Movincell - Multi-dimensional marine organisms dataviewer

Description	:	Cephalochordates (also known as lancelets or amphioxus) represent the sister group to all other chordates. Their slow evolutionary rate and phylogenetic position make them valuable proxies to study chordate evolution, both at the anatomic and genomic levels. However, the community is still lacking detailed and standardized staging and nomenclature systems that can be applied to embryonic and larval development of different lancelet species. This gallery contains the complete image repository used to generate the figures in the publication by Carvalho et al. 2021. Based on this comprehensive characterization of Branchiostoma lanceolatum development using confocal microscopy, the authors defined staging and nomenclature systems that can be applied to to most, if not all, extant lancelet species and that should thus become the new reference for defining lancelet development. The data presented here go far beyond the two dimensional figures presented in the manuscript and can be used to browse and explore the development of a key organism in the field of evolutionary developmental biology.
Website	:	https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.26.112193