#chordate — Public Fediverse posts

In Search of the Lost Chordatum —
• https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-accidentally-discovers-the-oldest-brain-of-any-vertebrate

#Chordatum #Chordata #Chordate
#Notochord #Vertebrate #Vertebrain
#Eversion #Reflection #Retroduction

The #Hemichordate nervous system is #chordate-like in its patterning but its neural architecture is unknown. @jekely explores a #PLOSBiology study revealing unexpected neuroanatomical complexity in these animals. Paper: https://plos.io/46BtFWb Primer: https://plos.io/46jQL3m

In Search of the Lost Chordatum …
• https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-accidentally-discovers-the-oldest-brain-of-any-vertebrate

#Chordatum #Chordata #Chordate
#Notochord #Vertebrate #Vertebrain

Now published in its final form: Parallel evolution of amphioxus and vertebrate small-scale gene duplications by Brasó-Vives et al
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-022-02808-6
#EvoDevo #EvolutionaryBiology #Genomics #Amphioxus #Chordate #ortholog #paralog #GeneDuplication