Genomics and Developmental Approaches to an Ascidian Adenohypophysis Primordium

Upstream Regulatory Sequences Required for Specific Gene Expression in the Ascidian Neural Tube

(2010) Kotaro Shimai et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Neuropeptides, Hormone Peptides, and Their Receptors inCiona intestinalis:An Update

(2010) Tsuyoshi Kawada et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Neural Map of the Larval Central Nervous System in the AscidianCiona intestinalis

(2010) Katsumi Takamura et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae) has orthologs of vertebrate odorant receptors

(2009) Allison M Churcher et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure models

(2009) Georgia Tsagkogeorga et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

How Fast Is the Sessile Ciona?

(2009) Luisa Berná et al.   COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

The evolution and elaboration of vertebrate neural crest cells

(2009) Clare VH Baker   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Unfolding a chordate developmental program, one cell at a time: Invariant cell lineages, short-range inductions and evolutionary plasticity in ascidians

(2009) Patrick Lemaire   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Really Old Hormones Up to New Tricks: Glycoprotein Hormone Subunits May Have Roles in Development

(2009) Vance L. Trudeau   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Distinct Expression Patterns of Glycoprotein Hormone-α2 and -β5 in a Basal Chordate Suggest Independent Developmental Functions

(2009) Sandra Dos Santos et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Expression of the gene for ancestral glycoprotein hormone β subunit in the nerve cord of amphioxus

(2009) Yukiko Tando et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Characterization of a corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)/diuretic hormone-like peptide from tunicates: Insight into the origins of the vertebrate CRF family

(2009) David A. Lovejoy et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

SAM-T08, HMM-based protein structure prediction

(2009) K. Karplus   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A novel inhibitory gonadotropin-releasing hormone-related neuropeptide in the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis

(2009) Tsuyoshi Kawada et al.   PEPTIDES

Refining the Ciona intestinalis Model of Central Nervous System Regeneration

(2009) Carl Dahlberg et al.   PLoS One

Developmental Biology of Hagfishes, with a Report on Newly Obtained Embryos of the Japanese Inshore Hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri

(2009) Kinya G. Ota et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Placode Formation and Generation of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Neurons in Ascidians

(2009) Kiyoshi Terakado   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A Homolog of the Vertebrate Thyrostimulin Glycoprotein Hormone α Subunit (GPA2) is Expressed in Amphioxus Neurons

(2009) Yukiko Tando et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Do vertebrate neural crest and cranial placodes have a common evolutionary origin?

(2008) Gerhard Schlosser   BIOESSAYS

The repertoire of G protein-coupled receptors in the sea squirt Ciona intestinalis

(2008) N Kamesh et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ascidians and the Plasticity of the Chordate Developmental Program

(2008) Patrick Lemaire et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Trunk lateral cells are neural crest-like cells in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis: Insights into the ancestry and evolution of the neural crest

(2008) William R. Jeffery et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Unique Form and Osmoregulatory Function of a Neurohypophysial Hormone in a Urochordate

(2008) Kazuyoshi Ukena et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Retention of genes involved in the adenohypophysis-mediated endocrine system in early vertebrates

(2008) Kinya Okada et al.   GENE

The origins of the vertebrate hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) and hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid (HPT) endocrine systems: New insights from lampreys

(2008) Stacia A. Sower et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

(2008) L. Z. Holland et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Characterization of a novel vasopressin/oxytocin superfamily peptide and its receptor from an ascidian, Ciona intestinalis

(2008) Tsuyoshi Kawada et al.   PEPTIDES

Improved genome assembly and evidence-based global gene model set for the chordate Ciona intestinalis: new insight into intron and operon populations

(2008) Yutaka Satou et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Expression of the amphioxus Pit-1 gene (AmphiPOU1F1/Pit-1) exclusively in the developing preoral organ, a putative homolog of the vertebrate adenohypophysis

(2007) Simona Candiani et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN