Alex De mendoza

Publications

• Forward genetics for back-in-time questions DOI: 10.7554/elife.05218
• Novel roles of plant RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED (RBR) protein in cell proliferation and asymmetric cell division. PMID: 24323507
• The evolution of the GPCR signaling system in eukaryotes: modularity, conservation, and the transition to metazoan multicellularity. PMID: 24567306
• Transcription factor evolution in eukaryotes and the assembly of the regulatory toolkit in multicellular lineages. PMID: 24277850
• The Capsaspora genome reveals a complex unicellular prehistory of animals DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3325
• A broad genomic survey reveals multiple origins and frequent losses in the evolution of respiratory hemerythrins and hemocyanins. PMID: 23843190
• Genomic survey of premetazoans shows deep conservation of cytoplasmic tyrosine kinases and multiple radiations of receptor tyrosine kinases. PMID: 22550341
• The mysterious evolutionary origin for the GNE gene and the root of bilateria. PMID: 21616910
• Unexpected repertoire of metazoan transcription factors in the unicellular holozoan Capsaspora owczarzaki. PMID: 21087945
• New genomes, new taxa and deep questions in the eukaryotic tree of life: a meeting report on the EMBO comparative genomics conference DOI: 10.1186/2041-9139-2-22
• Evolution of the MAGUK protein gene family in premetazoan lineages DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-93