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    Evolutionary history of the extant amphioxus lineage with shallow-branching diversification

    Amphioxus or lancelets have been regarded as a key animal in understanding the origin of vertebrates. However, the evolutionary history within this lineage remains unexplored. As the amphioxus lineage has like...

    Takeshi Igawa, Masafumi Nozawa, Daichi G. Suzuki, James D. Reimer in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Amphioxus mouth after dorso-ventral inversion

    Deuterostomes (animals with ‘secondary mouths’) are generally accepted to develop the mouth independently of the blastopore. However, it remains largely unknown whether mouths are homologous among all deuteros...

    Takao Kaji, James D. Reimer, Arseniy R. Morov, Shigeru Kuratani in Zoological Letters (2016)