They all have, at some embryonic stage, a notochord, flanked by muscle, and a dorsal neural tube. |
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Moreover, these ectopic neural tubes were patterned appropriately with respect to the notochord and dorsal ectoderm. |
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In those chordates which lack bone, muscles work against the notochord to move the animal. |
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A similar pair of parachordal cartilages develop posteriorly from mesoderm, flanking the notochord. |
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The neural arches developed around the dorsal nerve cord, above the notochord. |
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The intervertebral discs develop embryologically from both the mesenchyme and the notochord. |
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They lack two others, the notochord and post-anal tail, hence the name hemichordate. |
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This is the architecture that supports and is supported by the vertebrate axis, namely the notochord or vertebral column. |
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Myogenesis in the paraxial muscles is dependent on contact with the neural tube and notochord, while limb and abdominal muscles are not. |
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This takes the vertebrate embryo up to the stage at which it has become recognizably vertebrate, with somites, notochord, and neural tube. |
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The notochord is a stiff, rod-like structure that forms along the dorsal midline and eventually becomes incorporated into the vertebrae. |
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First was the relatively simple activation of motoneuron fates by sonic hedgehog from the notochord and floorplate and retinoic acid from the paraxial mesoderm. |
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For example, the notochord, nerve cord, and most of the tail are generally resorbed within one day. |
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During gastrulation the material of the notochord comes to lie middorsally in the roof of the archenteron. |
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Cephalochordates and vertebrates have a hollow, dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal gill slits, and a notochord. |
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The fin rays radiate from the tip of the notochord, like in the coelacanth. |
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Backboned animals, too, have a notochord when they are embryos, though it disappears during development. |
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The project is looking at whether the notochord cells play a central protective role in maintaining disc function. |
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Some animal species do not get DDD and in those species, the notochord cells, specialized cells found in discs, are preserved. |
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The presumptive neural tube tissues consist of a layer of ectoderm along the dorsal midline of the embryo, between the notochord and an outer layer of epidermis. |
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But in coelacanths, lungfishes and some primitive sharks, the transformation of notochord into a segmented bony vertebral column does not take place. |
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Notably, the oldest known Early Cambrian chordate Yunnanozoon had its metameric muscular units located dorsally of the notochord, although its body was laterally compressed. |
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While the notochord and somites are developing, the neural plate ectoderm above them begins to develop into the neural tube and the embryo is then called a neurula. |
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However, even the notochord would be a less fundamental criterion than aspects of embryological development and symmetry or perhaps bauplan. |
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The lower tube surrounds the notochord, and has a complex structure, often including multiple layers of calcification. |
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During the fourth week of embryogenesis, the sclerotomes shift their position to surround the spinal cord and the notochord. |
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Such a scenario would also explain why the lancelet amphioxus, a 'primitive' chordate, has a notochord with both cartilage and muscle. |
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Pikaia has myotomes and what looks like a notochord, indicating that it is a chordate, but only its shape suggests that it is a lancelet rather than a fish. |
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After the appearance of the primitive streak, the formation of the nervous system and the notochord begins and the bodily organs of the fetus start to take shape. |
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They found that the cells form a muscle that runs along the animal's midline, precisely where the notochord would be if the worm were a chordate. |
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With the formation of the vertebral column, the notochord is incorporated into the column as the centres of the intervertebral discs, called the nuclei pulposi, which cushion the vertebrae. |
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In reptiles, egg-laying mammals, and some birds, a pocket-like depression occurs in the epiblast but encompasses only chordamesoderm or even only the notochord. |
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Characteristic of chordates is the development of the nervous system from a part of ectoderm lying originally on the dorsal side of the embryo, above the notochord and the somites. |
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The material of the notochord then rounds off and becomes a rod-shaped strand of cells immediately under the dorsal ectoderm, stretching from the blastopore toward the anterior end of the embryo, to the midbrain level. |
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However, a few vertebrates have secondarily lost this anatomy, retaining the notochord into adulthood, such as the sturgeon and coelacanth. |
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Characteristics that are compared may be anatomical, such as the presence of a notochord, or molecular, by comparing sequences of DNA or protein. |
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Rather than having acquired the muscle independently, amphioxus could be a living record of the transition from muscle-based midline to cartilaginous notochord. |
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