Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Origin and Evolution of the Sponge Aggregation Factor Gene Family.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 May 2017

Grice Laura F, Gauthier Marie E A, Roper Kathrein E, Fernàndez-Busquets Xavier, Degnan Sandie M, Degnan Bernard M

Abstract excerpt

Although discriminating self from nonself is a cardinal animal trait, metazoan allorecognition genes do not appear to be homologous. Here, we characterize the Aggregation Factor (AF) gene family, which encodes putative allorecognition factors in the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica, and trace its evolution across 24 sponge (Porifera) species. The AF locus in Amphimedon is comprised of a cluster of five similar...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Biological Evolution
Share to Cell Adhesion Molecules

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Evolution, Molecular

Share to Phylogeny

Share to Porifera

Share to Protein Domains

Share to RNA Editing

Source

Open in PubMed Open full text

Identifiers

PMID: 28104746
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx058
PMCID: PMC5400394

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 6 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-06.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 6 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Origin and Evolution of the Sponge Aggregation Factor Gene Family.PMID 28104746Read ↗

Allorecognition proteins in an invertebrate exhibit homophilic interactions.Semantic proximity Read ↗

A family of unusual immunoglobulin superfamily genes in an invertebrate histocompatibility complexSemantic proximity Read ↗

Hydractinia allodeterminant alr1 resides in an immunoglobulin superfamily-like gene complex.Semantic proximity Read ↗

A family of unusual immunoglobulin superfamily genes in an invertebrate histocompatibility complexSemantic proximity Read ↗

Molecular evolution and in vitro characterization of Botryllus histocompatibility factor.Semantic proximity Read ↗

A hypervariable invertebrate allodeterminant.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Allorecognition in colonial tunicates: protection against predatory cell lineages?Semantic proximity Read ↗

Identification of a colonial chordate histocompatibility gene.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The fester locus in Botryllus schlosseri experiences selection.Semantic proximity Read ↗

fester, A candidate allorecognition receptor from a primitive chordate.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic diversity of the allodeterminant alr2 in Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Cellular allorecognition and its roles in Dictyostelium development and social evolution.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.