This work was supported by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(CNRS)and the Sorbonne University.
Cerberus is a multifunctional antagonist implicated in embryonic patterning through modulation of Nodal,BMP and Wnt signals.Although its function is largely conserved in chordates,certain activities have diverged,even...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31572259);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (201762003)
Amphioxus belongs to the subphylum cephalochordata, an extant representative of the most basal chordates, whose regulation of endocrine system remains ambiguous. Here we clearly demonstrated the existence of a functio...
supported by the National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China (No. 30570208 and 30830023);the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Pro-gram of Higher Education from the Ministry of Education, China (No. 20070384041).
The traditional knowledge in textbooks indicated that cephalochordates were the closest relatives to vertebrates among all extant organisms. However, this opinion was challenged by several recent phylogenetic studies ...
Two new chordates, Cathaymyrus haikouensis Luo et Hu sp. nov. and Zhongxiniscus intermedius Luo et Hu gen. et sp. nov. are studied in this paper. Both display numerous S-shaped myomeres on their trunk. C. haikouensis ...