Spatial and temporal patterns of gene expression during neurogenesis in the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The sea urchin is a basal deuterostome that is more closely related to vertebrates than many organisms traditionally used to study neurogenesis. This phylogenetic position means that the sea urchin can provide insights into the evolution of the nervous system by helping resolve which developmental processes are deuterostome innovations, which are innovations in other clades, and which are ancestral. However, the nervous system of echinoderms is one of the least understood of all major metazoan phyla. To gain insights into echinoderm neurogenesis, spatial and temporal gene expression data are essential. Then, functional data will enable the building of a detailed gene regulatory network for neurogenesis in the sea urchin that can be compared across metazoans to resolve qu

SUBMITTER: Slota LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6371548 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature