Vertebrate Innovations

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2000 Apr 26

PMID 10781042

Citations 103

Authors

S M Shimeld

P W Holland

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Abstract

Vertebrate innovations include neural crest cells and their derivatives, neurogenic placodes, an elaborate segmented brain, endoskeleton, and an increase in the number of genes in the genome. Comparative molecular and developmental data give new insights into the evolutionary origins of these characteristics and the complexity of the vertebrate body.

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