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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Conserved Patterns in Developmental Processes and Phases, Rather than Genes, Unite the Highly Divergent Bilateria.

Luca Ferretti, Andrea Krämer-Eis, Philipp H Schiffer

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Luca FerrettiThe Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7578-7301
Andrea Krämer-EisInstitut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 47a, 50674 Köln, Germany.
Philipp H SchifferInstitut für Zoologie, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 47b, 50674 Köln, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6776-0934
University of Cologne · DEThe Pirbright Institute · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007036Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007039
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bilateria are the predominant clade of animals on Earth. Despite having evolved a wide variety of body plans and developmental modes, they are characterized by common morphological traits. By default, researchers have tried to link clade-specific genes to these traits, thus distinguishing bilaterians from non-bilaterians, by their gene content. Here we argue that it is rather biological processes that unite Bilateria and set them apart from their non-bilaterian sisters, with a less complex body morphology. To test this hypothesis, we compared proteomes of bilaterian and non-bilaterian species in an elaborate computational pipeline, aiming to search for a set of bilaterian-specific genes. Despite the limited confidence in their bilaterian specificity, we nevertheless detected Bilateria-specific functional and developmental patterns in the sub-set of genes conserved in distantly related Bilateria. Using a novel multi-species GO-enrichment method, we determined the functional repertoire of genes that are widely conserved among Bilateria. Analyzing expression profiles in three very distantly related model species-

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