Evolution of the new vertebrate head by co-option of an ancient chordate skeletal tissue

Roles for FGF in lamprey pharyngeal pouch formation and skeletogenesis highlight ancestral functions in the vertebrate head

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Novel Tfap2-mediated control of soxE expression facilitated the evolutionary emergence of the neural crest

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The evolution of the neural crest: new perspectives from lamprey and invertebrate neural crest-like cells

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SoxE gene duplication and development of the lamprey branchial skeleton: Insights into development and evolution of the neural crest

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Regeneration of amphioxus oral cirri and its skeletal rods: implications for the origin of the vertebrate skeleton

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Replacement of mouse Sox10 by the Drosophila ortholog Sox100B provides evidence for co-option of SoxE proteins into vertebrate-specific gene-regulatory networks through altered expression

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Overlapping functions of Pea3 ETS transcription factors in FGF signaling during zebrafish development

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A practical approach for the identification of the many cartilaginous tissues in teleost fish

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Rapid bacterial artificial chromosome modification for large-scale mouse transgenesis

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Genomic code for Sox10 activation reveals a key regulatory enhancer for cranial neural crest

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Global comparative transcriptome analysis of cartilage formation in vivo

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Amphioxus Postembryonic Development Reveals the Homology of Chordate Metamorphosis

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A cDNA resource for the cephalochordate amphioxus Branchiostoma floridae

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Expression of Sox and fibrillar collagen genes in lamprey larval chondrogenesis with implications for the evolution of vertebrate cartilage

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The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

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