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| Title |
The Demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica: Reconstructing the Ancestral Metazoan Genome and Deciphering the Origin of Animal Multicellularity.
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| Published in |
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, December 2010
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| DOI | 10.1101/pdb.emo108 |
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| Authors |
Bernard M Degnan, Maja Adamska, Alina Craigie, Sandie M Degnan, Bryony Fahey, Marie Gauthier, John N A Hooper, Claire Larroux, Sally P Leys, Erica Lovas, Gemma S Richards |
| Abstract |
INTRODUCTIONSponges are one of the earliest branching metazoans. In addition to undergoing complex development and differentiation, they can regenerate via stem cells and can discern self from nonself ("allorecognition"), making them a useful comparative model for a range of metazoan-specific processes. Molecular analyses of these processes have the potential to reveal ancient homologies shared among all living animals and critical genomic innovations that underpin metazoan multicellularity. Amphimedon queenslandica (Porifera, Demospongiae, Haplosclerida, Niphatidae) is the first poriferan representative to have its genome sequenced, assembled, and annotated. Amphimedon exemplifies many sessile and sedentary marine invertebrates (e.g., corals, ascidians, bryozoans): They disperse during a planktonic larval phase, settle in the vicinity of conspecifics, ward off potential competitors (including incompatible genotypes), and ensure that brooded eggs are fertilized by conspecific sperm. Using genomic and expressed sequence tag (EST) resources from Amphimedon, functional genomic approaches can be applied to a wide range of ecological and population genetic processes, including fertilization, dispersal, and colonization dynamics, host-symbiont interactions, and secondary metabolite production. Unlike most other sponges, Amphimedon produce hundreds of asynchronously developing embryos and larvae year-round in distinct, easily accessible brood chambers. Embryogenesis gives rise to larvae with at least a dozen cell types that are segregated into three layers and patterned along the body axis. In this article, we describe some of the methods currently available for studying A. queenslandica, focusing on the analysis of embryos, larvae, and post-larvae. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 76 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 71 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 28% |
| Researcher | 19 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 11% |
| Professor | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 12 | 16% |
| Unknown | 6 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 43 | 57% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 14 | 18% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 2 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 3% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 9 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 July 2021.
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