10 datasets found

Cnidarians are the only non-bilaterian group to evolve ciliated larvae with an apical sensory organ integrated with neurons, possibly homologous to the bilaterians. Within...

DNA methylation has been found throughout animal kingdom, but it is still unclear whether this epigenetic mechanism affects the evolution of genomic elements in animals. Here,...

Transcription factor brachyury plays a key role during mesoderm development in vertebrates. In this study we study study the effect of this transcription factor in diploblastic...

THis project aims to profile microbial communities using metabarcoding of the V4 region of the 16S rRNA of cninadarians (Nematostella vectensis (non-symbiotic) and Exaiptasia...

We characterised the genome organization in non-bilaterian animals (sponge Ephydatia muelleri, ctenophores Mnemiopsis leidyi and Hormiphora californensis, placozoans Trichoplax...

Eukaryotic cytosine methylation represses transposable elements, but also occurs in bodies of active genes. The extent to which these processes are conserved is unclear, and...

Considerable attention has recently been focussed on the potential involvement of DNA methylation in regulating gene expression in cnidarians. Much of this work has been centred...

Whole-genome DNA-seq and strand-specific RNA-seq on 18 species, including 14 metazoans and four unicellular eukaryotes closely related to metazoans. For each species, two to...

There is currently little information about the evolution of gene clusters, genome architectures and karyotypes in early branching animals. Slowly evolving anthozoan cnidarians...

Ocean acidification (OA) resulting from anthropogenic CO2 emissions is impairing the reproduction of marine organisms. While parental exposure to OA can protect offspring via...