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List of works by Cristian Cañestro

Amphioxus alcohol dehydrogenase is a class 3 form of single type and of structural conservation but with unique developmental expression

scientific article published in November 2000

Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation

scientific article published in Nature

Ascidian and amphioxus Adh genes correlate functional and molecular features of the ADH family expansion during vertebrate evolution.

scientific article published in January 2002

Characterization and expression pattern of zebrafish Anti-Müllerian hormone (Amh) relative to sox9a, sox9b, and cyp19a1a, during gonad development

scientific article published on 19 April 2005

Characterization of a microsomal retinol dehydrogenase gene from amphioxus: retinoid metabolism before vertebrates

scientific article published in January 2001

Characterization of the amphioxus presenilin gene in a high gene-density genomic region illustrates duplication during the vertebrate lineage

scientific article

Coelimination and Survival in Gene Network Evolution: Dismantling the RA-Signaling in a Chordate.

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Comparative expression analysis of Adh3 during arthropod, urochordate, cephalochordate, and vertebrate development challenges its predicted housekeeping role

scientific article published in March 2003

Consequences of lineage-specific gene loss on functional evolution of surviving paralogs: ALDH1A and retinoic acid signaling in vertebrate genomes

scientific article

Corrigendum: The spotted gar genome illuminates vertebrate evolution and facilitates human-teleost comparisons.

scientific article published in May 2016

DNA methylation in amphioxus: from ancestral functions to new roles in vertebrates.

scientific article published on 02 March 2012

Development of the central nervous system in the larvacean Oikopleura dioica and the evolution of the chordate brain

scientific article

Developmental atlas of appendicularian Oikopleura dioica actins provides new insights into the evolution of the notochord and the cardio-paraxial muscle in chordates

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

Diatom bloom-derived biotoxins cause aberrant development and gene expression in the appendicularian chordate

scientific article published on 24 August 2018

Endogenous beta-galactosidase activity in amphioxus: a useful histochemical marker for the digestive system

scientific article published in March 2001

Evolution by gene loss.

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Evolution of developmental regulation in the vertebrate FgfD subfamily

scientific article

Evolution of developmental roles of Pax2/5/8 paralogs after independent duplication in urochordate and vertebrate lineages

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Evolution of the thyroid: anterior-posterior regionalization of the Oikopleura endostyle revealed by Otx, Pax2/5/8, and Hox1 expression

scientific article published in May 2008

Evolutionary developmental biology and genomics

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Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains

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Identification of Aldh1a, Cyp26 and RAR orthologs in protostomes pushes back the retinoic acid genetic machinery in evolutionary time to the bilaterian ancestor

scientific article

Impact of gene gains, losses and duplication modes on the origin and diversification of vertebrates

scientific article published on 03 January 2013

Is retinoic acid genetic machinery a chordate innovation?

scientific article published in September 2006

Isolation and characterization of the first non-autonomous transposable element in amphioxus, ATE-1.

scientific article published on October 2003

Metallothioneins of the urochordate Oikopleura dioica have Cys-rich tandem repeats, large size and cadmium-binding preference

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Oikopleura dioica alcohol dehydrogenase class 3 provides new insights into the evolution of retinoic acid synthesis in chordates

scientific article published in February 2010

Oikopleura dioica culturing made easy: a low-cost facility for an emerging animal model in EvoDevo

scientific article

PTH Reloaded: A New Evolutionary Perspective

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Plasticity of animal genome architecture unmasked by rapid evolution of a pelagic tunicate

scientific article (publication date: 3 December 2010)

Pth4, an ancient parathyroid hormone lost in eutherian mammals, reveals a new brain-to-bone signaling pathway.

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Reporter Analyses Reveal Redundant Enhancers that Confer Robustness on Cis-Regulatory Mechanisms

scientific article published in January 2018

Retinoic acid metabolic genes, meiosis, and gonadal sex differentiation in zebrafish

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Roles of brca2 (fancd1) in oocyte nuclear architecture, gametogenesis, gonad tumors, and genome stability in zebrafish

scientific article (publication date: March 2011)

Seeing chordate evolution through the Ciona genome sequence

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Sex reversal in zebrafish fancl mutants is caused by Tp53-mediated germ cell apoptosis

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The Fanconi anemia/BRCA gene network in zebrafish: embryonic expression and comparative genomics.

scientific article published on 03 December 2008

The cosmopolitan appendicularian Oikopleura dioica reveals hidden genetic diversity around the globe

scientific article published in 2022

The first non-LTR retrotransposon characterised in the cephalochordate amphioxus, BfCR1, shows similarities to CR1-like elements

scientific article published in April 2003

The spotted gar genome illuminates vertebrate evolution and facilitates human-teleost comparisons

scientific article

Transposon diversity is higher in amphioxus than in vertebrates: functional and evolutionary inferences

scientific article published on 02 March 2012

Wnt evolution and function shuffling in liberal and conservative chordate genomes

scientific article published on 25 July 2018