Innovation Through Heterochrony: An Amphioxus Perspective on Telencephalon Origin and Function
Heterochrony has played a key role in the evolution of invertebrate larval types, producing “head larvae” in diverse taxa, where anterior structures are accelerated and specialized at the expense of more caudal ones. For chordates, judging from amphioxus, the pattern has been more one of repeated ac...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.666722/full |