Echinodermata

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Arrays in rays: terminal addition in echinoderms and its correlation with gene expression. 
  • Blastomere isolation and transplantation. 
  • Culture of echinoderm larvae through metamorphosis. 
  • Developmental regulatory genes and echinoderm evolution. 
  • Extraocular sensitivity to polarized light in an echinoderm. 
  • Extreme phenotypic divergence and the evolution of development. 
  • Functional consequences of ligand-linked dissociation in hemoglobin from the sea cucumber Molpadia arenicola. 
  • Gene expression and larval evolution: changing roles of distal-less and orthodenticle in echinoderm larvae. 
  • Gene expression during echinoderm metamorphosis. 
  • Identification and localization of a possible rhodopsin in the echinoderms Asterias forbesi (Asteroidea) and Ophioderma brevispinum (Ophiuroidea). 
  • Identifying gene expression from single cells to single genes. 
  • Microinjection of echinoderm eggs: apparatus and procedures. 
  • Polymerization of actin. IV. Role of Ca++ and H+ in the assembly of actin and in membrane fusion in the acrosomal reaction of echinoderm sperm. 
  • Primary mesenchyme cell patterning during the early stages following ingression. 
  • Radical alterations in the roles of homeobox genes during echinoderm evolution. 
  • Rearing larvae of sea urchins and sea stars for developmental studies. 
  • Regulation of translation and transcription of messenger RNA during early embryonic development. 
  • Rudolf A. Raff (1941-2019). 
  • The effect of protein synthesis inhibition on the entry of messenger RNA into the cytoplasm of sea urchin embryos. 
  • The evolution of echinoderm development is driven by several distinct factors. 
  • The invertebrate deuterostomes: an introduction to their phylogeny, reproduction, development, and genomics. 
  • The macrophage as an antineoplastic surveillance cell: biological perspectives. 
  • The origin and evolution of animal appendages. 
  • Transcriptomic analysis of Nodal - and BMP- associated genes during development to the juvenile seastar in Parvulastra exigua (Asterinidae). 
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  Keywords of People

  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology