Journal
DEVELOPMENT
Volume 138, Issue 11, Pages 2143-2152Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.048975
Keywords
Chordates; Tunicates; Asexual development; Budding; Embryogenesis; Evolution
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- CNRS
- European Union
- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR)
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The tunicates, or urochordates, constitute a large group of marine animals whose recent common ancestry with vertebrates is reflected in the tadpole-like larvae of most tunicates. Their diversity and key phylogenetic position are enhanced, from a research viewpoint, by anatomically simple and transparent embryos, compact rapidly evolving genomes, and the availability of powerful experimental and computational tools with which to study these organisms. Tunicates are thus a powerful system for exploring chordate evolution and how extreme variation in genome sequence and gene regulatory network architecture is compatible with the preservation of an ancestral chordate body plan.
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