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Protochordates

Known as: protochordate 
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2017
Review
2017
Immunity in Protochordates: The Tunicate Perspective
Tunicates are the closest relatives of vertebrates, and their peculiar phylogenetic position explains the increasing interest… 
Review
2014
Review
2014
The evolutionary history of vertebrate cranial placodes II. Evolution of ectodermal patterning.
Review
2006
Review
2006
Evolution of GnRH ligands and receptors in gnathostomata.
Review
2005
Review
2005
Reconstructing immune phylogeny: new perspectives
Numerous studies of the mammalian immune system have begun to uncover profound interrelationships, as well as fundamental… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Immunoglobulin superfamily receptors in protochordates: before RAG time
Summary:  Urochordates and cephalochordates do not have an adaptive immune system involving the somatic rearrangement of their… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Structural and functional diversity of lectin repertoires in invertebrates, protochordates and ectothermic vertebrates.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Identification of diversified genes that contain immunoglobulin-like variable regions in a protochordate
The evolutionary origin of adaptive immune receptors is not understood below the phylogenetic level of the jawed vertebrates. We… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Dorsoventral patterning of the vertebrate neural tube is conserved in a protochordate.
The notochord and dorsal ectoderm induce dorsoventral compartmentalization of the vertebrate neural tube through the differential… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
cDNA cloning of three cecropin‐like antimicrobial peptides (Styelins) from the tunicate, Styela clava
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Protochordate allorecognition is controlled by a MHC-like gene system
Colonial tunicates, unlike vertebrates, undergo transplantation in nature. Rejection or acceptance between colonies of Botryllus… 
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