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Modularity of gene-regulatory networks revealed in sea-star development

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Biology, January 2011
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Title
Modularity of gene-regulatory networks revealed in sea-star development
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BMC Biology, January 2011
DOI 10.1186/1741-7007-9-6
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Carmel McDougall, Bernard M Degnan

Abstract

Evidence that conserved developmental gene-regulatory networks can change as a unit during deutersostome evolution emerges from a study published in BMC Biology. This shows that genes consistently expressed in anterior brain patterning in hemichordates and chordates are expressed in a similar spatial pattern in another deuterostome, an asteroid echinoderm (sea star), but in a completely different developmental context (the animal-vegetal axis). This observation has implications for hypotheses on the type of development present in the deuterostome common ancestor.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 9%
Norway 2 4%
Germany 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
France 1 2%
Japan 1 2%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 34 76%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 29%
Researcher 9 20%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 11%
Professor 5 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 9 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 53%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 7%
Computer Science 3 7%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 4%
Mathematics 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 9 20%