TY - JOUR AU - Takagi, Wataru AU - Sugahara, Fumiaki AU - Higuchi, Shinnosuke AU - Kusakabe, Rie AU - Pascual-Anaya, Juan AU - Sato, Iori AU - Oisi, Yasuhiro AU - Ogawa, Nobuhiro AU - Miyanishi, Hiroshi AU - Adachi, Noritaka AU - Hyodo, Susumu AU - Kuratani, Shigeru PY - 2022 DO - 10.1186/s12915-022-01282-7 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/20305 T2 - BMC biology AB - The endostyle is an epithelial exocrine gland found in non-vertebrate chordates (amphioxi and tunicates) and the larvae of modern lampreys. It is generally considered to be an evolutionary precursor of the thyroid gland of vertebrates. Transformation... LA - en KW - Atavism KW - Cyclostomes KW - Development KW - Endostyle KW - Evolution KW - Hagfish KW - Lamprey KW - Thyroid gland KW - Animals KW - Embryonic Development KW - Hagfishes KW - Lampreys KW - Thyroid Gland KW - Vertebrates TI - Thyroid and endostyle development in cyclostomes provides new insights into the evolutionary history of vertebrates. TY - research article VL - 20 ER -