Selected Publications

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  • Donà E, Gahan JM, Lau P, Jeschke J, Ott T, Reinhard K, Sinigaglia C, Treur JL, Vogl T, Bugeon S, Mariotti L, Rossi LF , Coen P. 2025. The SAFE Labs Handbook: Community-driven commitments for group leaders to improve lab culture. bioRxiv 2025.05.27.655799; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.27.655799
  • Boosten M*, Sant C*, Da Silva O, Chaffron S, Guidi L, Leclère L 2025. Independent transitions to fully planktonic life cycles shaped the global distribution of Medusozoans in the epipelagic zone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 
    122 (22) e2415979122. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2415979122
  • Leclère L, Sinigaglia C 2025. In preprints: the ins and outs of Cnidaria germ layers. Development, 152(6):dev204730.

 

  • Mańko MK, Munro C, Leclère L 2024. The evolution of an individual-like dispersive stage in colonial siphonophores. bioRxiv, 2024.07. 15.603641.

 

  • Mańko MK, Munro C, Leclère L 2023. Establishing bilateral symmetry in hydrozoan planula larvae, a review of siphonophore early development. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icad081.

 

  • Sinigaglia C, Almazan A, Lebel M, Sémon M, Gillet B, Hughes S, Edsinger E, Averof M, Paris M. 2022. Distinct gene expression dynamics in developing and regenerating crustacean limbs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 119:e2119297119.
  • Sinigaglia C, Alie A, Tiozzo S. 2022. The hazards of regeneration: from Morgan’s legacy to Evo-Devo. Methods in Molecular Biology.
  • Chari T*, Weissbourd B*, Gehring J*, Ferraioli A*, Leclère L, Herl M, Gao F, Chevalier S, Copley RR, Houliston E, Anderson DJ, Pachter L. 2021. Whole-animal multiplexed single-cell RNA-seq reveals transcriptional shifts across Clytia medusa cell types. Science Advances 7(48):eabh1683.

 

  • Sinigaglia C*, Peron S*, Eichelbrenner J, Chevalier S, Steger J, Barreau C, Houliston E, Leclère L. 2020. Pattern regulation in a regenerating jellyfish. eLife 9:e54868.
  • Averof M, Sinigaglia C 2020. Introduction to emerging systems. EvoDevo 11 (1), 1-2.
  • Leclère L, Nir TS, Bazarsky M, Braitbard M, Schneidman-Duhovny D, Gat U 2020. Dynamic evolution of the Cthrc1 genes, a newly defined collagen-like family. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(2): 3957-3970.

 

  • Sinigaglia C, Averof M. 2019. The multifaceted role of nerves in animal regeneration. Current Opinion Genetics and Development 98-105.
  • Leclère L, Horin C, Chevalier S, Lapébie P, Dru P, Peron S, Jager M, Condamine T, Pottin K, Romano S, Steger J, Sinigaglia C, Barreau C, Quiroga Artigas G, Ruggiero A, Fourrage C, Kraus JME, Poulain J, Aury JM, Wincker P, Quéinnec E, Technau U, Manuel M, Momose T, Houliston E, Copley RR. 2019. The genome of the jellyfish Clytia hemisphaerica and the evolution of the cnidarian life-cycle. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(5):801-810.

 

  • Sinigaglia C, Thiel D, Hejnol A, Houliston E, Leclère L. 2018. A safer, urea-based in situ hybridization method improves detection of gene expression in diverse animal species. Developmental Biology 2018. 434(1):15-23.
  • Leclere L, Röttinger E 2017. Diversity of cnidarian muscles: function, anatomy, development and regeneration. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 4, 157

 

  • Schuchert P, Hosia A, Leclere L 2017. Identification of the polyp stage of three leptomedusa species using DNA barcoding. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 124 (1), 167-182
  • Leclère L, Copley RR, Momose T, Houliston E. 2016. Hydrozoan insights in animal development and evolution. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 39:157-167.

 

  • Leclère L, Bause M, Sinigaglia C, Steger, J, Rentzsch F. 2016. Development of the aboral domain in Nematostella requires β-catenin and the opposing activities of Six3/6 and Frizzled5/8. Development 143 (10), 1766-1777.
  • Sinigaglia C, Busengdal H, Lerner A, Oliveri P, Rentzsch F. 2015. Molecular characterization of the apical organ of the anthozoan Nematostella vectensis. Developmental Biology 398(1):120-33.
  • Leclère L, Rentzsch F. 2014. RGM regulates BMP-mediated secondary axis formation in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Cell Reports 9(5):1921–1930.
  • Sinigaglia C, Busengdal H, Leclère L, Technau U, Rentzsch F. 2013. The bilaterian head patterning gene six3/6 controls aboral domain development in a cnidarian. Plos Biology 11(2):e1001488.
  • Leclère L, Rentzsch F. 2012. Repeated evolution of identical domain architecture in metazoan netrin domain-containing proteins. Genome Biology and Evolution 4(9):883-899.
  • Leclère L*, Jager M*, Barreau C, Chang P, Le Guyader H, Manuel M, Houliston E. 2012. Maternally localized germ plasm mRNAs and germ cell/stem cell formation in the cnidarian Clytia. Developmental Biology 364(2): 236-248.
  • Leclère L, Schuchert P, Cruaud C, Couloux A, Manuel M. 2009. Molecular phylogenetics of Thecata (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) reveals long-term maintenance of life history traits despite high frequency of recent character changes. Systematic Biology 58 (5): 509-526.
  • Amiel A*, Leclère L*, Robert L, Chevalier S, Houliston E. 2009. Conserved functions for Mos in eumetazoan oocyte maturation revealed by studies in a cnidarian. Current Biology 19, 305-311.
  • Leclère L, Schuchert P, Manuel M. 2007. Phylogeny of the Plumularioidea (Hydrozoa, Leptothecata): Evolution of colonial organisation and life cycle. Zoologica Scripta 36, 371-394.
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