Bernard Degnan
Professor
Biological Sciences
The University of Queensland
Egypt
Biography
Bernard Degnan is Associate professor, Faculty of Science, at The university of Queensland Australia.He had done PhD (Biochemistry) from The University of Queensland and Bachelor of Science (Marine Biology)from University of California.
Research Interest
His intersts on Genomes, Development & Evolution; The origin of animal complexity; Marine invertebrate biology; Functional genomics and evolution of biomineralization
Publications
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Aguilera, Felipe, McDougall, Carmel, Degnan Bernard M (2017) Co-option and de novo gene evolution underlie molluscan shell diversity. Molecular Biology and Evolution 4: 779-792.
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Gaiti, Federico, Jindrich, Katia, Fernandez-Valverde, et al. (2017) Landscape of histone modifications in a sponge reveals the origin of animal cis-regulatory complexity. Elife p: 6.
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Sebe-Pedros, Arnau, Degnan, Bernard M, Ruiz-Trillo, Inaki (2017) The origin of Metazoa: a unicellular perspective. Nature Reviews Genetics 8: 498-512.