Publications
2019
Aldea D, Subirana L, Keime C, Meister L, Maeso I, Marcellini S, Gomez-karmeta JL, Bertrand S*, Escriva H*. Genetic regulation of amphioxus somitogenesis informsthe evolution of the vertebrate head mesoderm. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 Jul1.
*co-corresponding authors
Pinzón N, Bertrand S, Subirana L, Busseau I, Escrivá H, Seitz H. (2019). Functional lability of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases in animals. PLoS Genet. Feb19;15(2):e1007915.
2018
Escriva H. (2018). My Favorite Animal, Amphioxus: Unparalleled for Studying Early Vertebrate Evolution. Bioessays. 2018 Dec;40(12):e1800130.
Marlétaz F, Firbas PN, Maeso I, Tena JJ, Bogdanovic O, Perry M, Wyatt CDR, de la Calle-Mustienes E, Bertrand S, Burguera D, Acemel RD, van Heeringen SJ, Naranjo S, Herrera-Ubeda C, Skvortsova K, Jimenez-Gancedo S, Aldea D, Marquez Y, Buono L, Kozmikova I, Permanyer J, Louis A, Albuixech-Crespo B, Le Petillon Y, Leon A, Subirana L, Balwierz PJ, Duckett PE, Farahani E, Aury JM, Mangenot S, Wincker P, Albalat R, Benito-Gutiérrez È, Cañestro C, Castro F, D'Aniello S, Ferrier DEK, Huang S, Laudet V, Marais GAB, Pontarotti P, Schubert M, Seitz H, Somorjai I, Takahashi T, Mirabeau O, Xu A, Yu JK, Carninci P, Martinez-Morales JR, Crollius HR, Kozmik Z, Weirauch MT, Garcia-Fernàndez J, Lister R, Lenhard B, Holland PWH, Escriva H*, Gómez-Skarmeta JL*, Irimia M*. (2018). Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation. Nature. 2018Dec;564(7734):64-70.
*co-corresponding authors
Ramos-Vicente D, Ji J, Gratacòs-Batlle E, Gou G, Reig-Viader R, Luís J, Burguera D, Navas-Perez E, García-Fernández J, Fuentes-Prior P, Escriva H, Roher N, Soto D, Bayés À. (2018). Metazoan evolution of glutamate receptors reveals unreported phylogenetic groups and divergent lineage-specific events. Elife. 2018 Nov 22;7.
Ji J, Ramos-Vicente D, Navas-Pérez E, Herrera-Úbeda C, Lizcano JM, Garcia-Fernàndez J, Escrivà H, Bayés À, Roher N. (2018). Characterization of the TLR Family in Branchiostoma lanceolatum and Discovery of a Novel TLR22-Like Involved in dsRNA Recognition in Amphioxus. Front Immunol. 2018 Nov 2;9:2525.
Somorjai IML, Martí-Solans J, Diaz-Gracia M, Nishida H, Imai KS, Escrivà H, Cañestro C, Albalat R. (2018). Wnt evolution and function shuffling in liberal and conservative chordate genomes. Genome Biol. 2018 Jul 25;19(1):98.
2017
Yong LW, Bertrand S, Yu JK, Escriva H, Holland ND. (2017). Conservation of BMP2/4 expression patterns within the clade Branchiostoma (amphioxus): Resolving interspecific discrepancies. Gene Expr Patterns. 2017 Nov;25-26:71-75.
Le Petillon Y, Luxardi G, Scerbo P, Cibois M, Leon A, Subirana L, Irimia M, Kodjabachian L, Escriva H*, Bertrand S*. (2017) Nodal/Activin Pathway is a Conserved Neural Induction Signal in Chordates. Nat Ecol Evol. 2017 Aug;1(8):1192-1200.
*co-corresponding authors
Bertrand S, Le Petillon Y, Somorjai IML, Escriva H. (2017) Developmental cell-cell communication pathways in the cephalochordate amphioxus: actors and functions. Int J Dev Biol. 2017;61(10-11-12):697-722.
2016
Marcellini S, Escriva H. (2016). Editorial: Evolution of Organismal Form: From Regulatory Interactions to Developmental Processes and Biological Patterns. Front Genet. 2016 Aug 17;7:148.
Huang S, Tao X, Yuan S, Zhang Y, Li P, Beilinson HA, Zhang Y, Yu W, Pontarotti P, Escriva H, Le Petillon Y, Liu X, Chen S, Schatz DG, Xu A. (2016) Discovery of an Active RAG Transposon Illuminates the Origins of V(D)J Recombination. Cell. 2016 Jun 30;166(1):102-14.
