Medusozoan genomes inform the evolution of the jellyfish body plan

• Published in: Nature ecology & evolution Vol. 3; no. 5; pp. 811 - 822
• Main Authors: Khalturin, Konstantin, Shinzato, Chuya, Khalturina, Maria, Hamada, Mayuko, Fujie, Manabu, Koyanagi, Ryo, Kanda, Miyuki, Goto, Hiroki, Anton-Erxleben, Friederike, Toyokawa, Masaya, Toshino, Sho, Satoh, Noriyuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.05.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 42/35; 42/41; 45/22; 45/23; 45/90; 631/181/2806; 631/208/212; 631/601; Animals; Biological and Physical Anthropology; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cnidaria; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Gene expression; Gene sequencing; Genes; Genome; Genomes; Genomics; Life Sciences; Molecular modelling; Paleontology; Scyphozoa; Sea Anemones; Sea urchins; Zoology

Cnidarians are astonishingly diverse in body form and lifestyle, including the presence of a jellyfish stage in medusozoans and its absence in anthozoans. Here, we sequence the genomes of Aurelia aurita (a scyphozoan) and Morbakka virulenta (a cubozoan) to understand the molecular mechanisms respons...