High-precision morphology: bifocal 4D-microscopy enables the comparison of detailed cell lineages of two chordate species separated for more than 525 million years

Larval nervous systems: true larval and precocious adult

(2015) C. Nielsen   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy of the Accessory Cells and Chorion During Development ofCiona intestinalisType B Embryos and the Impact of Their Removal on Cell Morphology

(2015) Helen Thompson et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

(2014) Casey W. Dunn et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The Evolutionary Origin of the Vertebrate Body Plan: The Problem of Head Segmentation

(2014) Takayuki Onai et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

A new vetulicolian from Australia and its bearing on the chordate affinities of an enigmatic Cambrian group

(2014) Diego C García-Bellido et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Quantitative and in toto imaging in ascidians: Working toward an image-centric systems biology of chordate morphogenesis

(2014) Michael Veeman et al.   GENESIS

On a possible evolutionary link of the stomochord of hemichordates to pharyngeal organs of chordates

(2014) Noriyuki Satoh et al.   GENESIS

A research program for Evolutionary Morphology

(2014) Stefan Richter et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Cell Lineages and Fate Maps in Tunicates: Conservation and Modification

(2014) Hiroki Nishida et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Birth and early evolution of metazoans

(2013) Degan Shu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The need for data standards in zoomorphology

(2013) Lars Vogt et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Three-dimensional anatomy of the Ciona intestinalis tailbud embryo at single-cell resolution

(2012) Mitsuru J. Nakamura et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

(2012) Philip Barron Abitua et al.   NATURE

Craniofacial development of hagfishes and the evolution of vertebrates

(2012) Yasuhiro Oisi et al.   NATURE

A new metazoan from the Vendian of the White Sea, Russia, with possible affinities to the ascidians

(2012) M. A. Fedonkin et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

The evolution of early animal embryos: conservation or divergence?

(2012) Alex T. Kalinka et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Divergent mechanisms specify chordate motoneurons: evidence from ascidians

(2011) C. Hudson et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: the tunicates

(2011) P. Lemaire   DEVELOPMENT

Evolution of embryonic development in nematodes

(2011) Jens Schulze et al.   EvoDevo

A molecular phylogeny of the Thaliacea

(2010) A. F. Govindarajan et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

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

(2009) Georgia Tsagkogeorga et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

Comparative analysis of neurulation: First impressions do not count

(2009) Michael J. Harrington et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

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

Chordate phylogeny and evolution: a not so simple three-taxon problem

(2008) T. Stach   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Acoel development supports a simple planula-like urbilaterian

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

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

Anatomy of the trunk mesoderm in tunicates: homology considerations and phylogenetic interpretation

(2008) Thomas Günther Stach   ZOOMORPHOLOGY