supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(U2002207,32000406 and 32170628);Yunnan Province Science and Technology Department(2020-182);Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences(to X.L.).
Human-specific duplicated genes contributed to phenotypic innovations during the origin of our own species, such as an enlarged brain and highly developed cognitive abilities. While prior studies on transgenic mice ca...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB13000000to B.S.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31730088 and 31621062 to B.S.);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(to L.S.)
Brain size and cognitive skills are the most dramatically changed traits in humans during evolution and yet the genetic mechanisms underlying these human-specific changes remain elusive.Here,we successfully generated ...
Paedomorphosis is an alternative process to metamorphosis in which adults retain larval traits at the adult stage. It is frequent in newts and salamanders, where larvae reach sexual maturity with- out losing their gil...
supported by Kyoto University;the Ito Chubei Foundation;the Ichiro Kanehara Foundation;the Institute of Life & Seizon, Japan
In this article, we propose the hypothesis that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) acquired neotenic development as a consequence of mesocortical dopamine (DA) innervation, which in turn drove evolution of the PFC into b...