[PDF] Top 20 The evolution and development of vertebrate lateral line electroreceptors

... Teleost electroreceptors are distributed on both the head and trunk, and are part of the lateral line system; depending on their position, they are innervated by anterior (pre-otic) or posterior ... See full document

... the development of HBMs and the embryonic morphology of the head–trunk interface in chicken, mouse, shark, and lamprey embryos to gain insight into the evolution of the vertebrate ... See full document

... link evolution and development for well over a century, although through this period the specific application of the term has ...individual development the most important of the form changes which ... See full document

... surrounding line) or orthologs (with a surrounding line) by the Ensembl database share the same color; blue lines beneath individual tracks indicate that orientations of gene blocks and are inverted with ... See full document

... Therefore, the evolutionary origin of rhombomeres, and its relationship to a metameric developmental program of neuronal patterning, poses an intriguing question for evolutionary developmental biology. In vertebrates, ... See full document

... Several cases have been documented where promoter se- quences at orthologous loci are divergent, yet direct very similar transcription profiles (e.g., Wu and Brennan 1993; Tamarina et al., 1997; Piano et al., 1999; ... See full document

... Direct developing frogs also appear to have evolved beyond the elimination of larval growth by additionally deleting late embry- onic and early metamorphic stages of frog development (Hanken et al., 1992, Kerney ... See full document

... The neuromuscular system of axial skeleton plays crucial roles in basic motor functions essential to vertebrates, including locomotion, breathing, posture and balance. While significant progress has been made in ... See full document

... The development of the eye has become an important research topic of experimental embryology and evolutionary biology as early as 1901 when Hans Spemann began to study eye develop- ment in the amphibian ... See full document

... ABSTRACT Nearly 20 years have passed since Ed Lewis revealed the importance of Hox genes in the specification of different segments in the anterior-posterior axis of the fly. Pioneering studies by several authors, among ... See full document

... of development, we have to understand how se- lective pressure—especially stabilizing selection—at the phenotypic level (adaptation) acts on the developmental program exerted from the ...ing evolution. In ... See full document

... Int J OCY BioI 40 727 733 (1996) 727 Pattern formation in the urodele mechanoreceptive lateral line what features can be exploited for the study of development and evolution? STEVEN C SMITH* Departmen[.] ... See full document

... to vertebrate Pax 6 proteins than eyeless with regard to overall sequence conservation and DNA-binding function, and it is expressed earlier in embryogenesis, but the two genes share a similar expression pattern ... See full document

... out development and thus may have been similarly expressed in the last common ancestor with ...in vertebrate somitic compartments and their derivatives may represent sub-functionalization of an ancestral ... See full document

... Fig. 1. Overview of amphioxus photoreceptive organs. (A) Detail of anterior part of 3 weeks old larvae of Branchiostoma floridae; (B) Scheme of particular photoreceptive organs developed in larvae presented in (A). ... See full document

... agreement that ear evolution started with a gravistatic and angu- lar acceleration sensing vestibular ear (Fig. 6). As outlined above, formation of new functions in the vestibular system requires genes for ... See full document

... the vertebrate dorsal mesoderm evolved as an entirely novel pattern associ- ated with a new mechanism of mesoderm specifica- ...a vertebrate- specific developmental program (Fig. 5). Vertebrate meso- ... See full document

... the evolution of eukaryotic ...all vertebrate genomes examined thus far contain three different Myb genes (A-Myb, B-Myb, and ...gland development, while Dm-Myb ⫺ / ... See full document

... that evolution may select for host genomic variants that in turn select for specific functional assemblages in the microbiome and that the specificity of the host’s selection on the microbiome may be ...their ... See full document

... three vertebrate species reveal that the intron RARE is structurally conserved in amniotes (eutherian mammals, marsupials, birds and Anole lizard), but not in Xenopus or ... See full document