PUBLICATIONS

KEY PUBLICATIONS

The evolution of bilaterian nerve cords

It has been hypothesized a condensed nervous system with a medial ventral nerve cord is an ancestral character of Bilateria. However, our data suggest that the similarities in dorsoventral patterning and trunk neuroanatomies evolved independently in Bilateria.

The evolution of animal life cycles

The developmental mechanisms that facilitated the evolution of animal larvae are contested. By comparing gene expression and regulatory dynamics during annelid development, we show that changes in when the adult trunk forms correlate with and might explain the diversification of animal life cycles.

ERK1/2 and the spiralian organiser

How embryos with spiral cleavage specify the embryonic organiser that drives body patterning before gastrulation is unclear. Our study on the annelid Owenia fusiformis demonstrates that ERK1/2 together with FGF and Notch signalling is the ancestral mechanism to induce body patterning in Spiralia.

ALL PUBLICATIONS

2024

• Guynes K, Sarre LA, Carrillo-Baltodano AM, Davies BE, Xu L, Liang Y, Martín-Zamora FM, Hurd PJ, de Mendoza A, Martín-Durán JM (2024) Annelid methylomes reveal ancestral developmental and ageing-associated epigenetic erosion across Bilateria. bioRxiv 2023.12.21.572802

• Jimenez-Guri E, Paganos P, La Vecchia C, Annona G, Caccavale F, Molina MD, Ferrández-Roldán A, Donnellan RD, Salatiello F, Johnstone A, Eliso MC, Spagnuolo A, Cañestro C, Albalat R, Martín-Durán JM, Williams L, D’Aniello E, Arnone MI (2024) Developmental toxicity of pre-production plastic pellets affects a large swathe of invertebrate taxa. (accepted)

• Carrillo-Baltodano AM, Williams EA, Jékely G, Martín-Durán JM (2023) The development of the adult nervous system in the annelid Owenia fusiformis. Neural development, 19:3

2023

• Yen EC, Gilbert JD, Balard A, Afonso IO, Fairweather K, Newlands D, Lopes A, Correia SM, Taxonera A, Rossiter SJ, Martín-Durán JM, Eizaguirre C (2023) DNA methylation carries signatures of sublethal effects under thermal stress in loggerhead sea turtles. bioRxiv, 2023.11.22.568239

• Martínez García A, Bonaglia S, Di Domenico M, Fonseca G, […], Worsaae K, Yamasaki H, Fontaneto D (2023) Fundamental questions in meiofauna – how small but ubiquitous animals can help to better understand Nature. EcoEvoRxiv

• Vellutini BC, Martín-Durán JM, Hejnol A (2023) Combinatorial Wnt signaling landscape during brachiopod anteroposterior patterning. bioRxiv 2023.09.03.556047

• Liang Y#, Carrillo-Baltodano A#, Martín-Durán JM (2023) Emerging trends in the study of spiralian larvae. Evolution and Development, e12459. (#equally contributed)

• Martín-Zamora FM, Davies BE, Donnella RD, Guynes K, Martín-Durán JM (2023) Functional genomics in Spiralia. Briefings in Functional Genomics, elad036

• Goffredi S, Panossian B, Brzechffa C, Field N, King C, Moggioli G, Rouse GW, Martín-Durán JM, Henry L (2023) A dynamic epibiont community associated with the bone-eating polychaete genus Osedax. mBio, e03140-22

• Zakas C, Martín-Durán JM (2023) Genomics of marine larval evolution and development. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icad108

• Moggioli G, Panossian B, Sun Y, Thiel D, Martín-Zamora FM, Tran M, Clifford AM, Goffredi SK, Rimskaya-Korsakova N, Jékely G, Tresguerres M, Qian P-Y, Qiu J-W, Rouse GW, Henry LM, Martín-Durán JM (2023) Distinct genomic routes underlie transitions to specialised symbiotic lifestyles in deep-sea annelid worms. Nature Communications 14, 2814.

• Gąsiorowski L, Martín-Durán JM, Hejnol A (2023) The evolution of Hox genes in Spiralia. In “Hox modules in evolution and development”. Ed David EK Ferrier. Taylor and Francis Group.

