Technau Publications

2025

Narayanaswamy S, Technau U. Self-organization of an organizer: Whole-body regeneration from reaggregated cells in cnidarians. Cells & development. 2025 Dez.;184:204024. Epub 2025 Apr. 1. doi: 10.1016/j.cdev.2025.204024

Praher D, Moran Y, Technau U. Correction to: 'Conservation and turnover of miRNAs and their highly complementary targets in early branching animals' (2021), by Praher et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 2025 Nov. 26;292(2059):20252588. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.2588

Biodiversity Cell Atlas meeting participants. The Biodiversity Cell Atlas: mapping the tree of life at cellular resolution. Nature. 2025 Sept.;645(8082):877-885. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09312-4

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

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

2024

Denner A, Steger J, Ries A, Morozova-Link E, Ritter J, Haas F et al. Nanos2 marks precursors of somatic lineages and is required for germline formation in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Science Advances. 2024 Aug. 16;10(33):eado0424. ado0424. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ado0424

Thiel D, Yañez Guerra LA, Kieswetter A, Cole AG, Temmerman L, Technau U et al. Large-scale deorphanization of Nematostella vectensis neuropeptide G protein-coupled receptors supports the independent expansion of bilaterian and cnidarian peptidergic systems. eLife. 2024 Mai 10;12:RP90674. doi: 10.7554/eLife.90674

2023

Cole AG, Jahnel SM, Kaul S, Steger J, Hagauer J, Denner A et al. Muscle cell-type diversification is driven by bHLH transcription factor expansion and extensive effector gene duplications. Nature Communications. 2023 Dez.;14(1):1747. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37220-6

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

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

Praher D, Zimmermann B, Dnyansagar R, Miller DJ, Moya A, Modepalli V et al. Conservation and turnover of miRNAs and their highly complementary targets in early branching animals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 2021 Feb. 24;288(1945):20203169. 20203169. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.3169

2020

Technau U. Gastrulation and germ layer formation in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis and other cnidarians. Mechanisms of Development. 2020 Sept.;163:103628. Epub 2020 Juni 27. doi: 10.1016/j.mod.2020.103628

Rentzsch F, Renfer E, Technau U. Generating Transgenic Reporter Lines for Studying Nervous System Development in the Cnidarian Nematostella vectensis. in Sprecher SG, Hrsg., Brain Development: Methods and Protocols. Springer. 2020. S. 45-57. (Methods in Molecular Biology, Band 2047). Epub 2019 Sept. 25. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9732-9_3

2019

Pukhlyakova EA, Kirillova AO, Kraus YA, Zimmermann B, Technau U. A Cadherin switch marks germ layer formation in the diploblastic sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Development (Cambridge, England). 2019 Okt. 11;146(20):dev174623. doi: 10.1242/dev.174623

de Mendoza A, Hatleberg WL, Pang K, Leininger S, Bogdanovic O, Pflueger J et al. Convergent evolution of a vertebrate-like methylome in a marine sponge. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2019 Sept. 26;3(10):1464-1473. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0983-2

Drinnenberg IA, Berger F, Elsässer SJ, Andersen PR, Ausió J, Bickmore WA et al. EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution. Development (Cambridge, England). 2019 Sept. 26;146(19):dev178962. doi: 10.1242/dev.178962

Zimmermann B, Robert NSM, Technau U , Simakov O. Ancient animal genome architecture reflects cell type identities. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2019 Sept.;3(9):1289-1293. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0946-7

Leclère L, Horin C, Chevalier S, Lapébie P, Dru P, Peron S et al. The genome of the jellyfish Clytia hemisphaerica and the evolution of the cnidarian life-cycle. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2019 März 11;3:801-810. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0833-2