ReviewDevelopment genes and evolution2013
Cellular and molecular processes leading to embryo formation in sponges: evidences for high conservation of processes throughout animal evolution.
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- Rethinking Plasticity in Sponges.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2026Pooled it
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- Genomic analysis reveals broad adaptability of coral-killing sponge (Terpios hoshinota) under environmental stress.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- The Buds of Oscarella lobularis (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha): A New Convenient Model for Sponge Cell and Evolutionary Developmental Biology.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2024Article
- Current Trends of Bacterial and Fungal Optoproteins for Novel Optical Applications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- The compact genome of the sponge Oopsacas minuta (Hexactinellida) is lacking key metazoan core genes.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Chemical factors induce aggregative multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of animals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The evolution of gastrulation morphologies.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2023Review
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- The first embryo, the origin of cancer and animal phylogeny. I. A presentation of the neoplastic process and its connection with cell fusion and germline formation.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
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- Why isn't sex optional? Stem-cell competition, loss of regenerative capacity, and cancer in metazoan evolution.Communicative & integrative biology · 2020Review
- Does regeneration recapitulate phylogeny? Planaria as a model of body-axis specification in ancestral eumetazoa.Communicative & integrative biology · 2020Article
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- Establishment of Transgenesis in the DemospongeGenetics · 2018Article
- The Conservation of the Germline Multipotency Program, from Sponges to Vertebrates: A Stepping Stone to Understanding the Somatic and Germline Origins.Genome biology and evolution · 2017Article
- Evolution of Myeloid Cells.Microbiology spectrum · 2016Review
- Notch-Mediated Cell Adhesion.Biology · 2016Review
- MicroRNA expression during demosponge dissociation, reaggregation, and differentiation and a evolutionarily conserved demosponge miRNA expression profile.Development genes and evolution · 2015Article
- Vasa, PL10, and Piwi gene expression during caudal regeneration of the polychaete annelid Alitta virens.Development genes and evolution · 2015Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The emergence of multicellularity is regarded as one of the major evolutionary events of life. This transition unicellularity/pluricellularity was acquired independently several times (King 2004). The acquisition of multicellularity implies the emergence of cellular cohesion and means of communication, as well as molecular mechanisms enabling the control of morphogenesis and body plan patterning. Some of these molecular tools seem to have predated the acquisition of multicellularity while others are regarded as the acquisition of specific lineages. Morphogenesis consists in the spatial migration of cells or cell layers during embryonic development, metamorphosis, asexual reproduction, growth, and regeneration, resulting in the formation and patterning of a body. In this paper, our aim is to review what is currently known concerning basal metazoans--sponges' morphogenesis from the tissular, cellular, and molecular points of view--and what remains to elucidate. Our review attempts to show that morphogenetic processes found in sponges are as diverse and complex as those found in other animals. In true epithelial sponges (Homoscleromorpha), as well as in others, we find similar cell/layer movements, cellular shape changes involved in major morphogenetic processes such as embryogenesis or larval metamorphosis. Thus, sponges can provide information enabling us to better understand early animal evolution at the molecular level but also at the cell/cell layer level. Indeed, comparison of molecular tools will only be of value if accompanied by functional data and expression studies during morphogenetic processes.
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