Nature Communications (Jun 2021)
Cnidarian-bilaterian comparison reveals the ancestral regulatory logic of the β-catenin dependent axial patterning
Abstract
The authors show in Nematostella that the more orally expressed β-catenin targets repress the more aborally expressed β-catenin targets, thus patterning the oral-aboral axis. This likely represents the common mechanism of β-catenin-dependent axial patterning shared by Cnidaria and Bilateria.