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Our work shows the conservation of an anterior co-expression module across deuterostomes. With the evolution of dorsal neurulation in the chordate ancestor, the anterior neural plate came under the influence of this gene module, leading to the development of the sensory-neurosecretory forebrain.

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New Year, New Account, New Paper! So happy to see it out! 🥳 An ancient apical patterning system sets the position of the forebrain in chordates | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...