Adell T, Müller WEG. (2004). Cloning and characterization of T-box and forkhead transcription factors from Porifera. In: Pansini M, Pronzato R, Bavestrello G, Manconi R, Sarà M (eds) Sponge Science in the New Millenium. Papers contributed to the VI International Sponge Conference Rapallo (Italy) 29 September – 5 October 2002. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell'Universitá di Genova 68, pp 163-173.

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Adell T, Müller WEG

2004

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Proceedings of the 6th International Sponge Conference

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During evolution, the appearance of the mesoderm in Bilateria, with the exception of the Ctenophora, parallels with the appearance of the two perpendicular body axes. The effectors of bilaterian regional specification and pattern formation comprise an evolutionary conserved set of transcription factors related to the superclasses of homeoproteins, forkhead, T-box, Wnt-pathway and zinc-finger proteins. In sponges, the existence of those major regulatory genes causing the establishment of a polar patterning in bilaterians remains to be elucidated. Here we report the isolation and phylogenetic characterization of two T-box genes and four forkhead genes from the demosponge Suberites domuncula (Olivi, 1792).

Evolution

Porifera

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