2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The origin and evolution of chordates
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24570251
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Evolutionary biology
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| Research Institution | National Institute for Basic Biology |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKAHASHI Hiroki 基礎生物学研究所, 形態形成研究部門, 助教 (40283585)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 脊索形成 / 脊索動物 / 形態形成 / 進化発生 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Recently, much more attention has paid to cephalochordate amphioxus to answer an important question of metazoan evolution, namely the origin and evolution of chordates. In order to characterize the notochord of adult amphioxus, we examined gene expression profiles by RNA-seq analysis. These genes play roles in the formation, maintenance and function of the notochord.The present repertoire of genes provide molecular basis for future evo-devo studies of early chordate evolution.
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| Free Research Field |
進化発生
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