supported by grants from the Science and Technology Bureau of Xiamen(No.3502Z20227207)。
Dongshan Bay,along with Xiamen Bay,serves as a significant distribution area for amphioxus in Fujian Province.In this survey,we observed that the sedimentary environment of Dongshan Bay has been seriously silted due t...
The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contact No.32270434.
All vertebrates have a definitive thyroid gland,or thyroid for short.As a critical organ for growth,development and metabolism,its origin and evolution have long received attention.On the basis of anatomical position,...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32070815,32070458,31872186 and 32061160471);from the Youth Innovation Fund Project of Xiamen(3502Z20206032).
The Gli transcription factors are the primary mediators of Hedgehog(Hh)signaling.Vertebrate genomes contain multiple Gli paralogues with different functions downstream of Hh signal receipt,in part explaining the compl...
The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.32270434。
Liver is characteristic of all vertebrates.As a critical hub for many physiological processes including metabolism,innate immunity,protein synthesis and detoxification,its evolutionary origin was largely underapprecia...
The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.32073000;the Marine S&T Fund of Shandong Province for Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(Qingdao)under contract No.2018SDKJ0302-1.
Pituitary gland,or pituitary for short,is characteristic of all vertebrates.As a“master gland”controlling a multitude of important functions in the body,its evolutionary origin has been an object of investigations o...
VRID UdeC Nr 2021000233INV(to JPH);Fondecyt 1190926(to SM)。
The neuromuscular junction(NMJ)is the peripheral synapse controlling muscle contraction and coordinated movement in a wide variety of animals.In humans,the mature NMJ is the primary target of morphological disassembly...
This work was supported by the grants of National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070514;31601862).
The vertebrate liver is regarded as an organ essential to the regulation of immunity and inflammation as well as being central to the metabolism of nutrients.Here,we discuss the functions that the hepatic cecum of amp...
The National Key Research and Development Program of China under contract No.2016YFC0502904;the Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Oceans under contract No.201305030。
In order to realize the spatiotemporal variations of benthic macrofaunal communities at the"Amphioxus Sand"habitat,six surveys including four seasons and three consecutive summers(i.e.,2014,2015 and 2016)were conducte...
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...