In order to investigate the origin and evolution of epithelia, we are developing a model of sponge belonging to the homoscleromorph class. Sponges are one of the earliest emerged animal lineages and are therefore a key group for understanding the early steps of animal evolution. We aim to characterize the molecular mechanisms involved in the establishment of epithelia in our model in order to decipher, in a comparative approach, the mechanisms that are conserved across animals and thus probably acquired in their last common ancestor from those specific to our model. To address these central issues, we rely on a set of complementary approaches: comparative genomics and transcriptomics, classical histology, electron microscopy, immunofluoresc...
Epithelial tissues are a key metazoan cell type, providing a basic structural unit for the construct...
Sponges (Porifera) are among the earliest evolving metazoans. Their filter-feeding body plan based o...
International audienceBackground: The microvillus is a versatile organelle that serves important fun...
Les épithéliums sont des tissus essentiels au bon fonctionnement de notre corps. L’acquisition d’un ...
Les premières étapes de l’évolution animale restent obscures mais peuvent toutefois être appréhendée...
International audienceThe ancestral presence of epithelia in Metazoa is no longer debated. Porifera ...
The emergence of complex animal life forms remains poorly understood despite substantial interest a...
Les premières étapes de l évolution animale restent obscures mais peuvent toutefois être appréhendée...
International audienceThe emergence of multicellularity is regarded as one of the major evolutionary...
Additional file 7: Table S4. General information about available sponge transcriptomes (according to...
Abstract Background The emergence of epithelia was the foundation of metazoan expansion. Epithelial ...
Sponges are one of the simplest, and probably the oldest (earliest branching) multicellular lineage ...
Freshwater and marine sponges are members of the phylum Porifera, which split off of the animal line...
Epithelial tissues are a key metazoan cell type, providing a basic structural unit for the construct...
Sponges (Porifera) are among the earliest evolving metazoans. Their filter-feeding body plan based o...
International audienceBackground: The microvillus is a versatile organelle that serves important fun...
Les épithéliums sont des tissus essentiels au bon fonctionnement de notre corps. L’acquisition d’un ...
Les premières étapes de l’évolution animale restent obscures mais peuvent toutefois être appréhendée...
International audienceThe ancestral presence of epithelia in Metazoa is no longer debated. Porifera ...
The emergence of complex animal life forms remains poorly understood despite substantial interest a...
Les premières étapes de l évolution animale restent obscures mais peuvent toutefois être appréhendée...
International audienceThe emergence of multicellularity is regarded as one of the major evolutionary...
Additional file 7: Table S4. General information about available sponge transcriptomes (according to...
Abstract Background The emergence of epithelia was the foundation of metazoan expansion. Epithelial ...
Sponges are one of the simplest, and probably the oldest (earliest branching) multicellular lineage ...
Freshwater and marine sponges are members of the phylum Porifera, which split off of the animal line...
Epithelial tissues are a key metazoan cell type, providing a basic structural unit for the construct...
Sponges (Porifera) are among the earliest evolving metazoans. Their filter-feeding body plan based o...
International audienceBackground: The microvillus is a versatile organelle that serves important fun...