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n. - Fishlike animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column.

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  • In the middle is a cephalochordate, Amphioxus, also a filter feeder, but capable of free swimming.
  • In summary, the cephalochordate affinity of Pikaia is at best only weakly indicated by the characters visible in fossils discovered so far.
  • In the invertebrate cephalochordate Amphioxus, there is a family of very immunoglobulin like-molecules, Variable domain Chitin Binding Proteins, which are involved in...
  • FGFRL1, the gene for the fifth member of the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) family, is found in all vertebrates from fish to man and in the cephalochordate...
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