Hatschek’s pit and origin of pituitary gland

Shicui Zhang; Xiaohan Ji

doi:10.1007/s13131-022-2044-y

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Shicui Zhang, Xiaohan Ji. Hatschek’s pit and origin of pituitary gland[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2022, 41(12): 1-6. doi: 10.1007/s13131-022-2044-y

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Shicui Zhang, Xiaohan Ji. Hatschek’s pit and origin of pituitary gland[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2022, 41(12): 1-6. doi: 10.1007/s13131-022-2044-y

Shicui Zhang, Xiaohan Ji. Hatschek’s pit and origin of pituitary gland[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2022, 41(12): 1-6. doi: 10.1007/s13131-022-2044-y

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Shicui Zhang, Xiaohan Ji. Hatschek’s pit and origin of pituitary gland[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2022, 41(12): 1-6. doi: 10.1007/s13131-022-2044-y

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Hatschek’s pit and origin of pituitary gland

doi: 10.1007/s13131-022-2044-y

Shicui Zhang^{1, 2
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Xiaohan Ji¹

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Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. 32073000; the Marine S&T Fund of Shandong Province for Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao) under contract No. 2018SDKJ0302-1.

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Corresponding author: Email: sczhang@ouc.edu.cn
Received Date: 2021-12-20
Accepted Date: 2022-03-24

Available Online: 2022-09-06

Publish Date: 2022-12-30

Abstract

Abstract

Pituitary gland, or pituitary for short, is characteristic of all vertebrates. As a “master gland” controlling a multitude of important functions in the body, its evolutionary origin has been an object of investigations of evolutionary biology for two centuries. Previous morphological, ultrastructural and immunohistochemical studies suggested the homology of the Hatschek’s pit of amphioxus and vertebrate pituitary. Developmental genetics study showed that the development of Hatschek’s pit and vertebrate pituitary is both subject to regulation by the common genes such as Pit1, Lhx3 and BMP3b. Our recent studies demonstrated that the Hatschek’s pit is able to secrete growth hormone (GH)-like hormone and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)-like hormone that both play functions similar to vertebrate GH and TSH. We thus think that the emergence of Hatschek’s pit represents one of important events during endocrine network evolution, which laid a foundation for the subsequent formation of a hypothalamic-pituitary system in vertebrates.
- protochordate,
- amphioxus,
- brain,
- pituitary,
- evolution

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