• Axis patterning by BMPs: cnidarian network reveals evolutionary constraints 

      Genikhovich, Grigory; Fried, Patrick; Prünster, M. Mandela; Schinko, Johannes B.; Gilles, Anna F.; Fredman, David; Meier, Karin; Iber, Dagmar; Technau, Ulrich (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03)
      BMP signaling plays a crucial role in the establishment of the dorso-ventral body axis in bilaterally symmetric animals. However, the topologies of the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling networks vary drastically ...
    • Evolution of eumetazoan nervous systems: Insights from cnidarians 

      Kelava, Iva; Rentzsch, Fabian; Technau, Ulrich (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-19)
      Cnidarians, the sister group to bilaterians, have a simple diffuse nervous system. This morphological simplicity and their phylogenetic position make them a crucial group in the study of the evolution of the nervous system. ...
    • Generating transgenic reporter lines for studying nervous system development in the cnidarian nematostella vectensis 

      Rentzsch, Fabian; Renfer, Eduard; Technau, Ulrich (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Neurons often display complex morphologies with long and fine processes that can be difficult to visualize, in particular in living animals. Transgenic reporter lines in which fluorescent proteins are expressed in defined ...