Publications

Hejnol, A.,Obst, M. Stamatakis, A, Ott, M., Rouse, G.W., Edgecombe, G.D., Martinez, P, Baguñà, J., Bailly, X, Jondelius, U., Wiens, M, Müller, W.E.G., Seaver, E, Wheeler, W.C., Martindale, M.Q., Giribet, G, Dunn, C.W. (2009) Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods. Proceedings B, in press

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

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

Hejnol, A. and Martindale, M.Q. (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, C.W., Hejnol, A., Edgecombe, G.D., Martindale, M.Q., Rouse, G.W.(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, M.Q. (2008) Acoel development indicates the independent evolution of the bilaterian mouth and anus. Nature, 456, 382-386 (listen to the nature podcast)

Dunn, C.W., Hejnol, A., Matus, D.Q., Pang, K., Browne, W.E., Smith, S.A., Seaver, E., Rouse, G.W., Obst, M., Edgecombe, G.D., Sørensen, M.V., Haddock, S.H.D., Schmidt-Rhaesa, A., Okuso, A., Kristensen, R.M., Wheeler, W.C., Martindale, M.Q., Giribet, G. (2008) Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the Animal Tree of Life. Nature 452, 745-749

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

Henry, J.Q., Hejnol, A., Perry, K.J., Martindale, M.Q. (2007) Homology of ciliary bands in spiralian trochophores. Integ Comp Biol 47, 865-871

Hejnol, A., Martindale, M.Q., Henry, J.Q. (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, D.Q., Copley, R.R., Dunn, C.W., Hejnol, A., Eccleston, H., Halanych, K.H., Martindale, M.Q., Telford, M.J. (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

Dohle, W., Gerberding, M., Hejnol, A., Scholtz, G. (2004) Cell lineage, segment differentiation, and gene expression in crustaceans. In: Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Crustacea (ed. G. Scholtz), A.A. Balkema, Lisse 3-16

Hejnol, A. and Scholtz, G. (2004) Clonal analysis of Distal-less and engrailed expression patterns during early morphogenesis of uniramous and biramous crustacean limbs. Dev Genes Evol 214, 473-485

Hejnol, A. (1999) Mechanismen der Pollappenbildung bei der Schnecke Ilyanassa obsoleta (Gastropoda). Sber Ges Naturf Freunde 37, 43-58

Hejnol, A. and Pfannenstiel, H.-D. (1998) Myosin and actin are necessary for polar lobe formation and resorption in Ilyanassa obsoleta embryos. Dev Genes Evol 208, 229-233