Foxg specifies sensory neurons in the anterior neural plate border of the ascidian embryo
Vertebrate telencephalon formation requires Foxg-Fgf8 cross-regulation, but while ascidians express Foxg in the neural plate, they lack a telencephalon. Here the authors show that Foxg loss does not affect ascidian brain formation, indicating that telencephalon evolution required recruitment of Fgf...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12839-6 |
| Summary: | Vertebrate telencephalon formation requires Foxg-Fgf8 cross-regulation, but while ascidians express Foxg in the neural plate, they lack a telencephalon. Here the authors show that Foxg loss does not affect ascidian brain formation, indicating that telencephalon evolution required recruitment of Fgf downstream of Foxg. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |