Publication Date:
2010-08-06
Description:
Sponges are an ancient group of animals that diverged from other metazoans over 600 million years ago. Here we present the draft genome sequence of Amphimedon queenslandica, a demosponge from the Great Barrier Reef, and show that it is remarkably similar to other animal genomes in content, structure and organization. Comparative analysis enabled by the sequencing of the sponge genome reveals genomic events linked to the origin and early evolution of animals, including the appearance, expansion and diversification of pan-metazoan transcription factor, signalling pathway and structural genes. This diverse 'toolkit' of genes correlates with critical aspects of all metazoan body plans, and comprises cell cycle control and growth, development, somatic- and germ-cell specification, cell adhesion, innate immunity and allorecognition. Notably, many of the genes associated with the emergence of animals are also implicated in cancer, which arises from defects in basic processes associated with metazoan multicellularity.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130542/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130542/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Srivastava, Mansi -- Simakov, Oleg -- Chapman, Jarrod -- Fahey, Bryony -- Gauthier, Marie E A -- Mitros, Therese -- Richards, Gemma S -- Conaco, Cecilia -- Dacre, Michael -- Hellsten, Uffe -- Larroux, Claire -- Putnam, Nicholas H -- Stanke, Mario -- Adamska, Maja -- Darling, Aaron -- Degnan, Sandie M -- Oakley, Todd H -- Plachetzki, David C -- Zhai, Yufeng -- Adamski, Marcin -- Calcino, Andrew -- Cummins, Scott F -- Goodstein, David M -- Harris, Christina -- Jackson, Daniel J -- Leys, Sally P -- Shu, Shengqiang -- Woodcroft, Ben J -- Vervoort, Michel -- Kosik, Kenneth S -- Manning, Gerard -- Degnan, Bernard M -- Rokhsar, Daniel S -- R01 HG004164/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG004164-03/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG004164-04/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 5;466(7307):720-6. doi: 10.1038/nature09201.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Integrative Genomics and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. mansi@wi.mit.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20686567" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Apoptosis/genetics
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Cell Adhesion/genetics
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Cell Cycle/genetics
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Cell Polarity/genetics
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Cell Proliferation
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*Evolution, Molecular
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Genes/genetics
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Genome/*genetics
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Genomics
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Humans
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Immunity, Innate/genetics
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Models, Biological
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Neurons/metabolism
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Phosphotransferases/chemistry/genetics
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Phylogeny
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Porifera/anatomy & histology/cytology/*genetics/immunology
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Signal Transduction/genetics
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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