… Evelyn Houliston Evelyn Houliston … At 3 days post fertilization the mature planula (e)
can undergo metamorphosis (f), experimentally inducible by treatment with CsCl …

The origin of many of the defining features of animal body plans, such as symmetry, nervous
system, and the mesoderm, remains shrouded in mystery because of major uncertainty …

… In case no similar protein could be found with expected E values <1, the BLAST was repeated
using an expected E value threshold of 1. The first hits were blasted reciprocally using the …

The fresh water polyp Hydra provides textbook experimental demonstration of positional
information gradients and regeneration processes. Developmental biologists are thus familiar …

… (E and E′) FRAP experiment with another oocyte injected with fluorescent Xcat2 3′UTR,
showing fluorescence recovery to cytoplasmic levels both inside (orange) and outside (yellow…

… The use of morpholinos in Clytia was validated in the previous study of CheFz1 and
CheFz3(Momose and Houliston, 2007),and in the current study the specificity of Wnt3-MO was …

Recent thought on genome evolution has focused on the creation of new genes and
changes in regulatory mechanisms while ignoring the role of selective gene loss in shaping …

… d and e, Numbers of Clytia genes specific to a single stage (vertices) and genes expressed
in two out of three stages (edges). Circle area is proportional to the number of genes. In …

… In many oocytes small individual strands of microtubules also appeared in the cytocortex (E …
bundle of microtubules associated with the chromosomes (E and F). There was also an …

In phylogenetically diverse animals, including the basally diverging cnidarians, “determinants”
localised within the egg are responsible for directing development of the embryonic body …