Oikopleura

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+[[!meta title="Development of the central nervous system in the larvacean Oikopleura dioica and the evolution of the chordate brain."]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
+
+Cañestro C, Bassham S, Postlethwait J.
+
+Dev Biol. 2005 Sep 15;285(2):298-315 doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.06.039
+
+Development of the central nervous system in the larvacean Oikopleura dioica and the evolution of the chordate brain.
+
+[[!pmid 16111672 desc="The Oikopleura CNS possesses homologs of the vertebrate forebrain, hindbrain, and spinal cord, but not the midbrain.  3 otx paralogs.  No expression of pax2/5/8 in the gap between otxa + otxb and hox1."]]

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    The SL gene is found downstream of the 5S RNA gene, which is repeated multiple
    times in the genome ([[Ganot et al., 2004|biblio/15314184]]).
 
+Development
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+
+ - The Oikopleura CNS possesses homologs of the vertebrate forebrain,
+   hindbrain, and spinal cord, but not the midbrain.  No expression of
+   _pax2/5/8_ is detected between the _otxa_ + _otxb_ and the _hox1_ territories.
+   ([[Cañestro et al., 2005|biblio/16111672]]).
+
 Ecology
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