Acemel RD, Tena JJ, Irastorza-Azcarate I, Marlétaz F, Gómez-Marín C, de la Calle-Mustienes E, Bertrand S, Diaz SG, Aldea D, Aury JM, Mangenot S, Holland PW, Devos DP, Maeso I, Escrivá H, Gómez-Skarmeta JL. (2016). A single three-dimensional chromatin compartment in amphioxus indicates a stepwise evolution of vertebrate Hox bimodal regulation. Nat Genet. 2016 Mar;48(3):336-41.
2015
Bertrand S, Aldea D, Oulion S, Subirana L, de Lera AR, Somorjai I, Escriva H. (2015). Evolution of the Role of RA and FGF Signals in the Control of Somitogenesis in Chordates. PLoS One. 2015 Sep 15;10(9):e0136587.
Aldea D, Leon A, Bertrand S, Escriva H. (2015). Expression of Fox genes in the cephalochordate Branchiostoma lanceolatum. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 28 July 2015.
Lecroisey C, Le Pétillon Y, Escriva H, Lammert E, Laudet V. (2015). Identification, evolution and expression of an insulin-like peptide in the cephalocordate Branchiostoma laceolatum. PLoS One. 10(3):e0119461
Suzuki DG, Murakami Y, Escriva H, Wada H (2015) A comparative examination of neural circuit and brain patterning between the lamprey and amphioxus reveals the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate visual centre. J Comp Neurol. 523(2):251-61.
2014
Lange E, Bertrand S, Holz O, Rebscher N, Hassel M (2014) Dynamic expression of a Hydra FGF at boundaries and termini. Dev Genes Evol. 224(4-6):235-44.
Bertrand, S. Escriva H. (2014) Chordates: The Acquisition of an Axial Backbone, in The tree of life, P. Vargas and R. Zardoya, Editors. Sinauer Associates, Inc.
Bertrand S, Iwema T, Escriva H (2014) FGF signaling emerged concomitantly with the origin of the eumetazoans. Mol. Biol. Evol. 31(2):310-318.
2013
Holland LZ, Carvalho JE, Escriva H, Laudet V, Schubert M, Shimeld SM, Yu JK (2013) Evolution of bilaterian central nervous systems: a single origin? Evodevo 4(1):27.
Aldea D, Hanna P, Munoz D, Espinoza J, Torrejon M, Sachs L, Buisine N, Oulion S, Escriva H, Marcellini S. (2013) J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 320(6):375-84.
Bertrand S, Fuentealba J, Aze A, Hudson C, Yasuo H, Torrejon M, Escriva H, Marcellini S (2013) A dynamic history of gene duplications and losses characterizes the evolution of the SPARC family in eumetazoans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280(1757):2012-2963.
2012
Ildikó ML, Somorjai, R, Somorjai L, Garcia-Fernàndez J, Escrivà. H (2012) Vertebrate-like regeneration in the invertebrate chordate amphioxus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 109: 517-522.
Oulion S, Bertrand S, Belgacem MR, Le Petillon Y, Escriva H (2012) Sequencing and analysis of the Mediterranean amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum) transcriptome. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36554.
Baas D, Caussanel-Boude S, Guiraud A, Calhabeu F, Delaune-Henry E, Pilot F, Chopin E, Machuca-Gayet I, Vernay A, Bertrand S, Rual JF, Jurdic P, Hill DE, Vidal M, Schaeffer L, Goillot E. (2012) CKIP-1 regulates mammalian and zebrafish myoblast fusion. J Cell Sci. 125(Pt 16):3790-800.
Oulion S, Bertrand S, Escriva H (2012) Evolution of the FGF gene family. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Especial issue "Molecular Evolutionary Routes that Lead to Innovations". 2012 (2012), Article ID 298147.
Somorjai IML, Escrivà H, Garcia-Fernàndez J (2012) Amphioxus makes the cut...again. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 5(5): 496-499.
2011
Bertrand S, Belgacem MR, Escriva H (2011) Nuclear hormone receptors in chordates. Mol. Cell Endo. 334: 67-75.
Belgacem MR, Escande ML, Escriva H, Bertrand S (2011) Amphioxus Tbx6/16 and Tbx20 embryonic expression patterns reveal ancestral conserved functions in chordates. Gene Expr Patterns 11: 239-243.
