The planktonic organism <em>Oikopleura dioica</em>, an animal model in the study of evolution and embryonic development in our phylum (chordates), has lost most of ...
A new study led by researchers of the University of Barcelona and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, proves once more that evolution ...
Lancelets, or amphioxus, are small worm-like marine animals that spend most of their lives buried in the sea floor, filter-feeding through jawless, ciliated mouths. The vertebrate affinities of these ...
Life began on earth more than 3.5 billion years ago, but the history of humans and other vertebrates accounts for only a fraction of this timescale. Chordates (a group that includes vertebrates) and ...
What can the genome of a jawless worm-like marine animal tell us about vertebrate evolution? The publication in Nature of the amphioxus genome provides information on the genome duplications that have ...
CORD: A Comprehensive Portal into Chordate Olfactory Receptors. GA, UNITED STATES, June 30, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- How animals sense and respond to smells plays a pivotal role in their survival, ...
To meet this need, researchers from ShanghaiTech University and Research Center for Life Sciences Computing, Zhejiang Lab, etc. have developed the chordata olfactory receptor database (CORD), ...