Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Cnidarian-bilaterian comparison reveals the ancestral regulatory logic of the β-catenin dependent axial patterning

  • Tatiana Lebedeva,
  • Andrew J. Aman,
  • Thomas Graf,
  • Isabell Niedermoser,
  • Bob Zimmermann,
  • Yulia Kraus,
  • Magdalena Schatka,
  • Adrien Demilly,
  • Ulrich Technau,
  • Grigory Genikhovich

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24346-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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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.