Plasticity of Animal Genome Architecture Unmasked by Rapid Evolution of a Pelagic Tunicate

Simon Henriet, Sutada Mungpakdee, Jean‐Marc Aury, +51

Science

Comparative GenomicsGeneticsGenomicsGlobal ArchitectureIntron-exon Organization +18

Gene expression profiles in<i>Ciona intestinalis</i>tailbud embryos

Yutaka Satou, Naohito Takatori, Lixy Yamada, +21

Development

Molecular MarkersGeneticsGene CharacterizationGene Expression ProfilesGene Expression Profiling +14

Ion Channel Clustering at the Axon Initial Segment and Node of Ranvier Evolved Sequentially in Early Chordates

Alexis S. Hill, Atsuo Nishino, Koichi Nakajo, +5

PLoS Genetics

Comprehensive analysis of the ascidian genome reveals novel insights into the molecular evolution of ion channel genes

Yasushi Okamura, Atsuo Nishino, Yoshimichi Murata, +16

Physiological Genomics

GeneticsGenomic MechanismMolecular BiologyMolecular GeneticsNeurotransmission +24

A glycine receptor is involved in the organization of swimming movements in an invertebrate chordate

Atsuo Nishino, Yasushi Okamura, Stefania Piscopo, +1

BMC Neuroscience

Ion flow regulates left–right asymmetry in sea urchin development

Taku Hibino, Yuichiro Ishii, Michael Levin, +1

Development Genes and Evolution

BiologyDevelopmental BiologyMedicineIon ChannelsMorphogenesis +3

Characterization of a hemichordate fork head/HNF-3 gene expression

Shunsuke Taguchi, Kunifumi Tagawa, Tom Humphreys, +3

Development Genes and Evolution

Natural SciencesGeneticsMolecular BiologyMolecular GeneticsGene Expression +2

GABAergic synaptic transmission modulates swimming in the ascidian larva

Euan R. Brown, Atsuo Nishino, Q. Bone, +2

European Journal of Neuroscience

The Spawning and Early Development of the Hawaiian Acorn Worm (Hemichordate), Ptychodera flava

Kunifumi Tagawa, Atsuo Nishino, Tom Humphreys, +1

ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Early DevelopmentEntomologyZoological TaxonomyReproductive BiologyEmbryology +15

A mechanism for graded motor control encoded in the channel properties of the muscle ACh receptor

Atsuo Nishino, Shoji A. Baba, Yasushi Okamura

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences