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Cloning, tissue distribution and effects of fasting on pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide in largemouth bass
Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) has a wide range of biological functions. We cloned the full-length cDNAs encoding PACAP...
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Brain of the most ancient vertebrates (Agnatha: Heterostraci) and man: Comparison and inferences
Natural brain casts of Devonian heterostracans (Agnatha: Heterostraci) are compared for the first time with the brain of contemporary man. The...
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Heterotopy and heterochrony in the developmental programs of bilateria
The modern concept of heterochrony and heterotopy are tightly connected with discovery of the molecular basis of morphogenesis. These phenomena...
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Experimental approach to the hypotheses of heterochronic evolution in lower vertebrates
Heterochronies, temporal changes in ancestral ontogeny, are proposed to play the major role in microand macroevolutionary transformations of lower...
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Characterization, tissue distribution, and expression of neuropeptide Y in olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus
Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a 36-amino acid peptide of the neuropeptide Y family that plays key roles in the regulation of food intake. In this study, we...
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Orientational behavior of animals with the geomagnetic field and mechanisms of magnetoreception
Contemporary data on the orientation and navigation of animals from different taxa with the geomagnetic field are considered in the review. The...
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Study of a digital cranial endocast of the non-mammaliaform cynodont Brasilitherium riograndensis (Later Triassic, Brazil) and its relevance to the evolution of the mammalian brain
A digital cranial endocast of the specimen UFRGS-PV-1043-T, Brasilitherium riograndensis , was obtained from high-resolution computed tomography (μCT)...
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Molecular cloning and characterization of SoxB2 gene from Zhikong scallop Chlamys farreri
The Sox proteins play critical roles during the development of animals, including sex determination and central nervous system development. In this...
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Characterization of flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) FoxD5 and its function in regulating myogenic regulatory factor
As one member of winged helix domain transcription factors, FoxD5 was reported to be a trunk organizer. Recent study showed that zebrafish foxd5 is...
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Embryology of Maldives clownfish, Amphiprion nigripes (Amphiprioninae)
This study investigated the embryonic development of Maldives clownfish Amphiprion nigripes under natural conditions (28–30°C) at a lagoon of Agatti...
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Evolutionary morphology, cranial biomechanics and the origins of tarsiers and anthropoids
During the Time of Messel, the dominant groups of primates were the adapiform strepsirhines and the tarsiiform haplorhines, both important in...
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Evolutionary Scenario of the Early History of the Animal Kingdom: Evidence from Precambrian (Ediacaran) Weng’an and Early Cambrian Maotianshan Biotas, China
Late Proterozoic (Ediacaran) Weng’an (580 mya) and Early Cambrian Maotianshan (c. 530 mya) faunas of South China, illustrated here, document diverse...
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Brain structure and neurobiology of Alvarezsaurians (Dinosauria), exemplified by Ceratonykus oculatus (Parvicursoridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia
A natural braincase cast of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur Ceratonykus oculatus (Parvicursoridae, Alvarezsauria) is described. The brain of this...
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Characterization of DYRK2 (dual-specificity tyrosine-phosphorylation-regulated kinase 2) from Zebrafish (Dario rerio)
Proteins of the DYRK (dual-specificity tyrosine-phosphorylation-regulated kinase) family are characterized by the presence of a conserved kinase...
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Combining Shape Data and Traditional Measurements with the 2B-PLS: Testing the Covariation Between Avian Brain Size and Cranial Shape Variation as an Example
The Two-block Partial Least Squares (2B-PLS) is a multivariate exploratory tool of geometric morphometrics intended to test the covariation between...
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Permian and Triassic Therocephals (Eutherapsida) of Eastern Europe
Cranial morphology of Permian and Triassic Therocephalia of Eastern Europe is revised. The Therocephalia are regarded as an order of the subclass...
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Neurobiological approaches in vertebrate paleontology
The study of the central nervous system in extinct vertebrates is discussed. Historical development of the nervous system is restricted to a few...
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Ceratonykus oculatus gen. et sp. nov., a new dinosaur (?Theropoda, Alvarezsauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia
A new dinosaur, Ceratonykus oculatus gen. et sp. nov. (Parvicursoridae, Alvarezsauria), from the Upper Cretaceous (Baruungoyot Formation) of Mongolia...
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Rooneyia, Postorbital Closure, and the Beginnings of the Age of Anthropoidea
In the Age of Anthropoidea, the higher primates came to dominate primate evolution — at least since the Oligocene and probably even before that. In...