Expression of sympathetic nervous system genes in Lamprey suggests their recruitment for specification of a new vertebrate feature.
The sea lamprey is a basal, jawless vertebrate that possesses many neural crest derivatives, but lacks jaws and sympathetic ganglia. This raises the possibility that the factors involved in sympathetic neuron differentiation were either a gnathostome innovation or already present in lamprey, but ser...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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