Title |
Roles of retinoic acid and Tbx1/10 in pharyngeal segmentation: amphioxus and the ancestral chordate condition
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Published in |
EvoDevo, October 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/2041-9139-5-36 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Demian Koop, Jie Chen, Maria Theodosiou, João E Carvalho, Susana Alvarez, Angel R de Lera, Linda Z Holland, Michael Schubert |
Abstract |
Although chordates descend from a segmented ancestor, the evolution of head segmentation has been very controversial for over 150 years. Chordates generally possess a segmented pharynx, but even though anatomical evidence and gene expression analyses suggest homologies between the pharyngeal apparatus of invertebrate chordates, such as the cephalochordate amphioxus, and vertebrates, these homologies remain contested. We, therefore, decided to study the evolution of the chordate head by examining the molecular mechanisms underlying pharyngeal morphogenesis in amphioxus, an animal lacking definitive neural crest. |
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