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Amphioxus" is a fiction set in a nonfiction location - a state-operated immigration center in Berlin, where migrants must report to learn whether or not they'll be granted immigrant status.
Xu, Characterization of
amphioxus GDF8/GDF11 gene, an archetype of vertebrate MSTN and GDF11, Dev.
Amphioxus Branchiostoma japonicum with average body length of about 2 cm were collected from the seashore in Qingdao city, Shandong province, China.
The first animal to carry them remains unknown, but gene sequencing shows that a modern day invertebrate known as
amphioxus "is most similar to the original spineless creature before the two rounds of whole genome duplication," MacKintosh said.
The prehistoric
Amphioxus, described by the Scottish Government as "elusive", was found in waters off Tankerness in Orkney.
"Spanning from the weird to the wonderful, discoveries this year have included the bizarre
Amphioxus and the beautiful yet elusive brightly-coloured flame shell.
The prehistoric
amphioxus was found in waters off Tankerness in Orkney.
The cephalochordates are represented by the lancelets (also known as
amphioxus in old literature), with about 29 valid species in two genera: Branchiostoma and Epigonychthys (Poss & Boschung 1996).
These early ancestors of man, thus seen in the dim recesses of time, must have been as simply, or even still more simply organized than the lancelet or
amphioxus. (63) That Darwin was able to stir far-reaching debates in the scientific and religious circles of his time is logical, but the fact that he has been able to affect a much broader range of fields, such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, as well as the general beliefs of millions of people regarding the origin of life points to the presence of a receptive ground, ready to accept a radical shift in traditional beliefs.