• Martín-Zamora FM#, Liang Y#, Guynes K, Carrillo-Baltodano AM, Davies BE, Donnellan RD, Tan Y, Moggioli G, Seudre O, Tran M, Mortimer K, Luscombe N, Hejnol A, Marlétaz F, Martín-Durán JM (2023) Annelid functional genomics reveal the origins of bilaterian life cycles. Nature 615, 105–110 (#equally contributed)

2022

• Seudre O#, Carrillo-Baltodano AM#, Liang Y, Martín-Durán JM (2022) ERK1/2 is an ancestral organising signal in spiral cleavage. Nature Communications 13, 2286 #Equally contributed

• Seudre O, Martín-Zamora FM, Rapisarda V, Carrillo-Baltodano AM, Martín-Durán JM (2022). The Fox gene repertoire in the annelid Owenia fusiformis reveals multiple expansions of the foxQ2 class in Spiralia. Genome Biology and Evolution, 14:evac139.

2021

• McKenna V, Archibald JM, Beinart R, Dawson MN, Hentschel U, Keeling PJ, Lopez JV, Martín-Durán JM, Petersen JM, Sigwart JD, Simakov O, Sutherland KR, Sweet M, Talbot N, Thompson AW, Bender S, Harrison PW, Rajan J, Cochrane G, Berriman M, Lawniczak M, Blaxter M (2021) The Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project: probing the evolution of symbiosis across the tree of life. Wellcome Open Research 6:254

• Carrillo-Baltodano AM, Seudre O, Guynes K, Martín-Durán JM (2021) Early embryogenesis and organogenesis in the annelid Owenia fusiformis. EvoDevo 12:5

2020

• Martín-Durán JM, Vellutini BC, Marlétaz F, Cetrangolo V, Cvetesic N, Thiel D, Henriet S, Grau-Bové X, Carrillo-Baltodano AM, Gu W, Kerbl A, Marquez Y, Bekkouche N, Chourrout D, Gómez-Skarmeta JL, Irimia M, Lenhard B, Worsaae K, Hejnol A (2020) Conservative route to genome compaction in a miniature annelid. Nature Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01327-6

• Martín-Durán JM, Marlétaz F (2020) Unravelling spiral cleavage. Development 147, dev181081

2019

• Conti D, Gul P, Islam A, Martín-Durán JM, Pickersgill RW, Draviam VM (2019) Kinetochores attached to microtubule-ends are stabilised by Astrin bound PP1 to ensure proper chromosome segregation. eLife 8, e49325

• Martín-Durán JM, Hejnol A (2019) A developmental perspective on the evolution of the nervous system. Developmental Biology

• Drinnenberg IA, Berger F, Elsässer SJ, Andersen PR, Ausió J, Bickmore WA, Blackwell AR, Erwin DH, Gahan JM, Gaut BS, Harvey ZH, Henikoff S, Kao JY, Kurdistani SK, Lemos B, Levine MT, Luger K, Malik HS, Martín-Durán JM, Peichel CL, Renfree MB, Rutowicz K, Sarkies P, Schmitz RJ, Technau U, Thornton JW, Warnecke T, Wolfe KH (2019) EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution. Development 146, dev178962

• Hogvall M, Vellutini BC, Martín-Durán JM, Hejnol A, Budd GE, Jansen R (2019) Embryonic expression of priapulid Wnt genes. Development Genes and Evolution 4:125-135

2018

• Rozanski A, Moon HK, Brandl H, Martín-Durán JM, Grohme MA, Hüttner K, Bartscherer K, Henry I, Rink JC (2018) PlanMine 3.0—improvements to a mineable resource of flatworm biology and biodiversity. Nucleic Acids Research 47:D812-D820

• Martín-Durán JM (2018) General principles of planarian embryogenesis and its analysis by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry methods. Methods in Molecular Biology 1774:405-421

• Martín-Durán JM, Pang K, Børve A, Semmler-Lê H, Furu A, Cannon JT, Jondelius U, Hejnol A (2018) Convergent evolution of bilaterian nerve cords. Nature 553:45-50

2017

• Martín-Durán JM, Ryan JF, Vellutini BC, Pang K, Hejnol A (2017) Increased taxon sampling reveals thousands of hidden orthologs in flatworms. Genome Research 27:1263-1272

