Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Cell type and regulatory analysis in amphioxus illuminates evolutionary origin of the vertebrate head
A. Markos, J. Kubovciak, S. Mikula Mrstakova…·I. Kozmikova
The paper identifies vertebrate head-related cell populations in amphioxus, a close relative of the chordate ancestor, through single-cell transcriptomics and functional analysis.
DOI 10.1038/s41467-024-52938-7