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Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation

scientific article published in Nature

BMP controls dorsoventral and neural patterning in indirect-developing hemichordates providing insight into a possible origin of chordates

scientific article

Chitin-based barrier immunity and its loss predated mucus-colonization by indigenous gut microbiota

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Co-option of the PRDM14-CBFA2T complex from motor neurons to pluripotent cells during vertebrate evolution

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

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

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

Conserved Noncoding Elements in the Most Distant Genera of Cephalochordates: The Goldilocks Principle

scientific article

Constrained vertebrate evolution by pleiotropic genes

article

Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Dorsal-ventral patterning in amphioxus: current understanding, unresolved issues, and future directions

scientific article published in January 2017

EST and transcriptome analysis of cephalochordate amphioxus--past, present and future

scientific article published on 04 February 2012

Evidence for BMP-mediated specification of primordial germ cells in an indirect-developing hemichordate

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

EvoDevo: Changes in developmental controls underlying the evolution of animal body plans

scientific article published on 27 May 2017

Expression of phosphatase of regenerating liver family genes during embryogenesis: an evolutionary developmental analysis among Drosophila, amphioxus, and zebrafish

scientific article published on May 4, 2013

Molecular asymmetry in the cephalochordate embryo revealed by single-blastomere transcriptome profiling

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

Regulatory circuit rewiring and functional divergence of the duplicate admp genes in dorsoventral axial patterning

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Reiterative use of FGF signaling in mesoderm development during embryogenesis and metamorphosis in the hemichordate Ptychodera flava

scientific article published in 2018

Reproductive periodicity, spawning induction, and larval metamorphosis of the hemichordate acorn worm Ptychodera flava.

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

Retinoic acid signaling and neurogenic niche regulation in the developing peripheral nervous system of the cephalochordate amphioxus.

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Tracing the evolutionary origin of vertebrate skeletal tissues: insights from cephalochordate amphioxus

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Using Amphioxus as a Basal Chordate Model to Study BMP Signaling Pathway

scientific article published on 01 January 2019