Over 600 million years ago, animals evolved from a unicellular or colonial organism whose
cell (s) captured bacteria with a collar complex, a flagellum surrounded by a microvillar …

The borders between cell and developmental biology, which have always been permeable,
have largely dissolved. One manifestation is the blossoming of cilia biology, with cell and …

A hallmark of metazoan evolution is the emergence of genomic mechanisms that implement
cell-type-specific functions. However, the evolution of metazoan cell types and their …

Cilia play many essential roles in fluid transport and cellular locomotion, and as sensory
hubs for a variety of signal transduction pathways. Despite having a conserved basic …

Cilia are microtubule-based projections that serve a wide variety of essential functions in
animal cells. Defects in cilia structure or function have recently been found to underlie …

Adult pluripotent stem cell (aPSC) populations underlie whole-body regeneration in many
distantly-related animal lineages, but how the underlying cellular and molecular …

Echoing the repeated convergent evolution of flight and vision in large eukaryotes,
propulsive swimming motility has evolved independently in microbes in each of the three …

Successful regeneration requires that progenitors of different lineages form the appropriate
missing cell types. However, simply generating lineages is not enough. Cells produced by a …

Abstract Background The moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita is a widespread scyphozoan species
that forms large seasonal blooms. Here we provide the first comprehensive view of the entire …

Cilia are microtubule-based hair-like organelles that play many important roles in
development and physiology, and are implicated in a rapidly expanding spectrum of human …