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Invertebrate chordate notochords

(a) Expression of the gene brachyury (Odi-T) in the developing notochord of Oikopleura dioica (image courtesy of Cristian Cañestro and Susan Bassham).

(b) The Ciona intestinalis notochord visualized with a brachyury LacZ reporter gene (image courtesy of Peter Osborne).

(c) The head of a juvenile amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum), with the notochord distinguishable up to the anterior-most tip of the animal's head and indicated by the arrow (image by the author).

Reference

<pubmed>21251298</pubmed>| BMC Biol.


Ferrier BMC Biology 2011 9:3 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-9-3

© 2011 Ferrier; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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