Brian M. Walters

The paper uses antibodies to study β-catenin localization in Mnemiopsis leidyi embryos, finding it at cell-cell interfaces and in nuclei, suggesting ancestral roles in adhesion and transcription.

The paper investigates the evolution of the Wnt/β-catenin destruction complex in Nematostella vectensis, showing it functions similarly to bilaterians despite lacking conserved domains, suggesting an ancestral low-affinity binding mechanism.