Ancient homeobox gene loss and the evolution of chordate brain and pharynx development: Deductions from amphioxus gene expression

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1699, 2010, Pages 3381-3389

  Butts, Thomas ^a,c   Holland, Peter W H ^a   Ferrier, David E K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Cephalochordate; Gene loss; Homeobox; Pharynx evolution

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ASYMMETRY; BRAIN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78149256223     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0647     Document Type: Article

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