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Lancelets

Known as: Lancelet, Branchiostoma, Branchiostomas 
Small fish-like marine creatures often used in phylogenetic comparative studies of CHORDATES.
National Institutes of Health

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Branchiostoma belcheriBranchiostoma floridaeBranchiostoma japonicumBranchiostoma lanceolatum

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BranchiostomidaeChordata
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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Global view of the evolution and diversity of metazoan neuropeptide signaling
Neuropeptides are signaling molecules that commonly act via G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and are generated in neurons by… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
MicroRNAs and the advent of vertebrate morphological complexity
The causal basis of vertebrate complexity has been sought in genome duplication events (GDEs) that occurred during the emergence… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Invertebrate immune systems – not homogeneous, not simple, not well understood
Summary:  The approximate 30 extant invertebrate phyla have diversified along separate evolutionary trajectories for hundreds of… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Cdx1 and Cdx2 have overlapping functions in anteroposterior patterning and posterior axis elongation.
Mouse Cdx and Hox genes presumably evolved from genes on a common ancestor cluster involved in anteroposterior patterning… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
A Twist in fate: evolutionary comparison of Twist structure and function.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Evolution of the chordate body plan: new insights from phylogenetic analyses of deuterostome phyla.
The deuterostome phyla include Echinodermata, Hemichordata, and Chordata. Chordata is composed of three subphyla, Vertebrata… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Methylation of genomes and genes at the invertebrate-vertebrate boundary
Patterns of DNA methylation in animal genomes are known to vary from an apparent absence of modified bases, via methylation of a… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Sequence and embryonic expression of the amphioxus engrailed gene (AmphiEn): the metameric pattern of transcription resembles that of its segment-polarity homolog in Drosophila.
Vertebrate segmentation has been proposed as an evolutionary inheritance either from some metameric protostome or from a more… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
Hox genes and chordate evolution.
Hox genes are implicated in the control of axial patterning during embryonic development of many, perhaps all, animals. Here we… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH): distribution in hypothalamic and extrahypothalamic brain tissues of mammalian and submammalian chordates.
A sensitive and specific radioimmunoassay for TRH is reported. Antibody was raised in a New Zealand white rabbit by immunization… 
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