Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Foxg specifies sensory neurons in the anterior neural plate border of the ascidian embryo

  • Boqi Liu,
  • Yutaka Satou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12839-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Vertebrate telencephalon formation requires Foxg-Fgf8 cross-regulation, but while ascidians express Foxg in the neural plate, they lack a telencephalon. Here the authors show that Foxg loss does not affect ascidian brain formation, indicating that telencephalon evolution required recruitment of Fgf downstream of Foxg.