIC H · 1999 to 2018
$27.1M
NICHD NIH HHS HD37105NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD037105
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A global scan of transcription factor usage in the sea urchin embryo was carried out in the context of the Strongylocentrotus purpuratus genome sequencing project, and results from six individual studies are here considered. Transcript prevalence data were obtained for over 280 regulatory genes encoding sequence-specific transcription factors of every known family, but excluding genes encoding zinc finger proteins. This is a statistically inclusive proxy for the total "regulome" of the sea urchin genome. Close to 80% of the regulome is expressed at significant levels by the late gastrula stage. Most regulatory genes must be used repeatedly for different functions as development progresses. An evolutionary implication is that animal complexity at the stage when the regulome first evolved was far simpler than even the last common bilaterian ancestor, and is thus of deep antiquity.

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AnimalsFemaleFertilizationMaleOvumSea UrchinsSpermatozoaSperm-Ovum Interactions

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PMID17101125
PMCPMC1790870

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