Recent reconfiguration of an ancient developmental gene regulatory network in Heliocidaris sea urchins

PL Davidson, H Guo, JS Swart, AJ Massri… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in developmental gene regulatory networks (dGRNs) underlie much of the
diversity of life, but the evolutionary mechanisms that operate on regulatory interactions …

Integrative biological analyses of responses to food deprivation reveal resilience mechanisms in sea urchin larvae

N Li, AW Griffith, DT Manahan - Molecular Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A fundamental question in ecology is how organisms survive food deprivation. In the ocean,
climate change is impacting the phenology of food availability for early life‐history stages of …

Chromosomal-Level Genome Assembly of the Painted Sea Urchin Lytechinus pictus: A Genetically Enabled Model System for Cell Biology and Embryonic …

JF Warner, JW Lord, SA Schreiter… - Genome Biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The painted urchin Lytechinus pictus is a sea urchin in the family Toxopneustidae and one
of several sea urchin species that are routinely used as an experimental research organism …

Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals Evolutionary Reconfiguration of Embryonic Cell Fate Specification in the Sea Urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma

AJ Massri, A Berrio, A Afanassiev… - Genome Biology and …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Altered regulatory interactions during development likely underlie a large fraction of
phenotypic diversity within and between species, yet identifying specific evolutionary …

Feedback circuits are numerous in embryonic gene regulatory networks and offer a stabilizing influence on evolution of those networks

AJ Massri, B McDonald, GA Wray, DR McClay - Evodevo, 2023 - Springer
The developmental gene regulatory networks (dGRNs) of two sea urchin species,
Lytechinus variegatus (Lv) and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Sp), have remained …

The role of heterochronic gene expression and regulatory architecture in early developmental divergence

ND Harry, C Zakas - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
New developmental programs can evolve through adaptive changes to gene expression.
The annelid Streblospio benedicti has a developmental dimorphism, which provides a …

The Genetic Basis of Gene Expression Divergence in Antennae of Two Closely Related Moth Species, Helicoverpa armigera and Helicoverpa assulta

PP Guo, GC Li, JF Dong, XL Gong, L Wang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The closely related species Helicoverpa armigera (H. armigera) and Helicoverpa assulta (H.
assulta) have different host plant ranges and share two principal components of sex …

Extreme phenotypic divergence and the evolution of development

GA Wray - Current topics in developmental biology, 2022 - Elsevier
As analyses of developmental mechanisms extend to ever more species, it becomes
important to understand not just what is conserved or altered during evolution, but why …

[PDF][PDF] Evolutionary changes in the chromatin landscape contribute to reorganization of a developmental gene network during rapid life history evolution in sea urchins

PL Davidson, M Byrne, GA Wray - Molecular Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Chromatin configuration is highly dynamic during embryonic development in animals,
exerting an important point of control in transcriptional regulation. Yet there exists …

Evolution of the regulation of developmental gene expression in blind Mexican cavefish

J Leclercq, J Torres-Paz, M Policarpo, F Agnès… - …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Developmental evolution and diversification of morphology can arise through changes in the
regulation of gene expression or protein-coding sequence. To unravel mechanisms …