The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans

Michal Levin, Leon Anavy, Alison G. Cole, Eitan Winter, Natalia Mostov, Sally Khair, Naftalie Senderovich, Ekaterina Kovalev, David H. Silver, Martin Feder, Selene L. Fernandez-Valverde, Nagayasu Nakanishi, David Simmons, Oleg Simakov, Tomas Larsson, Shang-Yun Liu, Ayelet Jerafi-Vider, Karina Yaniv, Joseph F. Ryan, Mark Q. Martindale, Jochen C. Rink, Detlev Arendt, Sandie M. Degnan, Bernard M. Degnan, Tamar Hashimshony and Itai Yanai ()
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Michal Levin: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
Leon Anavy: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
Alison G. Cole: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
Eitan Winter: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
Natalia Mostov: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
Sally Khair: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
Naftalie Senderovich: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
Ekaterina Kovalev: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
David H. Silver: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
Martin Feder: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
Selene L. Fernandez-Valverde: School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
Nagayasu Nakanishi: School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
David Simmons: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida
Oleg Simakov: Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Tomas Larsson: Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Shang-Yun Liu: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Ayelet Jerafi-Vider: Weizmann Institute of Science
Karina Yaniv: Weizmann Institute of Science
Joseph F. Ryan: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida
Mark Q. Martindale: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida
Jochen C. Rink: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Detlev Arendt: Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Sandie M. Degnan: School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
Bernard M. Degnan: School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
Tamar Hashimshony: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
Itai Yanai: Technion – Israel Institute of Technion

Nature, 2016, vol. 531, issue 7596, 637-641

Abstract: Embryos in a particular phylum of the animal kingdom tend to most resemble one another at a stage in the middle of embryogenesis known as the phylotypic period; a transcriptional analysis of embryogenesis from single embryos of ten different phyla reveals that the transcripts expressed at the phylotypic stage (or mid-developmental transition) differ greatly between phyla, and a ‘phylum’ may be defined as a set of species sharing the same signals and transcription factor networks during the mid-developmental transition.

Date: 2016
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