Journal
DEVELOPMENT
Volume 138, Issue 8, Pages 1447-1458Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.048959
Keywords
Cnidaria; EvoDevo; Comparative genomics; Transgenics
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- Austrian Science foundation FWF
- Norwegian Research Council NFR
- EU-Marie-Curie Initial training network EVONET
- NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 21108, P 22717] Funding Source: researchfish
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There is growing interest in the use of cnidarians (corals, sea anemones, jellyfish and hydroids) to investigate the evolution of key aspects of animal development, such as the formation of the third germ layer (mesoderm), the nervous system and the generation of bilaterality. The recent sequencing of the Nematostella and Hydra genomes, and the establishment of methods for manipulating gene expression, have inspired new research efforts using cnidarians. Here, we present the main features of cnidarian models and their advantages for research, and summarize key recent findings using these models that have informed our understanding of the evolution of the developmental processes underlying metazoan body plan formation.
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