The evolution of mesoderm and its differentiation into cell types and organ systems

Project Information

EVOMESODERM

Grant agreement ID: 648861

DOI 10.3030/648861

Project closed

EC signature date 29 May 2015

Start date 1 June 2015

End date 31 May 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 999 500,00

EU contribution € 1 999 500,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN
Norway

Publications

Other (3)

Annelid functional genomics reveal the origins of bilaterian life cycles

Author(s): Yan Liang; Francisco M. Martín-Zamora; Kero Guynes; Allan M. Carrillo-Baltodano; Yongkai Tan; Giacomo Moggioli; Océane Seudre; Martin Tran; Kate Mortimer; Nicholas M. Luscombe; Andreas Hejnol; Ferdinand Marlétaz; José M. Martín-Durán
Published in: BioRxiv, 2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
DOI: 10.1101/2022.02.05.479245

Brachiopod and mollusc biomineralisation is a conserved process that was lost in the phoronid-bryozoan stem lineage

Author(s): Joel Vikberg Wernström; Ludwik Gasiorowski; Andreas Hejnol
Published in: BioRxiv, 2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.01.498437

The Toll and Imd pathway, the complement system and lectins during immune response of the nemertean Lineus ruber

Author(s): Andrea Orus-Alcalde; Aina Børve; Andreas Hejnol
Published in: BioRxiv, 2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.04.26.489627

Peer reviewed articles (21)

FGF signaling acts on different levels of mesoderm development within Spiralia

Author(s): Carmen Andrikou, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Development, Issue 148/10, 2021, ISSN 0950-1991
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/dev.196089

Conservative route to extreme genome compaction in a miniature annelid

Author(s): José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta; Wenjia Gu; Ferdinand Marlétaz; Manuel Irimia; Xavier Grau-Bové; Nicolas Bekkouche; Nevena Cvetesic; Allan Carrillo-Baltodano; Daniel Chourrout; Alexandra Kerbl; Daniel Thiel; Simon Henriet; Yamile Marquez; Boris Lenhard; Katrine Worsaae; Bruno Cossermelli Vellutini; Viviana Cetrangolo; José M. Martín-Durán; Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 5, 2020, Page(s) 262, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.07.078311

The evolution of the metazoan Toll receptor family and its expression during protostome development.

Author(s): Andrea Orús-Alcalde; Tsai-Ming Lu; Aina Børve; Andreas Hejnol
Published in: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Issue 4, 2021, ISSN 2730-7182
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-199283/v1

Molecular evidence for a single origin of ultrafiltration-based excretory organs

Author(s): Ludwik Gąsiorowski, Carmen Andrikou, Ralf Janssen, Paul Bump, Graham E. Budd, Christopher J. Lowe, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Current Biology, 2021, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.057

A safer, urea-based in situ hybridization method improves detection of gene expression in diverse animal species

Author(s): Chiara Sinigaglia, Daniel Thiel, Andreas Hejnol, Evelyn Houliston, Lucas Leclère
Published in: Developmental Biology, 2017, ISSN 0012-1606
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.11.015

Convergent evolution of bilaterian nerve cords

Author(s): José M. Martín-Durán, Kevin Pang, Aina Børve, Henrike Semmler Lê, Anlaug Furu, Johanna Taylor Cannon, Ulf Jondelius, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Nature, 2017, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/nature25030

Pairwise comparisons across species are problematic when analyzing functional genomic data

Author(s): Casey W. Dunn, Felipe Zapata, Catriona Munro, Stefan Siebert, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018, Page(s) 201707515, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707515115

Early metazoan cell type diversity and the evolution of multicellular gene regulation

Author(s): Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Elad Chomsky, Kevin Pang, David Lara-Astiaso, Federico Gaiti, Zohar Mukamel, Ido Amit, Andreas Hejnol, Bernard M. Degnan, Amos Tanay
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 2/7, 2018, Page(s) 1176-1188, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0575-6

The developmental basis for the recurrent evolution of deuterostomy and protostomy

