Multicellgenome Lab
understanding the origin of multicellular animals

Publications

2012
-Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Yonggang Zheng, Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo & Duojia Pan.
Premetazoan origin of the Hippo signaling pathway.
Cell Reports 1(1): 13-20. doi:10.1016/j.cel- rep.2011.11.004
(see
news in Cell Reports)

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Guifré Torruella, Romain Derelle, Jordi Paps, B. Franz Lang, Andrew J Roger, Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi and Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.
Phylogenetic relationships within the Opisthokonta based on phylogenomic analyses of conserved single copy protein domains.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 29(2): 531-544.

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John D. L. Shadwick & Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.
A genomic survey shows that the haloarchaeal type Tyrosyl-Synthetase is not a Synapomorphy of Opisthokonts
European Journal of Protistology (in press)


2011
-Alex de Mendoza & Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.
New genomes, new taxa and deep questions in the eukaryotic tree of life: a meeting report on the EMBO comparative genomics conference
Evodevo 2(1):22.

-Agatha Schlüter,
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo & Aurora Pujol.
Phylogenomic evidence for a myxococcal contribution to the mitochondrial fatty acid beta-oxidation
Plos ONE 6(7): e21989. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021989

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Alex de Mendoza & Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.
The mysterious Evolutionary Origin for the GNE gene and the root of Bilateria
Molecular Biology and Evolution 28(11): 2987-91.

-Susan Young, D. Diolaiti, M. Conacci-Sorrell,
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, R. M. Eisenman & Nicole King.
Premetazoan Ancestry of the Myc-Max Network.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 28(10): 2961-71.

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Alex de Mendoza, B. Franz Lang, Bernie M. Degnan & Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo. Unexpected repertoire of metazoan transcription factors in the unicellular holozoan Capsaspora owczarzaki.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 28(3): 1241-54.


2010
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Maria José Barberà*, Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo*, Julia Y. A. Tufts, Bery Amandine, Jeffrey D. Silberman & Andrew J. Roger. (*co-authors)
Sawyeria marylandensis (Heterolobosea) has a hydrogenosome with novel metabolic properties.
Eukaryotic Cell 9(12):1913-24.

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Jordi Paps & Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.
Animals and their unicellular ancestors.
In:
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences 2010, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester.

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós & Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.
The integrin-mediated adhesion complex: cooption of signaling systems at the dawn of Metazoa.
Communicative & Integrative Biology 3:5 1-3.

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Alex de Mendoza, Hiroshi Suga & Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.
Evolution of the MAGUK protein gene family in premetazoan lineages.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(1): 93.

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Andrew J. Roger, Franz B. Lang, Nicole King & Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.
Ancient origin of integrin-mediated adhesion and signaling machinery.
Proceedings National Academic of Sciences USA 107(22): 10142-7.