In the past 40 years, comparisons of developmental gene expression and mechanisms of
development (evodevo) joined comparative morphology as tools for reconstructing long …

Neuropeptides that possess the Arg-Phe-NH 2 motif at their C-termini (ie, RFamide
peptides) have been characterized in the nervous system of both invertebrates and …

Chordates are divided into three subphyla: Vertebrata, Tunicata, and Cephalochordata.
Phylogenetically, the Cephalochordata, more commonly known as lancelets or amphioxus …

Endocasts are windows into deep history and as such provide modern neuroscience a more
complete appreciation of:(1) the brain's evolutionary potential (by allowing sampling of …

Background What impact gene loss has on the evolution of developmental processes, and
how function shuffling has affected retained genes driving essential biological processes …

How animal embryos determine their early cell fates is an important question in
developmental biology. In various model animals, asymmetrically localized maternal …

Amphioxus or lancelets have been regarded as a key animal in understanding the origin of
vertebrates. However, the evolutionary history within this lineage remains unexplored. As …

In humans, numerous genes encode neuropeptides that comprise a superfamily of more
than 70 genes in approximately 30 families and act mainly through rhodopsin-like G protein …

The common coral trout is one species of major importance in commercial fisheries and
aquaculture. Recently, two different color morphs of Plectropomus leopardus were …

Cephalochordates, the sister group of vertebrates+ tunicates, are evolving particularly
slowly. Therefore, genome comparisons between two congeners of Branchiostoma revealed …