Hejnol Group - Selected Publications

• Hejnol A (2010). A Twist in Time--The Evolution of Spiral Cleavage in the Light of Animal Phylogeny Integrative and Comparative Biology; doi: 10.1093/icb/icq103

Prior to arrival at the Sars Centre

• Hejnol A, Martindale MQ (2009). Coordinated spatial and temporal expression of Hox genes during embryogenesis in the acoel Convolutriloba longifissura. BMC Biology, 7(1):65 - abstract.



• Hejnol A, Obst M, Stamatakis A, Ott M, Rouse GW, Edgecombe GD, Martinez P, Baguñà J, Bailly X, Jondelius U, Wiens M, Müller, WEG, Seaver E, Wheeler WC, Martindale MQ, Giribet G, Dunn CW (2009). Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods. Proc R Soc B, 276, 4261-4270.



• Martindale MQ and Hejnol A (2009). A developmental perspective: changes in the position of the blastopore during bilaterian evolution. Dev Cell, 17, 162-174.



• Bourlat SJ and Hejnol A (2009). Quick Guide: Acoels. Curr Biol, 19, R279-R280.



• Hejnol A and Martindale MQ (2009). The mouth, the anus and the blastopore - open questions about questionable openings. In: “Animal Evolution: Genomes, Fossils and Trees”, eds. Littlewood D.T.J. & Telford, M.J., Oxford University Press, pp. 33-40.



• Giribet G, Dunn CW, Edgecombe GD, Hejnol A, Martindale MQ, Rouse GW (2009). Assembling the Spiralian Tree of Life. In: “Animal Evolution: Genomes, Fossils and Trees”, eds. Littlewood D.T.J. & Telford, M.J., Oxford University Press, pp. 52-64.



• Hejnol A and Martindale MQ (2008). Acoel development indicates the independent evolution of the bilaterian mouth and anus. Nature, 456, 382-386. (listen to the nature podcast)



• Dunn CW, Hejnol A, Matus DQ, Pang K, Browne WE, Smith SA, Seaver E, Rouse GW, Obst M, Edgecombe GD, Sørensen MV, Haddock SHD, Schmidt-Rhaesa A, Okuso A, Kristensen RM, Wheeler WC, Martindale MQ, Giribet G (2008). Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the Animal Tree of Life. Nature, 452, 745-749.



• Hejnol A and Martindale MQ (2008). Acoel development supports a simple planula-like urbilaterian. Phil Trans R Soc B, 363, 1493-1501.



• Henry JQ, Hejnol A, Perry KJ, Martindale MQ (2007). Homology of ciliary bands in spiralian trochophores. Integ Comp Biol, 47, 865-871.



• Hejnol A, Martindale MQ, Henry JQ (2007). High-resolution fate map of the snail Crepidula fornicata: the origins of ciliary bands, nervous system, and muscular elements. Dev Biol, 305, 63-76.



• Hejnol A, Schnabel R, Scholtz G (2006). A 4D-microscopic analysis of the germ band in Porcellio scaber (Malacostraca, Peracarida) – developmental and phylogenetic implications. Dev Genes Evol, 216, 755-767.



• Matus DQ, Copley RR, Dunn CW, Hejnol A, Eccleston H, Halanych KH, Martindale MQ, Telford MJ (2006). Broad taxon and gene sampling indicate that chaetognaths are protostomes. Curr Biol, 16, R575-R576.



• Schnabel R, Bischoff M, Hintze A, Schulz A-K, Hejnol A, Meinhardt H, Hutter H (2006). Global cell sorting in the C. elegans embryo defines a new mechanism for pattern formation. Dev Biol, 294, 418-431.



• Hejnol A and Schnabel R (2006). What a couple of dimensions can do for you: Comparative developmental studies using 4D-microscopy – examples from tardigrade development. Integ Comp Biol, 46, 151–161.



• Hejnol A and Schnabel R (2005). The eutardigrade Thulinia stephaniae has an indeterminate development and the potential to regulate early blastomere ablations. Development, 132, 1349-1361.