2026
Knabl P, Ordoñez JF, Montenegro Cabrera JD, Abed-Navandi D, Halbauer R, Link O et al. The anti-neural role of BMP signaling is a consequence of its ancestral function in dorsoventral patterning. PLoS Biology. 2026 Mai;24(5):e3003803. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003803
Karapidaki I, Handberg-Thorsager M, Momose T, Yasuo H, Genikhovich G, Assaf S et al. Targeting the cell membrane in established and emerging model organisms. Development (Cambridge, England). 2026 Apr. 15;153(8). doi: 10.1101/2024.11.12.623055v3, 10.1242/dev.205415
2025
Haillot E, Lebedeva T, Steger J, Genikhovich G, Montenegro JD, Cole AG et al. Segregation of endoderm and mesoderm germ layer identities in the diploblast Nematostella vectensis. Nature Communications. 2025 Aug. 27;16(1):7979. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-63287-4
Mörsdorf D, Prünster MM, Knabl P, Genikhovich G. Chordin-mediated BMP shuttling patterns the secondary body axis in a cnidarian. Science Advances. 2025 Juni 13;11(24):eadu6347. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adu6347
Lebedeva T, Boström J, Kremnyov S, Mörsdorf D, Niedermoser I, Genikhovich E et al. β-catenin-driven endomesoderm specification is a Bilateria-specific novelty. Nature Communications. 2025 März 12;16(1):2476. 2476. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57109-w
Crowley D, Simpson L, Chatfield J, Forey T, Allegrucci C, Sang F et al. Programming of pluripotency and the germ line co-evolved from a Nanog ancestor. Cell Reports. 2025 März 7;44(3):115396. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115396
Knabl P, Mörsdorf D, Genikhovich G. A whole-body atlas of BMP signaling activity in an adult sea anemone. BMC Biology. 2025 Feb. 21;23(1):49. doi: 10.1186/s12915-025-02150-w
2024
Mörsdorf D, Knabl P, Genikhovich G. Highly conserved and extremely evolvable: BMP signalling in secondary axis patterning of Cnidaria and Bilateria. Development Genes and Evolution. 2024 März 13;234(1):1-19. doi: 10.1007/s00427-024-00714-4
Knabl P, Schauer A, Pomreinke A, Zimmermann RP, Rogers K, Capek D et al. Analysis of SMAD1/5 target genes in a sea anemone reveals ZSWIM4-6 as a novel BMP signaling modulator. eLife. 2024 Feb. 7;13:e80803. doi: 10.7554/eLife.80803
2023
Zimmermann B, Montenegro JD, Robb SMC, Fropf WJ, Weilguny L, He S et al. Topological structures and syntenic conservation in sea anemone genomes. Nature Communications. 2023 Dez.;14(1):8270. 8270. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44080-7
2022
Schwaiger M, Andrikou C, Dnyansagar R, Murguia PF, Paganos P, Voronov D et al. An ancestral Wnt-Brachyury feedback loop in axial patterning and recruitment of mesoderm-determining target genes. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2022 Dez.;6(12):1921-1939. Epub 2022 Nov. 17. doi: 10.1038/s41559-022-01905-w
Steger J, Cole AG, Denner A, Lebedeva T, Genikhovich G, Ries A et al. Single-cell transcriptomics identifies conserved regulators of neuroglandular lineages. Cell Reports. 2022 Sept. 20;40(12):111370. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111370
Gilbert E, Teeling C, Lebedeva T, Pedersen S, Chrismas N, Genikhovich G et al. Molecular and cellular architecture of the larval sensory organ in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis. Development (Cambridge, England). 2022 Aug. 15;149(16):dev200833. doi: 10.1242/dev.200833
Niedermoser I, Lebedeva T, Genikhovich G. Sea anemone Frizzled receptors play partially redundant roles in oral-aboral axis patterning. Development (Cambridge, England). 2022;149(19):dev200785. doi: 10.1242/dev.200785
2021
Lebedeva T, Aman A, Graf T, Niedermoser I, Zimmermann RP, Kraus Y et al. Cnidarian-bilaterian comparison reveals the ancestral regulatory logic of the β-catenin dependent axial patterning. Nature Communications. 2021 Juni 29;12(1):4032 . doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24346-8
2020
Genikhovich G. How do developmental programs evolve? in Martín-Durán JM, Vellutini BC, Hrsg., Old questions and young approaches to animal evolution. Springer. 2020. S. 73-106
2018
Technau U, Genikhovich G. Evolution: Directives from Sea Anemone Hox Genes. Current Biology. 2018 Nov. 19;28(22):R1303-R1305. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.040
Kirillova A, Genikhovich G, Pukhlyakova E, Demilly A, Kraus Y, Technau U. Germ-layer commitment and axis formation in sea anemone embryonic cell aggregates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2018 Feb. 20;115(8):1813-1818. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1711516115
2017
Praher D, Zimmermann RP, Genikhovich G, Columbus-Shenkar Y, Modepalli V, Aharoni R et al. Characterization of the piRNA pathway during development of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. RNA Biology. 2017;14(12):1727-1741. doi: 10.1080/15476286.2017.1349048
Genikhovich G, Technau U. On the evolution of bilaterality. Development (Cambridge). 2017;144(19):3392-3404.