Chordate evolution and the three-phylum system

Elephant shark genome provides unique insights into gnathostome evolution

(2014) Byrappa Venkatesh et al.   NATURE

Sequencing of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) genome provides insights into vertebrate evolution

(2013) Jeramiah J Smith et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Evolution of new characters after whole genome duplications: Insights from amphioxus

(2013) Linda Z. Holland   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evolution of Vertebrate Immunity

(2012) Thomas Boehm   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ptychoderid Hemichordate Neurulation without a Notochord

(2012) S. Luttrell et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The impact of mitochondrial genome analyses on the understanding of deuterostome phylogeny

(2012) Marleen Perseke et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2012) Philip Barron Abitua et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: amphioxus

(2011) S. Bertrand et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

A stem-deuterostome origin of the vertebrate pharyngeal transcriptional network

(2011) J. A. Gillis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2010) Sabrina Kaul et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dual nature of the adaptive immune system in lampreys

(2009) Peng Guo et al.   NATURE

An Advanced Filter-Feeder Hypothesis for Urochordate Evolution

(2009) Nori Satoh   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The evolutionary origin of the vertebrate neural crest and its developmental gene regulatory network – insights from amphioxus

(2009) Jr-Kai Sky Yu   ZOOLOGY

Evidence for stasis and not genetic piracy in developmental expression patterns of Branchiostoma lanceolatum and Branchiostoma floridae, two amphioxus species that have evolved independently over the course of 200 Myr

(2008) Ildiko Somorjai et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

An aboral-dorsalization hypothesis for chordate origin

(2008) Nori Satoh   GENESIS

Man is but a worm: Chordate origins

(2008) Federico D. Brown et al.   GENESIS

The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

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

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

(2008) Nicholas H. Putnam et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives

(2008) B. J Swalla et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Embryology of a planktonic tunicate reveals traces of sessility

(2008) T. Stach et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA