Charles W. Walker

TL;DR: Transcriptome and genome data from twenty stony coral species and a selection of reference bilaterians were studied to elucidate coral evolutionary history and identify genes that encode the proteins responsible for the precipitation and aggregation of the aragonite skeleton on which the organisms live.

TL;DR: Cellular death caused by apoptosis is the most likely cause of mortality in embryos and larvae in these laboratory experiments, while the smaller size at hatching in those larvae that survived is caused by permanent cellular growth arrest in response to DNA damage.

TL;DR: Changes in the two principal cell types in the germinal epithelium of urchin gonads are described and indicate how knowledge of their population dynamics may be useful in aquaculture applications.

TL;DR: Structural and functional data for p53 and p73 cDNAs and gene products in a naturally occurring, non-mammalian disease model suggest that p53/p73-related molecular mechanisms that are held in common with Burkitt's lymphoma or other human cancers may be revealed.

TL;DR: Leukemic clam hemocytes are introduced as novel and easily accessible, in vivo and in vitro models for human cancers displaying a similar mortalin-based phenotype and treatment of these models with novel chemotherapeutics may help reveal the molecular mechanism(s) involved in inactivating p53 by this form of cytoplasmic sequestration.