The Amphibian Genomics Consortium: advancing genomic and genetic resources for amphibian research and conservation

TA Kosch, M Torres-Sánchez, HC Liedtke, K Summers… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Amphibians represent a diverse group of tetrapods, marked by deep divergence times
between their three systematic orders and families. Studying amphibian biology through the …

DNA methylation atlas and machinery in the developing and regenerating annelid Platynereis dumerilii

A Planques, P Kerner, L Ferry, C Grunau, E Gazave… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Methylation of cytosines in DNA (5mC methylation) is a major epigenetic
modification that modulates gene expression and constitutes the basis for mechanisms …

Thyroid Hormone Induces DNA Demethylation in Xenopus Tadpole Brain

S Raj, Y Kyono, CJ Sifuentes… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Thyroid hormone (T3) plays pivotal roles in vertebrate development, acting via nuclear T3
receptors (TRs) that regulate gene transcription by promoting post-translational …

Developmental and injury-induced changes in DNA methylation in regenerative versus non-regenerative regions of the vertebrate central nervous system

S Reverdatto, A Prasad, JL Belrose, X Zhang… - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background Because some of its CNS neurons (eg, retinal ganglion cells after optic nerve
crush (ONC)) regenerate axons throughout life, whereas others (eg, hindbrain neurons after …

Transcriptome and methylome analysis reveal complex cross-talks between thyroid hormone and glucocorticoid signaling at xenopus metamorphosis

N Buisine, A Grimaldi, V Jonchere, M Rigolet… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Most work in endocrinology focus on the action of a single hormone, and very
little on the cross-talks between two hormones. Here we characterize the nature of …

Genome‐wide methylation in the panmictic European eel (Anguilla anguilla)

S Liu, ANB Tengstedt, MW Jacobsen… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The role of methylation in adaptive, developmental and speciation processes has attracted
considerable interest, but interpretation of results is complicated by diffuse boundaries …

Metamorphic gene regulation programs in Xenopus tropicalis tadpole brain

S Raj, CJ Sifuentes, Y Kyono, RJ Denver - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Amphibian metamorphosis is controlled by thyroid hormone (TH), which binds TH receptors
(TRs) to regulate gene expression programs that underlie morphogenesis. Gene expression …

Gynogenetic diploids, tetraploids, or octoploids, and a path to polyploidy in anuran amphibians

JP Bogart - Genome, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Unreduced gametes have been implicated in the evolution of polyploid species of plants
and animals and are normally produced by female anuran amphibians. Such eggs may …

[HTML][HTML] Genome Survey of Male Rana dybowskii to Further Understand the Sex Determination Mechanism

Y Xu, H Liu, X Jiang, X Zhang, J Liu… - Animals: an Open …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Simple Summary To obtain more female individuals in the breeding population of R.
dybowskii, it is important to explore the sex determination mechanism based on whole …

DNA methylation during development and regeneration of the annelid Platynereis dumerilii

A Planques, P Kerner, L Ferry, C Grunau, E Gazave… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Background Methylation of cytosines in DNA (5mC methylation) is a major epigenetic
modification that modulates gene expression and is important for embryonic development …