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Epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone shares key hallmarks with bilaterians and is dynamically regulated by nutritional status. During starvation-induced body shrinkage, extrusion likely contribu...

In Drosophila, cell fate switching in adult intestinal stem cells is determined through an epigenetic mechanism in which these cells count divisions, switching from producing enterocytes to producing ...

Cnidae are explosive harpoon-like organelles localized within stinging cells, or cnidocytes, of the phylum Cnidaria (jellyfish, hydroids, sea anemones, and corals). These unique Golgi-derived vesicula...

Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful what they wish for.

Bosveld et al. identified a multilayered system of safeguards that reuses homeostatic mechanisms to maintain epithelial integrity and cell number in the face of spindle misorientation. This work delin...

Bilaterian guts share conserved embryonic patterning, but how does this relates to adult gut organization? This study uses transcriptomic analyses across five species to reveal conserved transcription...

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Transgenic markers and tools have revolutionised how we study cells and developing organisms. Some of the elements needed to construct those tools are universally applicable (e.g. fluorescent proteins...

Multicellular organisms possess conserved safeguard mechanisms that ensure the maintenance of tissue integrity. Exploring these mechanisms has proven instrumental in understanding how tissues robustly...

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Boumard et al. demonstrate gap-junction-dependent tissue-scale nucleotide sharing, which impacts cellular sensitivity to perturbation of nucleotide homeostasis and replication stress. Drosophila wing ...

The Genome Facility at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön is seeking to fill two positions (full time) to support and expand our core facility services.

Synopsis. Opsins are G-protein-coupled receptors often expressed in neuronal photoreceptor cells and used for light detection in most animals, including cn

Species from diverse animal lineages have conserved groups of orthologous genes together on the same chromosome for over half a billion years since the last common ancestor of bilaterians. Although no...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Derrière la relation bien connue, au sein des récifs coralliens, entre les poissons-clowns et leurs anémones-hôtes, se cache une dynamique évolutive bie