The origin and evolution of chordate nervous systems

Neurogenesis in directly and indirectly developing enteropneusts: of nets and cords

(2015) Sabrina Kaul-Strehlow et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

The Transcriptome of an Amphioxus, Asymmetron lucayanum, from the Bahamas: A Window into Chordate Evolution

(2014) Jia-Xing Yue et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Phylostratigraphic Profiles in Zebrafish Uncover Chordate Origins of the Vertebrate Brain

(2014) Martin Sebastijan Šestak et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A primitive fish from the Cambrian of North America

(2014) Simon Conway Morris et al.   NATURE

A novel N-terminal motif is responsible for the evolution of neural crest-specific gene-regulatory activity in vertebrate FoxD3

(2013) Hiroki Ono et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Spatiotemporal development of the embryonic nervous system of Saccoglossus kowalevskii

(2013) Doreen Cunningham et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Phylostratigraphic profiles reveal a deep evolutionary history of the vertebrate head sensory systems

(2013) Martin Sebastijan Šestak et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Wnt Signal Specifies the Intrathalamic Limit and Its Organizer Properties by Regulating Shh Induction in the Alar Plate

(2013) A. Martinez-Ferre et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Evolution of bilaterian central nervous systems: a single origin?

(2013) Linda Z Holland et al.   EvoDevo

Identification of a rudimentary neural crest in a non-vertebrate chordate

(2012) Philip Barron Abitua et al.   NATURE

Ancient deuterostome origins of vertebrate brain signalling centres

(2012) Ariel M. Pani et al.   NATURE

The Acoela: on their kind and kinships, especially with nemertodermatids and xenoturbellids (Bilateria incertae sedis)

(2012) Johannes G. Achatz et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Molecular analysis of the amphioxus frontal eye unravels the evolutionary origin of the retina and pigment cells of the vertebrate eye

(2012) P. Vopalensky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamic and Differential Regulation of Stem Cell Factor FoxD3 in the Neural Crest Is Encrypted in the Genome

(2012) Marcos S. Simões-Costa et al.   PLoS Genetics

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

Amphioxus FGF signaling predicts the acquisition of vertebrate morphological traits

(2011) S. Bertrand et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Development of the nervous system in the acorn worm Balanoglossus simodensis: insights into nervous system evolution

(2010) Norio Miyamoto et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Ontogeny of the collar cord: Neurulation in the hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii

(2010) Sabrina Kaul et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Conserved developmental expression of Fezf in chordates and Drosophila and the origin of the Zona Limitans Intrathalamica (ZLI) brain organizer

(2010) Manuel Irimia et al.   EvoDevo

Centralization of the Deuterostome Nervous System Predates Chordates

(2009) Marc Nomaksteinsky et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Insights from the amphioxus genome on the origin of vertebrate neural crest

(2008) J.-K. Yu et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

(2008) Nicholas H. Putnam et al.   NATURE

Basic features of the ancestral chordate brain: A protochordate perspective

(2007) Thurston C. Lacalli   BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN