Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21389047›Full record

ReviewDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2011

Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: Cnidaria.

Ulrich Technau, Robert E Steele

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Review in Development (Cambridge, England), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 126 papers.

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126citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

126 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ulrich TechnauDepartment for Molecular Evolution and Development, Centre for Organismal Systems Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, Vienna, Austria. ulrich.technau@univie.ac.at
Robert E Steele

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF P 21108Austrian Science Fund FWF P 22717
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is growing interest in the use of cnidarians (corals, sea anemones, jellyfish and hydroids) to investigate the evolution of key aspects of animal development, such as the formation of the third germ layer (mesoderm), the nervous system and the generation of bilaterality. The recent sequencing of the Nematostella and Hydra genomes, and the establishment of methods for manipulating gene expression, have inspired new research efforts using cnidarians. Here, we present the main features of cnidarian models and their advantages for research, and summarize key recent findings using these models that have informed our understanding of the evolution of the developmental processes underlying metazoan body plan formation.

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionDevelopmental BiologyAnimalsCnidariaModels, BiologicalPhylogeny

Identifiers

PMID21389047
PMCPMC3062418

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