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Abstract
One major morphological difference between chordates and annelids or arthropods is the opposite orientation of the nerve cord and heart. A long-standing proposal is that the chordate axis evolved by inverting the body of an ancestor with the annelid/arthropod orientation. However, the data can also be explained by a common ancestor with diffuse dorsoventral organization, followed by oppositely directed condensation of the nerve cord and relocation of the heart in the two lines.Entities:
Keywords: NASA Discipline Evolutionary Biology; Non-NASA Center
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10781041 PMCID: PMC34319 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.9.4445
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205