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Andreas Hejnol1, Christopher J Lowe2.
Abstract
The notochord is considered an evolutionary novelty and one of the defining characters of chordates. A new study of an annelid challenges this view and proposes an earlier evolutionary origin in the most recent common ancestor of chordates and annelids.Mesh：
Year: 2014 PMID： 25465334 DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.059
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN： 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834