The origin and evolution of model organisms

By S. Blair Hedges. Nature reviews genetics, 2002

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The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes (2003, background): “melanogaster is best compatible with hypothesis of lineage-specific expansion because, regardless of the exact topology of the animal phylogenetic tree [42], the alternative to this hypothesis would involve massive loss of globin-like genes in insects.”
Hedgehog: functions and mechanisms. (2008, background): “This suggests that the mechanisms of Hh signal transduction from the receptor to the Ci/GLI transcription factors have evolved differentially after separation of the vertebrate and invertebrate lineages approximately 1 billion years ago (Hedges 2002; Varjosalo and Taipale 2007).”
Application of phylogenetic networks in evolutionary studies. (2006, neutral): “…has been the subject of much discussion recently, one key question being whether the ecdysozoa (e.g., arthropods, nematodes, tardigrades) or the coelomates (e.g., mollusca, deutero-somes, arthropoda) are monophyletic (Hedges 2002; Wolf, Rogozin,andKoonin2004; Philippe,Lartillot,andBrinkman 2005).”
Living in a fungal world: impact of fungi on soil bacterial niche development. (2005, background): “Both fossils and molecular biological data indicate that major groups of saprotrophic soil fungi, Zygomycota, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, are descendants of the glomalean fungi [2,10,11].”
Zebrafish as a model organism for nutrition and growth: towards comparative studies of nutritional genomics applied to aquacultured fishes (2011, background): “The last common ancestor of all the vertebrate laboratory models was the common ancestor of the Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) and Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and tetrapods), which probably lived during the Silurian period, approximately 420 million years ago (Janvier 1996; Hedges 2002; Cl”
Why fish do not feel pain (2016, background): “While subcortical structures (e.g., basal ganglia, ventral telencephalic nuclei, thalamus, midbrain and hindbrain) contribute to the processing of noxious stimuli and to nocifensive behaviours, the feeling of pain arises in the cortex.”
Genome duplication in the teleost fish Tetraodon nigroviridis reveals the early vertebrate proto-karyotype (2004, background): “(5) Proteins involved in general gene regulation are more abundant in vertebrates than in Ciona.”
Biodiversity and systematics of nematode-bacterium entomopathogens (2006, background): “Questions concerning the validity of the Ecdysozoa have emerged from analyses that have emphasized character sampling over taxon sampling and analytical rigor (Hedges, 2002; Wolf et al., 2004).”