How To Use cephalochordate In A Sentence
- In the middle is a cephalochordate, Amphioxus, also a filter feeder, but capable of free swimming. Ascidian evo-devo - The Panda's Thumb
- In summary, the cephalochordate affinity of Pikaia is at best only weakly indicated by the characters visible in fossils discovered so far. Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb
- Amphioxus, a cephalochordate, widely considered as the closest living invertebrate relatives of the vertebrates.
- Notochords are the axial skeleton of invertebrate chordates (cephalochordates, appendicularians, and tadpole larvae of ascidians), of agnathan fish, and of amphibian tadpoles.
- The cephalochordates include only about twenty species of two genera of organisms commonly called amphioxus.
- We still have no fossil evidence of the nature of the transition between cephalochordates and craniates.
- However, temporal colinearity of Hox gene expression and compact Hox clusters have so far only been described in the cephalochordate, amphioxus, and in vertebrates, but not in Cnidaria, Lophotrochozoa, or Ecdysozoa.
- The cephalochordate amphioxus is the closest living invertebrate relative of the vertebrates and therefore the best model organism for understanding the composition of the ancestral chordate genome.
- Organisms along the lines of the cephalochordate amphioxus use the gill apparatus for filter feeding.
- FGFRL1, the gene for the fifth member of the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) family, is found in all vertebrates from fish to man and in the cephalochordate amphioxus. BioMed Central - Latest articles
