Vertebrates diverged from other chordates ~500 Myr ago and experienced successful innovations and adaptations, but the genomic basis underlying vertebrate origins are not fully understood. Here we ...

来自中山大学、法国艾克斯-马赛大学和厦门大学等机构的研究人员报告称，他们通过分析多个文昌鱼（lancelet）基因组揭示出了现代脊椎动物减速的基因组进化。研究结果在线发表在12月19日的《自然通讯》（Nature Communications）杂志上。 生物通报道 来自中山大学 ...

Berkeley — The newly sequenced genome of a dainty, quill-like sea creature called a lancelet provides the best evidence yet that vertebrates evolved over the past 550 million years through a four-fold ...

Scientists once thought that humans must have two million genes to account for all our complexity. But since sequencing the human genome, we've learned humans only have about 19,000 to 25,000 genes - ...

Those of you who took high school biology may remember the lancelet, also known as the amphioxus. Its simplified body plan is notable for containing a number of features that it shares in common with ...