Gene duplication, co-option and recruitment during the origin of the vertebrate brain from the invertebrate chordate brain

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-105

  Holland, Linda Z ^a   Short, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Amphioxus; Genome duplication; Lancelet; MHB; Midbrain hindbrain boundary; Neural crest; Tunicate

Indexed keywords

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTEIN GBX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXD3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; NEURAL CREST; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; VERTEBRATES;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 53549099690     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000151470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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