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Evolution of brain development in amphibians

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Principal events in the early embryonic development of the nervous system, from neurulation to primary differentiation, are considered in different amphibian species. Attention is paid to numerous interspecific differences in the structure of neuroepithelium and the patterns of neurulation and embryonic brain segmentation. The data presented indicate that similarity in brain developmental patterns is apparently explained by universality of morphogenetic mechanisms rather than by the common origin of particular species. A hypothesis is proposed that similarity in the shape of the developing amphibian brain is determined by mechanisms of coding positional information necessary for histogenetic differentiation.

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Saveliev, 2009, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2009, No. 2, pp. 167–178.

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Saveliev, S.V. Evolution of brain development in amphibians. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 36, 128–138 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359009020058

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