• Food availability drives plastic self-repair response in a basal metazoan-case study on the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz 1865 

      Bading, Katharina; Kaehlert, Sarah; Chi, Xupeng; Jaspers, Cornelia; Martindale, Mark Q.; Javidpour, Jamileh (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Many marine invertebrates including ctenophores are capable of extensive body regeneration when injured. However, as for the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, there is a constant subportion of individuals not undergoing ...
    • On the origin and evolution of RNA editing in metazoans 

      Zhang, Pei; Zhu, Yuanzhen; Guo, Qunfei; Li, Ji; Zhan, Xiaoyu; Yu, Hao; Xie, Nianxia; Tan, Huishuang; Lundholm, Nina; Garcia-Cuetos, Lydia; Martin, Michael David; Antó Subirats, Meritxell; Su, Yi-Hsien; Ruiz-Trillo, Iñaki; Martindale, Mark Q.; Yu, Jr-Kai; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Zhang, Guojie; Li, Qiye (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Extensive adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing of nuclear-transcribed mRNAs is the hallmark of metazoan transcriptional regulation. Here, by profiling the RNA editomes of 22 species that cover major groups of Holozoa, we ...