• Vellutini BC, Martín-Durán JM, Hejnol A (2017) Cleavage modification did not alter early blastomere fates during bryozoan evolution. BMC Biology 15:33

• Schiemann SM, Martín-Durán JM, Børve A, Vellutini BC, Passamaneck YJ, Hejnol A (2017) Clustered brachiopod Hox genes are not expressed collinearly and are associated with lophotrochozoan novelties. Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences USA 14:E1913-E1922

2016

• Martín-Durán JM, Passamaneck YJ, Martindale MQ, Hejnol A (2016) The developmental basis for the recurrent evolution of deuterostomy and protostomy. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:0005

• Sureda M, Martín-Durán JM, Adell T (2016) Localization of planarian bCATENIN-1 reveals multiple roles during anterior-posterior regeneration and organogenesis. Development 143:4149-4160

• Kerbl A, Martín-Durán JM, Worsaae K, Hejnol A (2016) Molecular regionalization in the compact brain of the meiofaunal annelid Dinophilus gyrociliatus (Dinophilidae). EvoDevo 7:20.

• Martín-Durán JM, Vellutini BC, Hejnol A (2016) Embryonic chirality and the evolution of spiralian left-right asymmetries. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371:20150411

• Barberán S, Martín-Durán JM, Cebrià F (2016) Evolution of the EGFR pathway in Metazoa and its diversification in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Scientific Reports 6:28071

2015

• Martín-Durán JM, Wolff GH, Strausfeld N, Hejnol A (2015) The larval nervous system of the penis worm Priapulus caudatus (Ecdysozoa). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371:20150050.

• Martín-Durán JM, Vellutini BC, Hejnol A (2015) Evolution and development of the adelphophagic, intracapsular Schmidt’s larva of the nemertean Lineus ruber. EvoDevo 6:28

• Martín-Durán JM, Hejnol A (2015) The study of Priapulus caudatus reveals conserved molecular patterning underlying different gut morphogenesis in the Ecdysozoa. BMC Biology 13:29

• Hejnol A, Martín-Durán JM (2015) Getting to the bottom of anal evolution. Zoologischer Anzeiger 256:61-74

2014

• Grande C, Martín-Durán JM, Kenny NJ, Truchado-García M, Hejnol A (2014) Evolution, divergence and loss of the Nodal signalling pathway: new data and a synthesis across the Bilateria. International Journal of Developmental Biology 58:521-532

2013

• Martín-Durán JM, de Mendoza A, Sebé-Pedrós A, Ruiz-Trillo I, Hejnol A (2013) A broad genomic survey reveals multiple origins and frequent losses in the evolution of respiratory hemerythrins and hemocyanins. Genome Biology & Evolution 5:1435-1442

2012

• Martín-Durán JM, Janssen R, Wennberg S, Budd GE, Hejnol A (2012) Deuterostomic development in the protostome Priapulus caudatus. Current Biology 22:2161-2166

• Martín-Durán JM, Egger B (2012) Developmental diversity in free-living flatworms. EvoDevo 3:7

• Martín-Durán JM, Monjo F, Romero R (2012) Morphological and molecular development of the eyes during embryogenesis of the freshwater planarian Schmidtea polychroa. Development Genes & Evolution 222:45-54

• Martín-Durán JM, Monjo F, Romero R (2012) Planarian embryology in the era of comparative developmental biology. International Journal of Developmental Biology 56:39-48

2011

• Irimia M, Denuc A, Burguera D, Somorjai I, Martín-Durán JM, Genikhovich G, Jimenez-Delgado S, Technau U, Roy SW, Marfany G, Garcia-Fernàndez J (2011) Stepwise assembly of the Nova-regulated alternative splicing network in the vertebrate brain. Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences USA 108:5319-5324

• Martín-Durán JM, Romero R (2011) Evolutionary implications of morphogenesis and molecular patterning of the blind gut in the planarian Schmidtea polychroa. Developmental Biology 352:164-176

2010

• Martín-Durán JM, Amaya E, Romero R (2010) Germ layer specification and axial patterning in the embryonic development of the freshwater planarian Schmidtea polychroa. Developmental Biology 340:145-158

2008

• Martín-Durán JM, Duocastella M, Serra P, Romero R (2008) New method to deliver exogenous material into developing planarian embryos. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular & Developmental Evolution) 310B:668-681