The debut screening of "
Amphioxus" provoked a lively discussion in its German-speaking audience.
The recombinant protein of
amphioxus GHl (rGHl) was prepared as described by Li et al.
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Amphioxus can therefore be regarded as a 'very distant cousin' to all the vertebrate (backboned) species," she said.
3), may limit the distribution of
amphioxus further upstream.
(62.) A cartilaginous rod found in vertegbrate embryos, running between the primitive vertebrates such as the lancelet or
Amphioxus.
(2007) reported nine Pax genes in
amphioxus, also lacking eyes, including four newly described homologues of six and eyes absent.
Instead, they resemble the living invertebrate called
amphioxus, a passive filter-feeding marine animal.
Among the chordates, Branchiostoma, the lancet or
amphioxus, has a single skeletal element, the notochord.
Identification and expression of a novel class of glutathione-S-transferase from
amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri with implications to the origin of vertebrate liver.
However, in recent years a number of examples have emerged in which animal eyes appear to develop without the expression of a Pax-6 ortholog, including the adult eyes of the annelid worms in the genus Platynereis (Arendt et al., 2002) and some of the photoreceptor subtypes of
amphioxus (Glardon et al., 1998).