Life began on Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago, but the history of humans and other vertebrates accounts for only a fraction of this timescale. Chordates (a group that includes vertebrates) and ...
To shed light on the enigmatic origin of the vertebrate head, our study employs an integrated approach that combines single-cell transcriptomics, perturbations in signaling pathways, and ...
What can the genome of a jawless worm-like marine animal tell us about vertebrate evolution? The publication in Nature of the amphioxus genome provides information on the genome duplications that have ...