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Oikopleura Publications

Journal Articles Published

Evolution and Development
Developmental Biology
  • Cañestro C., Bassham S. and JH. Postlethwait. (2008) Evolution of the thyroid: anterior-posterior regionalization of the Oikopleura endostyle revealed by Otx, Pax2/5/8, and Hox1 expression. Developmental Dynamics 2008 May;237(5):1490-9.
  • Cañestro C., Yokoi H. and JH. Postlethwait. (2007) Evolutionary Developmental Biology and Genomics. Nature Review Genetics 8(12):932-942
  • Cañestro C. and JH. Postlethwait. (2007) Development of a chordate anterior-posterior axis without classical retinoic acid signaling. Dev Biol 305(2):522-38.

    This paper is featured in News and Views in Nature (2007) Vol. 447 (7141):153. A chordate with a difference, by Linda Holland

  • Cañestro C , Postlethwait, J.H., Gonzalez-Duarte, R., Albalat, R., (2006). Is Retinoic Acid Genetic Machinery a Chordate Innovation? Evolution & Development, v.8 (5): 394-406.
  • Bassham, S. and Postlethwait, J. (2005) The evolutionary history of placodes: a molecular genetic investigation of the larvacean urochordate Oikopleura dioica . Development v.132 (19): 4259-72.
  • Canestro, C., Bassham, S., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2005) Development of the central nervous system in the larvacean Oikopleura dioica and the evolution of the chordate brain. Dev Biol. v.285 (2): 298-315.
  • Canestro, C., Bassham, S., and Postlethwait, J.H. (2003) Seing chordate evolution through the Ciona genome sequence. Genome Biol. v.4 (3): 208
  • Bassham, S. and Postlethwait J.H.(2000) Brachyury (T) expression in embryos of a larvacean urochordate, Oikopleura dioca, and the ancestral role of T. Dev. Biol. v.220 (2): 322-32
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0345203


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