Expression of smooth muscle-like effectors and core cardiomyocyte regulators in the contractile papillae of Ciona

BACKGROUND: The evolution of vertebrate smooth muscles is obscured by lack of identifiable smooth muscle-like cells in tunicates, the invertebrates most closely related to vertebrates. A recent evolutionary model was proposed in which smooth muscles arose before the last bilaterian common ancestor,...

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Autores principales: Johnson, Christopher J., Razy-Krajka, Florian, Stolfi, Alberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7397655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32774829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13227-020-00162-x