Author(s): José M. Martín-Durán, Yale J. Passamaneck, Mark Q. Martindale, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 1, 2016, Page(s) 0005, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Natureresearch
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-016-0005

Evolution and development of the adelphophagic, intracapsular Schmidt’s larva of the nemertean Lineus ruber

Author(s): José M. Martín-Durán, Bruno C. Vellutini, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: EvoDevo, Issue 6/1, 2015, ISSN 2041-9139
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13227-015-0023-5

Xenacoelomorph Neuropeptidomes Reveal a Major Expansion of Neuropeptide Systems during Early Bilaterian Evolution

Author(s): Daniel Thiel, Mirita Franz-Wachtel, Felipe Aguilera, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 35/10, 2018, Page(s) 2528-2543, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy160

Hox gene expression in postmetamorphic juveniles of the brachiopod Terebratalia transversa

Author(s): Ludwik Gąsiorowski, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: EvoDevo, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-9139
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13227-018-0114-1

Active mode of excretion across digestive tissues predates the origin of excretory organs

Author(s): Carmen Andrikou, Daniel Thiel, Juan A. Ruiz-Santiesteban, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 17/7, 2019, Page(s) e3000408, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000408

Morphology of the nervous system of monogonont rotifer Epiphanes senta with a focus on sexual dimorphism between feeding females and dwarf males

Author(s): Ludwik Gąsiorowski, Anlaug Furu, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Frontiers in Zoology, Issue 16/1, 2019, ISSN 1742-9994
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12983-019-0334-9

Evolutionary Implications of the microRNA- and piRNA Complement of Lepidodermella squamata (Gastrotricha)

Author(s): Bastian Fromm, Juan Pablo Tosar, Felipe Aguilera, Marc R. Friedländer, Lutz Bachmann, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Non-Coding RNA, Issue 5/1, 2019, Page(s) 19, ISSN 2311-553X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ncrna5010019

Convergent evolution of a vertebrate-like methylome in a marine sponge

Author(s): Alex de Mendoza, William L. Hatleberg, Kevin Pang, Sven Leininger, Ozren Bogdanovic, Jahnvi Pflueger, Sam Buckberry, Ulrich Technau, Andreas Hejnol, Maja Adamska, Bernard M. Degnan, Sandie M. Degnan, Ryan Lister
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 3/10, 2019, Page(s) 1464-1473, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0983-2

Cleavage modification did not alter blastomere fates during bryozoan evolution

Author(s): Bruno C. Vellutini, José M. Martín-Durán, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: BMC Biology, Issue 15/1, 2017, Page(s) 28, ISSN 1741-7007
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-017-0371-9

Increased taxon sampling reveals thousands of hidden orthologs in flatworms

Author(s): Jose M. Martin-Duran, Joseph F Ryan, Bruno Vellutini, Kevin Pang, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Genome Research, Issue 27: 1263-1272, 2017, Page(s) gr.216226.116, ISSN 1088-9051
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
DOI: 10.1101/gr.216226.116

Molecular patterning during the development of Phoronopsis harmeri reveals similarities to rhynchonelliform brachiopods

Author(s): Carmen Andrikou, Yale J. Passamaneck, Chris J. Lowe, Mark Q. Martindale, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: EvoDevo, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-9139
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13227-019-0146-1

Hox gene expression during development of the phoronid Phoronopsis harmeri

Author(s): Ludwik Gąsiorowski, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: EvoDevo, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-9139
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13227-020-0148-z

Molecular and morphological analysis of the developing nemertean brain indicates convergent evolution of complex brains in Spiralia

Author(s): Ludwik Gąsiorowski, Aina Børve, Irina A. Cherneva, Andrea Orús-Alcalde, Andreas Hejnol
Published in: BMC Biology, Issue 19/1, 2021, ISSN 1741-7007
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01113-1

Book chapters (1)

Cell Types, Morphology, and Evolution of Animal Excretory Organs

Author(s): Carmen Andrikou; Ludwik Gasiorowski; Andreas Hejnol
Published in: Origin and Evolution of Metazoan Cell Types, 2021, ISBN 9781315388229
Publisher: CRC Press
DOI: 10.1201/b21831