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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Identification of target genes of developmental transcription factors Brachyury, Gata and Caudal in sponges
In 'higher animals' these factors are involved in specification and patterning of the endodermal derivatives (such as gut), and we have recently demonstrated that in sponges they are expressed during formation and maintenance of the choanoderm (the innermost feeding layer which we hypothesise is homologous to the gut). Project open to PhD students and Postdocs.