Technau Publications

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

Dnyansagar R, Zimmermann B, Moran Y, Praher D, Sundberg P, Møller LF et al. Dispersal and speciation: the cross Atlantic relationship of two parasitic cnidarians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2018 Sept. 1;126:346-355. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.035

Pukhlyakova E, Aman AJ, Elsayad K, Technau U. β-Catenin-dependent mechanotransduction dates back to the common ancestor of Cnidaria and Bilateria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2018 Juni 12;115(24):6231-6236. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1713682115

Staal J, Driege Y, Haegman M, Borghi A, Hulpiau P, Lievens L et al. Ancient Origin of the CARD-Coiled Coil/Bcl10/MALT1-Like Paracaspase Signaling Complex Indicates Unknown Critical Functions. Frontiers in Immunology. 2018 Mai 24;9:1136. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01136

Gul IS, Staal J, Hulpiau P, De Keuckelaere E, Kamm K, Deroo T et al. GC Content of Early Metazoan Genes and Its Impact on Gene Expression Levels in Mammalian Cell Lines. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2018 März;10(3):909-917. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evy040

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

Gufler S, Artes B, Bielen H, Krainer I, Eder MK, Falschlunger J et al. β-Catenin acts in a position-independent regeneration response in the simple eumetazoan Hydra. Developmental Biology. 2018 Jan. 15;433(2):310-323. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.09.005

Steinmetz PRH, Aman A, Kraus JEM, Technau U. Gut-like ectodermal tissue in a sea anemone challenges germ layer homology. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2017 Okt.;1(10):1535-1542. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0285-5

Renfer E, Technau U. Meganuclease-assisted generation of stable transgenics in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Nature Protocols. 2017 Sept.;12(9):1844-1854. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2017.075

Moran Y, Agron M, Praher D, Technau U. The evolutionary origin of plant and animal microRNAs. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2017 Feb. 21;1(3):0027. doi: 10.1038/s41559-016-0027

Bosch TCG, Klimovich A, Domazet-Lošo T, Gründer S, Holstein TW, Jékely G et al. Back to the Basics: Cnidarians Start to Fire. Trends in Neurosciences. 2017 Feb.;40(2):92-105. Epub 2016 Dez. 30. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.11.005

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.

Rentzsch F, Technau U. Genomics and development of Nematostella vectensis and other anthozoans. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 2016 Aug. 1;39:63-70. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2016.05.024

Mortzfeld B, Urbanski S, Reitzel A, Künzel S, Technau U, Fraune S. Response of bacterial colonization in Nematostella vectensis to development, environment and biogeography. Environmental Microbiology. 2016 Juni;18(6):1764–1781. Epub 2015 Juli 30. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12926

Kraus Y, Aman A, Technau U , Genikhovich G. Pre-bilaterian origin of the blastoporal axial organizer. Nature Communications. 2016 Mai;7:11694. doi: 10.1038/ncomms11694

Kelava I, Rentzsch F, Technau U. Evolution of eumetazoan nervous systems:insights from cnidarians. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 2015 Dez. 19;370(1684):20150065. Epub 2015 Nov.. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0065

Technau U, Schwaiger M. Recent advances in genomics and transcriptomics of cnidarians. Marine genomics. 2015 Dez.;24:131-138. Epub 2015 Okt. 1. doi: 10.1016/j.margen.2015.09.007

Kraus JEM, Fredman D, Wang W, Khalturin K, Technau U. Adoption of conserved developmental genes in development and origin of the medusa body plan. EvoDevo. 2015 Mai 29;6(1):23. 23. doi: 10.1186/s13227-015-0017-3

Tarrant AM, Gilmore TD, Reitzel AM, Levy O, Technau U, Martindale MQ. Current directions and future perspectives from the third Nematostella research conference. Zoology. 2015 Apr.;118(2):135-140. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2014.06.005