Comparisons with amphioxus and tunicates have indicated that the vertebrate brain and peripheral nervous system were elaborated from those of an ancestral chordate with a bipartite brain ...

近日，细胞应激生物学国家重点实验室、厦门大学生命科学学院李光教授团队、中科院动物所周旭明研究员团队和牛津大学生物系Sebastian Shimeld团队联合在Nature Ecology & Evolution杂志上发表了题为“Evolutionary origin of the chordate nervous system revealed by amphioxus developmental ...

Specifically, the team found that the chordate nervous system, such as those in humans, evolved from an embryonic region of the ancestor that corresponds to echinoderm ciliary bands (Fig.

To address these questions, I am using the invertebrate chordate Ciona. Ciona with its fast development and fixed lineages, is an incredible model. During metamorphosis, most of the Ciona larval ...