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β-Catenin acts in a position-independent regeneration response in the simple eumetazoan Hydra by Gufler, S., Artes, B., Bielen, H., Krainer, I., Eder, M.-K., Falschlunger, J., Bollmann, A., Ostermann, T., Valovka, T., Hartl, M., Bister, K., Technau, U., Hobmayer, B.

“…Wnt/β-Catenin signaling plays crucial roles in regenerative processes in eumetazoans. It also acts in regeneration and axial patterning in the simple…”
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Minimal ProtoHox cluster inferred from bilaterian and cnidarian Hox complements by de Jong, P, Technau, U, Renfer, E, Chourrout, D, Chourrout, P, Zhu, B, Edvardsen, R. B, Steele, R. E, Jensen, M. F, Delsuc, F, Rentzsch, F

“…Bilaterian animals have a Hox gene cluster essential for patterning the main body axis, and a ParaHox gene cluster. Comparison of Hox and ParaHox genes has led…”
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Cnidarians: An evolutionarily conserved model system for regeneration? by Holstein, T.W., Hobmayer, E., Technau, U.

“…Cnidarians are among the simplest metazoan animals and are well known for their remarkable regeneration capacity. They can regenerate any amputated head or…”
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Cnidarians and ancestral genetic complexity in the animal kingdom by Miller, David J., Ball, Eldon E., Technau, Ulrich

“…Eleven of the twelve recognized wingless (Wnt) subfamilies are represented in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis, indicating that this developmentally…”
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HyBra1, a Brachyury homologue, acts during head formation in Hydra by Technau, U, Bode, H R

“…A homologue of the T-box gene, Brachyury, has been isolated from hydra. The gene, termed HyBra1, is expressed in the endoderm and is associated with the…”
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Recurrent horizontal transfer of bacterial toxin genes to eukaryotes by Moran, Yehu, Fredman, David, Szczesny, Pawel, Grynberg, Marcin, Technau, Ulrich

“…In this work, we report likely recurrent horizontal (lateral) gene transfer events of genes encoding pore-forming toxins of the aerolysin family between…”
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Head formation in Hydra is different at apical and basal levels by Technau, Ulrich, Holstein, Thomas W.

“…Hydra's head is a compound structure with a hypostome at the apical extreme and a circle of tentacles more basally. During head regeneration, it is thought (P…”
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Cnidarian microRNAs frequently regulate targets by cleavage by Moran, Yehu, Fredman, David, Praher, Daniela, Li, Xin Z, Wee, Liang Meng, Rentzsch, Fabian, Zamore, Phillip D, Technau, Ulrich, Seitz, Hervé

“…In bilaterians, which comprise most of extant animals, microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate the majority of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) via base-pairing of a short sequence…”
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Conservation and turnover of miRNAs and their highly complementary targets in early branching animals by Praher, Daniela, Zimmermann, Bob, Dnyansagar, Rohit, Miller, David J, Moya, Aurelie, Modepalli, Vengamanaidu, Fridrich, Arie, Sher, Daniel, Friis-Møller, Lene, Sundberg, Per, Fôret, Sylvain, Ashby, Regan, Moran, Yehu, Technau, Ulrich

“…MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are crucial post-transcriptional regulators that have been extensively studied in Bilateria, a group comprising the majority of extant…”
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Cadherin switch marks germ layer formation in the diploblastic sea anemone Nematostella vectensis by Pukhlyakova, E. A., Kirillova, A. O., Kraus, Y. A., Zimmermann, B., Technau, U.

“…Morphogenesis is a shape-building process during development of multicellular organisms. During this process the establishment and modulation of cell-cell…”
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Brachyury, the blastopore and the evolution of the mesoderm by Technau, Ulrich

“…The role of Brachyury and other T‐box genes in the differentiation of mesoderm and endoderm of vertebrates is well established. Recently, homologues of…”
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Unexpected complexity of the Wnt gene family in a sea anemone by Kusserow, Arne, Martindale, Mark Q, von Haeseler, Arndt, Schmidt, Heiko A, Holstein, Thomas W, Technau, Ulrich, Hobmayer, Bert, Lentfer, Jan, Sturm, Carsten, Pang, Kevin, Hrouda, Martina

“…The Wnt gene family encodes secreted signalling molecules that control cell fate in animal development and human diseases. Despite its significance, the…”
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Dispersal and speciation: The cross Atlantic relationship of two parasitic cnidarians by Dnyansagar, Rohit, Zimmermann, Bob, Moran, Yehu, Praher, Daniela, Sundberg, Per, Møller, Lene Friis, Technau, Ulrich

“…[Display omitted] •Edwardsiella lineata and Edwardsiella carnea are virtually indistinguishable.•E. lineata and E. carnea share 97% nucleotide identity on…”
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Evolution of the bilaterian larval foregut by Wittbrodt, Joachim, Arendt, Detlev, Technau, Ulrich

“…Bilateria are subdivided into Protostomia and Deuterostomia. Indirect development through primary, ciliary larvae occurs in both of these branches; however,…”
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Maintenance of ancestral complexity and non-metazoan genes in two basal cnidarians by Technau, Ulrich, Rudd, Stephen, Maxwell, Peter, Gordon, Paul M.K., Saina, Michael, Grasso, Lauretta C., Hayward, David C., Sensen, Christoph W., Saint, Robert, Holstein, Thomas W., Ball, Eldon E., Miller, David J.

“…Cnidarians are among the simplest extant animals; however EST analyses reveal that they have a remarkably high level of genetic complexity. In this article, we…”
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Origin and evolution of endoderm and mesoderm by Technau, Ulrich, Scholz, Corinna B

“…Germ layers are defined as cell layers that arise during early animal development, mostly during gastrulation, and that give rise to all tissues and organs in…”
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Analysis of forkhead and snail expression reveals epithelial–mesenchymal transitions during embryonic and larval development of Nematostella vectensis by Fritzenwanker, Jens H., Saina, Michael, Technau, Ulrich

“…The winged helix transcription factor Forkhead and the zinc finger transcription factor Snail are crucially involved in germ layer formation in Bilateria…”
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Evolution of Head Development by Bode, Hans, Martinez, Daniel, Shenk, M. Andrew, Smith, Kerry, Steele, Robert, Technau, Ulrich

“…Research was conducted to examine the evolution of head development in a hydra, an animal that does not resemble that of a vertebrate or an insect very closely…”
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Gastrulation in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis occurs by invagination and immigration: an ultrastructural study by Kraus, Yulia, Technau, Ulrich

“…The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis has recently been established as a new model system for the understanding of the evolution of developmental processes…”
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Induction of gametogenesis in the basal cnidarian Nematostella vectensis(Anthozoa) by Fritzenwanker, Jens H, Technau, Ulrich

“…A protocol was established to reproducibly induce spawning in the basal cnidarian Nematostella vectensis (Anthozoa). We found that a combination of feeding…”
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