A radical evolutionary makeover gave echinoderms their unusual body plan
Abstract
Echinoderms such as starfish are unusual for their five-fold body symmetry. Maps of gene-expression patterns show how this body plan was acquired, and that the genes specifying head structures do the heavy lifting.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 2023
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2023Natur.623..485L