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A major allogenic leukocyte antigen in the agnathan hagfish [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2013 All vertebrates, from jawless fish to mammals, possess adaptive immune systems that can detect and inactivate non-self-antigens through a vast repertoire of antigen receptors. Unlike jawed vertebrates, the hagfish utilizes variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs) that are unrelated to immunoglobulin molecules but are diversified by copy-choice gene ...
Hiroyuki Takaba +7 more
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The evolution and variety of RFamide-type neuropeptides: insights from deuterostomian invertebrates [PDF]
, 2014 Five families of neuropeptides that have a C-terminal RFamide motif have been identified in vertebrates: (1) gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone (GnIH), (2) neuropeptide FF (NPFF), (3) pyroglutamylated RFamide peptide (QRFP), (4) prolactin-releasing peptide (
Elphick, MR, Mirabeau, O
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Cambrian Chordates and Vetulicolians
Geosciences, 2019 Deuterostomes make a sudden appearance in the fossil record during the early Cambrian. Two bilaterian groups, the chordates and the vetulicolians, are of particular interest for understanding early deuterostome evolution, and the main objective of this ...
Mark A. S. McMenamin
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Maximum local helminth parasite community richness in British freshwater fish : a test of the colonization time hypothesis [PDF]
, 1993 The investigation of Price & Clancy (1983), which demonstrated a significant positive correlation between total helminth species number per host species and geographical range of freshwater fish host species in Britain, was re-examined using a different ...
Guégan, Jean-François, Kennedy, C.R.
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Spatiotemporal pattern of doublecortin expression in the retina of the sea lamprey
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2016 Despite the importance of doublecortin (DCX) for the development of the nervous system, its expression in the retina of most vertebrates is still unknown.
Blanca eFernández-López +5 more
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Hippocampal pallium and map-like memories through vertebrate evolution [PDF]
, 2015 The hippocampus in humans and other mammals is essential for episodic and relational memories. Comparative evidence indicates that a hippocampal pallium homologue is present in birds, reptiles, amphibians, ray-finned fishes, cartilaginous fishes and ...
Broglio Schenon, Cristina +6 more
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Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2011 Lampreys, together with hagfishes, represent the sister group of gnathostome vertebrates. There is an increasing interest for comparing the forebrain organization observed in lampreys and gnathostomes to shed light on vertebrate brain evolution.
Manuel A Pombal +4 more
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Evolution of antigen binding receptors [PDF]
, 1999 This review addresses issues related to the evolution of the complex multigene families of antigen binding receptors that function in adaptive immunity.
Anderson, Michele K. +2 more
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An inhibitory receptor of VLRB in the agnathan lamprey [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2016 AbstractLamprey, the primitive jawless vertebrate, uses variable lymphocyte receptor (VLR) as alternative adaptive immune system instead of immunoglobulin (Ig)-based receptors used in jawed vertebrates. In the present study, we characterized a potential inhibitory receptor of VLRB from leucocytes in lamprey.
Fenfang Wu +7 more
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Lampreys have a single gene cluster for the fast skeletal myosin heavy chain gene family. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Muscle tissues contain the most classic sarcomeric myosin, called myosin II, which consists of 2 heavy chains (MYHs) and 4 light chains. In the case of humans (tetrapod), a total of 6 fast skeletal-type MYH genes (MYHs) are clustered on a single ...
Daisuke Ikeda +4 more
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