The innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss (2007)
Miller, David J, Hemmrich, Georg, Ball, Eldon E, Hayward, David C, Khalturin, Konstantin, Funayama, Noriko, ...
Abstract Background Characterization of the innate immune repertoire of extant cnidarians is of both fundamental and applied interest - it not only provides insights into the basic immunological...
The innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss (2007)
Miller, David James, Hemmrich, Georg, Ball, Eldon E., Hayward, David C., Khalturin, Konstantin, Funayama, Noriko, ...
© 2007 Miller et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License...
The innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss (2007)
Miller, David James, Hemmrich, Georg, Ball, Eldon E., Hayward, David C., Khalturin, Konstantin, Funayama, Noriko, ...
© 2007 Miller et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License...
Matsubara, Kazumi, Tarui, Hiroshi, Toriba, Michihisa, Yamada, Kazuhiko, Nishida-Umehara, Chizuko, Agata, Kiyokazu, ...
All snake species exhibit genetic sex determination with the ZZ/ZW type of sex chromosomes. To investigate the origin and evolution of snake sex chromosomes, we constructed, by FISH, a cytogenetic...
Kuraku, Shigehiro, Ishijima, Junko, Nishida-Umehara, Chizuko, Agata, Kiyokazu, Kuratani, Shigeru, Matsuda, Yoichi
Mammalian and avian genomes comprise several classes of chromosomal segments that vary dramatically in GC-content. Especially in chicken, microchromosomes exhibit a higher GC-content and a higher...
Funayama, Noriko, Nakatsukasa, Mikiko, Kuraku, Shigehiro, Takechi, Katsuaki, Dohi, Mikako, Iwabe, Naoyuki, ...
Sponges (phylum Porifera) have remarkable regenerative and reconstitutive abilities and represent evolutionarily the oldest metazoans. To investigate sponge stem cell differentiation, we have focused...
Matsuda, Yoichi, Nishida-Umehara, Chizuko, Tarui, Hiroshi, Kuroiwa, Asato, Yamada, Kazuhiko, Isobe, Taku, ...
The karyotypes of birds, turtles and snakes are characterized by two distinct chromosomal components, macrochromosomes and microchromosomes. This close karyological relationship between birds and...
Gusev, Oleg, Ikeda, Hideki, Okochi, Tetsushi, Lee, Jae Min, Hatakeyama, Masatsugu, Kobayashi, Chiyoko, ...
The egg attachment system of an estuarine crab Sesarma haematocheir is formed on the maternal ovigerous hairs just after egg laying, and slips off these hairs just after hatching. The stripping is...
Fumie Sakai, Kiyokazu Agata, Hidefumi Orii, Kenji Watanabe
Planarians can propagate asexually by fission and successive regeneration. During head regeneration, they again form a new pair of eyes, and sometimes supernumerary eyes. The positions of normal and...
Chiyoko Kobayashi, Seitaro Kobayashi, Hidefumi Orii, Kenji Watanabe, Kiyokazu Agata
Ultrastructural and physiological studies have shown that planarian muscles have some characteristics of smooth and some characteristics of striated muscles. To characterize planarian muscles, we...
Hidefumi Orii, Kentaro Kato, Kiyokazu Agata, Kenji Watanabe
BMP (Bone Morphogenetic Protein) acts as a morphogen for dorso-ventral patterning and organogenesis in both vertebrate and invertebrate development. A cDNA encoding BMP (named Djbmp) has been cloned...
Chiyoko Kobayashi, Seitaro Kobayashi, Hidefumi Orii, Kenji Watanabe, Kiyokazu Agata
Ultrastructural and physiological studies have shown that planarian muscles have some characteristics of smooth and some characteristics of striated muscles. To characterize planarian muscles, we...
Hidefumi Orii, Kentaro Kato, Kiyokazu Agata, Kenji Watanabe
BMP (Bone Morphogenetic Protein) acts as a morphogen for dorso-ventral patterning and organogenesis in both vertebrate and invertebrate development. A cDNA encoding BMP (named Djbmp) has been cloned...
Structure of the Planarian Central Nervous System (CNS) Revealed by Neuronal Cell Markers (1998)
Kiyokazu Agata, Yukihiro Soejima, Kentaro Kato, Chiyoko Kobayashi, Yoshihiko Umesono, Kenji Watanabe
Planarians are considered to be among the most primitive animals which developed the central nervous system (CNS). To understand the origin and evolution of the CNS, we have isolated a neural marker...
Identification of a photoreceptor cell-specific nuclear receptor
Kobayashi, Mime, Takezawa, Shin-ichiro, Hara, Kenji, Yu, Ruth T., Umesono, Yoshihiko, Agata, Kiyokazu, ...
Nuclear receptors comprise a large and expanding family of transcription factors involved in diverse aspects of animal physiology and development, the functions of which can be modulated in a spatial...
Mineta, Katsuhiko, Nakazawa, Masumi, Cebrià, Francesc, Ikeo, Kazuho, Agata, Kiyokazu, Gojobori, Takashi
Among the bilateral animals, a centralized nervous system is found in both the deuterostome and protostome. To address the question of whether the CNS was derived from a common ancestor of...
Segawa, Takahiro, Miyamoto, Koji, Ushida, Kazunari, Agata, Kiyokazu, Okada, Norihiro, Kohshima, Shiro
The bacterial flora and biomass in mountain snow from the Tateyama Mountains, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, one of the heaviest snowfall regions in the world, were analyzed by amplified ribosomal DNA...
Identification of a photoreceptor cell-specific nuclear receptor
Kobayashi, Mime, Takezawa, Shin-ichiro, Hara, Kenji, Yu, Ruth T., Umesono, Yoshihiko, Agata, Kiyokazu, ...
Nuclear receptors comprise a large and expanding family of transcription factors involved in diverse aspects of animal physiology and development, the functions of which can be modulated in a spatial...
Mineta, Katsuhiko, Nakazawa, Masumi, Cebrià, Francesc, Ikeo, Kazuho, Agata, Kiyokazu, Gojobori, Takashi
Among the bilateral animals, a centralized nervous system is found in both the deuterostome and protostome. To address the question of whether the CNS was derived from a common ancestor of...
Segawa, Takahiro, Miyamoto, Koji, Ushida, Kazunari, Agata, Kiyokazu, Okada, Norihiro, Kohshima, Shiro
The bacterial flora and biomass in mountain snow from the Tateyama Mountains, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, one of the heaviest snowfall regions in the world, were analyzed by amplified ribosomal DNA...
Matsubara, Kazumi, Tarui, Hiroshi, Toriba, Michihisa, Yamada, Kazuhiko, Nishida-Umehara, Chizuko, Agata, Kiyokazu, ...
All snake species exhibit genetic sex determination with the ZZ/ZW type of sex chromosomes. To investigate the origin and evolution of snake sex chromosomes, we constructed, by FISH, a cytogenetic...
The innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss
Miller, David J, Hemmrich, Georg, Ball, Eldon E, Hayward, David C, Khalturin, Konstantin, Funayama, Noriko, ...
Analysis of genomic resources available for cnidarians revealed that several key components of the vertebrate innate immune repertoire are present in representatives of the basal cnidarian class...