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The Generation of Variation and the Developmental Basis for Evolutionary Novelty by HALLGRÍMSSON, BENEDIKT, JAMNICZKY, HEATHER A., YOUNG, NATHAN M., ROLIAN, CAMPBELL, SCHMIDT-OTT, URS, MARCUCIO, RALPH S.

“…ABSTRACTOrganisms exhibit an incredible diversity of form, a fact that makes the evolution of novelty seemingly self‐evident. However, despite the “obvious”…”
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bicoid occurrence and Bicoid-dependent hunchback regulation in lower cyclorrhaphan flies by Lemke, Steffen, Stauber, Michael, Shaw, Philip J., Rafiqi, Ab. Matteen, Prell, Alexander, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…SUMMARY The homeobox gene bicoid functions as an anterior pattern organizer of the Drosophila embryo, but other than in higher flies (Cyclorrhapha), bicoid…”
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Twenty-seven ZAD-ZNF genes of Drosophila melanogaster are orthologous to the embryo polarity determining mosquito gene cucoid by Li, Muzi, Kasan, Koray, Saha, Zinnia, Yoon, Yoseop, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…The C2H2 zinc finger gene cucoid establishes anterior-posterior (AP) polarity in the early embryo of culicine mosquitoes. This gene is unrelated to genes that…”
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Extraembryonic tissues: exploring concepts, definitions and functions across the animal kingdom by Sheng, Guojun, Boroviak, Thorsten E., Schmidt-Ott, Urs, Srinivas, Shankar

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Embryo polarity in moth flies and mosquitoes relies on distinct old genes with localized transcript isoforms by Yoon, Yoseop, Klomp, Jeff, Martin-Martin, Ines, Criscione, Frank, Calvo, Eric, Ribeiro, Jose, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…Unrelated genes establish head-to-tail polarity in embryos of different fly species, raising the question of how they evolve this function. We show that in…”
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Evidence for a composite anterior determinant in the hover fly Episyrphus balteatus (Syrphidae), a cyclorrhaphan fly with an anterodorsal serosa anlage by Lemke, Steffen, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…Most insect embryos develop from a monolayer of cells around the yolk, but only part of this blastoderm forms the embryonic rudiment. Another part forms…”
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Chironomus riparius (Diptera) genome sequencing reveals the impact of minisatellite transposable elements on population divergence by Oppold, Ann‐Marie, Schmidt, Hanno, Rose, Marcel, Hellmann, Sören Lukas, Dolze, Florian, Ripp, Fabian, Weich, Bettina, Schmidt‐Ott, Urs, Schmidt, Erwin, Kofler, Robert, Hankeln, Thomas, Pfenninger, Markus

“…Active transposable elements (TEs) may result in divergent genomic insertion and abundance patterns among conspecific populations. Upon secondary contact, such…”
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Quantitative system drift compensates for altered maternal inputs to the gap gene network of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita by Wotton, Karl R, Jiménez-Guri, Eva, Crombach, Anton, Janssens, Hilde, Alcaine-Colet, Anna, Lemke, Steffen, Schmidt-Ott, Urs, Jaeger, Johannes

“…The segmentation gene network in insects can produce equivalent phenotypic outputs despite differences in upstream regulatory inputs between species. We…”
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Functional evolution of a morphogenetic gradient by Kwan, Chun Wai, Gavin-Smyth, Jackie, Ferguson, Edwin L, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) pattern the dorsal-ventral axis of bilaterian embryos; however, their roles in the evolution of body plan are largely…”
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Ancient mechanisms for the evolution of the bicoid homeodomain's function in fly development by Liu, Qinwen, Onal, Pinar, Datta, Rhea R, Rogers, Julia M, Schmidt-Ott, Urs, Bulyk, Martha L, Small, Stephen, Thornton, Joseph W

“…The ancient mechanisms that caused developmental gene regulatory networks to diversify among distantly related taxa are not well understood. Here we use…”
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Evo-Devo aspects of classical and molecular data in a historical perspective by Sander, Klaus, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…We discuss the interplay between evolution and development as reflected in data and concepts since about 1800. Darwin and his “continental apostle” Haeckel put…”
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BMP-dependent serosa and amnion specification in the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita by Rafiqi, Ab Matteen, Park, Chee-Hyurng, Kwan, Chun Wai, Lemke, Steffen, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling is an essential factor in dorsoventral patterning of animal embryos but how BMP signaling evolved with fundamental…”
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Evolutionary origin of the amnioserosa in cyclorrhaphan flies correlates with spatial and temporal expression changes of zen by Rafiqi, Ab. Matteen, Lemke, Steffen, Ferguson, Sean, Stauber, Michael, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…Higher cyclorrhaphan flies including Drosophila develop a single extraembryonic epithelium (amnioserosa), which closes the germband dorsally. In most other…”
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A Single Hox3 Gene with Composite bicoid and zerknüllt Expression Characteristics in Non-Cyclorrhaphan Flies by Stauber, Michael, Prell, Alexander, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…The members of the evolutionarily conserved Hox-gene complex, termed Hox genes, are required for specifying segmental identity during embryogenesis in various…”
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The Anterior Determinant Bicoid of Drosophila Is a Derived Hox Class 3 Gene by Stauber, Michael, Jäckle, Herbert, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…The Drosophila gene bicoid functions as the anterior body pattern organizer of Drosophila. Embryos lacking maternally expressed bicoid fail to develop anterior…”
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BMP signaling components in embryonic transcriptomes of the hover fly Episyrphus balteatus (Syrphidae) by Lemke, Steffen, Antonopoulos, Dionysios A, Meyer, Folker, Domanus, Marc H, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…In animals, signaling of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) is essential for dorsoventral (DV) patterning of the embryo, but how BMP signaling evolved with…”
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Function of Bicoid and Hunchback Homologs in the Basal Cyclorrhaphan Fly Megaselia (Phoridae) by Stauber, Michael, Taubert, Heike, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…The Drosophila gene bicoid functions at the beginning of a gene cascade that specifies anterior structures in the embryo. Its transcripts are localized at the…”
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Differential cytoplasmic mRNA localisation adjusts pair-rule transcription factor activity to cytoarchitecture in dipteran evolution by Bullock, Simon L., Stauber, Michael, Prell, Alexander, Hughes, Julian R., Ish-Horowicz, David, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

“…Establishment of segmental pattern in the Drosophila syncytial blastoderm embryo depends on pair-rule transcriptional regulators. mRNA transcripts of pair-rule…”
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How two extraembryonic epithelia became one: serosa and amnion features and functions of Drosophila's amnioserosa by Schmidt-Ott, Urs, Kwan, Chun Wai

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How two extraembryonic epithelia became one: serosa and amnion features and functions of Drosophila 's amnioserosa by Schmidt-Ott, Urs, Kwan, Chun Wai

“…The conservation of gene networks that specify and differentiate distinct tissues has long been a subject of great interest to evolutionary developmental…”
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