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Understanding body plan diversity: investigating post鈥憁etamorphic skeletal growth in sea urchins
19 March 2021
Post鈥憁etamorphic skeletal growth in the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus and implications for body plan evolution.
Prof Paola Oliveri and Dr Jeff Thompsom听highlight听the role of skeletogenic proteins in accretionary skeletal growth and cell proliferation听in the addition of new metameric tissues.听We gain an understanding of the developmental evolution of the sea urchin body plans on macroevolutionary timescales.
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