Desdevises Y, Maillet V, Fuentes M, H. Escriva H (2011) A Snapshot of the Population Structure of Branchiostoma lanceolatum in the Racou Beach, France, during its Spawning Season. PLoS ONE 6(4): e18520.
Bertrand S, Camasses A, Somorjai I, Belgacem MR, Chabrol O, Escande ML, Pontarotti P, Escriva H (2011) Amphioxus FGF signaling predicts the acquisition of vertebrate morphological traits. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108: 9160-9165.
Bertrand S, Escriva H (2011) Evolutionary Crossroads in Developmental Biology: amphioxus. Development 138: 4819-30.
2010
Paris M, Hillenweck A Stéphanie B, Delous G, Escriva H, Zalko D, Cravedi JP, Laudet V (2010) Active metabolism of thyroid hormone during metamorphosis of amphioxus. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50: 63–74.
2009
Tocchini-Valentini G, Rochel N, Escriva H, Germain P, Peluso-Iltis C, Paris M, Sanglier-Cianferani S, Van Dorsselaer A, Moras D, Laudet V 2009) Structural and functional insights into the ligand-binding domain of a nonduplicated retinoid X nuclear receptor from the invertebrate chordate amphioxus. J. Biol. Chem. 284:1938-1948.
Bertrand S, Campo-Paysaa F, Camasses A, Garcia-Fernandez J, Escriva H (2009) Actors of the RTK downstream signaling pathways in Amphioxus. Evol. Dev. 11: 13–26.
Dos Santos S, Bardet C, Bertrand S, Escriva H, Habert D, Querat B (2009) Distinct expression patterns of glycoprotein hormone-alpha2 and -beta5 in a basal chordate suggest independent developmental functions. Endocrinology, 150:3815-3822.
Bertrand S, Somorjai I, Garcia-Fernandez J, Lamonerie T, Escriva H (2009) FGFRL1 is a neglected putative actor of the FGF signalling pathway present in all major metazoan phyla. BMC Evol. Biol. 9:226.
2008
Paris M, Escriva H, Schubert M, Brunet F, Brtko J, Vivat V, Cravedi JP, Renaud JP, Holland ND, Laudet V (2008) Amphioxus postembryonic development reveals the homology of chordate metamorphosis, Curr. Biol. 18: 825-830.
Somorjai IML, Camasses A, Rivière B, Escrivà H (2008) Development of a semi-closed aquaculture system for monitoring of individual amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum) with high survivorship. Aquaculture 281(1-4): 145-150.
Paris M, Petterson K, Schubert M, Bertrand S, Pongratz I, Escriva H, Laudet V (2008) An amphioxus orthologue of the estrogen receptor that does not bind estradiol: insights into estrogen receptor evolution. BMC Evol. Biol. 8: 218-238.
Somorjai IML, Bertrand S, Camasses A, Haguenauer A, Escriva H (2008) Evidence for stasis and not genetic piracy in developmental expression patterns of Branchiostoma lanceolatum and Branchiostoma floridae, two amphioxus species that have evolved independently over the course of 200 Myr. Dev. Genes Evol. 218: 703-713.
2007
Garcia-Fernàndez J, D’Aniello S, Escrivà H (2007) Organizing chordates with an organizer. Bioessays 29:619-624.
Bertrand S, Camasses A, Escriva H (2007) Amphioxus: how to become a vertebrate? J Soc Biol. 201:51-57.
Bertrand S, Escrivà H (2007) Sur l’évolution du plan d'organisation des chordés. Médecine et Sciences 23: 468-469.
Fuentes M, Benito E, Bertrand S, Paris M, Mignardot A, Godoy L, Jimenez Delgado S, Oliveri D, Candiani S, Hirsinger E, D’Aniello S, Pascual-Anaya J, Pestarino M, Vernier P, Nicolas JF, Schubert, Laudet V, Geneviere AM, Albalat R, Garcia Fernandez J, Holland ND, Escriva H (2007) Insights into spawning behavior and development of the Mediterranean amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 308B: 484-493.
Bertrand S, Thisse B, Tavares R, Sachs L, Chaumot A, Bardet PL, Escrivà H, Duffraisse M, Marchand O, Safi R, Thisse C, Laudet V (2007) Unsuspected Novel Relational Links Uncovered by Extensive Developmental Profiling of Nuclear Receptors Expression. PLoS Genet 3(11):e188.