T C Lacalli

Summary

Affiliation: University of Victoria
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi Ventral neurons in the anterior nerve cord of amphioxus larvae. II. Further data on the pacemaker circuit
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5E2
    J Morphol 257:212-8. 2003
  2. ncbi The Middle Cambrian fossil Pikaia and the evolution of chordate swimming
    Thurston Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Victoria, Cunningham Building, Victoria, BC, V8W 3N5, Canada
    Evodevo 3:12. 2012
  3. ncbi Serial EM analysis of a copepod larval nervous system: Naupliar eye, optic circuitry, and prospects for full CNS reconstruction
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
    Arthropod Struct Dev 38:361-75. 2009
  4. ncbi Basic features of the ancestral chordate brain: a protochordate perspective
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3N5
    Brain Res Bull 75:319-23. 2008
  5. ncbi Prospective protochordate homologs of vertebrate midbrain and MHB, with some thoughts on MHB origins
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, B C, Canada, V8W 3N5
    Int J Biol Sci 2:104-9. 2006
  6. ncbi Sensory systems in amphioxus: a window on the ancestral chordate condition
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
    Brain Behav Evol 64:148-62. 2004
  7. ncbi Ventral neurons in the anterior nerve cord of amphioxus larvae. I. An inventory of cell types and synaptic patterns
    T C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5E2
    J Morphol 257:190-211. 2003
  8. ncbi New perspectives on the evolution of protochordate sensory and locomotory systems, and the origin of brains and heads
    T C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 356:1565-72. 2001
  9. ncbi Cell morphology in amphioxus nerve cord may reflect the time course of cell differentiation
    T C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
    Int J Dev Biol 44:903-6. 2000
  10. ncbi The dorsal compartment locomotory control system in amphioxus larvae
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5E2
    J Morphol 252:227-37. 2002

Detail Information

Publications12

  1. ncbi Ventral neurons in the anterior nerve cord of amphioxus larvae. II. Further data on the pacemaker circuit
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5E2
    J Morphol 257:212-8. 2003
    ..The oscillatory signal appears therefore to be relayed from one LPN pair to the next. Despite their evident importance in the anterior cord, the role these cells play more caudally in signal propagation is not clear...
  2. ncbi The Middle Cambrian fossil Pikaia and the evolution of chordate swimming
    Thurston Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Victoria, Cunningham Building, Victoria, BC, V8W 3N5, Canada
    Evodevo 3:12. 2012
    ..Among the latter is the possibility that a notochord may not have been needed as a primary stiffening device if other structures (for example, the dorsal organ) could perform that role...
  3. ncbi Serial EM analysis of a copepod larval nervous system: Naupliar eye, optic circuitry, and prospects for full CNS reconstruction
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
    Arthropod Struct Dev 38:361-75. 2009
    ..Hence they are promising subjects for full reconstruction of neural circuitry at the EM level that could, in principle, reveal where key decision-making functions are localized...
  4. ncbi Basic features of the ancestral chordate brain: a protochordate perspective
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3N5
    Brain Res Bull 75:319-23. 2008
    ..This association between the mouth and the evolving brain reinforces the idea of a fundamental early connection between core brain structures and the control of feeding activity...
  5. ncbi Prospective protochordate homologs of vertebrate midbrain and MHB, with some thoughts on MHB origins
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, B C, Canada, V8W 3N5
    Int J Biol Sci 2:104-9. 2006
    ..While this is somewhat counterintuitive, it accords well with emerging molecular data...
  6. ncbi Sensory systems in amphioxus: a window on the ancestral chordate condition
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
    Brain Behav Evol 64:148-62. 2004
    ..Consequently, no scenario for the origin of vertebrates can be considered complete unless it deals explicitly with the whole of the life history and changes to it...
  7. ncbi Ventral neurons in the anterior nerve cord of amphioxus larvae. I. An inventory of cell types and synaptic patterns
    T C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5E2
    J Morphol 257:190-211. 2003
    ..The evolutionary implications of the involvement of a midbrain-level pacemaker in controlling larval swimming in amphioxus is discussed...
  8. ncbi New perspectives on the evolution of protochordate sensory and locomotory systems, and the origin of brains and heads
    T C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 356:1565-72. 2001
    ..Both features probably evolved rapidly and together, in an 'arms race' of eyes, brains and segments that left protochordates behind, and ultimately produced the vertebrate head...
  9. ncbi Cell morphology in amphioxus nerve cord may reflect the time course of cell differentiation
    T C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
    Int J Dev Biol 44:903-6. 2000
    ..Among the neurons, the segmentally arranged DC (dorsal compartment) motoneurons appear to be among the first to develop, which accords with molecular data on the time course of neural development, using neurogenin and islet as markers...
  10. ncbi The dorsal compartment locomotory control system in amphioxus larvae
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5E2
    J Morphol 252:227-37. 2002
    ..The overall circuitry of the locomotory control system suggests that the PPN2s may be instrumental in sustaining slow swimming, whereas mechanical stimulation, especially of the rostrum, preferentially activates the fast mode...
  11. ncbi Vetulicolians--are they deuterostomes? chordates?
    Thurston C Lacalli
    Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
    Bioessays 24:208-11. 2002
    ..Implications for our understanding of the nature of the primitive deuterostome (and chordate) body plan are discussed. ...
  12. ncbi The cholinergic gene locus in amphioxus: molecular characterization and developmental expression patterns
    Simona Candiani
    Department of Biology, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
    Dev Dyn 237:1399-411. 2008
    ..Their later expression is primarily in the anterior nerve cord in several types of motoneurons, some of the interneurons and in the receptor cells of the larval ocellus...