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Le Quere, Herve; Herpin, Amaury; Huvet, Arnaud; Lelong, Christophe; Favrel, Pascal. |
Members of the Transforming Growth factor beta (TGF-beta) superfamily of cell signalling polypeptides are known to play important roles in cell proliferation and differentiation during development and in various physiological processes of most animal clades. Recent findings in the mollusc Crassostrea gigas demonstrate the occurrence of a diversity of TGF-beta signalling components including various ligands, three type I receptors but only a single type II receptor. This report describes the characterization of Cg-ActRII, a new type II receptor displaying homology with vertebrate and Drosophila Activin type II receptors. The use of zebrafish embryo as a reporter organism revealed that, in a way similar to its zebrafish counterpart, overexpression of... |
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Palavras-chave: Activin receptor; Nervous tissues; Development; Lophotrochozoa; Mollusc. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-6401.pdf |
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Hedgecock, Dennis; Gaffney, Patrick M.; Goulletquer, Philippe; Guo, Ximing; Reece, Kimberly; Warr, Gregory. |
An international community of biologists presents the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas as a candidate for genome sequencing. This oyster has global distribution and for the past several years the highest annual production of any freshwater or marine organism (4.2 million metric tons, worth $3.5 billion US). Economic and cultural importance of oysters motivates a great deal of biologic research, which provides a compelling rationale for sequencing an oyster genome. Strong rationales for sequencing the oyster genome also come from contrasts to other genomes: membership in the Lophotrochozoa, an understudied branch of the Eukaryotes and high fecundity, with concomitantly high DNA sequence polymorphism and a population biology that is more like plants than any... |
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Palavras-chave: Genomics; Evolutionary and ecological; Nucleotide diversity; Lophotrochozoa; Crassostrea gigas genome sequence; Pacific oyster. |
Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2005/publication-2128.pdf |
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