ECB-ART-50764
Nature
2015 Apr 23;5207548:456-65. doi: 10.1038/nature14434.
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The deuterostome context of chordate origins.
Lowe CJ
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Clarke DN
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Medeiros DM
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Rokhsar DS
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Gerhart J
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Abstract
Our understanding of vertebrate origins is powerfully informed by comparative morphology, embryology and genomics of chordates, hemichordates and echinoderms, which together make up the deuterostome clade. Striking body-plan differences among these phyla have historically hindered the identification of ancestral morphological features, but recent progress in molecular genetics and embryology has revealed deep similarities in body-axis formation and organization across deuterostomes, at stages before morphological differences develop. These developmental genetic features, along with robust support of pharyngeal gill slits as a shared deuterostome character, provide the foundation for the emergence of chordates.
PubMed ID: 25903627
Article link: Nature
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R01 GM086321 NIGMS NIH HHS
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