NeuroscienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
ERK signaling drives evolutionary expansion of the mammalian cerebral cortex
Mengge Sun, Yanjing Gao, Zhenmeiyu Li…·Zhengang Yang
This study identifies ERK-BMP7-GLI3R signaling in cortical radial glial cells as a driver of mammalian cerebral cortex expansion, with implications for evolutionary dwarfism in mice.