Nematostella vectensis
A quantitative reference transcriptome for Nematostella vectensis earlyembryonic development: a pipeline for de novo assembly in emergingmodel systems
... Background: The de novo assembly of transcriptomes from short shotgun sequences raises challenges due to random and non-random sequencing biases and inherent transcript complexity. We sought to define a pipeline for de ...
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Posterior expression of nanos orthologs during embryonic and larval development of the anthozoan Nematostella vectensis
... ABSTRACT Cnidarians are primitive animals located in a basal position in the phylogenetic tree of the Animal Kingdom, as an outgroup of the Bilaterians. Therefore, studies on cnidarian develop- mental biology may ...
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Mechanisms of tentacle morphogenesis in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
... anemone Nematostella vectensis (Collins et ...adult Nematostella polyp exhibits 16 tentacles at the oral end of the animal, providing an ideal system with which to investigate mechanisms of ...
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Developmental and light-entrained expression of melatonin and its relationship to the circadian clock in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
... N. vectensis and ...N. vectensis, showing that the clock genes begin to be expressed early in the development, prior to rhythmic oscillations, suggesting functions independent of a func- tion in the ...
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Nervous systems of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis are generated by ectoderm and endoderm and shaped by distinct mechanisms
... transgenic Nematostella vectensis line In a search for genes with broad neural expression, we turned to the RNA-binding protein Elav, which has been shown to be expressed in a large fraction of neurons in ...
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Periodic, moderate water flow reversibly increases hair bundle density and size in Nematostella vectensis
... Mass cultures of Nematostella vectensis Stephenson 1935 anemones were kept in 9×11 inch (=22.86×27.94 cm) glass dishes filled with 16 ppt seawater. Anemones were fed concentrated, freshly hatched brine ...
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Transgenic analysis of a SoxB gene reveals neural progenitor cells in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis
... anemone Nematostella vectensis is an anthozoan cnidarian, and we have previously shown that its neurons derive from both germ layers, ...level, Nematostella possesses many genes related to conserved ...
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FGF signalling controls formation of the apical sensory organ in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis
... organism Nematostella vectensis, a sea anemone, is a member of the Anthozoa and is considered to be a representative of the basal group within the Cnidaria (Bridge et ...adult Nematostella polyps ...
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Initiating a regenerative response; cellular and molecular features of wound healing in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis
... cnidarian, Nematostella vectensis, is widely known as a comparative system for embryological studies, yet following bisection through their major longitudinal axis (the oral-aboral axis) both halves can ...
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NvERTx: a gene expression database to compare embryogenesis and regeneration in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
... present Nematostella vectensis Embryogenesis and Regeneration Transcriptomics (NvERTx), a platform for comparing gene expression during embryogenesis and ...
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PaxA, but not PaxC, is required for cnidocyte development in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
... using Nematostella vectensis-specific antibodies directed against minicollagens 1, 3, and 4 (α-NCOL1, α-NCOL3, and α-NCOL4) which were originally designed and vali- dated by Zenkert et ...
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Spatial gene expression quantification: a tool for analysis of in situ hybridizations in sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
... decade, Nematostella has become an im- portant model organism in the field of evolutionary devel- opmental biology ...that Nematostella, curiously, shares more genes with humans than either Drosophila ...
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MAPK signaling is necessary for neurogenesis in Nematostella vectensis
... Based on previous observations and data presented here, we propose a model for and preliminary gene regulatory network describing NvashA-dependent neurogenesis in the early embryonic ectoderm of Nematostella (Fig. ...
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Characterization of nAChRs in Nematostella vectensis supports neuronal and non-neuronal roles in the cnidarian–bilaterian common ancestor
... N. vectensis would have responses to acetylcholine similar to those observed in other cnidarians [21–23, ...with Nematostella growth medium contract their tentacles ...N. vectensis [6, 9, 10, ...N. ...
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Par system components are asymmetrically localized in ectodermal epithelia, but not during early development in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
... Figure 9 In vivo localization of Nv Par-3::mVenus during different stages of N. vectensis development. The overexpression of Nv Par3::mVenus (A) protein, by mRNA microinjection, displays two phases of ...
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Strabismus-mediated primary archenteron invagination is uncoupled from Wnt/β-catenin-dependent endoderm cell fate specification in Nematostella vectensis (Anthozoa, Cnidaria): Implications for the evolution of gastrulation
... in Nematostella is striking and may provide insight into the evolutionary ontogeny of a functional gut in ...in Nematostella is initiated by formation of bottle cells at the animal ...In Nematostella ...
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Nematostella vectensis achaete scute homolog NvashA regulates embryonic ectodermal neurogenesis and represents an ancient component of the metazoan neural specification pathway
... It is not clear whether NvashA has a pan-neural role in cnidarian neurogenesis. Although the two definitive known neural markers are regulated by NvashA, it is still unknown how many neurons are formed in the embryonic ...
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Sex-specific and developmental expression of Dmrt genes in the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis
... Given the variation among bilaterian animals in the function of Dmrt genes, including sex determination and neurogenesis, data from outgroups to the bilaterians (e.g., ctenophores, cnidarians) are needed to clarify po- ...
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Development and epithelial organisation of muscle cells in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
... N. vectensis , a representative of the Anthozoa, has been established as an important model for studying embryology, phylogenetic relationships, com- parative genomics and the origin of triploblasty ...N. ...
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The innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss
... and Nematostella vectensis [12,13] and the planarian Dugesia japonica ...and Nematostella appear to have preserved much of the genetic complexity of the common metazoan ...
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