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List of works by Hector Escriva

A Snapshot of the Population Structure of Branchiostoma lanceolatum in the Racou Beach, France, during Its Spawning Season

scientific article published on April 15, 2011

A comparative examination of neural circuit and brain patterning between the lamprey and amphioxus reveals the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate visual center.

scientific article published on 8 October 2014

A conserved retinoid X receptor (RXR) from the mollusk Biomphalaria glabrata transactivates transcription in the presence of retinoids.

scientific article published in April 2005

A dynamic history of gene duplications and losses characterizes the evolution of the SPARC family in eumetazoans

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

A single three-dimensional chromatin compartment in amphioxus indicates a stepwise evolution of vertebrate Hox bimodal regulation.

scientific article published in February 2016

Active metabolism of thyroid hormone during metamorphosis of amphioxus.

scientific article published on 24 May 2010

Amphioxus FGF signaling predicts the acquisition of vertebrate morphological traits

scientific article published on May 12, 2011

Amphioxus Tbx6/16 and Tbx20 embryonic expression patterns reveal ancestral functions in chordates

scientific article published on December 24, 2010

Amphioxus and tunicates as evolutionary model systems.

scientific article

Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation

scientific article published in Nature

Amphioxus makes the cut-Again.

scientific article published on September 2012

Amphioxus postembryonic development reveals the homology of chordate metamorphosis.

scientific article published in June 2008

An ancestral whole-genome duplication may not have been responsible for the abundance of duplicated fish genes.

scientific article

Asymmetron lucayanum: How many species are valid?

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Characterization of the TLR Family in and Discovery of a Novel TLR22-Like Involved in dsRNA Recognition in Amphioxus

scientific article published on 02 November 2018

Conservation of BMP2/4 expression patterns within the clade Branchiostoma (amphioxus): Resolving interspecific discrepancies.

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

Developmental cell-cell communication pathways in the cephalochordate amphioxus: actors and functions

scientific article published in January 2017

Discovery of an Active RAG Transposon Illuminates the Origins of V(D)J Recombination.

scientific article

Distinct expression patterns of glycoprotein hormone-alpha2 and -beta5 in a basal chordate suggest independent developmental functions.

scientific article

Editorial: Evolution of Organismal Form: From Regulatory Interactions to Developmental Processes and Biological Patterns.

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Euteleost fish genomes are characterized by expansion of gene families

scientific article

Evidence for stasis and not genetic piracy in developmental expression patterns of Branchiostoma lanceolatum and Branchiostoma floridae, two amphioxus species that have evolved independently over the course of 200 Myr.

scientific article published on 9 October 2008

Evidence of tissue-specific, post-transcriptional regulation of NRF-2 expression.

scientific article published in December 2000

Evolution and Diversification of the Nuclear Receptor Superfamilya

scientific article published on May 15, 1998

Evolution of bilaterian central nervous systems: a single origin?

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2013)

Evolution of the FGF Gene Family.

scientific article published on 7 August 2012

Evolution of the Role of RA and FGF Signals in the Control of Somitogenesis in Chordates

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

Evolution of the vertebrate bone matrix: an expression analysis of the network forming collagen paralogues in amphibian osteoblasts.

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: amphioxus.

scientific article

Expression of mitochondrial genes and of the transcription factors involved in the biogenesis of mitochondria Tfam, NRF-1 and NRF-2, in rat liver, testis and brain

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

FGF signaling emerged concomitantly with the origin of Eumetazoans.

scientific article

FGFRL1 is a neglected putative actor of the FGF signalling pathway present in all major metazoan phyla

scientific article published on 9 September 2009

Functional lability of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases in animals

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Genetic regulation of amphioxus somitogenesis informs the evolution of the vertebrate head mesoderm

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Identification and expression analysis of BMP signaling inhibitors genes of the DAN family in amphioxus.

scientific article

Insights into spawning behavior and development of the European amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum).

scientific article published in July 2007

Metazoan evolution of glutamate receptors reveals unreported phylogenetic groups and divergent lineage-specific events

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Molecular cloning and characterization of thyroid hormone receptors in teleost fish.

scientific article published in February 2001

My Favorite Animal, Amphioxus: Unparalleled for Studying Early Vertebrate Evolution

Neofunctionalization in vertebrates: the example of retinoic acid receptors

scientific article

Nodal/Activin Pathway is a Conserved Neural Induction Signal in Chordates.

scientific article

Organizing chordates with an organizer

scientific article

Preliminary observations on the spawning conditions of the European amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum) in captivity.

scientific article published in July 2004

Re: Revisiting recent challenges to the ancient fish-specific genome duplication hypothesis

Retinoic acid influences anteroposterior positioning of epidermal sensory neurons and their gene expression in a developing chordate (amphioxus).

scholarly article

Sequencing and analysis of the Mediterranean amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum) transcriptome

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

The orphan COUP-TF nuclear receptors are markers for neurogenesis from cnidarians to vertebrates

scientific article published in November 2004

Unexpected novel relational links uncovered by extensive developmental profiling of nuclear receptor expression

scientific article

Vertebrate-like regeneration in the invertebrate chordate amphioxus

scientific article published on December 27, 2011

Wnt evolution and function shuffling in liberal and conservative chordate genomes

scientific article published on 25 July 2018

[Amphioxus: how to become a vertebrate]

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

[On the evolution of the chordates bodyplan]

scientific article published on 01 May 2007